Ice Type Guide: Strengths & Counters
Explore the Ice type: learn its strengths, weaknesses, resistances, immunities and practical tips for VGC and Showdown ladder play.
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Offense rank
#4 · Good
Defense rank
#18 · Worst
Offensive power
111%
Defensive strength
84%
What Is Ice Strong Against? Offensive Matchups
Strong against
Not very effective against
Has no effect
Frost kills Grass, grinds Ground, ices wings, and freezes mighty Dragons, yet it melts before Fire, diffuses in Water, glances off Ice, and fails to scratch Steel.
Super-Effective
- Grass
Frost destroys crops and greenery.
- Ground
Glaciers grind and heave earth apart.
- Flying
Ice on wings stalls flight mid-air.
- Dragon
Cold-blooded scales freeze stiff.
Not Very Effective
- Fire
Flames melt ice faster than it forms.
- Water
Ice melts into water.
- Ice
Freezing a frozen target adds little extra pressure.
- Steel
Hardened metal cleaves or shrugs ice.
What Is Ice Weak To? Defensive Matchups
Weak to
Resists
Immune to
Fire melts, Fighters shatter, Rocks crack, and Steel chisels brittle ice, while only other Ice attacks feel familiar enough to do minimal harm.
Weak To
- Fire
Heat liquefies frozen defenses.
- Fighting
Focused punches shatter brittle ice.
- Rock
Falling stones fracture glaciers.
- Steel
Metal blades carve frozen surfaces.
Resistant To
- Ice
Frozen bodies absorb cold better than most types.
Uneven Matchups
- Ice→Water0.5×←Water→1×
- Ice→Grass2×←Grass→1×
- Ice→Fighting1×←Fighting→2×
- Ice→Ground2×←Ground→1×
- Ice→Flying2×←Flying→1×
- Ice→Rock1×←Rock→2×
- Ice→Dragon2×←Dragon→1×
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