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Electric Type Weakness

What Electric Pokémon are weak to, what they resist and how to beat them.

Electric type weakness is a single type: Ground. Electric Pokémon resist Electric, Flying and Steel, and their moves hit Water and Flying for double damage, two of the most common types around. The catch: Ground types are immune to Electric moves.

Electric weaknesses

Electric Pokémon take double damage from 1 type:

Just one weakness. That makes Electric easy to protect.

Electric resistances

Electric Pokémon take half damage from:

Electric immunities

No immunities.

What Electric moves are good against

Electric attacks do double damage to:

They do half damage to Electric, Grass and Dragon, and nothing to Ground.

Best counters to Electric

The best answer to an Electric Pokémon is something that hits it hard and shrugs off its attacks. These types do both:

  • Groundhits Electric for 2×, takes 0× from Electric moves.

Electric dual types

A second type changes everything. These Electric pairings have the fewest weaknesses:

  • Electric / Flying: weak to Ice and Rock; immune to Ground. Example: Fan Rotom.

  • Electric / Fairy: weak to Poison and Ground; immune to Dragon. Example: Dedenne.

  • Electric / Normal: weak to Fighting and Ground; immune to Ghost. Example: Heliolisk.

  • Electric / Water: weak to Grass and Ground. Example: Lanturn.

Check any pair yourself on the type chart.

Tip

Electric / Flying (Zapdos, Emolga) is immune to Ground, so the one weakness disappears. It ends up weak only to Ice and Rock. On any Electric Pokémon, carry a second move type for Ground types, such as Ice or Grass.

Building a team around an Electric type? Put it in the team builder and see what the rest of the team needs to cover.

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Questions

What is Electric weak to?

Electric Pokémon are weak to Ground. Each of those does double damage. If the Pokémon has a second type, the numbers can change; check it on the type chart.

What resists Electric moves?

Electric, Grass and Dragon take half damage from Electric attacks. Ground take no damage at all.

What is Electric good against?

Electric moves do double damage to Water and Flying.

What is the best counter to Electric?

Ground: they hit Electric for double damage and resist its moves. See the full list above.