Metal Sound (move)

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Metal Sound
きんぞくおん Metal Sound
A horrible sound like scraping metal is emitted to sharply reduce the foe's Sp. Def stat.
Battles
Type  Steel
Category  Status
PP  40 (max. 64)
Power  —
Accuracy  85%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
Target
Foe Foe
Self Ally
May affect anyone but the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
Contests
Category  Smart
Appeal  1
Jam  3 ♥♥♥
Badly startles those that have made appeals.
Super Contests
Category  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Lowers the Voltage of all Judges by one each.

Metal Sound (Japanese: きんぞくおん Metal Sound) is a non-damaging Steel-type move introduced in Generation III.

Contents

Effect

Metal Sound lowers the target's Special Defense by two stages.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
081 Magnemite Electric Steel --
082 Magneton Electric Steel --
140 Kabuto Rock Water 43
141 Kabutops Rock Water 45
227 Skarmory Steel Flying 45
304 Aron Steel Rock 39
305 Lairon Steel Rock 45
306 Aggron Steel Rock 50
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB
from this move.

By purification

#   Pokémon Type Game
145 Zapdos Electric Flying XD
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB
from this move.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
081 Magnemite Electric Steel --
082 Magneton Electric Steel --
140 Kabuto Rock Water 41
141 Kabutops Rock Water 45
227 Skarmory Steel Flying 33DP
227 Skarmory Steel Flying 31Pt
304 Aron Steel Rock 36
305 Lairon Steel Rock 40
306 Aggron Steel Rock 40
410 Shieldon Steel Rock 10
411 Bastiodon Steel Rock --
10
413 Wormadam
Trash Cloak
Bug Steel 29
448 Lucario Fighting Steel 24
462 Magnezone Electric Steel --
485 Heatran Fire Steel 25
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB
from this move.

In other languages

  • Spanish: Eco Metálico
  • Italian: Ferrostrido
  • German: Metallsound
Variations on the move Screech
Status Screech | Metal Sound


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