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 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  3 ♥♥♥ Startles the Pokémon that appealed before the user.

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

Twineedle (Japanese: ダブルニードル Double Needle) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. It is Beedrill's signature move.

Effect

Generation I

Twineedle does damage, and has a 19.9% chance of poisoning the target. 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 a target 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

Same as Generation II, but it cannot poison Steel- and Template:Type2s.

Generation IV

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

In the anime

• Beedrill Twineedle.jpg

  Beedrill using Twineedle

Pokémon

Beedrill. Beedrill charges at the foe with its enlarged stingers, or it repeatedly tries to stab the opponent with them.

• Used by a wild Beedrill in Challenge of the Samurai Debut.
• Used by a wild Beedrill in The Purr-fect Hero.
• Used by Jeanette Fisher's Beedrill in The Fourth Round Rumble.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0015 Beedrill Bug Poison 20 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 20 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0015 Beedrill Bug Poison 20 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0015 Beedrill Bug Poison 16 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Trivia

• Twineedle is the only Template:Type2 move so far that can poison.
• Twineedle is the only move that can poison a Template:Type2 Pokémon, as it is a Bug-type move. However, this only works in Generation II.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Agulhas Gêmeas
• Spanish: Doble Ataque
• French: Double-dard
• German: Duonadel
• Italian: Doppio Ago