Electric (type)
Template:ElementalTypes The Electric type (Japanese: でんきタイプ Electric type) is one of the seventeen elemental types. Notable Trainers that specialize in Electric-type Pokémon are Lt. Surge of Vermilion City, Wattson of Mauville City, Volkner of Sunyshore City, and Elesa of Nimbasa City. Prior to Generation IV, where moves are designated physical or special based on the move itself rather than its type, all Electric-type moves were special.
Statistical averages
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Characteristics
Offense
Electric-type Pokémon often have high Speed and Special Attack stats making many of them good Special sweepers. Electric-type's ability to hit the very common Water-type and Flying-type types Super Effectively is important for many offensive Pokémon. Despite a lack of reliable powerful moves, Thunderbolt is one of the most commonly used moves due to its mix of power, accuracy and type coverage. Thunder also sees common usage on Rain Dance based teams due to its perfect accuracy in rain. Additionally, Thunder Wave, being one of the most reliable forms of inducing Paralysis, is commonly seen on a wide variety of defensive Pokémon.
Defense
On average, Electric types have average Defense and above average Special Defense. As a single type, Electric is one of only two types to have only one weakness, the other being Normal-type. The downside to this is that, Ground attacks are very common types offensively. While they also have a small number of resistances, many dual typed Electrics have secondary types giving them a large total number of resistances, such as Magnezone who, along with its pre-evolved forms, has the most resistances of all Pokémon. Also Eelektross and its family, pure Electric-type Pokémon, have the ability Levitate effectively giving them no weaknesses.
In Contests, Electric-type moves are usually Cool; no Electric-type move is considered Tough.
Pokémon
As of Generation V, there are 39 Electric-type Pokémon or 6.01% of all Pokémon, making it tied with the Dark type as the twelfth most common elemental type.
Pure Electric-type Pokémon
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Half Electric-type Pokémon
Primary Electric-type Pokémon
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Secondary Electric-type Pokémon
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Moves
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Trivia
- Every generation has introduced at least one Electric-type Pokémon whose name begins with the letter E.
- In Generation III, all Electric moves were Cool moves except for Charge.
- Generation V introduced the largest number of Electric-type Pokémon, a total of 11. Generation I introduced 9, Generation II introduced 8, Generation IV introduced 7 and Generation III introduced the fewest, only 4.
- The only type combination that is doubly weak to Electric-type attacks, Water/Flying, has had at least one Pokémon introduced every generation: Gyarados, Mantine, Wingull, Pelipper, Mantyke, Ducklett, and Swanna.
- The three Pokémon that have had their types changed between generations (Magnemite, Magneton, and Rotom's alternate forms) are all part Electric-type.
- There is an Electric-type Gym Leader in every region except for Johto, which lacks an Electric-specialist Gym due to Kanto also being accessible in games featuring Johto.
- Generation III is the only generation in which all new Electric types are single-type Pokémon.
- However, in Generation I, all non-legendary Electric-type Pokémon had pure Electric typing, as Magnemite and Magneton did not adopt a secondary type until Generation II.
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