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 315 Roselia Grass Poison Cacnea, Cacturne 406 Budew Grass Poison Roselia, Roserade 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 massive amount of Pins.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Jolteon	Jolteon's fur becomes spiky 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
Qwilfish	Qwilfish sucks up water to make its body expand. Then, it glows white and shoots white needles at the opponent. As it's shooting the Pin Missiles, its body shrinks back to regular size.
Harrison's Qwilfish	Dueling Heroes		None
Dorian's Qwilfish	Just Add Water		None
Beedrill	The two large stingers on Beedrill's arms glow white and they release multiple white needles or large needles the size of the arm stingers at the opponent.
Jimmy's Beedrill	The Legend of Thunder!		None
Galen's two Beedrill	Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea		None
Cacnea	Cacnea points one or two of its arms out and the dark green spikes on its hands glow white. It then shoots a barrage of white needles at the foe. Sometimes the pins are created in the dark spines in its head.
James's Cacnea	A Poached Ego!		None
Cacturne	Cacturne releases multiple white glowing pins from the dark green patches on its arms and legs at the opponent.
Harley's Cacturne	Rhapsody in Drew		None
Drapion	Drapion's claws glow white and it releases multiple glowing white pins from them at the opponent.
J's Drapion	III-Will Hunting!		None
Aaron's Drapion	A Trainer and Child Reunion!		None
Mime Jr.	The ball on Mime Jr.'s head glow white. It hands also glow white and it releases glowing white pins from its hands at the opponent.
James's Mime Jr.	Dawn's Early Night!		Used via Mimic
Skorupi	Glowing white pins are launched from it which shoot towards the opponent.
A Coordinator's Skorupi	Another One Gabites the Dust!		None

In other languages

• Spanish: Pin Misil (Misil Aguja in Latin American Dub)
• French: Dard-nuée
• German: Nadelrakete
• Italian: Missilspillo
• Norwegian: Nålestikk ("Needle Stings")
• Dutch: Naaldraket
• European Portuguese: Ataque Míssil
• Brazilian Portuguese: Míssil de espinhos

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