Appearance
A metallic Pokémon of three units, like ancient Magnemite. Yellow eyes blink separately. Iron filings and horseshoe magnets look like hair, with magnet legs and a tail of screws.
#989
Sandy Shocks
Paradox Pokémon
ElectricGround
- Height
- 2.3 m
- Weight
- 60 kg
- Generation
- 9
- Region
- Paldea
Sandy Shocks is a Electric / Ground-type Pokémon, No. 989 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 9 (Paldea region).
« It slightly resembles a Magneton that lived for 10,000 years and was featured in an article in a paranormal magazine. »
Its story
Lifestyle
It walks by bending its magnets instead of floating. Aggressive, reported in Paldea’s arid regions and never caught. Ancestor or counterpart of Magneton; true origin unknown.
In the anime
Roy met it in Area Zero and defeated it with his Crocalor.
Name origin
Sandy Shocks means sandy and shocks: a jolt or a hair tuft. Filings look like tribal fur. It evokes Magneton, a caveman, and a dinosaur.
Did you know?
- Only Paradox at its relative’s weight, 60 kg; only ancient one not heavier than it.
- Some scientists see a Magneton that has lived ten thousand years.
- Its modern parts on an ancient Paradox may reference an out-of-place artifact.
Found in the Pokédex of:
Paldea
In other languages
Pelage-Sablé
Sandfell
Peldisabbia
Pelarena
スナノケガワ모래털가죽沙鐵皮