Durant (Pokémon)

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Durant Iron Ant Pokémon アイアント Aiant #0632 Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Bug Steel Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Abilities Swarm or Hustle Cacophony Cacophony Truant Hidden Ability Cacophony Hidden Ability Cacophony Cacophony
Gender ratio Unknown 50% male, 50% female	Catch rate 90 (20.1%)
Breeding Egg Group Bug Hatch time 20 cycles
Height 1'00" 0.3 m Durant 0'0" 0 m {{{form2}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form3}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form4}}}	Weight 72.8 lbs. 33.0 kg Durant 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form2}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form3}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form4}}}
Mega Stone [[|]] [[|]]
Base experience yield Unknown Gen. IV Unknown IV 169	Leveling rate Medium Fast
EV yield Total: 2 Durant 0 HP 0 Atk 2 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed
Shape	Footprint {{{form2}}}
Pokédex color   Gray	Base friendship 70
External Links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Durant (Japanese: アイアント Aiant) is a dual-type Bug/Steel Pokémon introduced in Generation V.

It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.

Biology

Durant is an insectoid Pokémon with a steel body that has three distinct sections. Its ovoid abdomen is dark gray with a light gray band wrapping around the middle and two circles resembling rivets near a jagged seam. Durant's thorax is slightly smaller, but identical in design with its abdomen. The only difference being one circle instead of two. Its head is spherical, containing the same light gray wrap design as its body. However, it wraps from front to back on the head. On each side of its head are large red eyes with hollow black pupils. Durant has two round mandibles that it uses to grab things and feed itself. The mandibles are attached below its eyes and are situated in front of its horizontally opening mouth. Atop its head are two long antennae, each tipped with small spheres. Durant has six black legs sprouting from its thorax. Each leg has one claw at its tip, except the front legs that each have two.

Durant is extremely territorial. It only lives in colonies and digs mazes underground designed to be as complicated as possible. It grows steel armor to protect itself from its natural predator Heatmor. When they are under attack, Durant gathers in groups to attack as a whole to keep Heatmor away. They also gather together when protecting their eggs from Sandaconda. As seen in the anime, Durant prefers to eat vegetation, namely leaves. It will attack swiftly and aggressively if bothered, but will not pursue intruders once outside of its colony.

In the anime

Durant in the anime

Major appearances

Multiple Durant debuted in Battling the Leaf Thieves!, where they accidentally kidnapped Iris's Axew while gathering food.

Multiple Durant appeared in Everybody's Doing the Underground Shuffle!, with one of them being caught by Goh.

Minor appearances

In Genesect and the Legend Awakened, multiple Durant were living in Pokémon Hills. At one point, they attacked Team Rocket.

In Sword and Shield: "From Here to Eternatus!", Oleana's subordinate used a Durant to confront Sonia, only for it to be confronted by Raihan's Duraludon, which easily defeated it in the following episode.

In HZ024, a Durant appeared outside of Old Castle.

Pokédex entries

In the manga

Durant in Pokémon Adventures

Pocket Monsters BW: The Heroes of Fire and Thunder

A Durant appeared in A Very Important Thing, under the ownership of two brothers.

Pokémon Adventures

Emmet has a Durant, which was seen next to him while White was testing the Battle Subway in A Stormy Time in the Battle Subway.

A Durant appeared in Pinsir Changes.

A Durant appeared in a flashback in Charizard Transforms.

In the TCG

Main article: Durant (TCG)

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Stats

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

Side game data

Pokémon Rumble Blast Attack ●●●● Defense ●●● Speed ●●●●
Pokémon Rumble Rush Walking Speed: 3.33 seconds Base HP: 50 Base Attack: 79 Base Defense: 55 Base Speed: 70
Pokémon Battle Trozei Bug Attack Power: ★★★★★			Pokémon Shuffle Bug Attack Power: 60 - 105 5 #333 Block Smash Clears one unbreakable-block disruption without fail. Swappable Skill(s): Risk-Taker
Pokémon GO Base HP: 151 Base Attack: 217 Base Defense: 188 Egg Distance: 5 km Buddy Distance: 3 km Evolution Requirement: N/A Fast Attacks: Bug Bite, Metal Claw Charged Attacks: X-Scissor, Iron Head, Stone Edge

Evolution data

Unevolved Durant  Bug  Steel

Sprites

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation V.
Generation V Black White Black 2 White 2 Front Back Front Back
Generation VI X Y Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire Front Back Front Back
Generation VII Sun Moon Ultra Sun Ultra Moon Front Back Front Back
Generation VIII Sword Shield
This Pokémon is unavailable in Generation IX.
Cross-Generation HOME

For other sprites and images, please see Durant images on the Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Durant and Heatmor were both designed by Ken Sugimori.^[1]
• Durant supposedly developed their metal armor to resist Heatmor's attacks, but due to the Steel-type's weakness to Fire-type attacks, the Durant have instead made themselves more vulnerable.
• Durant and Heatmor have the same leveling rate, catch rate, hatch time, base experience yield, and base stat total.
• Durant is the only Steel-type Pokémon to have an insectoid body.
• Durant's Hidden Ability, Truant, may be a reference to scientific research showing that some ants are lazy, while its second standard Ability, Hustle, may be a reference to hard-working ants.

Origin

Durant is based on an ant.^[1] It may specifically be based on the trap-jaw ant for its prominent jaws, or either the silver spiny sugar ant (Polyrhachis schlueteri) or the Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina) for their silver colorations. Its Steel-type might have been chosen to be weak to its rival anteater Pokémon's type, Heatmor, which is Fire-type and has tongue made out of flames.

Name origin

Durant may be a combination of durable or durus (Latin for hard) and ant.

Aiant may be a combination of アイアン aian (iron) and ant.

In other languages

Language Title Meaning Japanese アイアント Aiant From アイアン aian and ant French Fermite From fer and Termite Spanish Durant Same as English name German Fermicula From ferrum and Formicula Italian Durant Same as English name Korean 아이앤트 Aiant Transcription of Japanese name Mandarin Chinese 鐵蟻 / 铁蚁 Tiěyǐ From 鐵 / 铁 tiě and 蟻 / 蚁 yǐ Cantonese Chinese 鐵蟻 Titngáih From 鐵 tit and 蟻 ngáih

More languages Russian Дюрант Dyurant Transcription of English name Thai ไอแอนท์ Aiaen Transcription of Japanese name

References

External links

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Pokémon

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