Pin Missile (move)

Pin Missile ミサイルばり Missile Needle

Battles Type  Bug Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  14 Accuracy  85% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

Availability Introduced  Generation I Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles the Pokémon that has the Judge's attention.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Allows performance of the same move twice in a row.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Pin Missile (Japanese: ミサイルばり Missile Needle) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Pin Missile inflicts damage, hitting the target between 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2 times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a 12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Although only the first hit can be a critical hit, each hit per use will deal the same amount of damage.

Pin Missile will end immediately if it breaks a Substitute. Bide and Counter will only acknowledge one hit of this move.

Generation II and III

Same as Generation I, but all hits will do damage independently, consequently enabling any of them to be critical.

Generation IV

Same as the previous generations, except it will continue attacking after a Substitute is broken.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0015 Beedrill Bug Poison 30 0135 Jolteon Electric 36 0135 Jolteon Electric 48 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0015 Beedrill Bug Poison 35 0135 Jolteon Electric 36 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison 28 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0204 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pineco
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Beedrill

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0015 Beedrill Bug Poison 35 0135 Jolteon Electric 36 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison 21 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison 28 0263 Zigzagoon Normal 25 0331 Cacnea Grass 21 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark 21 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0204 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pineco
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Beedrill |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0315 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea, Cacturne

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0015 Beedrill Bug Poison 28 0135 Jolteon Electric 36 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison 36 0168 Ariados Bug Poison 41 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison 37 0263 Zigzagoon Normal 25 0331 Cacnea Grass 21 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark 21 0451 Skorupi Poison Bug 12 0452 Drapion Poison Dark -- 12 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0204 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pineco
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Beedrill
Spinarak, Ariados
Skorupi, Drapion |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0315 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea, Cacturne |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0406 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Budew
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia, Roserade
Cacnea, Cacturne

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0015 Beedrill Bug Poison 28 0135 Jolteon Electric 36 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison 36 0168 Ariados Bug Poison 41 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison 37 0263 Zigzagoon Normal 25 0331 Cacnea Grass 21 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark 21 0451 Skorupi Poison Bug 12 0452 Drapion Poison Dark 12 0556 Maractus Grass 10 0597 Ferroseed Grass Steel 18 0598 Ferrothorn Grass Steel 18 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0204 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pineco
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Beedrill
Spinarak, Ariados
Skorupi, Drapion |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0315 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea, Cacturne |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0406 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Budew
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia, Roserade
Cacnea, Cacturne |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0543 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Venipede
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Beedrill
Spinarak, Ariados
Skorupi, Drapion |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0595 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Joltik
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#FAC000" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Beedrill
Spinarak, Ariados
Skorupi, Drapion

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

In the anime

File:Jolteon Pin Missile.png Jolteon File:Cacnea Pin Missile.png Cacnea Skorupi File:Drapion Pin Missile.png Drapion
The Opponent is hit with a massive amount of Pins.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Jolteon's fur becomes spiky and it fires yellow needles from its fur at the opponent.
Sparky's Jolteon	The Battling Eevee Brothers		Debut
Ethan's Jolteon	Get Along, Little Pokémon		None
	Qwilfish sucks up water to make its body expand. Then, it glows white and shoots white needles from its body at the opponent. As it's shooting the Pin Missiles, its body shrinks back to regular size.
Harrison's Qwilfish	Dueling Heroes		None
Dorian's Qwilfish	Just Add Water		None
	The two large stingers on Beedrill's arms glow white and they release multiple white needles or large needles the size of the arm stingers at the opponent.
Jimmy's Beedrill	The Legend of Thunder!		None
Galen's two Beedrill	Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea		None
	Cacnea points one or two of its arms out and the dark green spikes on its hands glow white. It then shoots a barrage of white needles at the opponent. Sometimes the pins are fired from the dark spines in its head.
James's Cacnea	A Poached Ego!		None
	Cacturne releases multiple white glowing pins from the dark green patches on its arms and legs at the opponent.
Harley's Cacturne	Rhapsody in Drew		None
	Drapion's claws glow white and it releases multiple glowing white pins from them at the opponent. It can also releases glowing white pins from the claw at the end of its tail.
J's Drapion	Ill-Will Hunting!		None
Aaron's Drapion	A Trainer and Child Reunion!		None
Paul's Drapion	Familiarity Breeds Strategy!		None
	The ball on Mime Jr.'s head glow white. Its hands also glow white and it releases glowing white pins from its hands at the opponent.
James's Mime Jr.	Dawn's Early Night!		Used via Mimic
	The claws on Skorupi's arms glow white and it fires multiple white pins from the claws at the opponent.
A Coordinator's Skorupi	Another One Gabites the Dust!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Jolteon
The user fires pins from their body at the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Jolteon fires multiple large triangle-shaped pins from the collar around its neck at the opponent.
Red's Vee	Clefabulous Clefable		Debut

In other languages

• Chinese: 飛彈針 Fēi​dàn​ Zhēn​
• Dutch: Naaldraket
• Finnish: Neulaohjus, Piikkiohjus
• French: Dard-nuée
• German: Nadelrakete
• Greek: Βελόνες Πύραυλοι
• Italian: Missilspillo
• Korean: 바늘미사일 Bineul Missile
• Norwegian: Nålestikk
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Míssil de Espinhos
• Portuguese (European): Ataque Míssil
• Spanish: Pin Misil
• Spanish (Latin American): Misil Aguja (anime)
• Serbian: Bodljikavi Projektil

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