Drill Run (move)

Drill Run ドリルライナー Drill Liner

Battles Type  Ground Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  80 Accuracy  95% Priority  0 Makes 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 adjacent to the user

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

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Drill Run (Japanese: ドリルライナー Drill Liner) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation V.

Effect

Drill Run deals damage and has an increased critical hit ratio.

Learnset

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0022 Fearow Normal Flying 53 0111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock 45 0112 Rhydon Ground Rock 47 0464 Rhyperior Ground Rock 47 0529 Drilbur Ground 43 0530 Excadrill Ground Steel 55 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

Excadrill
The user attacks by spinning its body like a drill.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Excadrill puts its arms up to its head and forms its body into a drill. It then jumps into the air and rotates its body, stabbing the opponent with its drill.
Iris's Excadrill	The Bloom Is on Axew!		Debut

Trivia

• Fearow is the only non-Template:Type2 Pokémon to learn Drill Run.
  • Therefore, Fearow is also the only Pokémon that doesn't receive STAB from Drill Run.
• Drilbur is the only Pokémon able to learn Drill Run that isn't dual type.
• No Pokémon from Generations II and III can learn Drill Run. However, Smeargle can learn it via Sketch.

In other languages

Language Title French Canada Tunnelier Europe Tunnelier German Volltrefferquote Italian Giravvita Spanish Latin America Taladradora Spain Taladradora

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.