Pokémon Rock type

This page has information about the Rock 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

Rock moves are super-effective against:

fire ice flying bug

Rock moves are not very effective against:

fighting ground steel

Defense

These types are not very effective against Rock pokemon:

normal fire poison flying

These types are super-effective against Rock pokemon:

water grass fighting ground steel

Dual-type attack strength

The chart to the right shows the strengths and weaknesses of the Rock 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 Rock-type move is against a Grass/Poison Pokémon, find the square that cross-references those types. You will see that it is 100%.

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

Pokemon

There are 37 pokemon having the Rock type. See detailed list »

Geodude
#074 • rock / ground Graveler
#075 • rock / ground Golem
#076 • rock / ground Onix
#095 • rock / ground Rhyhorn
#111 • ground / rock Rhydon
#112 • ground / rock Omanyte
#138 • rock / water Omastar
#139 • rock / water Kabuto
#140 • rock / water Kabutops
#141 • rock / water Aerodactyl
#142 • rock / flying Sudowoodo
#185 • rock Shuckle
#213 • bug / rock Magcargo
#219 • fire / rock Corsola
#222 • water / rock Larvitar
#246 • rock / ground Pupitar
#247 • rock / ground Tyranitar
#248 • rock / dark Nosepass
#299 • rock Aron
#304 • steel / rock Lairon
#305 • steel / rock Aggron
#306 • steel / rock Lunatone
#337 • rock / psychic Solrock
#338 • rock / psychic Lileep
#345 • rock / grass Cradily
#346 • rock / grass Anorith
#347 • rock / bug Armaldo
#348 • rock / bug Relicanth
#369 • water / rock Regirock
#377 • rock Cranidos
#408 • rock Rampardos
#409 • rock Shieldon
#410 • rock / steel Bastiodon
#411 • rock / steel Bonsly
#438 • rock Rhyperior
#464 • ground / rock Probopass
#476 • rock / steel