Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire Type Chart
Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire copy the Gen 2 type chart cell for cell, all 17 types of it. Abilities are the big addition, and Tate & Liza in Mossdeep City are the one gym you fight as a double battle, so the twins won’t accept the challenge unless two of your Pokémon can still fight. Everything below is for Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire on the Game Boy Advance; the 3DS remakes, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, play by a later chart.
The Ruby & Sapphire type chart
In the full chart, rows attack and columns defend: tap any cell to read the matchup in plain words.
Good against: its attacks do 2× to these. Weak to: these hit it for 2×. Under those, ½× means half damage and 0× means no damage.
Phoebe’s Sableye is Dark/Ghost, and those two types cancel every 2× on the Gen 3 chart. Normal, Fighting and Psychic moves can’t hit it at all. Wild ones live only in Sapphire. The chart for every generation is on the type chart hub.
Ruby & Sapphire type calculator
Search any Pokémon you can get in Ruby & Sapphire, or a type. Works for dual types too. Abilities are ignored, except Levitate.
NormalUse these attack types. They do double damage (2×) or more to Slaking, strongest first.
Fighting
These do half damage (½×) or less to Slaking, so pick something else. 0× means no damage at all.
GhostIts types hit nothing for 2×.
Every type in Ruby & Sapphire
Open a type to see its Pokémon in Ruby & Sapphire.
Normal
24 PokémonHITS 2×NothingWEAK TO
Fire
10 PokémonHITS 2×
WEAK TO
Water
46 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TO
Electric
13 PokémonHITS 2×
WEAK TOGrass
21 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TO
Ice
6 PokémonHITS 2×
WEAK TOFighting
11 PokémonHITS 2×
WEAK TO
Poison
17 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TOGround
22 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TOFlying
21 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TOPsychic
26 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TOBug
16 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TORock
19 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TOGhost
6 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TODragon10 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TODark
10 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TOSteel
11 PokémonHITS 2×WEAK TORuby & Sapphire team weakness calculator
Add your Pokémon to see what your team is weak to, how it grades over the whole game, and who to send against each boss. Every matchup uses that boss’s real Ruby & Sapphire team, with Levitate’s Ground immunity counted.
Build your team
Add up to 6 Pokémon. You get a grade, and every boss below shows who on your team to send.
RockAce Nosepass · Lv 15
WaterGrassFightingGroundSteelFireFlyingIceBug
Lv 14
Lv 15FightingAce Makuhita · Lv 18
FlyingPsychicRockDarkNormalIce
Lv 17
Lv 18ElectricAce Magneton · Lv 23
Ground4×FireFightingFlyingWaterIcePoison
Lv 22
Lv 20Lv 23FireAce Torkoal · Lv 28
WaterGroundRockGrassIceBugSteel
Lv 26Lv 26Lv 28NormalAce Slaking · Lv 31
FightingGhostLv 28
Lv 30Lv 31FlyingAce Altaria · Lv 33
RockElectricIce4×GroundBugGrassFighting
Lv 31
Lv 30Lv 32
Lv 33PsychicAce Solrock · Lv 42
WaterGrassBugGhostDarkSteelFirePoisonGroundFlying
Lv 42
Lv 42WaterAce Milotic · Lv 43
GrassElectricFireRockGround
Lv 40
Lv 42
Lv 40
Lv 42Lv 43DarkAce Absol · Lv 49
BugFightingFireIcePoisonFlyingPsychicGhostGroundRock
Lv 46Lv 48Lv 46
Lv 48
Lv 49GhostAce Dusclops · Lv 51
GhostDarkNormalFightingPsychicLv 48Lv 49Lv 50Lv 49Lv 51IceAce Walrein · Lv 53
FightingRockElectricGrassSteelGroundFlyingDragonFireLv 50Lv 50Lv 52Lv 52Lv 53DragonAce Salamence · Lv 55
Ice4×DragonRockGround
Lv 52Lv 54Lv 53Lv 53Lv 55
WaterGroundFireFightingSteelRockIceBugLv 57Lv 55Lv 56Lv 56Lv 56
Lv 58Graded on the Gen 3 chart. Levitate is the only ability counted. Ace levels are from the first battle.
How types work differently in Ruby & Sapphire
If your last Pokémon game was a Switch one, expect surprises in how moves and abilities work here.
The type decides physical or special
Until Diamond & Pearl, every move of a type uses the same attacking stat. Check which side a Pokémon’s own type lands on before you teach it anything.
Sharpedo120 ATK · 95 SP. ATKSlash and TM26 Earthquake get Sharpedo’s full 120 Attack. Its Lv 22 Crunch doesn’t, since Dark counts as special in Gen 3 and that leaves it on 95 Sp. Atk.Banette115 ATK · 83 SP. ATKBanette learns Shadow Ball at Lv 48, or earlier from TM30 on Mt. Pyre, and in Gen 3 that move draws on its 115 Attack, because Ghost stays physical until Gen 4.Changed since Red & Blue
GhostPsychic0×2×BugPoison2×½×PoisonBug2×1×IceFire1×½×That Ghost cell is why Ghost moves work on Tate & Liza. Lunatone and Solrock are both part Psychic and take 2×, where Red & Blue gave Ghost no effect on Psychic.
Different from today’s games
GhostSteel½×1×DarkSteel½×1×With Fairy still three generations off, Jigglypuff, Wigglytuff, Igglybuff and Azurill are pure Normal; Marill and Azumarill are pure Water; Ralts, Kirlia and Gardevoir are pure Psychic; Mawile is pure Steel. Azumarill’s only weaknesses in Gen 3 are Grass and Electric.
Abilities debut in Ruby & Sapphire; Red & Blue and the Johto games have nothing like them. Drake’s two Flygon have Levitate as well, so Ground moves miss them.