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Lairon

#0305
Attack
158
Defense
198
Stamina
155
Best fast:
Iron Tail 16.80 DPS with STAB
Best charged:
Rock Slide 1.80 DPE with STAB
Max CP:
2,352

In-game artwork for this exact form (PokeMiners asset dump).

Slug:
lairon
Game Master form:
LAIRON (no form template)
Family:
FAMILY_ARON

Base stats and CP

Straight from the Game Master; CP uses the level 1 to 51 CPM table. Ranks are recomputed over the released forms in the snapshot on every render.

Attack#643 of 1,123 · top 57.3%
158
Defense#185 of 1,123 · top 16.5%
198
Stamina#665 of 1,123 · top 59.2%
155

Stat product 4,849,020 — #547 of 1,123 released forms. Bars are scaled against the highest value in the snapshot, not a round number.

Max CP (L40)
2,056
15/15/15, old level cap
Max CP (L50)
2,324
15/15/15, current level cap
Max CP (L51)
2,352
15/15/15 best buddy — Pokebattler's headline
Catch CP (L20)
1,110 - 1,174
IV 10 to 15
Catch CP (L25)
1,388 - 1,468
weather boosted, IV 10 to 15

Evolution family

2 evolutions in this line, with the candy and everything else the game asks for — read out of the Game Master's evolutionBranch, form by form.

  1. Base
  2. Stage 2
    Lairon158/198/155 · 2,056 CP
    25 candy
    • 22 candy once purified
  3. Stage 3
    Aggron198/257/172 · 3,000 CP
    100 candy
    • 90 candy once purified

Evolutions are form-accurate: a regional form evolves into its own regional form, and a branch the game does not have is not drawn (Alolan Raichu names Pikachu as its parent but is not what Pikachu evolves into, so no line is shown). Mega Evolution is not part of this family — it costs Mega Energy and reverts, so it sits with the forms above.

In the field

Buddy, Pokedex and unlock numbers, all read from this form's own Game Master template.

Buddy distance
1 km
walked per candy
Height
0.89 m
Weight
120 kg
Second charged move
25 candy
10,000 stardust
Shadow move
Frustration
Return once purified

Best against

Which raid bosses Lairon is a top counter for, aggregated over the 123 bosses on the roster the same way pokebattler.com aggregates its own attacker rankings.

Top ten finishes
0
of 123 bosses ranked
Matchups
1
bosses it places on at all
Points
10
Pokebattler's published weighting

Its best showing is21againstDiancie(Tier 5) with Metal Claw + Heavy Slam.

  • #21DiancierockfairyTier 5
    Estimator
    3.26
    Time to win
    15:01
    Points
    10
    Metal Claw + Heavy Slam

"Details" opens Lairon's per-move damage against that boss, its breakpoints and its energy cycle — the same drawer the boss page opens.

Ranked with Shadow, Mega and Legendary attackers hidden — pokebattler.com's own default, so a place here is comparable with a place on its counter page. With everything switched on it places on 0 bosses. Points follow pokebattler.com's published rule — 5 for a first place, 4 for a second, 3 for a fourth, 2 for an eighth, 1 for a sixteenth, weighted 10x at Tier 5 / Mega, 4x at Tier 3 and 0x at Tier 1. Level 40, 15/15/15, no weather, no friendship, no dodging. Snapshot generated 2026-10-04.

As a raid boss (Tier 1)

Boss stats use 15/15/15 IVs, the tier CP multiplier and the tier's fixed HP pool.

Lobby CP
6,184
Attack
103
Defense
127
HP
600

Not in the current raid rotation snapshot. The counters below are still exact for the tier this form would be hosted at.

Best counters against Lairon →

Catch CP after the raid

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor1,1101,388
11/11/111,1231,404
12/12/121,1361,420
13/13/131,1491,436
14/14/141,1611,452
15/15/15hundo1,1741,468

Caught CP range 1,110 - 1,174, or 1,388 - 1,468 when the weather boosts it.

A raid encounter is level 20 (level 25 weather boosted) and cannot roll an IV below 10/10/10. Anything outside the first range is not this raid's reward.

Type matchups

Every one of the 18 attacking types against this typing. GO multipliers: 1.6x super effective, 0.625x resisted, 0.390625x doubly resisted.

  • Double weak (2)
  • Weak (1)
  • Neutral (6)
  • Resists (8)
  • Double resists (1)

Every tile and chip is a link: it opens the Pokedex filtered to that type, so a weakness leads straight to the attackers that exploit it. Pokebattler lists only the weaknesses; the eleven types that do neither matter as much to a raider deciding what to bring, so all 18 are shown with the exact multiplier.

