Pokémon Flying type

This page has information about the Flying type in the Pokemon games. It applies to Diamond/Pearl/Platinum and previous games (the only exception being that the Dark and Steel types were not present in Red/Blue/Yellow).

Attack

Flying moves are super-effective against:

grass fighting bug

Flying moves are not very effective against:

electric rock steel

Defense

These types have no effect on Flying pokemon:

ground

These types are not very effective against Flying pokemon:

grass fighting bug

These types are super-effective against Flying pokemon:

electric ice rock

Dual-type attack strength

The chart to the right shows the strengths and weaknesses of the Flying type on every possible type combination. The bottom row shows its strength against single-type pokemon.

The numbers in the squares show the fraction of normal damage the move will do (i.e. ½ means 50% damage, while 4 means 400%).

For example, to find how good a Flying-type move is against a Grass/Poison Pokémon, find the square that cross-references those types. You will see that it is 200%.

normal
fire
water
electric ½ ½ ½
grass 2 2 2
ice ½ 2
fighting 2 2 2 4 2
poison ½ 2 2
ground ½ 2 2
flying ½ 2 2
psychic ½ 2 2
bug 2 2 2 4 2 4 2 2 2 2
rock ½ ½ ½ ¼ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½
ghost ½ 2 2 2 ½
dragon ½ 2 2 2 ½
dark ½ 2 2 2 ½
steel ½ ½ ½ ¼ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ¼ ½ ½ ½
- ½ 2 2 2 ½ ½
nor fir wat ele gra ice fig poi gro fly psy bug roc gho dra dar ste

Pokemon

There are 65 pokemon having the Flying type. See detailed list »

Charizard
#006 • fire / flying Butterfree
#012 • bug / flying Pidgey
#016 • normal / flying Pidgeotto
#017 • normal / flying Pidgeot
#018 • normal / flying Spearow
#021 • normal / flying Fearow
#022 • normal / flying Zubat
#041 • poison / flying Golbat
#042 • poison / flying Farfetch'd
#083 • normal / flying Doduo
#084 • normal / flying Dodrio
#085 • normal / flying Scyther
#123 • bug / flying Gyarados
#130 • water / flying Aerodactyl
#142 • rock / flying Articuno
#144 • ice / flying Zapdos
#145 • electric / flying Moltres
#146 • fire / flying Dragonite
#149 • dragon / flying Hoothoot
#163 • normal / flying Noctowl
#164 • normal / flying Ledyba
#165 • bug / flying Ledian
#166 • bug / flying Crobat
#169 • poison / flying Togetic
#176 • normal / flying Natu
#177 • psychic / flying Xatu
#178 • psychic / flying Hoppip
#187 • grass / flying Skiploom
#188 • grass / flying Jumpluff
#189 • grass / flying Yanma
#193 • bug / flying Murkrow
#198 • dark / flying Gligar
#207 • ground / flying Delibird
#225 • ice / flying Mantine
#226 • water / flying Skarmory
#227 • steel / flying Lugia
#249 • psychic / flying Ho-oh
#250 • fire / flying Beautifly
#267 • bug / flying Taillow
#276 • normal / flying Swellow
#277 • normal / flying Wingull
#278 • water / flying Pelipper
#279 • water / flying Masquerain
#284 • bug / flying Ninjask
#291 • bug / flying Swablu
#333 • normal / flying Altaria
#334 • dragon / flying Tropius
#357 • grass / flying Salamence
#373 • dragon / flying Rayquaza
#384 • dragon / flying Starly
#396 • normal / flying Staravia
#397 • normal / flying Staraptor
#398 • normal / flying Mothim
#414 • bug / flying Combee
#415 • bug / flying Vespiquen
#416 • bug / flying Drifloon
#425 • ghost / flying Drifblim
#426 • ghost / flying Honchkrow
#430 • dark / flying Chatot
#441 • normal / flying Mantyke
#458 • water / flying Togekiss
#468 • normal / flying Yanmega
#469 • bug / flying Gliscor
#472 • ground / flying Shaymin
#492 • grass / flying