Pokémon Type Quiz: Name the Type
Sprites on screen — what type is it?
This Pokémon type quiz shows you a Pokémon and asks you to name at least one of its types. Dual-type answers are both accepted. Work through a mixed pack or choose a generation to practice Pokémon-to-type recall.
How the Pokémon Type Quiz Works
Each round shows you a Pokémon sprite. Your job is to name one of its types — Fire, Water, Ghost, or any of the other 18 types in the game. For dual-type Pokémon, either type counts as correct. So if you see Gyarados and type 'Water', that's right. If you type 'Flying', that's also right.
The quiz covers the full National Dex: 1025 Pokémon across 9 generations, from Bulbasaur to the Teal Mask and Indigo Disk additions in Scarlet and Violet. You can drill by generation if you want to focus — Gen 1 basics before Gen 9 surprises — or run a full mixed rotation.
Why Pokémon Types Can Be Tricky
Some typings are visually intuitive: Charmander is Fire and Squirtle is Water. Others make useful practice comparisons because a design cue can suggest a different answer. Gyarados looks dragonlike but is Water/Flying. Scizor is Bug/Steel rather than retaining Scyther's Bug/Flying typing.
Regional forms add another layer outside the current default-sprite quiz. Alolan Geodude is Rock/Electric and Galarian Ponyta is Psychic. Paldean Tauros Combat Breed is Fighting, Blaze Breed is Fighting/Fire, and Aqua Breed is Fighting/Water. The Treasures of Ruin all share Dark, with a different second type for each.
Useful Dual-Type Comparisons
These are editorial practice examples with visually surprising or easily contrasted type combinations. Pokédrill does not have enough type-mode-only data to rank which typings players miss most.
- Gyarados — Water/Flying: Looks and acts like a Dragon-type. Has never been Dragon-type in the mainline games, though its Mega Evolution is Water/Dark.
- Lunatone and Solrock — Rock/Psychic: This Generation 3 pair shares Rock/Psychic typing, making it useful for practicing the two names alongside one shared type combination.
- Shedinja — Bug/Ghost: The Ghost type is easy to forget because Nincada and Ninjask are both Bug — only the shed shell becomes Bug/Ghost.
- Galarian Zapdos — Fighting/Flying: The Kantonian form is Electric/Flying, so the Fighting type reads as wrong on reflex.
- Eelektross — Electric (no secondary type): It is pure Electric and its Levitate Ability normally removes Electric's Ground weakness. Its eel design makes pure Electric worth checking deliberately.
- Tapu Bulu — Grass/Fairy: One of four Island Guardians with distinct primary types. Tapu Bulu's Grass/Fairy typing is a useful group comparison, but Pokédrill has no type-only data showing that it is the least remembered.
This Quiz vs. a Type-Chart Effectiveness Quiz
A type-chart effectiveness quiz asks things like 'What type resists Fire?' or 'What beats Dragon?'. That tests your knowledge of how types interact in battle. This quiz is different: it asks what type a specific Pokémon actually is. Both skills matter, but they use different parts of your memory — one is a lookup table, the other is a catalog of 1025 individual creatures.
If you want to practice type matchups separately, that's a distinct exercise. The type-identification quiz here is the prerequisite: you can't apply type effectiveness correctly if you're not certain whether Flygon is Dragon/Flying or Dragon/Ground. (It's Dragon/Ground, by the way. Trapinch evolves into a desert antlion, not a bird.)
Generations Where Type Knowledge Gets Complicated
Generation 6 introduced Fairy retroactively. Clefairy was Normal through Gen 5 and is now Fairy, making the old type a plausible mistake; Pokédrill does not collect wrong-answer text to rank common guesses.
Generation 9 also offers useful contrasts. Ceruledge is Fire/Ghost rather than pure Fire, Armarouge is Fire/Psychic, and several Paradox Pokémon differ in typing from their visual inspirations. Iron Valiant resembles Gardevoir and Gallade but is Fairy/Fighting — not Psychic/Fairy or Psychic/Fighting.
How Type-Mode Misses Affect Later Practice
Every wrong answer is stored locally, and missed species become eligible for extra random selection on this device without a guaranteed return order. This page's 20-question completion always offers Retry same pack and New pack; when there are misses, it also lists them and offers Review misses. Continuous mode, if selected, has no completion screen.
The public ranking combines all quiz modes and does not provide a type-mode-specific leaderboard. Brionne is Water rather than Water/Ice, making it another optional manual comparison.
Tips for Passing a Pokémon Type Quiz Cold
Broad type shortcuts are unreliable. Rock Pokémon span many secondary types, while several Generation 1 Poison species are paired with Grass or Bug. It is safer to learn the specific species than assume a visual theme guarantees a type.
For legendary trios and quartets, anchor on the outlier rather than trying to memorize all four at once. In the Swords of Justice group, Cobalion is Steel/Fighting, Terrakion is Rock/Fighting, and Keldeo is Water/Fighting — once you know those three, Virizion's Grass/Fighting is what's left. Anchoring on the memorable outlier and subtracting is faster than memorizing the full list forward.