Pokemon Go type chart: Effectiveness & weaknesses

There are so many different creatures to catch in Pokemon Go, each with its unique type and combination. These make them stronger or weaker against enemy Pokemon, so here’s a full breakdown of how they work to help you in battle.

Trainers aiming to be the very best will want to familiarise themself with Pokemon Go’s battle mechanics, including the type chart, which details their strengths, weaknesses, resistances, and vulnerabilities.

Types work a little differently in Pokemon Go than in the mainline games, so even veteran fans of the Nintendo titles need to know how types work in the mobile game.

Pokemon Go type chart: Weaknesses and strengths chart

The full table below shows what each Pokemon Go type is strong against, weak against, resistant to, and vulnerable to. Note that type immunities do not exist in Pokemon Go, unlike the mainline games.

Type	Strong Against	Weak Against	Resistant To	Vulnerable to
Bug	Grass / Dark / Psychic	Fairy / Fighting / Fire / Flying / Ghost / Poison / Steel	Fighting / Grass / Ground	Fire / Flying / Rock
Dark	Ghost / Psychic	Dark / Fairy / Fighting	Dark / Ghost / Psychic	Bug / Fairy / Fighting
Dragon	Dragon	Fairy / Steel	Electric / Fire / Grass / Water	Dragon / Fairy / Ice
Electric	Flying / Water	Dragon / Electric / Grass / Ground	Electric / Flying / Steel	Ground
Fairy	Fighting / Dark / Dragon	Fire / Poison / Steel	Bug / Dark / Dragon / Fighting	Poison, Steel
Fighting	Dark / Ice / Normal / Rock / Steel	Bug / Fairy / Flying / Ghost / Poison / Psychic	Bug / Dark / Rock	Fairy / Flying / Psychic
Fire	Bug / Grass / Steel / Ice	Dragon / Fire / Rock / Water	Bug / Fire / Grass / Ice / Steel	Ground / Rock / Water
Flying	Bug / Fighting / Grass	Electric / Rock / Steel	Bug / Fighting / Grass / Ground	Electric / Ice / Rock
Ghost	Ghost / Psychic	Dark / Normal	Bug / Fighting / Normal / Poison	Dark / Ghost
Grass	Ground / Rock / Water	Bug / Dragon / Fire / Flying / Grass / Poison / Steel	Electric / Grass / Ground / Water	Bug / Fire / Flying / Ice / Poison
Ground	Electric / Fire / Poison / Rock / Steel	Bug / Flying / Grass	Electric / Poison / Rock	Grass / Ice / Water
Ice	Dragon / Flying / Grass / Ground	Fire / Ice / Steel / Water	Ice	Fighting / Fire / Rock / Steel
Normal		Ghost / Rock / Steel	Ghost	Fighting
Poison	Fairy / Grass	Ghost / Ground / Poison / Rock / Steel	Fairy / Fighting / Grass / Poison	Ground / Psychic
Psychic	Fighting / Poison	Dark / Psychic / Steel	Fighting / Psychic	Bug / Dark / Ghost
Rock	Bug / Fire / Flying / Ice	Fighting / Ground / Steel	Fire / Flying / Normal / Poison	Fighting / Grass / Ground / Steel / Water
Steel	Fairy / Ice / Rock	Electric / Fire / Steel / Water	Bug / Dragon / Fairy / Flying / Grass / Ice / Poison / Psychic / Rock / Steel	Fighting / Fire / Ground
Water	Fire / Ground / Rock	Dragon / Grass / Water	Fire / Ice / Steel / Water	Electric / Grass

Pokemon Go type effectiveness multiplier

The effectiveness of a Pokemon’s move depends entirely on the game itself. Type advantages in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are generally more pronounced, with effective attacks being twice as strong. By comparison, Pokemon Go has a smaller multiplier when it comes to typings.

List of Pokemon Go multipliers

The multipliers for Pokemon Go are as follows:

• Super effective against two types: 2.56x
• Super effective attacks: 1.6x
• Not very effective attacks: 0.625x
• Not very effective against two types: 0.391x

Here’s a visualization chart of the type matchup for all of these:

Another difference between Pokemon Go and other games is multiple typings affect damage even further. If a species is weak to two of an opponent’s types, the multiplier effect would be halved again, as seen by the 0.391 multipliers.

Taking the time to learn which Pokemon are strong and weak against other types can often give you the edge needed to win even the toughest fights. Familiarizing yourself with Pokemon Go’s types will also help you in Raid Battles while speeding up the process of acquiring those all-important PokeCoins.

That’s all you need to know about Pokemon Go’s type weaknesses. Here are some other helpful guides for Pokemon Go:

Pokemon Go catching tips | Cliff counters guide | Best Pokemon in Pokemon Go | Current Raid Bosses in Pokemon Go | Type chart