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Bronzor Bronze Pokémon ドーミラー Dohmirror #436 Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Steel Psychic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Abilities Levitate or Heatproof Cacophony Cacophony Heavy Metal Hidden Ability Cacophony Hidden Ability Cacophony Cacophony
Gender ratio Gender unknown	Catch rate 255 (43.9%)
Breeding Egg Group Mineral Hatch time 20 cycles
Height 1'08" 0.5 m Bronzor 0'0" 0 m {{{form2}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form3}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form4}}}	Weight 133.4 lbs. 60.5 kg Bronzor 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form2}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form3}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form4}}}
Mega Stone [[|]] [[|]]
Base experience yield 72 Gen. IV Unknown IV 60 V+	Leveling rate Medium Fast
EV yield Total: 1 Bronzor 0 HP 0 Atk 1 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   Green	Base friendship 70
External Links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Bronzor (Japanese: ドーミラー Dohmirror) is a dual-type Steel/Psychic Pokémon introduced in Generation IV.

It evolves into Bronzong starting at level 33.

Biology

Bronzor is a flat, circular, blue-green Pokémon. Six dark blue spheres bulge from its rim. It has two round, yellow eyes and a large nose-like sphere surrounded by four small circles in its center. A crest resembling an herb or branch is on its back. This crest is said to possess a mysterious power.

It was first seen in ancient tombs; objects resembling this Pokémon have been found in tombs as well. Scientists believe Bronzor used to be reflective and have unsuccessfully tried performing X-rays on its body. The pattern of Bronzor in Galar cannot be found in any of its culture, and the reason for why is unknown. There is lore on how polishing Bronzor will make its surface reflect the truth. However, it hates being polished as a result of that.

In the anime

Bronzor in the anime

Major appearances

Bronzor made its main series debut in Journey to the Unown!, under the ownership of Saturn. Saturn used Bronzor to help light the way through the Solaceon Ruins. It appeared again in Losing Its Lustrous and Double Team Turnover!. In the same episode, it was revealed that a Bronzor was also owned by Mars. Both, however, were easily defeated by Cynthia's Garchomp.

In Dealing With Defensive Types!, Byron used a Bronzor during his Gym battle against Ash. It battled Chimchar and was defeated despite having the Ability Heatproof.

In Zoroark: Master of Illusions, Karl often uses a Bronzor to provide light for dark places. It was later used to levitate Zorua, who had transformed into Celebi as part of a scheme to distract Grings Kodai from the real Celebi.

Minor appearances

Bronzor debuted in The Rise of Darkrai, where it briefly battled a Gible.

In the manga

Bronzor in Pokémon Adventures

Movie adaptations

Bronzor appears in The Rise of Darkrai manga adaptation.

Pocket Monsters DP

A Bronzor appeared in PMDP13, under the ownership of Mars.

A Bronzor appeared in PMDP60, under the ownership of Charon.

Pokémon Adventures

Bronzor appears in Honey for Combee, as one of Mars's Pokémon. She used it to attack the manager of the Valley Windworks and hold him hostage. When he managed to use his Drifloon to call for help, she tried to have her Zubat bite him in the neck. After growing bored as she always does, she had it use Sandstorm and left with an electricity-generating wind turbine.

Two Bronzor appeared in Passing by Probopass and Maneuvering around Magnezone.

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!

A Bronzor is one of the Pokémon Byron uses in his Gym battle with Hareta in Challenge! The Fortress Of Steel!!.

Mars used a Bronzor during the raid of the Veilstone Game Corner in Deoxys, The Phantom Pokémon! (Part 2).

In the TCG

Main article: Bronzor (TCG)

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Held items

Game		Held Item(s)
Diamond	Pearl	Metal Coat (5%)
Platinum
HeartGold	SoulSilver	Metal Coat (5%)
Black 2	White 2	Metal Coat (5%)
Sword	Shield	Metal Coat (5%)
Pokéwalker		Occa Berry (100%)

