Just think about the Rock-type Pokémon We can already imagine more or less how these Pokémon are: resistant, strong, slow and with an appearance similar to, worth the redundancy, a rock. Yes, they are a bit like that, at least with respect to resistant, strong and slow. Because physically there is a lot of variety. It is necessary to delve deeper into their strengths and weaknesses to get to know them better. Although before we will tell you some curiosities.
Did you know that the Pprehistoric okemon are from rock type? This is because, by their very nature, they have been able to preserve themselves much better. Therefore, they are easier to revive. The possibility of reviving some has made us have type combinations that would not otherwise be possible, so it is in the case of type combinations Rock/Grass and Rock/Ice.
Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind for some people when they hear about the Rock-type Pokémon be to Brock. Especially to those who grew up watching the anime, although we could already see him in pokemon red and blue. Brock is the leader of the Silver City (Kanto) gym and specializes in this kind of pokemon. Other leaders that we could highlight are: Petra from Iron City (Hoenn), Roco from Pyrite City (Sinnoh), Lino from Relief City (Kalos), mayla Ruins of Life (Alola) or Morris of Auriga Village (Galar).
There are a total of 73 Rock-type Pokémon and 14 of them are pure Rock.
You probably know that the basic types Fire, Plant y Agua They form a game similar to rock-paper-scissors: Fire can Plant, Plant can Water, and Water can Fire. Something similar happens with the Rock, Flying-type Pokémon y Lucha: Fight can against Rock, Rock beats Flying and Flying beats Fight.
The strengths of the Rock-type Pokémon
The movements of rock type son effective against Bug, Fire, Ice and Flying. Furthermore, there is no pokemon type make it immune to Rock moves. These Pokémon stand out for defense against physical attacks. They also highlight the number of physical attacks they have: 13 in total. Especially if we compare it with the state class, which only have 5.
There are some objects that can be interesting for our Rock-type Pokémon:
- rock gem: boosts 30% the movements of rock typebut it is spent.
- Rock incense: 20% boosts the movements of rock type.
- Hard stone: 20% boosts the movements of rock type.
- stone table: 20% boosts the movements of rock type. On the other hand, you can also convert to Arceus in rock typeas well as his movement “sentence”.
The statistics of the Rock-type Pokémon are characterized by having high levels of both attack like in defending.
For the competitive one, a Pokémon like Tyranitar (Rock/Dark). This Pokémon could be considered one of the best Wallbreakers. Los Wallbreakers They are the offensive Pokémon whose main function is to weaken their opponents in any way. With Tyranitar you have a good mix between sand blast to increase its special defense and deal damage per turn to Pokémon that are not Rock, Ground or Steel, and Rock trap. This last movement adds a trap that damages the opponent when it enters combat.
Other Rock-type Pokémon that can come in handy in competitive is Rypher (Earth/Rock). He is very offensive and has very strong attack (140) and defense (130). The bad thing is that it has many weaknesses: it is very weak to Water and Grass and weak to Steel, Ground, Ice and Fighting.
Finally, it must be said that the rock type son resistant to Fire, Normal, Poison and Flying.
And what are their weaknesses?
The Rock-type Pokémon it is weak to Steel, Water, Fighting, Grass and Ground. One of the biggest disadvantages of this pokemon type is its large number of weaknesses if we take into account all the possible combinations, being in particular very vulnerable his Rock/Fighting, Rock/Dark, and Rock/Psychic combinations. In fact, the rock type It is the one that has the most weaknesses, along with those of Plant.
Son ineffective against Steel, Fight and Ground. They also don’t have much speed and much of the movement of rock type They have a low level of precision.
Next, we leave you with the detailed effectiveness table of Rock-type Pokémon:
- 1/4: very resistant.
- 1/2: resistant.
- X0: immune.
- x2: weak.
- X4: very weak.
We recommend that you read more articles in igamesnews about strengths and weaknesses of others pokemon types:
What do you think of the Rock-type Pokémon? Do you like them? What is your favourite?
