Flying (type)
Template:ElementalTypes The Flying type (Japanese: ひこうタイプ Flying type) is one of the seventeen elemental types. Notable Trainers that specialize in Flying type Pokémon are the Gym Leaders Falkner of Violet City, Winona of Fortree City, and Skyla of Mistralton City. Prior to Generation IV, where moves are designated physical or special based on the move itself rather than its type, all Flying-type moves were physical.
Statistical averages
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Characteristics
Defense
Defensively, the Flying type is useful for its immunity to the common Template:Type2 move Earthquake and its resistance to Fighting. However, the Flying type's weaknesses aren't uncommon and can often offset the benefits of immunity to Ground, especially due to many dual-type Rock/Ground Pokémon. However, most Flying-types have access to Roost, allowing them to restore their health. Flying-types usually have below average defense stats, making them vulnerable to most physical attacks, super effective or not.
Offense
Offensively, Flying-type moves are usually only useful when benefited by same-type attack bonus and for their strength against Template:Type2. The types Flying is super effective against aren't common. In their favor though, most fully evolved Flying-types have above-average Attack and Speed stats. However, having below average Special Attack makes such moves as Air Cutter and Air Slash almost useless, unless used by Flying-type outliers with high Special Attack such as Togekiss or Yanmega. Flying-type attacks are useful for being able to hit any opponent in a triple battle.
Flying-type Pokémon that use the move Roost will temporarily lose their Flying-type. If a pure-Flying-type Pokémon uses Roost, then it will become a Template:Type2 in Generation IV and a Template:Type2 in Generation V.
When used in Contests, Flying-type moves typically become Cool moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types, excluding Tough.
Pokémon
As of Generation V, there are 84 Flying-type Pokémon or 12.94% of all Pokémon, making it the third most common elemental type.
Pure Flying-type Pokémon
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Half Flying-type Pokémon
Primary Flying-type Pokémon
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Secondary Flying-type Pokémon
Moves
Damage-dealing moves
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Trivia
- Prior to Generation V, this type was the only one of the seventeen that was never seen as an authentic pure type; Tornadus is the first pure Flying-type.
- The Flying-type has been paired with every other type, except the Template:Type2. This ties it with the Template:Type2 for the most types it is paired with.
- Although Normal is not typically paired up with other types, it is the most common type paired with Flying.
- Every dual-typed Flying Pokémon has Flying as its secondary type.
- Each generation has introduced at least one part-Flying legendary Pokémon.
- There has been a Flying-type Pokémon introduced in every generation whose name begins with the letters M and S.
- For each possible type combination with a double weakness to Flying, there is at least one Pokémon with that type combination. Bug/Grass consist of Paras and Parasect, which are in the same evolutionary line, Wormadam Plant Cloak, and Sewaddle, Swadloon, and Leavanny which are also in the same evolutionary line, while Grass/Fighting and Bug/Fighting consist of Heracross, Breloom, and Virizion
- All damage-dealing Flying-type moves except Air Cutter can hit non-adjacent Pokémon in triple battles.
In other languages
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