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#0994 · Generation IX

Iron Moth

Fire / Poison · Paradox Pokémon — first seen in Generation IX.

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Base stats

StatBaseMinMax
HP80
270364
Attack70
130262
Defense60
112240
Sp. Attack140
256416
Sp. Defense110
202350
Speed110
202350
Total570

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 Moth takes from each attacking type.

×4
Ground
×2
RockWaterPsychic
×½
FightingPoisonSteelFireIce
×¼
BugGrassFairy
×1
NormalFlyingGhostElectricDragonDark

Evolution

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

Moves

Iron Moth 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

8 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
Pokémon Soulgold
Meteor Island (Meteor Cave2)Grass · Lv 57-60 · 5%rare
Radical Red
Safari Zone Area 1Grass (Night) · Lv 50-52 · 20%
Elite Redux
Victory Road B1FGrass · Lv — · 4%rare
Victory Road FroomGrass · Lv — · 4%rare
Pokémon Crippling Medical Debt Edition
Petalburg Woods GrottoGrass · Lv 57-60 · 10%
Pokémon Emerald Imperium
Shoal Cave Low Tide Inner RoomGrass · Lv 50-60 · 10%
Pokémon Emerald Squared
Safari Zone SouthLand · Lv 40-50 · 5%
Pokémon Black Pearl Emerald
Victory RoadGrass · Lv 77-83 · 5%rare
Pokémon Mirror Gold
Johto Safari Zone — DesertWalk (Day) · Lv 17
Johto Safari Zone — DesertWalk (Morning) · Lv 17
Johto Safari Zone — DesertWalk (Night) · Lv 17
and 3 more areas
Emerald Roguenot 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 Moth with the ROM hacks →

In the 14 guides that include it

Changed in 3 of 14 guides: retyped in 1, stats in 2.

Every ROM hack on this site that has Iron Moth, 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
Pokémon Crippling Medical Debt EditionChanged0 -570
-80 HP, -70 Attack, -60 Defense, -140 Sp. Atk, -110 Sp. Def, -110 Speed
—
Pokémon OvercomplicatedChangedFirePoison→FirePoisonOn570Clear Body, Light Metal, Steely Spirit
Pokémon Mirror GoldChangedFirePoison530 -40
-20 Attack, -20 Sp. Atk
Quark Drive
Emerald RogueUnchangedFirePoison570Quark Drive
Pokémon SoulgoldUnchangedFirePoison570Quark Drive
Pokémon Heart & SoulUnchangedFirePoison570Quark Drive
Radical RedUnchangedFirePoison570Quark Drive
Elite ReduxUnchangedFirePoison570Molten Down, Shield Dust, Corrosion
Pokémon Emerald ImperiumUnchangedFirePoison570Quark Drive
Pokémon: Wishes of TomorrowUnchangedFirePoison570Quark Drive
Pokémon ExceededUnchangedFirePoison570Quark Drive
Pokémon Emerald SquaredUnchangedFirePoison570Quark Drive
HeartGold GenerationsUnchangedFirePoison570Quark Drive
Pokémon Black Pearl EmeraldUnchangedFirePoison570Quark Drive

Names in other languages

Japaneseテツノドクガ
Japanese (Rōmaji)Tetsunodokuga
GermanEisenfalter
FrenchMite-de-Fer
SpanishFerropolilla
ItalianFalenaferrea
Korean무쇠독나방
Chinese (Simplified)铁毒蛾
Chinese (Traditional)鐵毒蛾

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.