#0076 · Kanto · Generation 1

Golem

Megaton Pokémon · Rock/Ground-type

Golem is a Rock/Ground-type Pokémon, the Megaton Pokémon, number 76 (#0076) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 1 and comes from the Kanto region. It is 1.4 m tall and weighs 300 kg.

Golem is the Megaton Pokémon, a rock-plated tortoise that sheds its skin once a year and shrugs off dynamite. The old shell crumbles into soil that farmers collect to help their crops grow.

How to pronounce Golem

Golem is pronounced GOH-lum. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Golem said out loud:

In Japanese it is ゴローニャ (Golonya).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Golem is 1.4 m tall and weighs 300 kg, a bipedal, tortoise-like boulder with a round body in a shell of green rock plates and a flat-snouted head with red eyes. Each year it sheds its hide to grow larger, and the discarded shell hardens in the air and crumbles into soil. Very old Golem stop shedding, and moss grows over their shells.

Behaviour

Golem rolls down mountains in a tight ball, and the Pokédex says grooves are dug into mountainsides to steer it away from villages. After a big earthquake Golem tumble down in crowds. It hates rain and humidity, and it can blow itself up to leap from mountain to mountain.

Habitat

It lives in mountainous regions and is seldom seen in the wild; the Emerald Pokédex says volcanic craters on peaks.

Powers

Its Abilities are Rock Head and Sturdy, with Sand Veil hidden, and it hits with Earthquake, Stone Edge and Heavy Slam. Base Attack 120 and Defense 130 make it a heavy hitter, though its Speed is just 45. Alolan Golem is Rock and Electric, with an iron-sand beard and a cannon of black rocks on its back; it fires charged rocks using magnetism, or Geodude when it has no rocks. Its Abilities are Magnet Pull or Sturdy, with Galvanize hidden.

Name origin

Golem is simply the word for the earth-elemental creature of fantasy. The Japanese name is Golonya (ゴローニャ), possibly blending goron-goron (an onomatopoeia for tumbling stones) with the Italian montagna ('mountain').

Design inspiration

Golem seems to be based on the stone golem of fantasy role-playing games. Alolan Golem's back cannon may be inspired by electroshock weapons or railguns. These are fan readings.

Evolution notes

Golem evolves from Graveler by trade, or in Legends: Arceus with a Linking Cord, and Alolan Graveler also becomes Alolan Golem by trade.

In the games

Golem leads Team Rumblerock in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, and it first appeared in Red and Green (Red and Blue outside Japan). In Scarlet and Violet it can be traded in, and Tera Raids feature it in The Teal Mask and, as the Alolan form, The Indigo Disk. It is unobtainable in Legends: Z-A.

In the anime

Chopper's Golem debuted in 'The Bridge Bike Gang' and beat Ash's Bulbasaur before Charmander's Flamethrower and Fire Spin set it alight. In 'Sparking Confusion!', an Alolan Golem rampages through Wela Volcano Park until Sophocles's Ride Metang beats it.

Fun facts

• In Generation I (apart from Japanese Blue) a Golem can only be seen by trading a Graveler, which no other Pokémon needs; English versions hint at it through a Celadon Department Store NPC whose friend's Graveler evolved.
• Its original Red and Green artwork gave Golem four claws instead of three.

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

Base stats

• HP: 80
• Attack: 120
• Defense: 130
• Sp. Atk: 55
• Sp. Def: 65
• Speed: 45

Golem’s base stat total is 495. Its highest stat is Defense.

Type matchups

What is Golem weak to?

Golem takes extra damage from Water (4×), Grass (4×), Ice (2×), Fighting (2×), Ground (2×), Steel (2×) moves.

It resists Poison (¼×), Normal (½×), Fire (½×), Flying (½×), Rock (½×).

It is immune to Electric moves.

Evolution

What does Golem evolve from?

Golem evolves from Graveler (Trade; Alolan Graveler: Trade).

Golem is the final stage of its evolution family.

The whole family: Geodude, Graveler, Golem.

• Geodude evolves into Graveler (Level 25; Alolan Geodude: Level 25).

Forms

• Alolan Golem (Alolan form): Rock/Electric-type, base stat total 495 (HP 80, Attack 120, Defense 130, Sp. Atk 55, Sp. Def 65, Speed 45). Abilities: Magnet Pull, Sturdy, Galvanize (hidden).

Abilities

• Rock Head: Protects against recoil damage.
• Sturdy: Prevents being KOed from full HP, leaving 1 HP instead. Protects against the one-hit KO moves regardless of HP.
• Sand Veil (hidden ability): Increases evasion to 1.25× during a sandstorm. Protects against sandstorm damage.

Moves

Moves Golem learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (46)

Golem can learn 46 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Mud-Slap, Scary Face, Protect, Facade, Bulldoze, Mud Shot, Rock Tomb, Fling, Endure, Sunny Day, Sandstorm, Dig, Brick Break, Body Slam, Fire Punch, Thunder Punch, Sleep Talk, Rock Blast, Metronome, Stomping Tantrum, Rest, Rock Slide, Body Press, Iron Head, Substitute, Iron Defense, Stealth Rock, Heavy Slam, Flamethrower, Earth Power, Fire Blast, Earthquake, Stone Edge, Giga Impact, Focus Blast, Hyper Beam, Tera Blast, Roar, Smack Down, Gyro Ball, High Horsepower, Focus Punch, Double-Edge, Curse, Hard Press.

Egg moves (7):Block, Curse, Dynamic Punch, Flail, Hammer Arm, Mega Punch, Wide Guard.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Mineral.
• Egg cycles: 15 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 1,920).
• Catch rate: 45 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
• Growth rate: Medium Slow (1,059,860 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 3 Defense effort values.
• Base experience yield: 223.

Pokédex entries

The rocklike shell is shed each year. The cast-off shell then crumbles, reverting to a mass of soil, which can be spread across fields to promote crop growth. (Legends: Arceus)

Once it sheds its skin, its body turns tender and whitish. Its hide hardens when it's exposed to air. (Yellow, Let’s Go, Pikachu!, Let’s Go, Eevee!)

It detonates its own body. The power from that explosion can propel it up steep mountain paths with amazing speed. (Ultra Moon)

When Golem grow old, they stop shedding their shells. Those that have lived a long, long time have shells green with moss. (Ultra Sun)

Once a year, this Pokémon molts, and its shed shell returns to the soil. This process creates enriched soil, so farmers collect the shells. (Moon)

Its body can survive dynamite blasts without a single scratch, but it hates rain and humidity. (Sun)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Heaviest Ground type in Gen 1: 300 kg.
• Heaviest Rock type in Gen 1: 300 kg.
• Taller than 68% of all Pokémon (1.4 m).
• Heavier than 96% of all Pokémon (300 kg).
• Base stat total 495, ranked #317 of 1,025.
• Its best stat is Defense, ranked #38 of 1,025.
• One of 9 Pokémon that are both Rock and Ground.
• One of 147 brown Pokémon.
• Number 76 of 151 Pokémon introduced in Generation 1 (Kanto).
• Part of an evolution family of 3 Pokémon.
• Can learn 58 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 45: about 5.9% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Has 1 alternate form.
• Appears in 18 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: Golem (Pokémon), Serebii: Golem (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (GOH-lum): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.

Last checked: 19 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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