Pokédex · IX (Paldea)

Iron Treads#990

Its greatest asset is Defense — higher than 93% of species. It does not evolve: it does not come from anything and does not change into anything. Defensively it can rely on 4 weaknesses, 8 resistances and 2 full immunities. Electric and Poison-type moves do nothing to it at all. It cannot breed — it has no Egg Group, so you will not get it from breeding.

Iron Treads
Shiny version
Ground Steel
Height: 0.9 m (2′11″) Weight: 240.0 kg (529.1 lbs)

Base stats

HP
90
78%
Atk
112
85%
Def
120
93%
SpA
72
59%
SpD
70
51%
Spe
106
90%
TOTAL
570
88%

Last column: what percentage of 1084 species and regional forms have a lower value. Strong point: Defense.

A nature can improve this entry further: its boost hits hardest on Defense, the stat in which this species already leads. Which nature does that — see the list of natures.

Which nature to choose

It hits physically: its Attack (112) is 40 points higher than its Sp. Atk. So the drop hits a stat the set usually does not use at all.

  • Jolly +Spe · −SpA Its Speed is higher than 90% of species — ten percent more lifts it past some of the benchmarks that decide who moves first.
  • Adamant +Atk · −SpA If you already outspeed what you want to outspeed, those ten percent are better spent on hitting power.
  • Hidden Power and Weather Ball still deal damage based on Sp. Atk. If either of them is going into the set, lowering Sp. Atk is no longer free.

A conclusion drawn from base stats alone — a specific moveset can reverse it. All 25 natures.

Regional numbers 1

The header shows the national number. Inside the game the Pokédex counts from the beginning — below is the number you will see in your version.

Paldea #382 Scarlet / Violet

Abilities

  • Quark Drive Raises highest stat on Electric Terrain, or if holding Booster Energy.

How players use it

Data from 574,541 ranked battles on Smogon (Gen 9 OU, 2026-09). These are not numbers from the game — they are player habits.

Rank 17 among 309 Pokémon in use — it is on 10.84% of teams.

Tera Type Ghost 58.8% Ground 16.3% Ice 5.9% Water 4.6% Fairy 3.3% Bug 1.7%
EV spreads Jolly · 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 SpD 15.9% Timid · 252 SpA / 252 Spe / 4 SpD 7.8% Jolly · 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 HP 7.3% Adamant · 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 HP 7.1% Careful · 252 SpD / 248 HP / 8 Spe 5.6%

Each row is a separate distribution, not a single set: the most common item and the most common move do not have to appear on the same Pokémon.

Pokédex entry

This Pokémon closely resembles a scientific weapon that a paranormal magazine claimed was sent to this planet by aliens.

Egg Group: Undiscovered Gender: Genderless Catch difficulty: hard (30/255) Base friendship: 0/255 Base EXP: 285
Evolution line

Resistances and weaknesses

Type chart →

How much damage Iron Treads takes when it is hit by a move of each type. The multipliers of both its types are already combined here.

Weak to Fire ×2 Water ×2 Fighting ×2 Ground ×2
Resistant to Rock ×¼ Normal ×½ Flying ×½ Psychic ×½ Bug ×½ Dragon ×½ Steel ×½ Fairy ×½
Immune to Electric ×0 Poison ×0

Variant gallery

The gallery shows only the appearance variants that exist for this Pokémon. Every image shows the same character and differs in source — a Pokémon HOME render or a pixel sprite — and in coloring, regular or shiny.

Iron Treads — large render in its regular coloring
Pokémon HOME
Iron Treads — large render in its shiny coloring
Pokémon HOME shiny
Iron Treads — small pixel sprite in its regular coloring
Pixel sprite
Iron Treads — small pixel sprite in its shiny coloring
Shiny pixel sprite

Iron Treads does not breed. You cannot get an Egg from it — this is how the games treat almost all Legendary and Mythical species.

Below are the moves learned by leveling up. The rest (45 via TM/TR) are on the full list.

Lv. Move Type Cat. Power Acc. PP
1 Defense Curl Normal Status — — 40
1 Electric Terrain Electric Status — — 10
1 Horn Attack Normal Physical 65 100% 25
1 Rollout Rock Physical 30 90% 20
7 Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100% 20
21 Rapid Spin Normal Physical 50 100% 40
28 Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100% 15
35 Stomping Tantrum Ground Physical 75 100% 10
42 Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100% 20
49 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100% 10
56 Heavy Slam Steel Physical — 100% 10
63 Wild Charge Electric Physical 90 100% 15
70 Endeavor Normal Physical — 100% 5
77 Megahorn Bug Physical 120 85% 10
84 Giga Impact Normal Physical 150 90% 5
91 Steel Roller Steel Physical 130 100% 5