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steelix
📅 Updated:2026-07-19
🕒 Created:2014-11-24
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Steelix (Japanese: ハガネール Haganeil) is a dual-type Steel/Ground pokémon introduced in Generation II.
It evolves from Onix when traded while holding a Metal Coat.
Steelix (Japanese: ハガネール Haganeil) is a dual-type Steel/Ground pokémon introduced in Generation II.
It evolves from Onix when traded while holding a Metal Coat.
Steelix can Mega Evolve into Mega Steelix using the Steelixite. Mega Steelix was introduced in pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
Steelix is a long, serpentine pokémon with a silvery-gray body made of rock-like sections, which can possess chips and scrapes from fights and tunneling. Three of those sections have long rock spikes coming out of them on either side. It has a massive head mainly made up of its large, wide jaw with sets of large square teeth inside. Along its bottom jaw are ridges: there are two pairs of ridges on a male Steelix, while there is only one pair on a female. Several small, square lumps cover the underside of its lower jaw. Its eye sockets are slightly deep-set, and the eyes themselves are red. Its head has two long ridges going from the eyes up to the top of its head. The tip of its tail is conical with a blunt tip.
Steelix burrows up to six-tenths of a mile underground, even further than its pre-evolved form Onix, and it can be found in mountains or caves. Steelix can dig even towards the world's core. It easily chews through boulders with its powerful jaws, and its eyes are capable of seeing in the dark. Exposure to underground heat and pressures alongside its iron-rich soil diet has made its body harder than diamonds. Steelix's Evolution is said to have been the result of an Onix's composition becoming more diamond-like after living for about 100 years. As mentioned in pokémon Sleep, Steelix is known to sleep in an upright postion. As noted by researchers, it can maintain this superb balance without even toppling over.
