Twineedle (move)

Twineedle ダブルニードル Double Needle

The foe is stabbed twice by a pair of stingers. It may also poison the target.

Battles Type  Bug Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  25 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not 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  3 ♥♥♥ Startles the Pokémon that appealed before the user.

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

Twineedle on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Twineedle on Eevee's Movedex

Twineedle (Japanese: ダブルニードル Double Needle) is a damage-dealing Bug-type move introduced in Generation I. It is Beedrill's signature move.

Effect

Generation I

Twineedle does damage, and has a 19.9% chance of poisoning the target. Twineedle hits twice per use. Though technically only the first hit can critical hit, each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

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

Twineedle can't poison a target that has a Substitute, already has a major status ailment, or is a Poison-type.

Generation II

Same as Generation I, but a 20% chance of causing poisoning instead.

Generation III

Same as Generation II, but it cannot poison Steel- and Poison-types.

Generation IV

Same as Generation III, except it will continue attacking after a Substitute is broken.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 015 Beedrill Bug Poison 20 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 20 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 015 Beedrill Bug Poison 20 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 015 Beedrill Bug Poison 16 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 the anime

	Beedrill
The foe is stabbed twice by a pair of stingers.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Beedrill	Beedrill charges at the foe with its enlarged stingers, or it repeatedly tries to stab the opponent with them.
A wild Beedrill	Challenge of the Samurai		Debut
A wild Beedrill	The Purr-fect Hero		None
Jeanette Fisher's Beedrill	The Fourth Round Rumble		None
Unknown Trainer's Beedrill	A Shipful of Shivers		None
Jimmy's Beedrill	The Legend of Thunder!		None
Unknown Trainer's Beedrill	In the Knicker of Time!		None

Trivia

• Twineedle is the only Bug-type move so far that can poison.
• Twineedle is the only move that can poison a Steel-type Pokémon, as it is a Bug-type move instead of a Poison-Type move. However, this only works in Generation II.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Agulhas Gêmeas
• Spanish: Doble Ataque
• French: Double-dard
• German: Duonadel
• Italian: Doppio Ago

This move article is part of Project MoveDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each move.