Pokemon Rock Type

Rock (type)

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Types
	Normal			Fire
	Fighting			Water
	Flying			Grass
	Poison			Electric
	Ground			Psychic
	Rock			Ice
	Bug			Dragon
	Ghost			Dark
	Steel
		???

The Rock type (Japanese: いわタイプ Rock type) is one of the seventeen types. Notable Trainers that specialize in the Rock type include Brock, Flint and Forrest of Pewter City, Roxanne of Rustboro City and Roark of Oreburgh City. They are, notably, all the first Gym Leader encountered in their respective regions. Jasmine is also stated to have trained Rock types in the past. Prior to Generation IV, where moves are designated physical or special based on the move itself rather than the type, all Rock-type moves were physical.

Contents  [hide]  1 Statistical averages 1.1 Overall 1.2 Fully evolved 2 Battle properties 3 Characteristics 3.1 Defense 3.2 Offense 3.3 Contest Properties 4 Pokémon 4.1 Pure Rock-type Pokémon 4.2 Half Rock-type Pokémon 4.2.1 Primary Rock-type Pokémon 4.2.2 Secondary Rock-type Pokémon 5 Moves 6 Trivia 7 In other languages

Statistical averages

Overall

Stat
HP: 64.79
Attack: 88.09
Defense: 107.57
Sp.Atk: 56.49
Sp.Def: 69.04
Speed: 46.96
Total: 432.94

Fully evolved

Stat
HP: 74.52
Attack: 96.56
Defense: 119.12
Sp.Atk: 66.60
Sp.Def: 86.40
Speed: 54.28
Total: 497.48

Battle properties

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×	None		0×	None

Characteristics

Defense

The Rock type is rather risky defensively. Despite having an overall high Defense on average, and whilst it is defensive against the very commonNormal-type moves, its weaknesses to Ground- and Fighting-type moves, typically physical in nature and rather commonly used, take it down a notch. The fact that its Special Defense is mediocre at best combined with its weakness to the common Grass- and Water-type moves greatly decrease its ability to defend.

Double weaknesses among Rock types are very common. Rock/Steel Pokémon are doubly weak to Ground and Fighting, two common powerful types. Rock/Water Pokémon and Rock/Ground Pokémon are doubly weak to Grass and the latter is also doubly weak to the common Water (along with an extra weakness to the powerful Ice.) The low Speed that many Rock types have causes even further problems. Their resistance toFire can now be made useless as many Fire types' movesets have been expanded in Generation IV to include Grass attacks (most notablySolarBeam). Furthermore, tied with Grass, Rock types have the most weaknesses, with five.

However, resistances to Normal, Flying and Fire help the Rock type to hold its own if it needs to. Moreover, in a Sandstorm the Special Defenseis increased by 50%. Furthermore, Sandstorms are very common in many tiers, thanks to Sand Stream automatically casting a permanent Sandstorm.

Offense

Rock is one of the best types offensively. Being resisted by only three of the seventeen types, two of which are hindered by their own bad defenses and relative scarcity helps it a lot, and the fact that only four Pokémon out of 649 have a double resistance to Rock keeps its moves relatively effective. Double weaknesses to Rock are relatively common, mostly due to the many Bug types having Flying as a secondary type, while the typically high-powered Ice- and Fire types also do not fare well. As Pokémon of the three types that resist Rock typically can master Rock-type moves, this proves a quite versatile combination.

Contest Properties

When used in Contests, Rock-type moves typically become Tough moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types, excluding Cute.

Pokémon

As of Generation V, there are 47 Rock-type Pokémon or 7.24% of all Pokémon, making it the tenth most common type.

Pure Rock-type Pokémon

# Name 185 Sudowoodo 299 Nosepass 377 Regirock 408 Cranidos 409 Rampardos 438 Bonsly 524 Roggenrola 525 Boldore 526 Gigalith

Half Rock-type Pokémon

Primary Rock-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 074 Geodude Rock Ground 075 Graveler Rock Ground 076 Golem Rock Ground 095 Onix Rock Ground 138 Omanyte Rock Water 139 Omastar Rock Water 140 Kabuto Rock Water 141 Kabutops Rock Water 142 Aerodactyl Rock Flying 246 Larvitar Rock Ground 247 Pupitar Rock Ground 248 Tyranitar Rock Dark 337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 338 Solrock Rock Psychic 345 Lileep Rock Grass 346 Cradily Rock Grass 347 Anorith Rock Bug 348 Armaldo Rock Bug 410 Shieldon Rock Steel 411 Bastiodon Rock Steel 476 Probopass Rock Steel 566 Archen Rock Flying 567 Archeops Rock Flying 639 Terrakion Rock Fighting

Secondary Rock-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock 112 Rhydon Ground Rock 213 Shuckle Bug Rock 219 Magcargo Fire Rock 222 Corsola Water Rock 304 Aron Steel Rock 305 Lairon Steel Rock 306 Aggron Steel Rock 369 Relicanth Water Rock 464 Rhyperior Ground Rock 557 Dwebble Bug Rock 558 Crustle Bug Rock 564 Tirtouga Water Rock 565 Carracosta Water Rock

