Iron Moth

No. 0994 · Gen 9

Iron Moth weakness and type

Hit IRON MOTH with Ground for 4× damage. Water, Psychic and Rock also deal 2×.

Moves against Iron Moth

4×Hits hardest
2×Super effective
½×Not very effective
¼×Barely scratches it

In Pokémon GO: Ground deals 2.56× instead of 4×. GO chart

Test a matchup against Iron Moth

Abilities

  • Quark DriveNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP80
  • Attack70
  • Defense60
  • Sp. Atk140
  • Sp. Def110
  • Speed110
  • Total570

Best nature

TimidOutspeeds more opponents and drops Attack.
ModestHits harder and drops Attack, which it won’t use.

Worked out from base stats. Your team may need something else.

Defeating Iron Moth gives 3 Sp. Atk EVs.

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What Iron Moth can hit with

The strongest attacking move it can learn in each type, across all games. Not every game has every move. Same-type moves get a 1.5× bonus.

TypeMoveKindPower
NormalHyper BeamSpecial150
FireOverheatsame typeSpecial130
GrassSolar BeamSpecial120
RockMeteor BeamSpecial120
FlyingHurricaneSpecial110
PoisonSludge Wavesame typeSpecial95
PsychicPsychicSpecial90
BugBug BuzzSpecial90
SteelFlash CannonSpecial80
ElectricDischargeSpecial80
FairyDazzling GleamSpecial80

Type counters to Iron Moth

Regular Pokémon whose same-type moves hit it hard and who take little from its same-type moves. Picked from types and base stats only, not movesets.