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lairon
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Lairon

Iron Armor Pokémon

SteelRock

For food, it digs up iron ore. It smashes its steely body against others to fight over territory.

Base Stats

HP 60
Attack 90
Defense 140
Sp. Atk 50
Sp. Def 50
Speed 40
Total 430

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

lairon Lairon Lv. 32
aggron Aggron Lv. 42

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Iron Armor Pokémon
Height 0.9 m
Weight 120.0 kg
Base Exp 151
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 90
Base Happiness 35
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Mountain
Egg Groups Monster

Sprites

lairon Front Front
lairon Back Back
lairon Front Shiny Front Shiny
lairon Back Shiny Back Shiny
lairon Official Art Official Art
lairon Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

nu
Tank
Item
Eviolite
Ability
Rock Head
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 252
Atk 252
Def 4
Offensive
Item
Eviolite
Ability
Rock Head
Nature
Adamant / Jolly
EVs
HP 4
Atk 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Lairon has access to the combination of Head Smash and Rock Head, allowing it to use a very powerful attack without drawbacks. In addition, it has a very high physical bulk bolstered further by Eviolite, along with several useful resistances including Normal, Flying, and Psychic. Unfortunately, Lairon also has weaknesses to the common Fighting-, Ground-, and Water-type attacks, and a lack of recovery, including Leftovers, limits Lairon's staying power severely. It also lacks the special bulk to survive special attacks from the likes of Charizard; while these flaws do give it a lot of competition from Probopass, which doesn't have many of these problems, Lairon's higher offensive presence can make it more useful in some scenarios.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc