Pokémon Psychic type

This page has information about the Psychic 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

Psychic moves are super-effective against:

fighting poison

Psychic moves are not very effective against:

psychic steel

Psychic moves have no effect on:

dark

Defense

These types are not very effective against Psychic pokemon:

fighting psychic

These types are super-effective against Psychic pokemon:

bug ghost dark

Dual-type attack strength

The chart to the right shows the strengths and weaknesses of the Psychic 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 Psychic-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
grass
ice
fighting 2 2 2 2 2 2
poison 2 2 2 2 2 2 4
ground 2 2
flying 2 2
psychic ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½
bug 2 2 ½
rock 2 2 ½
ghost 2 2 ½
dragon 2 2 ½
dark 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
steel ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ¼ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0
- 2 2 ½ 0 ½
nor fir wat ele gra ice fig poi gro fly psy bug roc gho dra dar ste

Pokemon

There are 53 pokemon having the Psychic type. See detailed list »

Abra
#063 • psychic Kadabra
#064 • psychic Alakazam
#065 • psychic Slowpoke
#079 • water / psychic Slowbro
#080 • water / psychic Drowzee
#096 • psychic Hypno
#097 • psychic Exeggcute
#102 • grass / psychic Exeggutor
#103 • grass / psychic Starmie
#121 • water / psychic Mr. Mime
#122 • psychic Jynx
#124 • ice / psychic Mewtwo
#150 • psychic Mew
#151 • psychic Natu
#177 • psychic / flying Xatu
#178 • psychic / flying Espeon
#196 • psychic Slowking
#199 • water / psychic Unown
#201 • psychic Wobbuffet
#202 • psychic Girafarig
#203 • normal / psychic Smoochum
#238 • ice / psychic Lugia
#249 • psychic / flying Celebi
#251 • psychic / grass Ralts
#280 • psychic Kirlia
#281 • psychic Gardevoir
#282 • psychic Meditite
#307 • fighting / psychic Medicham
#308 • fighting / psychic Spoink
#325 • psychic Grumpig
#326 • psychic Lunatone
#337 • rock / psychic Solrock
#338 • rock / psychic Baltoy
#343 • ground / psychic Claydol
#344 • ground / psychic Chimecho
#358 • psychic Wynaut
#360 • psychic Beldum
#374 • steel / psychic Metang
#375 • steel / psychic Metagross
#376 • steel / psychic Latias
#380 • dragon / psychic Latios
#381 • dragon / psychic Jirachi
#385 • steel / psychic Deoxys
#386 • psychic Chingling
#433 • psychic Bronzor
#436 • steel / psychic Bronzong
#437 • steel / psychic Mime Jr.
#439 • psychic Gallade
#475 • psychic / fighting Uxie
#480 • psychic Mesprit
#481 • psychic Azelf
#482 • psychic Cresselia
#488 • psychic