Piercing Drill (Ability)

Piercing Drill	かんつうドリル
	Piercing Drill
Flavor text Champions When the Pokémon uses contact moves, it can hit even targets that are protecting themselves, dealing 1/4 of the damage that the move would otherwise deal. Everything aside from the target's protective effects is still triggered.

Piercing Drill (Japanese: かんつうドリル Piercing Drill) is an Ability introduced during Generation IX, in Pokémon Champions. It is the signature Ability of Mega Excadrill.

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• Effect
  • In battle
    • Affected moves
• Pokémon with Piercing Drill
• Trivia
• In other languages

Contents

Effect

In battle

Piercing Drill causes contact moves used by the Pokémon to hit targets through protection moves, dealing 25% of the original damage. Everything aside from the target's protective effects is still triggered.

Affected moves

The table below lists the moves affected by Piercing Drill, as well as the Pokémon that can have Piercing Drill and learn those moves.

Move Type Cat. Pow. Acc. Learned by Aerial Ace  Flying  Physical 60 — Body Slam  Normal  Physical 85 100 Brick Break  Fighting  Physical 75 100 Brutal Swing  Dark  Physical 60 100 Crush Claw  Normal  Physical 75 95 Dig  Ground  Physical 80 100 Double-Edge  Normal  Physical 120 100 Drill Run  Ground  Physical 80 95 Facade  Normal  Physical 70 100 Giga Impact  Normal  Physical 150 90 High Horsepower  Ground  Physical 95 95 Horn Drill  Normal  Physical — 30 Iron Head  Steel  Physical 80 100 Megahorn  Bug  Physical 120 85 Poison Jab  Poison  Physical 80 100 Rapid Spin  Normal  Physical 50 100 Shadow Claw  Ghost  Physical 70 100 Smart Strike  Steel  Physical 70 — Stomping Tantrum  Ground  Physical 75 100 Throat Chop  Dark  Physical 80 100 X-Scissor  Bug  Physical 80 100

Pokémon with Piercing Drill

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0530		Excadrill Mega Excadrill	Ground	Steel	Piercing Drill	None	None
Please note that Abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

Trivia

• Prior to its introduction in Pokémon Champions, Piercing Drill was present in the internal data of Pokémon HOME's Version 4.0.0 update, along with Spicy Spray.
  • The file name for its flavor text, home.sp.tokuseiinfo_Champions.TOKUSEIINFO_Champions_311, followed the same naming convention as other Abilities added in this update, namely Dragonize, Mega Sol, and Spicy Spray.
  • However, as Abilities were not given to any new Mega-Evolved Pokémon added in this update, no Pokémon were confirmed to have this Ability until the official release of Pokémon Champions.
• This Ability originated as a TCG attack.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	貫穿鑽 Gunchyūn Jyun
	Mandarin	貫穿鑽 / 贯穿钻 Guànchuān Zuān
French		Transperceuse
German		Stichbohrer
Italian		Punta Perforante
Korean		관통드릴 Gwantong Drill
Spanish	Latin America	Turbotaladro
	Spain	Turbotaladro

Variations of the Ability Unseen Fist
Unseen Fist • Piercing Drill

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.