Best Steel Type Pokémon

No Type Resists More

Steel resists ten types outright -- Normal, Grass, Ice, Flying, Psychic, Bug, Rock, Dragon, Steel, and Fairy -- and is fully immune to Poison on top of that, eleven types in total it either shrugs off or ignores entirely. No other type in the game comes close to that number. Steelix pushes the defensive identity to an extreme with 200 base Defense, one of the highest single-stat values of any Pokémon, while Aegislash splits an unusual 140 Defense / 140 Special Defense down the middle and changes stance mid-battle to flip into a genuine attacker.

Not Just a Wall

The same typing that makes Steel defensively dominant also makes it super effective against Fairy, giving it a clean answer to a type most other Pokémon struggle against. Metagross (135 Attack), Scizor (130 Attack), and Excadrill (135 Attack) show the type has real offensive options too, and Metagross's 600 base stat total puts it in the same tier as the Dragon-type pseudo-legendaries despite not being a Dragon at all.

See the full type chart → for every Steel type matchup, including how it stacks up against dual types.