Moves

Gen	Move	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Description
II	AncientPower	Special	Tough	60	100%	5 (max 8)	Any adjacent Pokémon	The user attacks with a prehistoric power. It may also raise all the user's stats at once.
IV	Head Smash	Physical	Tough	150	80%	5 (max 8)	Any adjacent Pokémon	The user attacks the target with a hazardous, full-power headbutt. The user also takes terrible damage.
IV	Power Gem	Special	Beauty	70	100%	20 (max 32)	Any adjacent Pokémon	The user attacks with a ray of light that sparkles as if it were made of gemstones.
III	Rock Blast	Physical	Tough	25	90%	10 (max 16)	Any adjacent Pokémon	The user hurls hard rocks at the target. Two to five rocks are launched in quick succession.
IV	Rock Polish	Status	Tough	—	—%	20 (max 32)	Self	The user polishes its body to reduce drag. It can sharply raise the Speed stat.
I	Rock Slide	Physical	Tough	75	90%	10 (max 16)	All adjacent foes	Large boulders are hurled at the opposing team to inflict damage. It may also make the targets flinch.
I	Rock Throw	Physical	Tough	50	90%	15 (max 24)	Any adjacent Pokémon	The user picks up and throws a small rock at the target to attack.
III	Rock Tomb	Physical	Smart	50	80%	10 (max 16)	Any adjacent Pokémon	Boulders are hurled at the target. It also lowers the target's Speed by preventing its movement.
IV	Rock Wrecker	Physical	Tough	150	90%	5 (max 8)	Any adjacent Pokémon	The user launches a huge boulder at the target to attack. It must rest on the next turn, however.
II	Rollout	Physical	Tough	30	90%	20 (max 32)	Any adjacent Pokémon	The user continually rolls into the target over five turns. It becomes stronger each time it hits.
II	Sandstorm	Status	Tough	—	—%	20 (max 32)	All Pokémon	A five-turn sandstorm is summoned to hurt all combatants except the Rock, Ground, and Steel types.
V	Smack Down	Physical		50	100%	15 (max 24)	Any adjacent Pokémon	The user throws a stone or projectile to attack an opponent. A flying Pokémon will fall to the ground when it's hit.
IV	Stealth Rock	Status	Cool	—	—%	20 (max 32)	All foes	The user lays a trap of levitating stones around the opponent's team. The trap hurts opponents that switch into battle.
IV	Stone Edge	Physical	Tough	100	80%	5 (max 8)	Any adjacent Pokémon	The user stabs the target with sharpened stones from below. Critical hits land more easily.
V	Wide Guard	Status		—	—%	10 (max 16)	All allies	The user and its allies are protected from wide-ranging attacks for one turn. If used in succession, its chances of failing rises.
All details are accurate to Generation V games. For details that have changed between generations, please see an individual move's page. Target data assumes user is in the lower left.

Trivia

• If there were a Pokémon of all 17 types, it would be weak to only Rock-type moves, due to the fact that there are more Pokémon types weak to it than Pokémon types that resist it, and that no types are immune to it.
  • However, if moves like Foresight or Gravity are used, that hypothetical Pokémon would gain weaknesses to Fighting- and Ground-typemoves respectively.
• In the first season of the anime and during much of Generation I, the Rock type was often wrongly assumed to be unaffected by Electric-typeattacks. This was likely due to the fact that at the time, most Rock-type Pokémon were part Ground-type, and thus immune to Electric-type moves. However, the only non-Ground Rock-type Pokémon (the then five Fossil Pokémon) were actually weak to them.
• The Rock type is tied with the Grass type for the largest number of weaknesses when unpaired, with five: Grass, Water, Ground, Fighting, andSteel.
  • Coincidentally, Rock moves are super effective against four of the five types Grass is weak to, with Poison being the exception. Interestingly though, the Rock type resists the Poison type.
• Seven of the fifteen Rock-type moves (just under half) have the word 'rock' in their names.
• Every known Fossil Pokémon is part or solely Rock-type. This is most likely due to the placement of real Fossils in rock formations, as well as the process by which Fossils are created.
• Every known Gym that specializes in the Rock type has been the first Gym of its region.
  • Similarly, each of the Leaders of these Gyms have used Geodude as at least one of their Pokémon.
• Black, White, Black 2, and White 2 are the only main series games that do not have a Rock-type Gym.
• Johto's Olivine Gym was a Rock type Gym before the Steel type was discovered.
• In Generation I there were only two Rock-type moves, which made it the type with the second fewest moves. Only the Dragon type had fewer moves, with only one move.
• Generation III introduced the most Rock-type Pokémon of any Generation, with 12, while Generation II and IV introduced the least Rock-type Pokémon, both with seven.
• Generation IV introduced the most Rock-type moves of any Generation, with six and Generation I, III and V introduced the least Rock-type moves, with two.
• AncientPower and Power Gem are the only special Rock-type moves.
  • Coincidentally, AncientPower, Power Gem and Smack Down are the only Rock-type moves of 100% accuracy.
• Generation I is the only generation not to have introduced at least one pure Rock-type Pokémon.