Drill Peck (move)

Drill Peck ドリルくちばし Drill Beak

A corkscrewing attack with the sharp beak acting as a drill.

Battles Type  Flying Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  80 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Cool Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0 A highly appealing move.

Super Contests Category  Cool Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Drill Peck on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Drill Peck on Eevee's Movedex

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

Effect

Drill Peck inflicts damage and has no secondary effect.

In the anime

Prinplup about to use Drill Peck

Prinplup using Drill Peck

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 the opponent.

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

Empoleon. Empoleon's "trident" glows yellow and Empoleon starts spinning and hits the opponent.

• Used by Kai's Empoleon in The Rise of Darkrai.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
021		Spearow	Normal	Flying	29
022		Fearow	Normal	Flying	34
084		Doduo	Normal	Flying	30
085		Dodrio	Normal	Flying	--
085		Dodrio	Normal	Flying	30
145		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
021		Spearow	Normal	Flying	37
022		Fearow	Normal	Flying	40
084		Doduo	Normal	Flying	33
085		Dodrio	Normal	Flying	38
145		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		Father
177		Natu	Psychic	Flying	Spearow, Fearow Doduo, Dodrio
198		Murkrow	Dark	Flying	Spearow, Fearow Doduo, Dodrio Natu, Xatu Skarmory
227		Skarmory	Steel	Flying	Spearow, Fearow Doduo, Dodrio
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
021		Spearow	Normal	Flying	37
022		Fearow	Normal	Flying	40
084		Doduo	Normal	Flying	37
085		Dodrio	Normal	Flying	47
145		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		Father
177		Natu	Psychic	Flying	Spearow, Fearow Doduo, Dodrio
198		Murkrow	Dark	Flying	Spearow, Fearow Doduo, Dodrio Natu, Xatu Skarmory
227		Skarmory	Steel	Flying	Spearow, Fearow Doduo, Dodrio
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
021		Spearow	Normal	Flying	37
022		Fearow	Normal	Flying	47
084		Doduo	Normal	Flying	41
085		Dodrio	Normal	Flying	47
145		Zapdos	Electric	Flying	71
393		Piplup	Water		39
394		Prinplup	Water		46
395		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		Father
177		Natu	Psychic	Flying	Spearow, Fearow Doduo, Dodrio
198		Murkrow	Dark	Flying	Spearow, Fearow Doduo, Dodrio Natu, Xatu Skarmory
227		Skarmory	Steel	Flying	Spearow, Fearow Doduo, Dodrio
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: Pico Taladro
• French: Bec Vrille
• German: Bohrschnabel
• Italian: Perforbecco

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