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Iron Tail アイアンテール
The foe is slammed with a steel-hard tail. It may also lower the target's Defense stat.
Battles
Type	Steel
Category	Physical
PP	15 (max. 24)
Power	100
Accuracy	75%
Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock
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Contests
Category	Cool
Appeal	1 ♥
Jam	4 ♥♥♥♥
Badly startles the Pokémon in front.
Super Contests
Category	Cool
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs last in the turn.
Iron Tail on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Iron Tail on Eevee's Movedex

Iron Tail is a mostly accurate and very damaging Steel-type move introduced in Generation II.

Contents 1 In the anime 1.1 Pokémon 2 Learnset 2.1 Generation II 2.1.1 By TM23 2.2 Generation III 2.2.1 By leveling up 2.2.2 By TM23 2.3 Generation IV 2.3.1 By leveling up 2.3.2 By TM23 3 In other languages

In the anime

Pietra's Marill using Iron Tail.

Sullivan's Flaaffy using Iron Tail.

Ash's Pikachu using Iron Tail.

Kelly's Grumpig using Iron Tail.

Juan's Milotic using Iron Tail.

The tail of the Pokémon glows white and strikes the opponent; sometimes, the hit produces light. According to Chaz, only a Pokémon with a fully developed tail can learn this technique.

Pokémon

Marill. It twirls its tail rapidly before striking. The ball on the end of its tail does the move.

• Used by Pietra's Marill in Right on, Rhydon!.

Pikachu. Its entire tail does the move.

• Used by Ash's Pikachu from All Things Bright and Beautifly! to the present.

Sentret. Its entire tail does the move.

• Used by Chaz's Sentret in All Things Bright and Beautifly! to demonstrate the move to Ash's Pikachu.

Flaaffy. The blue pearl in the tip of its tail does the move.

• Used by Sullivan's Flaaffy in Whiscash and Ash in the battle against a wild Whiscash.

Steelix. The last three rocks of its tail do the move.

• Used by a wild Steelix in All Torkoal, No Play in a battle against Ash's Torkoal.

Marshtomp. Its two caudal fins hit the foe.

• Used by Tommy's Swampert in Abandon Ship! in a flashback when it was a Marshtomp.

Swampert. Its caudal fin does the move.

• Used by Tommy's Swampert in Abandon Ship! against Ash's Corphish, the use of this attack made Tommy realize that the wild Swampert was his old Marshtomp.

Grumpig. It's entire tail does the move.

• Used by Kelly's Grumpig in Lessons in Lilycove!.

Meowth. Its entire tail does the move.

• Used by Tyson's Meowth from ??? to ???.

Milotic. The bottom scales of its tail does the move.

• Used by Juan's Milotic in Eight Ain't Enough.

Learnset

Generation II

Generation III

Generation IV

In other languages

• French: Queue de Fer
• German: Eisenschweif
• Italian: Codacciaio
• Spanish: Cola Ferrea

This move article is part of Project MoveDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each move.

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