Iron Thorns

No. 0995 · Gen 9

Iron Thorns weakness and type

Hit IRON THORNS with Ground for 4× damage. Water, Grass and Fighting also deal 2×.

Moves against Iron Thorns

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 Thorns

Abilities

  • Quark DriveNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP100
  • Attack134
  • Defense110
  • Sp. Atk70
  • Sp. Def84
  • Speed72
  • Total570

Best nature

AdamantHits harder and drops Sp. Atk, which it won’t use.
JollyOutspeeds more opponents and drops Sp. Atk.

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

Defeating Iron Thorns gives 3 Attack EVs.

Calculate Iron Thorns's stats

What Iron Thorns 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
RockMeteor Beamsame typeSpecial120
FightingFocus BlastSpecial120
FireFire BlastSpecial110
IceBlizzardSpecial110
ElectricThundersame typeSpecial110
GroundEarthquakePhysical100
DarkCrunchPhysical80
SteelIron HeadPhysical80
DragonDragon ClawPhysical80
BugPin MissilePhysical25

Type counters to Iron Thorns

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.