Same typing, same matchups

Released steel / rock forms with the highest attack — they share every weakness and resistance above.

Movepool

3 fast and 4 charged moves, elite / legacy included. Ranked by damage per second (fast) and damage per energy (charged), both with this form's x1.2 STAB applied where it earns it.

Best moveset22.3 DPS

10 x Metal Claw per Heavy Slam · 7.0s cycle · 156 power with STAB

#221.6 DPS

10 x Metal Claw per Rock Slide · 7.5s cycle · 162 power with STAB

#321.4 DPS

9 x Iron Tail per Heavy Slam · 11.0s cycle · 235 power with STAB

Fast moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDurationDPSEPSSource
Iron TailSTABsteel14+61.0s16.806.00standard
Metal ClawSTABsteel6+50.5s14.4010.00standard
Metal SoundSTABsteel4+60.5s9.6012.00standard

Charged moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDurationDPSDPESource
Rock SlideSTABrock75-502.5s36.001.80standard
Heavy SlamSTABsteel70-502.0s42.001.68standard
Rock TombSTABrock65-503.0s26.001.56standard
Body Slamnormal50-332.0s25.001.52standard

STAB marks moves that share a type with this form (x1.2 damage), and the DPS and DPE columns above already have that x1.2 in them — so a STAB move and a stronger-on-paper neutral move can be compared straight down the column, which is how the best-moveset cards rank them too. Power and Duration stay raw; hover a DPS or DPE figure to see the arithmetic. Att DPS and Def DPS are the two columns pokebattler.com prints in the same table, reproduced exactly: both are raw with no STAB, Def DPS is power / duration, and Att DPS is power / (duration + 2s), the gym move delay. They are there so this table can be diffed against theirs row by row — every row on the pages read on 2026-09-11 matches. Energy is gained on fast moves and spent on charged moves. Every move name opens its own page with the damage window and every other form that learns it — or browse all moves.

Trainer Battles

The same moves, on the Trainer Battle clock: 0.5s per turn, 100 energy cap, stat changes included. These numbers come from a separate Game Master template and are not the raid numbers above.

Best pairing10.5DPT

Metal Sound+Rock Slide

6 fast throws · 12 turns · 6.0s to fire

#29.4DPT

Metal Claw+Rock Slide

7 fast throws · 14 turns · 7.0s to fire

#39.4DPT

Metal Sound+Rock Tomb

7 fast throws · 14 turns · 7.0s to fire

Lowers the opponent's Attack by 1 stage

Fast moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyTurnsDPTEPT
Iron TailSTABsteel10+73(1.5s)4.002.33
Metal ClawSTABsteel5+72(1.0s)3.003.50
Metal SoundSTABsteel5+82(1.0s)3.004.00

Charged moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDPEEffect
Rock SlideSTABrock75-452.00none
Rock TombSTABrock75-501.80foe Atk -1
Heavy SlamSTABsteel70-501.68none
Body Slamnormal55-351.57none

Turns are the one-based count the game and every reference site print: the Game Master ships a zero-based durationTurns, so its 1 is a 2-turn move. DPT and EPT are damage and energy per turn and DPE is damage per energy, both with this form's x1.2 STAB already in them where the row is flagged STAB, so the columns can be read straight down; Power and Energy stay raw. A stat change moves the target up or down the game's own ladder (0.50, 0.57, 0.67, 0.80, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 1.75, 2.00 for stages -4 to +4). Every Trainer Battle number is audited on the data-quality page.

Acquisition and variants

Shadow and Purified

Available as a Shadow Pokemon (x1.2 attack, x0.833 defense). Shadow charged move FRUSTRATION, purified RETURN.

Second charged move

10,000 Stardust and 25 Candy.

Max Battles

Cannot Dynamax.

Mega Evolution

This entry is not a Mega or Primal form.

Forms of Lairon (1)

Every form the snapshot carries for this dex number. Each one appears exactly once.

FormTypesAtkDefStaMovesStatus
Laironsteelrock1581981553f / 4creleased

Where this data comes from

Every field above is read from the committed snapshot, never typed by hand.

Built 2026-10-03 from the PokeMiners Game Master (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeMiners/game_masters/master/latest/latest.json) by npm run data:build.

No hand-curated correction was needed for this form; it comes straight from the Game Master template.

Checked against Pokebattler1 movepool difference

Their entry: LAIRON — 3 fast, 5 charged. Ours: 3 fast, 4 charged.

  • Return (charged) — only on Pokebattler: Return (purified only)

Source: https://fight.pokebattler.com/pokemon, read 2026-10-03. The full diff across all 1,269 forms is on the movepool cross-check.

Snapshot integrity is re-checked on every build and on the data quality page.