Pin Missile (move)

Pin Missile ミサイルばり Missile Needle

Sharp pins are shot at the foe in rapid succession. They hit two to five times in a row.

Battles Type  Bug Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  14 Accuracy  85% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make 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  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles the Pokémon that has the Judge's attention.

Super Contests Category  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Allows performance of the same move twice in a row.

Pin Missile on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Pin Missile on Eevee's Movedex

Pin Missile (Japanese: ミサイルばり Missile Needle) is a damage-dealing Bug-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Pin Missile inflicts damage, hitting the target between 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2 times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a 12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Although only the first hit can be a critical hit, each hit per use will deal the same amount of damage.

Pin Missile will end immediately if it breaks a Substitute. Bide and Counter will only acknowledge one hit of this move.

Generation II and III

Same as Generation I, but any hit can critical hit and the others will do normal damage.

Generation IV

Same as the previous generations, except it will continue attacking after a Substitute is broken.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
015		Beedrill	Bug	Poison	30
135		Jolteon	Electric		36Y
135		Jolteon	Electric		48RGB
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
015		Beedrill	Bug	Poison	35
135		Jolteon	Electric		36
211		Qwilfish	Water	Poison	28
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
204		Pineco	Bug		Beedrill
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
015		Beedrill	Bug	Poison	35
135		Jolteon	Electric		36
211		Qwilfish	Water	Poison	21FRLG
211		Qwilfish	Water	Poison	28RSE
263		Zigzagoon	Normal		25
331		Cacnea	Grass		21
332		Cacturne	Grass	Dark	21
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
204		Pineco	Bug		Beedrill
315		Roselia	Grass	Poison	Cacnea, Cacturne
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
015		Beedrill	Bug	Poison	28
135		Jolteon	Electric		36
167		Spinarak	Bug	Poison	36
168		Ariados	Bug	Poison	41
211		Qwilfish	Water	Poison	37
263		Zigzagoon	Normal		25
331		Cacnea	Grass		21
332		Cacturne	Grass	Dark	21
451		Skorupi	Poison	Bug	12
452		Drapion	Poison	Dark	-- 12
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
204		Pineco	Bug		Beedrill Spinarak, Ariados Skorupi, Drapion
406		Budew	Grass	Poison	Roselia, Roserade Cacnea, Cacturne
315		Roselia	Grass	Poison	Cacnea, Cacturne
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 the anime

Jolteon	Cacnea	Skorupi
The Opponent is hit with a masive amount of Pins.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Jolteon	Jolteon's fur gets spikey and launches the spines on its back, which glow yellow as they fly toward their target.
Sparky's Jolteon	The Battling Eevee Brothers		Debut
Ethan's Jolteon	Get Along, Little Pokémon		None
Cacnea	The pins are created in the dark green spines that surrounds its wrists and it shoots towards the opponent. Sometimes the pins are created in the dark spines in its head.
James's Cacnea	A Poached Ego		None
Skorupi	Glowing white pins are launched from it which shoot towards the opponent.
Skorupi	Another One Gabites the Dust!		None

In other languages

• Spanish: Pin Misil
• French: Dard-nuée
• German: Nadelrakete
• Italian: Missilspillo
• Norwegian: Nålestikk ("Needle Stings")
• Dutch: Naaldraket

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