Type-enhancing item

A type-enhancing item, when held, enhances the power of attacks with the corresponding type. From Generation IV onward, these items boost the power of moves of the corresponding type by 20%; prior to Generation IV, they give boosts of 10%.

In Johto, several of these items can be obtained from the Week Siblings.

List of type-enhancing items

Name Debut
Gen.
Corresponding
move type
  Black Belt II Fighting
  Black Glasses II Dark
  Charcoal II Fire
  Dragon Fang II Dragon
  Fairy Feather IX Fairy
  Hard Stone II Rock
  Magnet II Electric
  Metal Coat II Steel
  Miracle Seed II Grass
  Mystic Water II Water
  Never-Melt Ice II Ice
  Pink Bow II Normal
  Poison Barb II Poison
  Polkadot Bow II Normal
  Sharp Beak II Flying
  Silk Scarf III Normal
  Silver Powder II Bug
  Soft Sand II Ground
  Spell Tag II Ghost
  Twisted Spoon II Psychic

Pokémon-specific type-enhancing items

Name Debut
Gen.
Corresponding
Pokémon
Corresponding
move types
  Adamant Orb IV   Dialga Dragon Steel
  Adamant Crystal
(Gen. IX onwards)
VIII   Dialga
Origin Forme
Dragon Steel
  Griseous Orb IV   Giratina
Altered Forme
Dragon Ghost
  Griseous Core
(Gen. IX onwards)
VIII   Giratina
Origin Forme
Dragon Ghost
  Lustrous Orb IV   Palkia Dragon Water
  Lustrous Globe
(Gen. IX onwards)
VIII   Palkia
Origin Forme
Dragon Water
  Soul Dew
(Gen. VII onwards)
III  
 
Latias
Latios
Psychic Dragon

Incenses

Main article: Incense

Plates

Main article: Plate

Gems

Main article: Gem

Artwork

Underground

This is artwork of the items as seen in the Sinnoh Underground and Grand Underground.

   
Hard Stone
(Generation IV)
Hard Stone
(Generation VIII)

Global Link

These are artwork of the items as seen in the Pokémon Global Link.

           
Black Belt Black Glasses Charcoal Dragon Fang Hard Stone Magnet
           
Metal Coat Miracle Seed Mystic Water Never-Melt Ice Poison Barb Sharp Beak
         
Silk Scarf Silver Powder Soft Sand Spell Tag Twisted Spoon

In the anime

Charcoal appeared in A Farfetch'd Tale. While traveling through Ilex Forest, Ash and his friends met a boy named Sylvester, who was trying to follow in his teacher's (father in the dub) footsteps in order to learn how to make "purifying charcoal". Brock explained that purifying charcoal is actually burnt wood, which can be used as fuel or to purify water and air. At the end of the episode, Ash and his friends received some charcoal as a gift.

A Mystic Water was the prize given to the winner of the Whirl Cup in The Perfect Match!.

A Dragon Fang appeared in Beauty is Skin Deep as the treasure of Clair's family, kept in the Blackthorn Gym. It is the fang of an ancient Dragon Pokémon that terrorized Blackthorn City. The Dragon Fang is part of a ritual with the purpose of bringing peace to all Dragon-type Pokémon. The ritual involves the Blackthorn Gym Leader placing it on a special ceremonial table, then pouring water over it, causing a light dragon to burst out of it and rise into the sky. Legend says that this light dragon becomes a star and watches over all Dragon-type Pokémon.

A Dragon Fang appeared in Showdown At Linoone as one of the items Tokin had picked up.

A Black Belt and a Twisted Spoon appeared in Climbing the Tower of Success! as search items for the Wishing Bell Festival scavenger hunt. A piece of Never-Melt Ice was also a search item, but the boy looking for it only found regular ice.

In Currying Favor and Flavor!, Ash and Mallow found a Miracle Seed in a hollowed-out stump full of Berries in Lush Jungle while collecting ingredients for the "Akala Curry".

A Mystic Water appeared in Balloons, Brionne, and Belligerence!, where Kanoa found it from a sunken ship, giving it to Ida as a gift.

In Searching for Chivalry!, Wikstrom gave Goh's Scyther a Metal Coat, which was used to evolve it into Scizor by transferring it through a trade machine while holding it.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Gold, Silver & Crystal arc

In The Last Battle IV, during the final battle against the Masked Man, Misty, Blaine, and Lt. Surge used Mystic Water, Charcoal, and Magnet to power up the moves of Suicune, Entei, and Raikou, respectively. Notably, the Magnet that appeared was a lodestone rather than a horseshoe magnet as seen in the games, due to the fact that this chapter was released before the Magnet was given a sprite in the games.

Diamond & Pearl arc

In Vexing Vespiquen & Unmanageable Mothim II, Diamond found a Metal Coat in Byron's vacation home on Iron Island and subsequently gave it to his Shieldon, Don, to hold.

Gallery

Trivia


Type-enhancing items
 
Items
 
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Incenses
 
Orbs
 
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Soul Dew


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