Iron Thorns

Iron Thorns has 570 total base stats, with its best attacking stat on the physical side (134) and a Speed of 72. Its HP, Defense and Special Defense add up to 294, which makes it a bulky physical attacker.

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What Iron Thorns is weak to

Weak to: Ground (×4), Water, Grass, Fighting. Resists: Normal, Fire, Electric, Poison, Flying (×0.25). Immune to: none. The ×4 weakness is the danger: one hit of Ground does huge damage.

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Best teammates for Iron Thorns

Ranked by how much each Pokémon improves a two-Pokémon team with Iron Thorns: covering its weaknesses, adding attack types it lacks, and avoiding shared weaknesses.

1. Tinkaton FairySteel

   Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, rock, dragon super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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2. Klefki SteelFairy

   Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, rock, dragon super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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3. Mawile SteelFairy

   Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, rock, dragon super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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4. Scizor BugSteel

   Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits grass, psychic, rock super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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5. Escavalier BugSteel

   Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits grass, psychic, rock super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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6. Durant BugSteel

   Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits grass, psychic, rock super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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Counters to Iron Thorns

1. Great Tusk

   Ground and Fighting STAB hits Iron Thorns super effectively and it resists everything Iron Thorns can hit it with by type.

2. Breloom

   Grass and Fighting STAB hits Iron Thorns super effectively and it resists everything Iron Thorns can hit it with by type.

3. Swampert

   Water and Ground STAB hits Iron Thorns super effectively and it resists everything Iron Thorns can hit it with by type.

4. Chesnaught

   Grass and Fighting STAB hits Iron Thorns super effectively and it resists everything Iron Thorns can hit it with by type.

5. Torterra

   Grass and Ground STAB hits Iron Thorns super effectively and it resists everything Iron Thorns can hit it with by type.

6. Seismitoad

   Water and Ground STAB hits Iron Thorns super effectively and it resists everything Iron Thorns can hit it with by type.

Where you can use Iron Thorns

Iron Thorns is in the regional Pokédex of 1 game we cover: