steel Type Pokémon
Master their Strengths, Weaknesses, and Real-World Analogies
What Defines a steel-Type Pokémon?
Steel-Type Pokémon are known for their metallic bodies, durability, and extreme resilience to many other Pokémon types. They often symbolize strength, technology, and industrial power. Their abilities focus on defense and powerful physical attacks.
Featured steel-Type Pokémon
steel-Type Weaknesses
- fighting: Fighting can be viewed as "focusing kinetic energy", and with enough of it, you can dent, bend, reshape, and break durable steel.
- ground: Steel is succeptible to the abrasive and shifting nature of ground - earthquakes with a 7.0 magnitude (or higher) can cause skyscrapers to collapse.
- fire: Steel at a high enough temperature has been shown to melt, losing its rigidity, shape, and resilience.
steel-Type Resistances
- flying: Metal armor was made to withstand other materials of equal and lesser hardness - beaks and talons are made of "keratin" which is the same materials as human nails! Metal is much more resilient than hard nails.
- grass: Steel is not pourous enough for a root system to embed itself.
- rock: Steel is harder than most rocks, and is also the material used for machines like excavators, crushers, hydraulic hammers, etc - all break down rock with ease.
- bug: Bugs are often venemous and love to burough - steel is immune to poisons as it is not porous and non-organic, as well as has no easy entries for bugs to dig.
- dragon: In Fairytales, a knight in shining ARMOR was used to defend against them!
- normal: Your average joe is not making a dent in any kind of metallic structure.
- psychic: Certain metals can block electro-magnetic signals such as lead and steel alloys - if psychic power is transmitted on that same wavelength, then it too would be blocked - but hey! Thats a "Tin Foil Hat" theory for you!
- ice: Steel is often used to carve ice for aesthetics - steel makes damaging ice an art form.
- steel: The best way to defend against a steel sword, is a steel shield.
- fairy: Iron horseshoes are believed to function as wards against fairies as it is believed that fae can't cross iron barriers.
steel-Type Neutral Matchups
- water
- electric
- ghost
- dark
steel-Type Immunities
- poison: Steel is not porous and non-organic - leaving poison no way to inflict its toxicity.