Type Effectiveness and Damage Output | Pokemon Sword and Shield

This page explains Pokemon types and their elemental effectiveness, including immunity and weaknesses for the game Pokemon Sword and Shield. Read on to find out which types are super effective or not very effective on your foes!

Pokemon Type Effectiveness Chart

	Defending Pokemon
Move Type	Super Effective	Not Very Effective	No Effect
Normal	-
Fighting
Poison
Ground
Rock			-
Bug			-
Ghost
Steel			-
Fire			-
Water			-
Grass			-
Electric
Psychic
Ice			-
Dragon
Fairy			-
Dark			-
Flying			-

Pokemon Type Effectiveness and Damage Output

Type Effectiveness

Type Effectiveness is the system which involves interactions between Pokemon types to determine the overall damage output. It functions similar to Rock, Paper, Scissors in that while certain Pokemon types have moves that deal double damage to others, they are in turn countered by another type. Using it properly means fighting your opponent with a Pokemon that can deal additional damage while reducing the damage they receive.

Damage Increases or Decreases Depending on Effectiveness

The total damage dealt by a Pokemon depends on the type effectiveness of that move.

Depending on your active Pokemon's type and the type of Pokemon you are up against, you may inflict or receive 2x or half damage (or 1x damage if the types do not effect eachother).

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Damage Output

Two-Type Pokemon Multiplying Effect

Some Pokemon belong to two categories instead of one. In this case, they may sometimes be hit with a move that is super effective against both of their types.

Rock

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Fire-Flying

In this case, a super effective move could deal 4x damage to the defending Pokemon, so long as its two types are vulnerable to the move.

On the other hand, the damage output could become lower if one of the Pokemon's two types is resistant to the attacking Pokemon's move.

List of All Pokemon Type Effectiveness

The type of move used has different outputs on other types of Pokemon. See the list below to learn what types each Pokemon is vulnerable, resistant, and immune to.

Normal

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x	None
1/2		None
No Effect

Fire

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect	None	None

Water

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect	None	None

Electric

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect		None

Grass

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect	None	None

Ice

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect	None	None

Fighting

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect		None

Poison

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect		None

Ground

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect

Flying

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect	None

Psychic

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect		None

Bug

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect	None	None

Rock

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect	None	None

Ghost

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect

Dragon

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect		None

Dark

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect	None

Steel

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect	None

Fairy

Damage Dealt	When Attacking	When Defending
2x
1/2
No Effect	None

Type Immunity

Pokemon Immunity

As shown above, certain Pokemon types may be immune to certain types of moves. If one of a Pokemon's types is immune to a specific type, it will be immune to that regardless of any secondary type it may have.

The list below shows all immunities present in Pokemon.

List of Pokemon Type Immunities

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