What type is Melmetal?

Melmetal is a pure Steel type Pokémon.

What is Melmetal weak to?

Melmetal is Steel. It takes 2× from Fire, Fighting and Ground.

No. 0809 · Gen 7

Adamant: Hits harder and drops Sp. Atk, which it won’t use.

Hit MELMETAL with Fire, Fighting and Ground for 2× damage.

2×Super effective

½×Not very effective

0×No effect

In Pokémon GO: Fire deals 1.6× instead of 2×. GO chart

AdamantHits harder and drops Sp. Atk, which it won’t use.

Worked out from base stats. Your team may need something else.

Defeating Melmetal gives 3 Attack EVs.

Your game

The strongest attacking move it can learn in each type, across all games. Not every game has every move. Same-type moves get a 1.5× bonus.

Type	Move	Kind	Power
Normal	Self-Destruct	Physical	200
Steel	Steel Beamsame type	Special	140
Grass	Solar Beam	Special	120
Fighting	Superpower	Physical	120
Electric	Thunder	Special	110
Ground	Earthquake	Physical	100
Ice	Ice Beam	Special	90
Dark	Darkest Lariat	Physical	85
Rock	Rock Slide	Physical	75

Regular Pokémon whose same-type moves hit it hard and who take little from its same-type moves. Picked from types and base stats only, not movesets.