Metal Sound (move)

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}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock Is a sound-based move

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation III Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

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 on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Metal Sound on Eevee's Movedex

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

Effect

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

In the Mystery Dungeon games, it lowers the target's Special Defense by three stages instead.

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 31PtHGSS 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
	Screech | Metal Sound

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