Ground Type Weakness
What Ground Pokémon are weak to, what they resist and how to beat them.
Ground type weakness is three types: Water, Grass and Ice. Ground Pokémon resist Poison and Rock and are the only type immune to Electric. Ground moves hit five types for double damage: Fire, Electric, Poison, Rock and Steel. Earthquake alone handles half a team's problems.
Ground weaknesses
Ground resistances
Ground immunities
Ground Pokémon take no damage from:
What Ground moves are good against
Ground attacks do double damage to:
They do half damage to Grass and Bug, and nothing to Flying.
Best counters to Ground
The best answer to a Ground Pokémon is something that hits it hard and shrugs off its attacks. These types do both:
- Grasshits Ground for 2×, takes ½× from Ground moves.
Water and Ice also hit Ground for double damage but don't resist it, so use them to attack first.
Ground dual types
A second type changes everything. These Ground pairings have the fewest weaknesses:
Ground / Water: weak to Grass (4×); immune to Electric. Example: Quagsire.
Ground / Flying: weak to Water and Ice (4×); immune to Electric and Ground. Example: Gliscor.
Ground / Fire: weak to Water (4×) and Ground; immune to Electric. Example: Camerupt.
Ground / Steel: weak to Fire, Water, Fighting and Ground; immune to Electric and Poison. Example: Alolan Dugtrio.
Check any pair yourself on the type chart.
Tip
Flying types and Pokémon with Levitate take nothing from Ground moves. Give your Ground Pokémon a Rock move (Stone Edge, Rock Slide) so a Flying type can't switch in for free.
Building a team around a Ground type? Put it in the team builder and see what the rest of the team needs to cover.
Open the team builderQuestions
What is Ground weak to?
Ground Pokémon are weak to Water, Grass and Ice. 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 Ground moves?
Grass and Bug take half damage from Ground attacks. Flying take no damage at all.
What is Ground good against?
Ground moves do double damage to Fire, Electric, Poison, Rock and Steel.
What is the best counter to Ground?
Grass: they hit Ground for double damage and resist its moves. See the full list above.