What's good against water Pokemon?

Battling against water Pokemon can be tricky because there are so many of them — in fact, there are more water type Pokemon than any other type! That makes for a lot of different battle strategies!

And, water typing has now been paired with every other type which further complicates their weaknesses and resistances.

Water type Pokemon are weak to:

Use attacks of these types to deal double damage against water types. It's super effective!

These types resist water type attacks:

Use Pokemon of these types to take half damage from an opponent's water type attacks. It's not very effective.

Great Pokemon to use against water types:

These Pokemon learn super effective attacks or have useful resistances (or both!)

Venusaur (grass / poison)
Serperior (grass)
Sceptile (grass)
Magneton (electric / steel)
Lanturn (electric / water)
Luxray (electric)

Read more: The ULTIMATE Pokemon Type Weakness Guide

Good attacks to use against water type Pokemon:

Thunderbolt (electric)
Discharge (electric)
Thunder punch (electric)
Leaf storm (grass)
Seed bomb (grass)
Energy ball (grass)