Durant (Pokémon)

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Durant (Japanese: アイアント Aiant) is a dual-type introduced in Generation V.
It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.
==Biology==
Durant is an insectoid with a steel body that has three distinct sections. Its ovoid abdomen is dark gray with a light gray band wrapping around the middle and two circles resembling rivets near a jagged seam. Durant's thorax is slightly smaller, but identical in design with its abdomen. The only difference being one circle instead of two. Its head is spherical, containing the same light gray wrap design as its body. However, it wraps from front to back on the head. On each side of its head are large red eyes with hollow black pupils. Durant has two round mandibles that it uses to grab things and feed itself. The mandibles are attached below its eyes and are situated in front of its horizontally opening mouth. Atop its head are two long antennae, each tipped with small spheres. Durant has six black legs sprouting from its thorax. Each leg has one claw at its tip, except the front legs that each have two.
Durant is extremely territorial. It only lives in colonies and digs mazes underground designed to be as complicated as possible. It grows steel armor to protect itself from its natural predator . When they are under attack, Durant gathers in groups to attack as a whole to keep Heatmor away. They also gather together when protecting their eggs from . As seen in the episode Battling the Leaf Thieves!, Durant prefers to eat vegetation, namely leaves. It will attack swiftly and aggressively if bothered, but will not pursue intruders once outside of its colony.
==Game data==
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===Stats===
====Base stats====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
Durant is available in .
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===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Major appearances===
Multiple Durant debuted in Battling the Leaf Thieves!, where they accidentally kidnapped Iris's Axew while gathering food.
Multiple Durant appeared in Everybody's Doing the Underground Shuffle!, with being by Goh.
===Minor appearances===
In Genesect and the Legend Awakened, multiple Durant were living in Pokémon Hills. At one point, they attacked .
In Sword and Shield: "From Here to Eternatus!", Oleana's subordinate used a Durant to confront Sonia, only for it to be confronted by Raihan's , which easily defeated it in the following episode.
In Reunion at the Ancient Castle!, a Durant appeared outside of Ancient castle.
===Pokédex entries===
==In the manga==
===Pocket Monsters BW: The Heroes of Fire and Thunder===
A Durant appeared in A Very Important Thing, under the ownership of two brothers.
===Pokémon Adventures===
Emmet has a Durant, which was seen next to him while was testing the Battle Subway in A Stormy Time in the Battle Subway.
A Durant appeared in Pinsir Changes.
A Durant appeared in a flashback in Charizard Transforms.
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* Durant and were both designed by Ken Sugimori.Nintendo Dream Vol. 205, May 2011 (Shellspider's blog (Japanese), Translation by Dr. Lava)
* Durant supposedly developed their metal armor to resist Heatmor's attacks, but due to the type's weakness to attacks, the Durant have instead made themselves more vulnerable.
* Durant and Heatmor have the same leveling rate, catch rate, hatch time, base experience yield, and base stat total.
* Durant is the only Steel-type .
===Origin===
Durant is based on an . It may specifically be based on the for its prominent jaws, or either the silver spiny sugar ant ( schlueteri) or the (Cataglyphis bombycina) for their silver colorations. Its might have been chosen to be weak to its rival anteater Pokémon's type, , which is and has a tongue made out of flames. Durant's Hidden Ability, , may be a reference to scientific research showing that some ants are lazy, while its second standard Ability, , may be a reference to hard-working ants.
====Name origin====
Durant may be a combination of durable or durus (Latin for hard) and ant.
Aiant may be a combination of アイアン aian (iron) and ant.
==In other languages==
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es:Durant
fr:Fermite
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ja:アイアント
zh:铁蚁