Appearance
A large bipedal robotic dinosaur covered in green metallic armor. Its claws, lower jaw, and tail tip are black. Glowing green shows in the torso, legs, and retractable back spikes.
#995
Iron Thorns
Paradox Pokémon
RockElectric
- Height
- 1.6 m
- Weight
- 303 kg
- Generation
- 9
- Region
- Paldea
Iron Thorns is a Rock / Electric-type Pokémon, No. 995 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 9 (Paldea region).
« Some of its notable features match those of an object named within a certain expedition journal as Iron Thorns. »
Its story
Lifestyle
Coolheaded and highly intelligent, it avoids needless fights. Asleep, it powers off and the green energy turns black. Some think it is Tyranitar a billion years on, but its true origin is unknown.
Name origin
It is based on Tyranitar and on mecha kaiju. The English name is simply “iron thorns.”
Did you know?
- At the Crystal Pool, a version of Professor Turo calls it a Tyranitar from another timeline.
- Turo’s ten-year-old time machine brought it into the depths of Area Zero.
- Two hundred years earlier, Heath met it, as the Violet Book shows, though how is unclear.
Found in the Pokédex of:
Paldea
In other languages
Épine-de-Fer
Eisendorn
Spineferree
Ferropúas
テツノイバラ무쇠가시鐵荊棘