Iron Thorns
Rock / Electric · Paradox Pokémon — first seen in Generation IX.
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Base stats
| Stat | Base | Min | Max | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 100 | 310 | 404 | |
| Attack | 134 | 245 | 403 | |
| Defense | 110 | 202 | 350 | |
| Sp. Attack | 70 | 130 | 262 | |
| Sp. Defense | 84 | 155 | 293 | |
| Speed | 72 | 134 | 267 | |
| Total | 570 |
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 Thorns takes from each attacking type.
Evolution
Iron Thorns does not evolve, and nothing evolves into it.
Moves
Iron Thorns 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
9 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.
| Guide | Where |
|---|---|
| Pokémon Too Many Types 2 | Cave of OriginGrass · Lv — · 30% |
| Pokémon Soulgold | |
| Radical Red | Safari Zone Area 4Grass (Day) · Lv 50-52 · 20% |
| Elite Redux | |
| Pokémon Crippling Medical Debt Edition | Petalburg Woods GrottoRock Smash · Lv 57-60 · 60% |
| 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 · 20% |
| 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 Rogue | not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it |
| Pokémon Heart & Soul | not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it |
| Pokémon: Wishes of Tomorrow | not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it |
| Pokémon Exceeded | not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it |
| HeartGold Generations | not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it |
| Pokémon Overcomplicated | not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it |
Compare official Iron Thorns with the ROM hacks →
In the 15 guides that include it
Changed in 6 of 15 guides: retyped in 2, stats in 2, abilities in 2.
Every ROM hack on this site that has Iron Thorns, and what it did to it. Guides that changed something are first. Click one for that version's full page — locations, moveset and TMs.
| Guide | Type | Total | Abilities | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pokémon Too Many Types 2 | Changed | RockElectric→FutureRockKaiju | 570 | — |
| Radical Red | Changed | RockElectric | 570 | Quark Drive, Solid Rock + Solid Rock |
| Pokémon Crippling Medical Debt Edition | Changed | 0 -570 -100 HP, -134 Attack, -110 Defense, -70 Sp. Atk, -84 Sp. Def, -72 Speed | — | |
| Pokémon Emerald Imperium | Changed | RockElectric | 570 | Quark Drive, Solid Rock + Solid Rock |
| Pokémon Overcomplicated | Changed | RockElectric→RockElectricOn | 570 | Clear Body, Light Metal, Steely Spirit |
| Pokémon Mirror Gold | Changed | RockElectric | 530 -40 -50 Sp. Atk, +10 Speed | Quark Drive |
| Emerald Rogue | Unchanged | RockElectric | 570 | Quark Drive |
| Pokémon Soulgold | Unchanged | RockElectric | 570 | Quark Drive |
| Pokémon Heart & Soul | Unchanged | RockElectric | 570 | Quark Drive |
| Elite Redux | Unchanged | RockElectric | 570 | Fearmonger, Solid Rock, Light Metal |
| Pokémon: Wishes of Tomorrow | Unchanged | RockElectric | 570 | Quark Drive |
| Pokémon Exceeded | Unchanged | RockElectric | 570 | Quark Drive |
| Pokémon Emerald Squared | Unchanged | RockElectric | 570 | Quark Drive |
| HeartGold Generations | Unchanged | RockElectric | 570 | Quark Drive |
| Pokémon Black Pearl Emerald | Unchanged | RockElectric | 570 | Quark Drive |
Names in other languages
| Japanese | テツノイバラ |
| Japanese (Rōmaji) | Tetsunoibara |
| German | Eisendorn |
| French | Épine-de-Fer |
| Spanish | Ferropúas |
| Italian | Spineferree |
| Korean | 무쇠가시 |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 铁荆棘 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 鐵荊棘 |
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.