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#0995 · Generation IX

Iron Thorns

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

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Base stats

StatBaseMinMax
HP100
310404
Attack134
245403
Defense110
202350
Sp. Attack70
130262
Sp. Defense84
155293
Speed72
134267
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 Thorns takes from each attacking type.

×4
Ground
×2
FightingWaterGrass
×½
NormalPoisonFireElectric
×¼
Flying
×1
RockBugGhostSteelPsychicIceDragonDarkFairy

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.

GuideWhere
Pokémon Too Many Types 2
Cave of OriginGrass · Lv — · 30%
Pokémon Soulgold
Meteor Island (Meteor Cave2)Grass · Lv 57-60 · 5%rare
Radical Red
Safari Zone Area 4Grass (Day) · Lv 50-52 · 20%
Elite Redux
Victory Road B1FGrass · Lv — · 5%rare
Victory Road FroomGrass · Lv — · 4%rare
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 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 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.

GuideTypeTotalAbilities
Pokémon Too Many Types 2ChangedRockElectric→FutureRockKaiju570—
Radical RedChangedRockElectric570Quark Drive, Solid Rock
+ Solid Rock
Pokémon Crippling Medical Debt EditionChanged0 -570
-100 HP, -134 Attack, -110 Defense, -70 Sp. Atk, -84 Sp. Def, -72 Speed
—
Pokémon Emerald ImperiumChangedRockElectric570Quark Drive, Solid Rock
+ Solid Rock
Pokémon OvercomplicatedChangedRockElectric→RockElectricOn570Clear Body, Light Metal, Steely Spirit
Pokémon Mirror GoldChangedRockElectric530 -40
-50 Sp. Atk, +10 Speed
Quark Drive
Emerald RogueUnchangedRockElectric570Quark Drive
Pokémon SoulgoldUnchangedRockElectric570Quark Drive
Pokémon Heart & SoulUnchangedRockElectric570Quark Drive
Elite ReduxUnchangedRockElectric570Fearmonger, Solid Rock, Light Metal
Pokémon: Wishes of TomorrowUnchangedRockElectric570Quark Drive
Pokémon ExceededUnchangedRockElectric570Quark Drive
Pokémon Emerald SquaredUnchangedRockElectric570Quark Drive
HeartGold GenerationsUnchangedRockElectric570Quark Drive
Pokémon Black Pearl EmeraldUnchangedRockElectric570Quark Drive

Names in other languages

Japaneseテツノイバラ
Japanese (Rōmaji)Tetsunoibara
GermanEisendorn
FrenchÉpine-de-Fer
SpanishFerropúas
ItalianSpineferree
Korean무쇠가시
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.