Pin Missile (move)

Pin Missile ミサイルばり Missile Needle

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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 Unknown

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 any hit can critical hit and the others will do normal damage.

Generation IV

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

In the anime

• Ep40 jolteon pinmissile.jpg

  Jolteon using Pin Missile

• Pin Missile Anime.jpg

  Cacnea using Pin Missile

• Drapion pin missile1.jpg

  Drapion preparing to use Pin Missile

• Skorupi pin m.png

  Skorupi using Pin Missile

Pokémon

Jolteon. Jolteon launches the spines on its back, which glow yellow as they fly toward their target.

• Used by Sparky's Jolteon in The Battling Eevee Brothers. Debut

Cacnea. The pins are created in the dark green spines that surrounds its wrists and it shoots towards the opponent. Sometimes the pins are created in the dark spines in its head.

• Used by James's Cacnea from A Poached Ego to Once There Were Greenfields!.

Drapion. Glowing white pins are launched from Drapion which shoot towards the opponent.

• Used by J's Drapion in Ill-Will Hunting!.
• Used by Aaron's Drapion in A Trainer and Child Reunion!.

Skorupi. Glowing white pins are launched from it which shoot towards the opponent.

• Used by Skorupi in DP114.

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" | 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" | 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. |} |}

In other languages

• Spanish: Pin Misil
• French: Dard-nuée
• German: Nadelrakete
• Italian: Missilspillo
• Norwegian: Nålestikk ("Needle Stings")