Water type

Water moves are super effective (1.6×) against Fire, Ground, Rock and not very effective (0.625× or less) against Water, Grass, Dragon. Water-type Pokémon are weak to Electric, Grass (1.6×) and resist Fire, Water, Ice, Steel. Rainy weather boosts Water moves by 1.2×. In raids, the strongest attackers using only Water moves are Primal Kyogre, Mega Swampert, Shadow Kyogre; among easy-to-get Pokémon, Inteleon, Kingler, Primarina.

MatchupsPokémon GO multipliers

Deals 1.6×FireGroundRock

Deals 0.625×WaterGrassDragon

Weak to (1.6×)ElectricGrass

ResistsFireWaterIceSteel

Weather boostRainy

Defense is for a pure Water type. Dual types multiply their multipliers.

Best Water attackersIncl. Shadow, Mega & Legendary

Raid ranking when both the Fast and Charged Attack are Water type (level 40, 100% IVs, neutral boss). Ranked by a score combining DPS and durability (TDO); * marks an exclusive move.

1. 1Primal KyogreWaterfall · Origin Pulse*DPS 21.3
2. 2Mega SwampertWater Gun · Hydro Cannon*DPS 19.2
3. 3Shadow KyogreWaterfall · Origin Pulse*DPS 20.0
4. 4Mega GreninjaWater Shuriken · Hydro Cannon*DPS 20.7
5. 5Mega GyaradosWaterfall · Hydro PumpDPS 16.7
6. 6Mega BlastoiseWater Gun · Hydro Cannon*DPS 17.0
7. 7KyogreWaterfall · Origin Pulse*DPS 16.7
8. 8Shadow GreninjaWater Shuriken · Hydro Cannon*DPS 19.7
9. 9Shadow KinglerBubble · CrabhammerDPS 19.2
10. 10Shadow SwampertWater Gun · Hydro Cannon*DPS 17.3

Easy-to-get PokémonExcl. Legendary, Mega & Shadow

Counted with currently learnable moves only.

1. 1InteleonWater Gun · Snipe ShotDPS 17.3
2. 2KinglerBubble · CrabhammerDPS 16.2
3. 3PrimarinaWaterfall · Sparkling AriaDPS 14.4
4. 4ClawitzerWater Gun · CrabhammerDPS 15.0
5. 5GyaradosWaterfall · Hydro PumpDPS 13.9
6. 6GolisopodWaterfall · Razor ShellDPS 13.5
7. 7Hisuian SamurottWaterfall · Razor ShellDPS 14.0
8. 8SamurottWaterfall · Razor ShellDPS 13.7
9. 9VaporeonWater Gun · Hydro PumpDPS 12.8
10. 10SwampertWater Gun · SurfDPS 12.8