Metal Sound (move)

Metal Sound きんぞくおん Metal Sound

Battles Type  Steel Category  Status PP  40 (max. 64) Power  — Accuracy  85% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock Is a sound-based move

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

Availability Introduced  Generation III Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  3 ♥♥♥ Badly startles those that have made appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Lowers the Voltage of all Judges by one each.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Metal Sound (Japanese: きんぞくおん Metal Sound) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

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

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0081 Magnemite Electric Steel -- 0082 Magneton Electric Steel -- 0140 Kabuto Rock Water 43 0141 Kabutops Rock Water 45 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 45 0304 Aron Steel Rock 39 0305 Lairon Steel Rock 45 0306 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 0145 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 0081 Magnemite Electric Steel -- 0082 Magneton Electric Steel -- 0140 Kabuto Rock Water 41 0141 Kabutops Rock Water 45 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 33 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 31 0304 Aron Steel Rock 36 0305 Lairon Steel Rock 40 0306 Aggron Steel Rock 40 0410 Shieldon Steel Rock 10 0411 Bastiodon Steel Rock -- 10 0413 Wormadam Bug Steel 29 0448 Lucario Fighting Steel 24 0462 Magnezone Electric Steel -- 0485 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.

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0081 Magnemite Electric Steel -- 0082 Magneton Electric Steel -- 0140 Kabuto Rock Water 41 0141 Kabutops Rock Water 45 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 31 0304 Aron Steel Rock 36 0305 Lairon Steel Rock 40 0306 Aggron Steel Rock 40 0410 Shieldon Steel Rock 10 0411 Bastiodon Steel Rock -- 10 0413 Wormadam Bug Steel 29 0448 Lucario Fighting Steel 24 0462 Magnezone Electric Steel -- 0485 Heatran Fire Steel 25 0599 Klink Steel 45 0600 Klang Steel 48 0601 Klinklang Steel 48 0624 Pawniard Dark Steel 38 0625 Bisharp Dark Steel 38 0632 Durant Bug Steel 66 0649 Genesect Bug Steel 33 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 breeding

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| colspan="2" style="background:#915121; text-align: center;" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" |

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

In the anime

File:Aggron Metal Sound.png Aggron
A part of the user's body glows white and it emits a sound with blue waves which lowes the foe's special defense stat.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	The two horns on Aggron's head starts to glow white and they move back and forth quickly, causing a lound ringing sound to be released. The horns then release light blue soundwaves from them at the opponent, lowering their special defense. Any Pokémon that hears the sound gets a loud ringing sound that echoes in their ears as well.
Paul's Aggron	Familiarity Breeds Strategy!		Debut

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Skarmory Metal Sound Adventures.png Skarmory
The user releases a horrible sound from a part of its body, causing the opponent to hold their ears in pain.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Skarmory opens its wings and releases a horrible sound from both of them, causing the opponent to hold their ears in pain.
Winona's Skarmory	VS. Vibrava		Debut

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Metal Sound lowers the target's Special Defense by three stages, instead of two.

In other languages

• Chinese: 金屬音 Jīn​shǔ​ Yīn​
• French: Strido-Son
• German: Metallsound
• Greek: Μεταλλικός Ήχος
• Italian: Ferrostrido
• Korean: 금속음 Geumsok Eum
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Som Metálico
• Spanish: Eco Metálico
• Serbian: Metalni Zvuk

Variations of the move Screech
Screech • Metal Sound Formerly a variation Cotton Spore

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