#0870 · Galar · Generation 8

Falinks

Formation Pokémon · Fighting-type

Falinks is a Fighting-type Pokémon, the Formation Pokémon, number 870 (#0870) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 8 and comes from the Galar region. It is 3 m tall and weighs 62 kg.

Falinks is the Formation Pokémon, six small armoured soldiers that count as one Pokémon: five troopers and a commanding brass whose orders are absolute. They never stop changing formation in battle, and in Legends: Z-A all six can lock together into a humanoid Mega Falinks.

How to pronounce Falinks

Falinks is pronounced FAY-links. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Falinks said out loud:

In Japanese it is タイレーツ (Tairetsu).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Falinks is 3 m tall and weighs 62 kg as a group, and it is genderless. Each trooper is a black, round body on two stubby legs, with a golden helmet-like shell topped by a red horn and shield-like plates on its sides. The brass is the largest and strongest, and the Pokédex says it is also the smartest, with a bigger crest and an extendable horn for giving orders. The six usually march in a single file, but break formation to attack.

Behaviour

Teamwork is Falinks's whole strategy: the Pokédex says the six work together as one Pokémon and keep changing formation as they fight. The troopers obey the brass without question. Bulbapedia notes they can squeeze through small holes, and in the anime troopers sometimes stand on one another to pull off moves.

Habitat

The Pokédex gives no habitat. In Scarlet and Violet it is found in the west, north and east of Paldea and in Tera Raid Battles, and in Legends: Z-A in Wild Zones 16 and 20 and in the Mega Dimension DLC's Hyperspace Lumiose.

Powers

Falinks hits with Close Combat, Megahorn and First Impression, and Bulbapedia says it is the only known Pokémon that can learn No Retreat. Its Ability is Battle Armor, which blocks critical hits, or the hidden Defiant, which sharply raises Attack when a stat is lowered. Base Attack and Defense of 100 make it a tough physical fighter. Mega Falinks, using Falinksite, stacks the six into a humanoid with the brass as the head, with Attack and Defense both 135 and Defiant as its only Ability.

Name origin

Falinks may combine 'phalanx' and 'links'. The Japanese name is Tairetsu (タイレーツ), which may come from tairetsu (隊列), meaning a line of troops in formation.

Design inspiration

Yusuke Kozaki designed Falinks. It may be inspired by the phalanx formations of Ancient Greek soldiers, whose Corinthian helmets its golden, red-crested shells resemble. Bulbapedia also suggests its Paldea Pokédex number, 300, echoes the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. These are fan readings.

In the games

In Legends: Z-A, Falinks is the partner Pokémon of Ivor, whose Falinks holds a Falinksite and Mega Evolves. It debuted in Sword and Shield, where Bea uses one in all of her rematch teams.

In the anime

Falinks made its anime debut in 'Grabbing the Brass Ring!', where Goh caught one. In Pokémon Horizons, Ivor's Falinks Mega Evolves and battles Roy's Lucario, but loses.

Fun facts

• Bulbapedia says it is the only Fighting type made of multiple bodies, and the only Fighting type in the Mineral Egg Group.
• At 1.6 m, Mega Falinks is 1.4 m shorter than ordinary Falinks, which Bulbapedia says is the biggest height drop of any Mega Evolution.
• Special Defense is its lowest base stat, yet it still gives a point of Special Defense EVs when defeated.
• In 'Grabbing the Brass Ring!', Falinks troopers show they can mimic the cries of other Pokémon.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Falinks (Pokémon) · Serebii: Falinks (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 65
• Attack: 100
• Defense: 100
• Sp. Atk: 70
• Sp. Def: 60
• Speed: 75

Falinks’s base stat total is 470. Its highest stat is Attack and Defense.

Type matchups

What is Falinks weak to?

Falinks takes extra damage from Flying (2×), Psychic (2×), Fairy (2×) moves.

It resists Bug (½×), Rock (½×), Dark (½×).

Evolution

Falinks does not evolve, and it does not evolve from any other Pokémon.

Forms

• Mega Falinks (Mega): Fighting-type, base stat total 570 (HP 65, Attack 135, Defense 135, Sp. Atk 70, Sp. Def 65, Speed 100). Ability: Defiant.

Abilities

• Battle Armor: Protects against critical hits.
• Defiant (hidden ability): Raises Attack two stages upon having any stat lowered.

Moves

Moves Falinks learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (40)

Falinks can learn 40 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Agility, Protect, Trailblaze, Facade, Rock Tomb, Endure, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Smart Strike, False Swipe, Brick Break, Zen Headbutt, Bulk Up, Body Slam, Sleep Talk, Poison Jab, Rest, Rock Slide, Swords Dance, Body Press, Iron Head, Substitute, Iron Defense, Helping Hand, Reversal, Giga Impact, Focus Blast, Hyper Beam, Close Combat, Tera Blast, Knock Off, Lunge, High Horsepower, Uproar, Psych Up, Endeavor, Coaching, Throat Chop, Upper Hand.

Breeding & training

• Gender: genderless.
• Egg groups: Fairy, Mineral.
• Egg cycles: 25 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 3,200).
• Catch rate: 45 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
• Growth rate: Medium (1,000,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 2 Attack and 1 Sp. Def effort values.
• Base experience yield: 165.

Pokédex entries

The six of them work together as one Pokémon. Teamwork is also their battle strategy, and they constantly change their formation as they fight. (Shield)

Five of them are troopers, and one is the brass. The brass's orders are absolute. (Sword)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Tallest Fighting type in Gen 8: 3 m.
• Taller than 95% of all Pokémon (3 m).
• Heavier than 73% of all Pokémon (62 kg).
• Base stat total 470, ranked #450 of 1,025.
• One of 73 Fighting-type Pokémon (counting dual types).
• One of 88 yellow Pokémon.
• Number 61 of 96 Pokémon introduced in Generation 8 (Galar).
• Can learn 48 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 45: about 5.9% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Has 1 alternate form.
• Appears in 2 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Falinks (Pokémon), Serebii: Falinks (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (FAY-links): no English source says it out loud, so it is our best guess from the parts of the name.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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