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#1022 · Generation IX

Iron Boulder

Rock / Psychic · Paradox Pokémon — first seen in Generation IX.

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Base stats

StatBaseMinMax
HP90
290384
Attack120
220372
Defense80
148284
Sp. Attack68
126258
Sp. Defense108
198346
Speed124
227381
Total590

Min and max are at level 100: the minimum is 0 IVs, 0 EVs and a hindering nature, the maximum 31 IVs, 252 EVs and a beneficial nature. Shedinja's HP is always 1 whatever the formula says.

Type defences

Damage Iron Boulder takes from each attacking type.

×2
GroundBugGhostSteelWaterGrassDark
×½
NormalFlyingPoisonFirePsychic
×1
FightingRockElectricIceDragonFairy

Evolution

Iron Boulder does not evolve, and nothing evolves into it.

Moves

Iron Boulder is not in any of the 16 official games this site covers (Red & Blue through Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon), so there is no learnset here yet.

Where to find it in the official games

Not obtainable in the wild in any of the 16 official games this site covers. In those games it has to be evolved, traded or bred — or it belongs to a game whose data is not here yet.

Where to find it in the ROM hacks

7 guides on this site put it somewhere you can catch it. Areas link to that guide's own route page, with its own rates and levels.

GuideWhere
Recordkeepers
Boss group — Paradox SwordsBoss (choose one of the group) · Lv 90–99, scales
Radical Red
Rock Tunnel B1FRaid Den 5★ · Lv ?
Elite Redux
Victory Road B2FGrass · Lv — · 5%rare
Victory Road FroomGrass · Lv — · 20%
Pokémon Crippling Medical Debt Edition
Petalburg Woods GrottoRock Smash · Lv 57-60 · 5%rare
Pokémon Emerald Imperium
Shoal Cave Low Tide Inner RoomGrass · Lv 50-60 · 5%rare
Pokémon Emerald Squared
Safari Zone SouthLand · Lv 40-50 · 5%
Pokémon Mirror Gold
Johto Safari Zone — PeakWalk (Day) · Lv 17
Johto Safari Zone — PeakWalk (Morning) · Lv 17
Johto Safari Zone — PeakWalk (Night) · Lv 17
and 3 more areas
Emerald Roguenot in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon Soulgoldnot in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon Heart & Soulnot in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon: Wishes of Tomorrownot in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon Exceedednot in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
HeartGold Generationsnot in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon Overcomplicatednot in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it

Compare official Iron Boulder with the ROM hacks →

In the 14 guides that include it

Changed in 5 of 14 guides: retyped in 1, stats in 2, abilities in 2.

Every ROM hack on this site that has Iron Boulder, and what it did to it. Guides that changed something are first. Click one for that version's full page — locations, moveset and TMs.

GuideTypeTotalAbilities
RecordkeepersChangedRockPsychic590Fated Strike
+ Fated Strike − Quark Drive
Pokémon Crippling Medical Debt EditionChanged0 -590
-90 HP, -120 Attack, -80 Defense, -68 Sp. Atk, -108 Sp. Def, -124 Speed
—
Pokémon Emerald ImperiumChangedRockPsychic590Quark Drive, Sharpness
+ Sharpness
Pokémon OvercomplicatedChangedRockPsychic→RockPsychicOn590Clear Body, Light Metal, Steely Spirit
Pokémon Mirror GoldChangedRockPsychic530 -60
-10 HP, -5 Defense, -20 Sp. Atk, -15 Sp. Def, -10 Speed
Quark Drive
Emerald RogueUnchangedRockPsychic590Quark Drive
Pokémon SoulgoldUnchangedRockPsychic590Quark Drive
Pokémon Heart & SoulUnchangedRockPsychic590Quark Drive
Radical RedUnchangedRockPsychic590Quark Drive
Elite ReduxUnchangedRockPsychic590Mold Breaker, Hardened Sheath, Violent Rush
Pokémon: Wishes of TomorrowUnchangedRockPsychic590Quark Drive
Pokémon ExceededUnchangedRockPsychic590—
Pokémon Emerald SquaredUnchangedRockPsychic590Quark Drive
HeartGold GenerationsUnchangedRockPsychic590Quark Drive

Names in other languages

Japaneseテツノイワオ
Japanese (Rōmaji)Tetsunoiwao
GermanEisenfels
FrenchRoc-de-Fer
SpanishFerromole
ItalianMassoferreo
Korean무쇠암석
Chinese (Simplified)铁磐岩
Chinese (Traditional)鐵磐岩

Official data here is present-day reference data from PokéAPI, not a snapshot of any one game's era — the Fairy type and hidden abilities arrived partway through the series, so a difference against an older game can belong to the series rather than to that ROM hack.