Horn Drill (move)

Horn Drill つのドリル Horn Drill

Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  5 (max. 8) Power  — Accuracy  30% Priority  0 Makes 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 I TM07 in Generation I

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ ???

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Earn +15 if all the Pokémon choose the same Judge.

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

Horn Drill (Japanese: つのドリル Horn Drill) is a very inaccurate Template:Type2 one-hit knockout move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Horn Drill does damage equal to the opponent's current HP. Horn Drill will break a Substitute on contact, and can be countered for infinite damage if and when it breaks a Substitute.

Horn Drill will not affect an opponent whose current Speed is greater than the user's current Speed.

Generation II and on

Unlike in Generation I, Horn Drill can affect a Pokémon whose Speed is greater than the user's current Speed. However, it cannot affect a Pokémon of a higher level. Horn Drill can be Countered for infinite damage if it misses in Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal. However, this does not apply to Pokémon Stadium 2.

In the anime

• Juan's Seaking using Horn Drill on Ash's Corphish.
  Juan's Seaking using Horn Drill on Ash's Corphish.
• A construction worker's Rhydon using Horn Drill.
  A construction worker's Rhydon using Horn Drill.

Pokémon

Seaking. Seaking's horn quickly spins around. Seaking then rams its spinning horn into its opponent.

• Used by Juan's Seaking in The Great Eight Fate!

Rhydon. Same as above.

• Used by Blaine's Rhydon in Riddle Me This.
• Used by a construction worker's Rhydon in Bibarel Gnaws Best!.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 36 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 38 0033 Nidorino Poison 41 0033 Nidorino Poison 46 0111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock 45 0112 Rhydon Ground Rock 48 0118 Goldeen Water 45 0119 Seaking Water 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.

By TM07

#   Pokémon Type 0030 Nidorina Poison 0031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 0033 Nidorino Poison 0034 Nidoking Poison Ground 0077 Ponyta Fire 0078 Rapidash Fire 0086 Seel Water 0087 Dewgong Water Ice 0111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock 0112 Rhydon Ground Rock 0118 Goldeen Water 0119 Seaking Water 0128 Tauros Normal 0131 Lapras Water Ice 0139 Omastar Rock Water 0148 Dragonair Dragon 0149 Dragonite Dragon Flying 0151 Mew Psychic 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 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 38 0033 Nidorino Poison 46 0111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock 37 0112 Rhydon Ground Rock 37 0118 Goldeen Water 43 0119 Seaking Water 49 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 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 47 0033 Nidorino Poison 53 0111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock 38 0112 Rhydon Ground Rock 38 0118 Goldeen Water 43 0119 Seaking Water 49 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" | 0086 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Seel
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂, Nidorino, Nidoking
Rhyhorn, Rhydon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0131 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#3DCEF3" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂, Nidorino, Nidoking
Rhyhorn, Rhydon

|- | 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 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 45 0033 Nidorino Poison 58 0111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock 37 0112 Rhydon Ground Rock 37 0118 Goldeen Water 41 0119 Seaking Water 47 0464 Rhyperior Ground Rock 37 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" | 0077 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Ponyta
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂, Nidorino, Nidoking
Rhyhorn, Rhydon, Rhyperior |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0086 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Seel
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂, Nidorino, Nidoking
Rhyhorn, Rhydon, Rhyperior |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0131 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#3DCEF3" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂, Nidorino, Nidoking
Rhyhorn, Rhydon, Rhyperior

|- | 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

• French: Empal'korne
• German: Hornbohrer
• Italian: Perforcorno
• Spanish: Perforador