Pokémon Steel type

This page has information about the Steel 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

Steel moves are super-effective against:

ice rock

Steel moves are not very effective against:

fire water electric steel

Defense

These types have no effect on Steel pokemon:

poison

These types are not very effective against Steel pokemon:

normal grass ice flying psychic bug rock ghost dragon dark steel

These types are super-effective against Steel pokemon:

fire fighting ground

Dual-type attack strength

The chart to the right shows the strengths and weaknesses of the Steel 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 Steel-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 ½
water ½ ¼
electric ½ ¼ ¼
grass ½ ½ ½
ice 2 2
fighting ½ ½ ½ 2
poison ½ ½ ½ 2
ground ½ ½ ½ 2
flying ½ ½ ½ 2
psychic ½ ½ ½ 2
bug ½ ½ ½ 2
rock 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2
ghost ½ ½ ½ 2 2
dragon ½ ½ ½ 2 2
dark ½ ½ ½ 2 2
steel ½ ¼ ¼ ¼ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½
- ½ 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 26 pokemon having the Steel type. See detailed list »

Magnemite
#081 • electric / steel Magneton
#082 • electric / steel Forretress
#205 • bug / steel Steelix
#208 • steel / ground Scizor
#212 • bug / steel Skarmory
#227 • steel / flying Mawile
#303 • steel Aron
#304 • steel / rock Lairon
#305 • steel / rock Aggron
#306 • steel / rock Beldum
#374 • steel / psychic Metang
#375 • steel / psychic Metagross
#376 • steel / psychic Registeel
#379 • steel Jirachi
#385 • steel / psychic Empoleon
#395 • water / steel Shieldon
#410 • rock / steel Bastiodon
#411 • rock / steel Wormadam
#413 • bug / steel Bronzor
#436 • steel / psychic Bronzong
#437 • steel / psychic Lucario
#448 • fighting / steel Magnezone
#462 • electric / steel Probopass
#476 • rock / steel Dialga
#483 • steel / dragon Heatran
#485 • fire / steel