#0774 · Alola · Generation 7

Minior

Meteor Pokémon · Rock/Flying-type

Minior is a Rock/Flying-type Pokémon, the Meteor Pokémon, number 774 (#0774) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 7 and comes from the Alola region. It is 0.3 m tall and weighs 40 kg.

Minior, the Meteor Pokémon, is a Rock and Flying type that is born in the sky and falls to the ground when its shell grows too heavy, cracking open to show one of seven rainbow-coloured cores. The Pokédex says it was born from mutated nanoparticles.

How to pronounce Minior

Minior is pronounced MIN-ee-or. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Minior said out loud:

In Japanese it is メテノ (Meteno).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

In its Meteor Form Minior is a rocky ball, 0.3 m (1'00") tall and 40 kg (88.2 lb), and every colour of Minior looks identical until the shell cracks. Inside is a core in one of seven rainbow shades, red through violet, which the Violet Pokédex says depends on the dust it eats.

Behaviour

High in the sky, the Pokédex says, stronger Pokémon eat it, and it falls when its shell gets too heavy. It reacts when touched or called, though nobody knows if that means it is aware. The Scarlet Pokédex says fallen Minior try to return to space but can only fade away.

Habitat

The Sun Pokédex says it makes its home in the ozone layer. In Scarlet and Violet it lives in The Indigo Disk's Terarium biomes and in 5 star Tera Raids. It is not available in Legends: Z-A.

Diet

The Violet Pokédex says it feeds on dust drifting in the atmosphere.

Powers

Shields Down keeps it in Meteor Form, immune to status conditions, while its HP is above half, then cracks the shell once HP is at or below half. In Core Form its Defense and Special Defense drop from 100 to 60, while Attack and Special Attack rise to 100 and Speed to 120. It learns Shell Smash and Cosmic Power.

Name origin

Minior may come from 'meteor', possibly mixed with 'mini', 'minor' or 'core'. The Japanese name is Meteno (メテノ), which Bulbapedia reads as 'meteor' plus 'nano'.

Design inspiration

Hitoshi Ariga designed Minior, from a concept by Masafumi Nukita, who also wrote its Pokédex entries. It is based on meteors, with seven core colours that follow the rainbow. Bulbapedia suggests the shell may recall a gashapon capsule, since the colour stays hidden until it opens. These are fan readings.

In the games

Players find Minior on Mount Hokulani in Sun and Moon, its debut, and it returned in Scarlet and Violet with The Indigo Disk DLC.

In the anime

Minior debuted in 'Showering the World with Love!', where Ash's Poipole made friends with an Orange Core Minior and had to say goodbye as it faded away.

Fun facts

• Out of its shell, Minior is the lightest Rock type, at 0.3 kg (0.7 lb), and it ties with Rotom as the lightest Flying type.
• In the Mineral Egg Group, Minior is the sole Flying type, according to Bulbapedia.
• Excluding Mega Evolutions, it was the only Rock type introduced before Generation VIII that was unobtainable throughout that generation's games, says Bulbapedia.

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

Base stats

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

Minior’s base stat total is 440. Its highest stat is Defense and Sp. Def.

Type matchups

What is Minior weak to?

Minior takes extra damage from Water (2×), Electric (2×), Ice (2×), Rock (2×), Steel (2×) moves.

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

It is immune to Ground moves.

Evolution

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

Forms

• Orange Meteor Minior (Battle form): Rock/Flying-type, base stat total 440 (HP 60, Attack 60, Defense 100, Sp. Atk 60, Sp. Def 100, Speed 60). Ability: Shields Down.
• Yellow Meteor Minior (Battle form): Rock/Flying-type, base stat total 440 (HP 60, Attack 60, Defense 100, Sp. Atk 60, Sp. Def 100, Speed 60). Ability: Shields Down.
• Green Meteor Minior (Battle form): Rock/Flying-type, base stat total 440 (HP 60, Attack 60, Defense 100, Sp. Atk 60, Sp. Def 100, Speed 60). Ability: Shields Down.
• Blue Meteor Minior (Battle form): Rock/Flying-type, base stat total 440 (HP 60, Attack 60, Defense 100, Sp. Atk 60, Sp. Def 100, Speed 60). Ability: Shields Down.
• Indigo Meteor Minior (Battle form): Rock/Flying-type, base stat total 440 (HP 60, Attack 60, Defense 100, Sp. Atk 60, Sp. Def 100, Speed 60). Ability: Shields Down.
• Violet Meteor Minior (Battle form): Rock/Flying-type, base stat total 440 (HP 60, Attack 60, Defense 100, Sp. Atk 60, Sp. Def 100, Speed 60). Ability: Shields Down.

Cosmetic forms with the same stats: Red Core Minior, Orange Core Minior, Yellow Core Minior, Green Core Minior, Blue Core Minior, Indigo Core Minior, Violet Core Minior.

Abilities

• Shields Down: Transforms this Minior between Core Form and Meteor Form. Prevents major status ailments and drowsiness while in Meteor Form.

Moves

Moves Minior learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (39)

Minior can learn 39 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Protect, Acrobatics, Confuse Ray, Charge Beam, Facade, Bulldoze, Swift, Rock Tomb, Endure, Sandstorm, Zen Headbutt, U-turn, Sleep Talk, Reflect, Light Screen, Rock Blast, Dazzling Gleam, Rest, Rock Slide, Iron Head, Power Gem, Substitute, Stealth Rock, Psychic, Calm Mind, Earth Power, Earthquake, Stone Edge, Giga Impact, Hyper Beam, Solar Beam, Tera Blast, Gravity, Gyro Ball, Double-Edge, Endeavor, Scorching Sands, Meteor Beam.

Breeding & training

• Gender: genderless.
• Egg groups: Mineral.
• Egg cycles: 25 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 3,200).
• Catch rate: 30 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 1 Defense and 1 Sp. Def effort values.
• Base experience yield: 154.

Pokédex entries

Although its outer shell is uncommonly durable, the shock of falling to the ground smashes the shell to smithereens. (Ultra Moon)

It lives in the ozone layer, where it becomes food for stronger Pokémon. When it tries to run away, it falls to the ground. (Ultra Sun)

Strong impacts can knock it out of its shell. This Pokémon was born from mutated nanoparticles. (Moon)

Originally making its home in the ozone layer, it hurtles to the ground when the shell enclosing its body grows too heavy. (Sun)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Shortest Flying type in Gen 7: 0.3 m, shared with 2 others.
• Shortest Rock type in Gen 7: 0.3 m.
• Taller than 4% of all Pokémon (0.3 m).
• Heavier than 61% of all Pokémon (40 kg).
• Base stat total 440, ranked #527 of 1,025.
• One of 4 Pokémon that are both Rock and Flying.
• One of 147 brown Pokémon.
• Number 53 of 88 Pokémon introduced in Generation 7 (Alola).
• Can learn 48 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 30: about 3.9% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Has 13 alternate forms.
• Appears in 4 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: Minior (Pokémon), Serebii: Minior (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (MIN-ee-or): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.

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

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