Drill Peck (Japanese: ドリルくちばし Drill Beak) is a damage-dealing Flying-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Drill Peck does damage.

In the anime

Pokémon

Prinplup The yellow crest on its head glow white. Its beak also glows white and expands greatly in size. Prinplup then starts spinning and hits into the opponent.

• Used by Kenny's Prinplup in Settling a Not-So-Old Score!.

Empoleon In The Rise of Darkrai, Dai has his Empoleon use Drill Peck to counter Dawn's Piplup's Peck. Empoleon's "trident" glows yellow and Empoleon starts spinning and hit's the opponent.

• Used by Dai's Empoleon in The Rise of Darkrai. (During the song We Will Be Heroes.)

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0021 Spearow Normal Flying 29 0022 Fearow Normal Flying 34 0084 Doduo Normal Flying 30 0085 Dodrio Normal Flying -- 0085 Dodrio Normal Flying 30 0145 Zapdos Electric Flying -- 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 0021 Spearow Normal Flying 37 0022 Fearow Normal Flying 40 0084 Doduo Normal Flying 33 0085 Dodrio Normal Flying 38 0145 Zapdos Electric Flying 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" | 0177 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Natu
| colspan="1" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Spearow, Fearow
Doduo, Dodrio |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0198 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Murkrow
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Spearow, Fearow
Doduo, Dodrio
Natu, Xatu
Skarmory |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0227 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Skarmory
| colspan="1" style="background:#60A1B8; text-align: center;" | Steel || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Spearow, Fearow
Doduo, Dodrio

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
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Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0021 Spearow Normal Flying 37 0022 Fearow Normal Flying 40 0084 Doduo Normal Flying 37 0085 Dodrio Normal Flying 47 0145 Zapdos Electric Flying 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

#   Pokémon Type 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 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 0021 Spearow Normal Flying 37 0022 Fearow Normal Flying 47 0084 Doduo Normal Flying 41 0085 Dodrio Normal Flying 47 0145 Zapdos Electric Flying 71 0393 Piplup Water 39 0394 Prinplup Water 46 0395 Empoleon Water Steel 52 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

#   Pokémon Type 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 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 other languages

• Spanish: Pico Taladro
• French: Bec Vrille
• German: Bohrschnabel
• Italian: Perforbecco

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