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Game data
Abilities
- Quark Drive
Boosts the Pokémon’s most proficient stat on Electric Terrain by 30%, or 50% if the stat boosted is its Speed stat.
Summons a sandstorm for 5 turns when the Pokémon enters a battle. Pokémon that are not Rock, Ground, or Steel types take damage equal to ¹⁄₁₆ of their max HP at the end of every turn. This also boosts the Sp. Def stats of Rock types by 50%.
Egg moves
- Plasma FistsElectricPhysical100 pow · 100%
The user attacks with electrically charged fists. This move changes Normal-type moves to Electric-type moves.
- Icicle CrashIcePhysical85 pow · 90%
The user attacks by crashing large icicles onto the target. This move has a 30% chance of making the target flinch.
- Shift GearSteelStatus— · —
The user rotates its gears, boosting its Attack stat and sharply boosting its Speed stat.
- Diamond StormRockPhysical100 pow · 95%Rare egg move
The user attacks by engulfing targets in a storm of diamonds. This move has a 50% chance to sharply boost the user’s Defense stat.
Base stats
Iron Thorns · BST 570
Unlock costs
Candy needed for a cost-5 starter:
- Passive ability
- 25 🍬
- Cost reductions
- 12 / 35 🍬
- Same-species egg
- 18 🍬
- The price only drops once you have hatched enough Iron Thorns eggs: 16 🍬 after 15 hatches, 13 🍬 after 30 hatches, 9 🍬 after 60 hatches.
- Friendship needed per candy
- 150
Expensive starters ask for fewer candies, but earn them far more slowly: Iron Thorns needs 150 friendship per candy, while a cost-1 starter earns one every 25.