Onix

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#095    Onix

Type(s)

Rock Ground

Generation

  I  

Abilities
Ability 1
Rock Head		 Ability 2
Sturdy		 Hidden Ability
Weak Armor

Rarity Tier

  Common  

Catch rate

  45/255 (5.88%)  

Base stats

HP
35

Atk
45

Def
160

Sp.Atk
30

Sp.Def
45

Spd
70

Base-stat total: 385
EV Yield

HP
0

Atk
0

Def
1

Sp.Atk
0

Sp.Def
0

Spd
0

EV-yield total: 1

Base Experience

  108  

Gender Ratio

    50%  
  50%    

Height

  8.8m  

Weight

  210kg  

Onix is a Rock— and Ground-type Pokémon.

It evolves into its only evolutionary outlet in Steelix when involved in any trading transaction while holding a Metal Coat.

Obtainability

Wild

Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Breezy Cave 17-21 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Dragon Neck 30-35 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Dragon Neck 30-35 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Dragons Den 49-53 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Dragons Den B1F 40-55 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Dragons Den Entrance 45-49 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Dragons Shrine 60-64 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Eriyadu Sulfur Pools 10-14 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Flake Path 25-31 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Granite Cave 1F 9-13 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Granite Cave B1F 12-14 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Granite Cave B2F 12-14 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Iron Island B1F L 32-36 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Iron Island B1F R 32-36 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Iron Island B2F L 32-36 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Iron Island B2F R 32-36 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Iron Island Exit Room 32-36 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Kalijodo Cave B2F 35-39 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Meteor Falls 1F 2R 14-20 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Meteor Falls B1F 1R 14-20 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Meteor Falls B1F 2R 14-20 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Mirage Island Cave 35-40 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Uncommon
Mt Silver 4F 47-51 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Mt Silver 5F 50-54 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Mt. Moon 1F 10-13 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Mt. Moon B2F 10-13 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Mt. Mortar Northern Entrance 26-30 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Silver 1F 47-50 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Mt. Silver 2F 50-55 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Mt. Silver 3F 50-53 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Mt. Silver Lower Mountainside 48-52 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Mt. Summer 1F 36-40 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Summer 1F 2 36-40 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Summer 2F 36-40 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Summer 2F 2 36-40 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Nap Cave 45-50 Night Uncommon
Nap Cave B1F 45-50 Night Uncommon
Oreburgh Mine B1F 6-10 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Oreburgh Mine B2F 1R 6-10 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Rock Tunnel 2 20-24 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Safari Johto Mountain Zone 17-21 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Sevault Canyon 12-49 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Sinnoh Victory Road 1F 45-49 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Sinnoh Victory Road 2F 45-49 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Sinnoh Victory Road B1F 45-49 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Sinnoh Victory Road B1F Deep 50-54 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Sinnoh Victory Road B1F Deep Entrance 50-54 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Sinnoh Victory Road B1F Deep Exit 50-54 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Snowpoint Temple 1F 50-54 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Snowpoint Temple B1F 50-54 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Snowpoint Temple B2F 50-54 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Snowpoint Temple B3F 50-54 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Snowpoint Temple B4F 50-54 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Snowpoint Temple B5F 50-54 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Stark Mountain Entrance 56-60 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Stark Mountain Entrance Pt 54-58 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Stark Mountain Main Cavern Pt 56-60 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Underground Ruins 60-65 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Union Cave 1F 6-10 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Union Cave B1F 6-10 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Union Cave B2F 6-10 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Valley of Steel Eastern Peak 33-34 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Valley Of Steel Western Peak 20-24 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Victory Road Kanto 1F 40-43 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Victory Road Kanto 2F 40-43 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Victory Road Kanto 3F 50-53 Morning Day Night Hard Stone Uncommon
Vulcan Cave B1F 36-40 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Vulcan Lava Pit 35-39 Morning Day Night Common
Wayward Cave 15-19 Morning Day Night Uncommon
  • Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly members-accessible
  • Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Diggable Patches
Region Area Levels Rarity
Kanto Route 3 8-12 Rare
Johto Dark Cave South 8-12 Common
Sinnoh Maniac Tunnel ? Common

NPCs

NPC traders

An NPC trader found abreast to the Violet City school will broker his Onix in exchange for a Bellsprout. The Onix tradee will be initialized at level 8 and will inbornly hold a Hard Stone.

