Water Type Weakness
What Water Pokémon are weak to, what they resist and how to beat them.
Water type weakness is just two types: Electric and Grass. Water Pokémon resist Fire, Ice, Steel and other Water moves, and Water is the most common type in the games, so it is one of the safest types to build around. Water moves hit Fire, Ground and Rock for double damage.
Water weaknesses
Water Pokémon take double damage from 2 types:
Water resistances
Water immunities
No immunities.
What Water moves are good against
Best counters to Water
The best answer to a Water Pokémon is something that hits it hard and shrugs off its attacks. These types do both:
- Grasshits Water for 2×, takes ½× from Water moves.
Electric also hits Water for double damage but doesn't resist it, so use it to attack first.
Water dual types
A second type changes everything. These Water pairings have the fewest weaknesses:
Water / Ground: weak to Grass (4×); immune to Electric. Example: Quagsire.
Water / Electric: weak to Grass and Ground. Example: Lanturn.
Water / Dragon: weak to Dragon and Fairy. Example: Kingdra.
Water / Steel: weak to Electric, Fighting and Ground; immune to Poison. Example: Empoleon.
Check any pair yourself on the type chart.
Tip
Water / Ground (Swampert, Quagsire, Gastrodon) is immune to Electric and keeps a single weakness: Grass, at 4×. One Grass move ends it, so pair it with a Fire, Flying or Bug type.
Building a team around a Water type? Put it in the team builder and see what the rest of the team needs to cover.
Open the team builderQuestions
What is Water weak to?
Water Pokémon are weak to Electric and Grass. 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 Water moves?
Water, Grass and Dragon take half damage from Water attacks.
What is Water good against?
Water moves do double damage to Fire, Ground and Rock.
What is the best counter to Water?
Grass: they hit Water for double damage and resist its moves. See the full list above.