Stats

Base stats

Pokéathlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/TR

Generation VIII Other generations: IV - V - VI - VII - IX

TM   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  TM11 TM11 Solar Beam Grass Special 120120 100}}100% 10 TM17 TM17 Light Screen Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 30 TM18 TM18 Reflect Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM19 TM19 Safeguard Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 25 TM21 TM21 Rest Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM22 TM22 Rock Slide Rock Physical 07575 090}}90% 10 TM24 TM24 Snore Normal Special 05050 100}}100% 15 TM25 TM25 Protect Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM32 TM32 Sandstorm Rock Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM33 TM33 Rain Dance Water Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM34 TM34 Sunny Day Fire Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM39 TM39 Facade Normal Physical 07070 100}}100% 20 TM44 TM44 Imprison Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM48 TM48 Rock Tomb Rock Physical 06060 095}}95% 15 TM57 TM57 Payback Dark Physical 05050 100}}100% 10 TM60 TM60 Power Swap Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM61 TM61 Guard Swap Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM62 TM62 Speed Swap Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM70 TM70 Trick Room Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM71 TM71 Wonder Room Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM76 TM76 Round Normal Special 06060 100}}100% 15 TM77 TM77 Hex Ghost Special 06565 100}}100% 10 TM81 TM81 Bulldoze Ground Physical 06060 100}}100% 20 TR10 TR10 Earthquake Ground Physical 100100 100}}100% 10 TR11 TR11 Psychic Psychic Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TR20 TR20 Substitute Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR25 TR25 Psyshock Psychic Special 08080 100}}100% 10 TR26 TR26 Endure Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR27 TR27 Sleep Talk Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR33 TR33 Shadow Ball Ghost Special 08080 100}}100% 15 TR34 TR34 Future Sight Psychic Special 120120 100}}100% 10 TR38 TR38 Trick Psychic Status 0000— 100}}100% 10 TR40 TR40 Skill Swap Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR46 TR46 Iron Defense Steel Status 0000— 00—}}—% 15 TR49 TR49 Calm Mind Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TR52 TR52 Gyro Ball Steel Physical 0000— 100}}100% 5 TR70 TR70 Flash Cannon Steel Special 08080 100}}100% 10 TR76 TR76 Stealth Rock Rock Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TR77 TR77 Grass Knot Grass Special 0000— 100}}100% 20 TR79 TR79 Heavy Slam Steel Physical 0000— 100}}100% 10 TR83 TR83 Ally Switch Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 15

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Bronzor Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Bronzor Click on the generation numbers at the top to see TM moves from other generations

By breeding

By tutoring

By transfer from another generation

Side game data

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky Body size: 1 Recruit rate: 8.2% IQ group: E
Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia Group: Steel Poké Assist: Steel Field move: (Crush ×1) Browser entry R-248 It launches iron balls and strange orbs to attack.
Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs Group: Steel Poké Assist: (present) Steel Field move: (present) (Psy Power ×1) Poké Assist: (past) Steel Field move: (past) (Psy Power ×1) Browser entry R-184/N-176 It attacks by making iron balls fall.
Pokémon Rumble Attack ● Defense ●●● Speed ●●			Pokémon Rumble Blast Attack ● Defense ●●● Speed ●●
Pokémon Rumble Rush Walking Speed: 2.08 seconds Base HP: 50 Base Attack: 66 Base Defense: 57 Base Speed: 50
PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure PokéPark Pad entry: Bronzor is guarding the way to the pyramid in the Granite Zone.
Pokémon Battle Trozei Steel Attack Power: ★★★★★			Pokémon Shuffle Steel Attack Power: 50 - 100 5 #135 Block Smash Clears one unbreakable-block disruption without fail.
Pokémon GO Base HP: 149 Base Attack: 43 Base Defense: 154 Egg Distance: 5 km Buddy Distance: 3 km Evolution Requirement: 50 Fast Attacks: Tackle, Confusion Charged Attacks: Gyro Ball, Psyshock, Heavy Slam

Evolution

Unevolved Bronzor  Steel  Psychic

Level 33 →

First evolution Bronzong  Steel  Psychic

Sprites

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation IV.
Generation IV Diamond Pearl Platinum HeartGold SoulSilver Front Back Front Back Front Back
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

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

Trivia

Bronzor's early backsprite

• If Bronzor is turned upside-down, it will look exactly the same from the front, meaning its front has rotational symmetry. It also has horizontal and vertical reflective symmetry. However, its back sprite only has vertical reflective symmetry.
• There is an unused sprite within Pokémon Diamond and Pearl for Bronzor's back sprite which is just a duplicate of its front sprite.
• In the games, all three Commanders of Team Galactic that can be battled have a Bronzor.
• As both of this Pokémon's Abilities are used at the same time in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and it wasn't weak to Ghost and Dark-type moves at the time, Bronzor doesn't have any weaknesses in those games.
• Bronzor has the lowest base Attack of all Steel-type Pokémon.

Origin

Bulbanews has an article related to this subject:

On the Origin of Species: Bronzor and Bronzong

Bronzor is based on a 銅鏡 dōkyō, or bronze mirror.

Bronzor and the fact that it evolves into Bronzong also seems to be based on an old Japanese myth present in the book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn. The priests of Mugenyama wanted to forge a bell for their temple, so they asked the local women to donate their bronze mirrors for this purpose. A woman contributed her mirror, but later regretted it. Because of her repentance, the mirror wouldn't melt in the furnace until she killed herself. Before her suicide, she said that whoever would break the bell would be given great wealth by her ghost. A multitude of people tried to break the bell by ringing it furiously, so the tired priests rolled it down a hill into a swamp in frustration.

Name origin

Bronzor is a combination of bronze and mirror.

Dohmirror is a combination of 銅鏡 dōkyō (bronze mirror) and mirror.

In other languages

Language Title Meaning Japanese ドーミラー Dohmirror From 銅鏡 dōkyō and mirror French Archéomire From archéo- and miroir Spanish Bronzor Same as English name German Bronzel From Bronze and Spiegel Italian Bronzor Same as English name Korean 동미러 Dongmirror From 동 (銅) dong and mirror Mandarin Chinese 銅鏡怪 Tóng Jìng Guài Literally "Bronze mirror freak". Cantonese Chinese

More languages Hindi ब्रोंज़ोर Bronzor Transliteration of English name Thai โดมิเรอร์ Domiroe Transcription of Japanese name

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