Discontinued methods

Wild

Onix previously spawned in these areas.

Region Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Vulcan Island Kalijodo Cave Entrance 20-26 Morning Day Night 5
Vulcan Island Kalijodo Cave B1F 20-26 Morning Day Night 5
Vulcan Island Kalijodo Cave B2F 20-26 Morning Day Night 5

Onix is no longer accessible in this area—be it due to the area’s present inaccessibility or the Pokémon’s removal. This data exists strictly for archival purposes.

Moves

Level-Up

Level Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
— Bind Normal Physical 15 85 20
— Harden Normal Status — — 30
— Tackle Normal Physical 50 100 35
— Mud Sport Ground Status — — 15
4 Curse Ghost Status — — 10
7 Rock Throw Rock Physical 50 90 15
10 Rock Tomb Rock Physical 60 95 15
13 Rage Normal Physical 20 100 20
16 Stealth Rock Rock Status — — 20
19 Rock Polish Rock Status — — 20
20 Gyro Ball Steel Physical — 100 5
22 Smack Down Rock Physical 50 100 15
25 Dragon Breath Dragon Special 60 100 20
28 Slam Normal Physical 80 75 20
31 Screech Normal Status — 85 40
34 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 10
37 Sand Tomb Ground Physical 35 85 15
40 Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75 15
43 Dig Ground Physical 80 100 10
46 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 5
49 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
52 Sandstorm Ground Status — — 10
  • Emboldened moves denote this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • All moves subsumed on this list are relearnable via the Move Relearners if lost.

TMs/HMs

TM Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
TM6 Toxic Poison Status — 90 10
TM8 Body Slam Normal Physical 80 100 15
TM9 Take Down Normal Physical 90 85 20
TM26 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 10
TM27 Fissure Ground Physical — 30 5
TM28 Dig Ground Physical 80 100 10
TM34 Bide Normal Physical — — 10
TM40 Skull Bash Normal Physical 100 100 15
TM44 Rest Psychic Status — — 10
TM48 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 10
TM55 Roar Normal Status — — 20
TM60 Hidden Power Normal Special 60 100 15
TM61 Sunny Day Fire Status — — 5
TM62 Taunt Dark Status — 100 20
TM67 Protect Normal Status — — 10
TM87 Sandstorm Ground Status — — 10
TM89 Rock Tomb Rock Physical 60 95 15
TM92 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 20
TM114 Rock Smash Fighting Physical 40 100 15
TM138 Sleep Talk Normal Status — — 10
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move’s obtainability.

TM-tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100 20
Dragon Tail Dragon Physical 60 90 10
Explosion Normal Physical 250 100 5
Frustration Normal Physical — 100 20
Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75 15
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Move tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Ancient Power Rock Special 60 100 5
Body Slam Normal Physical 80 100 15
Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 85 100 10
Earth Power Ground Special 90 100 10
Explosion Normal Physical 250 100 5
Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100 15
Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 15
Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75 15
Psych Up Normal Status — — 10
Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 10
Rollout Rock Physical 30 90 20
Stealth Rock Rock Status — — 20
Swagger Normal Status — 90 15
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Egg Moves

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Block Normal Status — — 5
Defense Curl Normal Status — — 40
Flail Normal Physical — 100 15
Heavy Slam Steel Physical — 100 10
Rock Blast Rock Physical 25 90 10
Rock Climb Normal Physical 90 85 20
Rollout Rock Physical 30 90 20
Stealth Rock Rock Status — — 20
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • For more information on egg-move-tutors, refer to: Egg Moves.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:
 2×  Weak to  1×  Neutral to  ½×  Resistant to  0×  Immune to
Fighting
Grass
Ground
Ice
Steel
Water
Bug
Dark
Dragon
Fairy
Ghost
Psychic
Fire
Flying
Normal
Poison
Rock
Electric
  • All darkened weakness types have a 4x weakness due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type weaknesses.
  • All darkened resistance types have a 1⁄4x resistance due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type resistances.

