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Iron Leaves

Paradox Pokémon · Grass/Psychic-type

Iron Leaves is a Grass/Psychic-type Pokémon, the Paradox Pokémon, number 1010 (#1010) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 9 and comes from the Paldea region. It is 1.5 m tall and weighs 125 kg.

Iron Leaves is a robotic stag whose leaf-shaped blades glow red, and the Pokédex says it matches a Virizion from the future covered in a paranormal magazine. Eyewitnesses claim it sliced large trees and boulders into thin strips.

How to pronounce Iron Leaves

Iron Leaves is pronounced EYE-ern LEEVZ. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Iron Leaves said out loud:

In Japanese it is テツノイサハ (Tetsunoisaha).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Iron Leaves is a green-and-grey quadruped, 1.5 m tall and 125 kg, with long metal horns, a silver snout with a red blaze and bright red digital eyes. Three green armour circles ring its neck, with leaf-shaped blades on either side, and its legs look like knee-high green boots with red diamonds at the knees. Bulbapedia says it powers down when it sleeps, the red glow on its head, leaves and legs turning black.

Behaviour

The few eyewitness accounts the Pokédex mentions say its glowing blades cut big trees and boulders into thin strips. Bulbapedia adds that the lit parts of its head and leaves can become ghostly swords in a fight.

Habitat

The Pokédex names no habitat, and in Scarlet and Violet it does not appear in the wild.

Powers

Its Ability Quark Drive raises its highest stat on Electric Terrain or when it holds Booster Energy. Psyblade, a move only Iron Leaves learns, is a physical Psychic move whose power jumps to 120 on Electric Terrain. It also uses Leaf Blade, Sacred Sword, Close Combat, Megahorn and Swords Dance. With base Attack 130 and Special Defense 108 it is a sturdy, hard-hitting physical attacker.

Name origin

Its name is meant literally. The Japanese name is Tetsunoisaha (テツノイサハ), from tetsu no isaha (鉄の斑葉), 'iron mottled leaves'.

Design inspiration

Iron Leaves is based on Virizion, a design credited to Takao Unno, reimagined as a metallic, futuristic stag or antelope. Bulbapedia names no further inspirations.

In the games

Iron Leaves was released alongside Walking Wake in the Poké Portal News Tera Raid events of Scarlet and Violet, and is number 242 in the Blueberry Pokédex. Its Pokédex entries were placeholders until The Indigo Disk. In Pokémon Masters EX it forms a sync pair with Hilda, and it is not available in Legends: Z-A.

Fun facts

• Before its reveal, the Violet Book carried a sketch of an imaginary creature like it, blending Cobalion, Terrakion and Virizion, the Swords of Justice.
• Although it is part Psychic, Psyblade is the only damaging Psychic-type move it can learn.
• Bulbapedia says that for a spell after version 1.2.0 and before The Teal Mask, it was the last Pokémon in the National Pokédex, the only non-Legendary, non-Mythical one ever to hold that spot.
• It is the heaviest Grass type of Generation IX.

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

Base stats

• HP: 90
• Attack: 130
• Defense: 88
• Sp. Atk: 70
• Sp. Def: 108
• Speed: 104

Iron Leaves’s base stat total is 590. Its highest stat is Attack.

Type matchups

What is Iron Leaves weak to?

Iron Leaves takes extra damage from Bug (4×), Fire (2×), Ice (2×), Poison (2×), Flying (2×), Ghost (2×), Dark (2×) moves.

It resists Water (½×), Electric (½×), Grass (½×), Fighting (½×), Ground (½×), Psychic (½×).

Evolution

Iron Leaves does not evolve, and it does not evolve from any other Pokémon.

Abilities

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

Moves

Moves Iron Leaves learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

“Evo” means Iron Leaves learns the move the moment it evolves: Leer, Quick Attack, Helping Hand and Work Up.

TM moves (45)

Iron Leaves can learn 45 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Agility, Scary Face, Protect, Trailblaze, Facade, Aerial Ace, Swift, Magical Leaf, Endure, Smart Strike, False Swipe, Brick Break, Air Slash, Sleep Talk, Grass Knot, Rest, Taunt, Swords Dance, Imprison, Substitute, Iron Defense, X-Scissor, Giga Drain, Energy Ball, Calm Mind, Helping Hand, Reversal, Electric Terrain, Grassy Terrain, Psychic Terrain, Wild Charge, Giga Impact, Focus Blast, Leaf Storm, Hyper Beam, Close Combat, Solar Beam, Tera Blast, Gravity, Solar Blade, Double-Edge, Coaching, Throat Chop, Metal Sound.

Move tutor moves (2): Electric Terrain, Quash.

Breeding & training

• Gender: genderless.
• Egg groups: Undiscovered.
• Egg cycles: 50 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 6,400).
• Catch rate: 5 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 0.
• Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 3 Attack effort values.
• Base experience yield: 295.

Pokédex entries

According to the few eyewitness accounts that exist, it used its shining blades to julienne large trees and boulders. (Violet)

Many of its physical characteristics match those of a Virizion from the future that was covered in a paranormal magazine. (Scarlet)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Heaviest Grass type in Gen 9: 125 kg.
• Highest Attack among Grass types in Gen 9: 130.
• Highest base stat total among Grass types in Gen 9: 590.
• Highest Attack among Psychic types in Gen 9: 130.
• Highest base stat total among Psychic types in Gen 9: 590, shared with 2 others.
• Taller than 72% of all Pokémon (1.5 m).
• Heavier than 87% of all Pokémon (125 kg).
• Base stat total 590, ranked #61 of 1,025.
• Its best stat is Attack, ranked #42 of 1,025.
• One of 5 Pokémon that are both Grass and Psychic.
• One of 130 green Pokémon.
• Number 105 of 120 Pokémon introduced in Generation 9 (Paldea).
• Can learn 57 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 5: about 0.7% per Poké Ball at full health.
• 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: Iron Leaves (Pokémon), Serebii: Iron Leaves (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (EYE-ern LEEVZ): 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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