Klang

The second stage of Klink's evolutionary line, Klang appears when it reaches level 38 and still retains the basic structure of two gears. One large gear forms its body, while a smaller one attaches to it to attack. Its appearance comes from a set of industrial gears, not an animal or a plant, and fits the technological image associated with Galar.

The smaller gear functions almost like an independent part. Klang launches it at its opponent, although it loses power if it cannot retrieve it. It also expresses its mood through the direction of its rotation: the angrier it gets, the faster it spins. When it concentrates, the outer gear of the larger piece joins the smaller one and makes the mechanism accelerate even further.

Its Steel body gives it a clear defensive presence, while its attacks combine physical blows with electric discharges. In Galar, several companies use its image in industry-related logos. The line ends with Klinklang, which adds another gear and represents the mechanism's fully developed stage.

Klang is not a common choice in the general competitive environment. Its stats are unevenly distributed: 60 HP, 80 Attack, 95 Defense, 70 Special Attack, 85 Special Defense, and 50 Speed. Physical Defense is its best stat, but its Attack is not enough to apply immediate pressure, and its Speed means it has to prepare the turn carefully.

Its most useful Ability is Clear Body, which prevents its stats from being lowered. This lets it ignore Attack or Defense drops and makes it easier to use Shift Gear without losing as much value against opponents trying to weaken it with stat-lowering effects. Plus and Minus contribute very little on a normal team, since they need another Pokémon to have one of those Abilities in order to boost Special Attack.

The Steel type provides many resistances and reduces the damage taken from several attacks, but it leaves clear weaknesses to Fire, Fighting, and Ground. 85 Special Defense helps, although its 60 HP does not let it take powerful special attacks for long. Shift Gear can turn a passive position into a threat; Gear Grind provides its main STAB attack, while Wild Charge covers Water- and Flying-type Pokémon.

In lower-tier singles, it can find a niche as an Eviolite user, physical wall, and setup attacker. Fire-, Ground-, and Fighting-type opponents need to be removed, and it also suffers from a narrow offensive movepool. If it cannot set up with Shift Gear, its impact usually amounts to taking hits and forcing the occasional switch.

It belongs to the Mineral Egg Group and has no gender, so breeding follows the rules for genderless species. Its Eggs take 20 cycles to hatch, equivalent to approximately 5355 steps using the usual formula. It does not gain any notable breeding moves, so the movepool learned by leveling up and through TMs accounts for almost all of its interest.

It has a catch rate of 60. It is not trivial to catch, although it does not require the effort reserved for Pokémon with much lower rates; bringing several Poké Balls and weakening it carefully prevents the encounter from dragging on.

It is obtained by evolving Klink at level 38. Klang then evolves into Klinklang when it reaches level 49. The condition does not depend on friendship, an item, or a specific area: it is enough to reach those levels during normal progression.