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience that Onix requires to advance per level, as well as a comparative overview of how much less experience is needed to level up at the same levels than its evolution would require; this helps you handily cross-compare their leveling charts to ascertain how many experience points you would save if you were to delay evolving Onix to a later level.

Level XP Level-Up Differential Onix-Steelix Differential
1 86 9 79
2 95 9 86
3 136 41 152
4 242 106 304
5 446 204 568
6 780 334 969
7 1275 495 1535
8 1966 691 2293
9 2883 917 3266
10 4060 1177 4485
11 5528 1468 5973
12 7321 1793 7759
13 9471 2150 9868
14 12010 2539 12325
15 14970 2960 15159
16 18385 3415 18395
17 22285 3900 22059
18 26705 4420 26180
19 31676 4971 30781
20 37230 5554 35890
21 43401 6171 41535
22 50220 6819 47739
23 57720 7500 54531
24 65934 8214 61938
25 74893 8959 69983
26 84631 9738 78697
27 95180 10549 88103
28 106571 11391 98228
29 118839 12268 109100
30 132015 13176 120744
31 146131 14116 133187
32 161221 15090 146456
33 177317 16096 160576
34 194450 17133 175574
35 212654 18204 191479
36 231962 19308 208314
37 252405 20443 226107
38 274017 21612 244885
39 296829 22812 264674
40 320876 24047 285501
41 346188 25312 307391
42 372799 26611 330373
43 400741 27942 354473
44 430048 29307 379717
45 460752 30704 406131
46 492885 32133 433743
47 526481 33596 462580
48 561572 35091 492668
49 598191 36619 524035
50 636372 38181 556707
51 676147 39775 590710
52 717550 41403 626074
53 760614 43064 662823
54 805372 44758 700987
55 851857 46485 740592
56 900105 48248 781667
57 950148 50043 824237
58 1002020 51872 868333
59 1055756 53736 913983
60 1111392 55636 961214
61 1168961 57569 1010055
62 1228499 59538 1060537
63 1290043 61544 1112690
64 1353628 63585 1166542
65 1419294 65666 1222127
66 1487077 67783 1279475
67 1557017 69940 1338622
68 1629156 72139 1399600
69 1703536 74380 1462447
70 1780201 76665 1527199
71 1859198 78997 1593899
72 1940578 81380 1662592
73 2024394 83816 1733323
74 2110707 86313 1806148
75 2199581 88874 1881125
76 2291090 91509 1958323
77 2385318 94228 2037821
78 2482364 97046 2119713
79 2582342 99978 2204108
80 2685392 103050 2291147
81 2791685 106293 2380999
82 2901435 109750 2473882
83 3014915 113480 2570078
84 3132480 117565 2669957
85 3254601 122121 2774019
86 3381912 127311 2882943
87 3515287 133375 2997684
88 3655957 140670 3119599
89 3805689 149732 3250664
90 3967080 161391 3393826
91 4144046 176966 3553596
92 4342658 198612 3737074
93 4572618 229960 3955797
94 4849988 277370 4229213
95 5202452 352464 4591499
96 5680022 477570 5105736
97 6378241 698219 5895304
98 7492392 1114151 7219064
99 9456436 1964044 9669289
100 13342989 3886553 14758619

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

  • Original counterpart

  • Shiny Onix

External Links

  • Onix’s Bulbapedia
  • Onix’s Serebii