**To use Iron Crown effectively in the current VGC format, leverage its Steel/Psychic type typing and build around its top-performing movesets.** Iron Crown appears as a prominent choice in the current Pokémon Champions format, with usage data pulled from competitive teams, tournament results and Showdown-ready pastes tracked by MetaVGC. This page brings together its most common moveset, nature, ability, item, teammates and type weaknesses so you can judge where Iron Crown fits in a VGC team.

The most common build highlights Quark Drive, Life Orb and Timid 2/0/0/32/0/32. Its frequent moves include Protect, Tachyon Cutter, Expanding Force, Calm Mind, Tera Blast, and Psychic Noise. Treat those choices as a data-backed starting point: they show what players are bringing, while EV spreads, Tera Type and the final move slot should still respond to your expected matchups.

Defensively, Iron Crown has important weaknesses to dark 2x, fire 2x, ghost 2x, ground 2x. That matters during teambuilding because a strong composition needs ways to cover those attacks without giving up offensive pressure. Partners such as Indeedee-F, Torkoal, Whimsicott, Armarouge, and Indeedee appear often because they can add positioning, type coverage, speed control or safer switches into common checks.

MetaVGC tracks recent teams using Iron Crown. Open the Iron Crown teams page to compare complete structures, copy Showdown pastes and see how players combine Iron Crown with other Pokémon in the active format.