Twineedle (move)

Twineedle ダブルニードル Double Needle

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Battles Type  Bug Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  25 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

Availability Introduced  [[Generation {{{gen}}}]] Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  3 ♥♥♥ ???

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IX

Twineedle is a Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I that deals very little damage.

Effect

Generation I

Twineedle does damage, and has a 19.9% chance of poisoning the opponent. Twineedle hits twice per use. Though technically only the first hit can critical hit, each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

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

Twineedle can't poison an opponent that has a substitute, already has a major status ailment, or is a Template:Type2.

Generation II

Same as Generation I, but a 20% chance of causing poisoning instead.

Generation III and on

Same as Generation II, but cannot poison steel types as well as poison types.

Generation IV

Same as Generation II, except it will continue attacking after a Substitute is broken.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

• Beedrill at Lv.20

Generation II

By leveling up

• Beedrill at Lv.20

Generation III

By leveling up

• Beedrill at Lv.20

Generation IV

By leveling up

• Beedrill at Lv.16

Trivia

• Twineedle is the only Bug move so far that can poison. On a related note, it is that only non-Template:Type2 move to poison a foe.
• Although Template:Type2 Pokémon cannot be poisoned, Twineedle can still be used on them, as it is a Bug-type move.

In other languages

Spanish: Doble Ataque. French: Double-dard. German: Duonadel.