Twineedle (move)

Twineedle ダブルニードル Double Needle

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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 Mirror Move Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  3 ♥♥♥ Startles the Pokémon that appealed before the user.

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

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jamming  1 ♥ Badly startles Pokémon that used a move of the same type.

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Twineedle (Japanese: ダブルニードル Double Needle) is a damage-dealing Bug-type multi-strike move introduced in Generation I. Prior to Generation V, it was the signature move of Beedrill.

Effect

Generation I

Twineedle inflicts damage, hitting the target twice per use. The second strike has a 20% chance of poisoning the target, unless the target is Poison-type. Although only the first strike can be a critical hit, the second one will deal the same amount of damage.

Twineedle will end immediately if the first strike breaks a substitute. Bide and Counter will only acknowledge the second strike of this move.

Generation II

Each strike now does damage independently, and either of them can be a critical hit.

Twineedle can poison Steel-type Pokémon.

Twineedle will now hit again if the first strike breaks a substitute. If the first strike breaks a substitute, the second strike can poison the target.

If the user is holding a King's Rock, the final strike has a chance to cause the target to flinch.

Generation III

Twineedle can no longer poison Steel-type Pokémon.

Twineedle is no longer affected by King's Rock.

Generation IV

Both of Twineedle's strikes now have an independent 20% chance of poisoning the target (producing a 36% chance of poisoning the target overall).

Generation V to VII

If a Focus Sash activates before the last strike is dealt, the following strike will cause the defending Pokémon to faint. A Focus Band can still activate repeatedly to prevent fainting, but each chance is independent. Sturdy will activate with each hit if the defending Pokémon has a maximum HP of 1.

If the target has Weak Armor or Stamina, each strike will activate it.

If the user is holding a King's Rock or Razor Fang, each consecutive hit has an equal chance to cause the target to flinch.

Twineedle is now affected by King's Rock.

Generation VIII onwards

Twineedle cannot be selected in a battle.

Description

Games Description StadStad2 An attack that strikes twice. The target may occasionally become poisoned. GSC Jabs the foe twice using stingers. RSE Stingers on the forelegs jab the foe twice. Colo.XD Foreleg stingers jab twice and may poison. FRLG The foe is stabbed twice with foreleg stingers. It may poison the foe. DPPtHGSSPBR The foe is stabbed twice by a pair of stingers. It may also poison the target. BWB2W2 The user damages the target twice in succession by jabbing it with two spikes. It may also poison the target. XYORAS SMUSUMPE The user damages the target twice in succession by jabbing it with two spikes. This may also poison the target. SwShBDSPLA SV This move can't be used. It's recommended that this move is forgotten. Once forgotten, this move can't be remembered.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Level
						I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
015		Beedrill		Bug		Bug	20	20	20	16	16	16	1, Evo.
091		Cloyster		Water 3		Water 3							1PE
589		Escavalier		Bug		Bug					1, 13	1, 13	1, 13
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

By breeding

#	Pokémon		Types	Parent Egg Groups		Egg Move
						II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
090		Shellder		Water 3		Water 3				✔	✔	✔
167		Spinarak		Bug		Bug				✔	✔	✔
451		Skorupi		Bug	Water 3				✔	✔	✔
543		Venipede		Bug		Bug				✔	✔	✔
777		Togedemaru		Field	Fairy						✔
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, Twineedle is a move with 6 base power, 80% accuracy, and 15 PP. The attack will generate 2 projectiles that travel up to 10 tiles away and hit the first Pokémon it encounters, ally or enemy, possibly poisoning them. If a Pokémon faints from the first projectile, the second projectile will be able to hit a new target. This move's base critical hit rate is lower than normal, at 2%.

In Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, the move's PP has been decreased to 10, and its accuracy to 46.75%.

Pokémon Conquest

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Stars: ★★ Power: 26 Accuracy: 100%

Effect: Hits twice and has a 20% chance of poisoning each target with each hit.

Users:

Grid assumes the user is in the square marked by > facing to the right.
Orange squares indicate spaces that are hit.
Red squares indicate the knockback on hit Pokémon.
A blue square indicates the user's position after performing the move.

Pokémon Masters EX

Category	Move Gauge	MP	Base Power	Max Power	Accuracy	Target	Effect Tag	Description	Playable Users
Physical	2	—	20	24	100%	An opponent	Multistrike	Attacks twice in a row. Has a chance (20%) of leaving the target poisoned.	Bugsy & Beedrill Scottie/Bettie & Support/Tech Beedrill Egg

• Description prior to Version 2.10.0*: Attacks twice in a row. Has a small chance of leaving the target poisoned.

Pokémon Rumble Rush

Twineedle

★★★
Attack power	24.49684 (Hit 1), 40.82806 (Hit 2)
Charge time	0.5 seconds (Hit 1), 0.7 seconds
Range type	Projectile
Number of hits	1
Number of projectiles	1
Critical hit rate	1.5%
Additional effect	May poison the foe

Description

Games Description MDRB Hits the target twice, even at a distance. It may also leave the target poisoned, damaging it over several turns. MDTD MDS* Inflicts damage on the target using 2 attacks in a single turn. It may also afflict the targeted enemy with a Poisoned status condition, which causes periodic damage. MDS* Inflicts damage on the target using 2 attacks in a single turn. It may also afflict the target with a Poisoned status condition, which causes periodic damage. BSL はなれたポケモンに ２かいれんぞくで ダメージをあたえる しかも いっていのかくりつで どくじょうたいにして いっていターンごとに ダメージをあたえる Conq. The enemy is stabbed twice by a pair of stingers. It may also poison the target. MDGtI UNUSED SMD It damages a Pokémon, even one far away, 2 times in a row. It could also make the enemy poisoned.

In the anime

Jeanette's Beedrill	Wild Beedrill	Casey's Beedrill	Goh's Beedrill
The foe is stabbed twice by a pair of stingers.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Beedrill	Beedrill charges at the opponent with the large stingers on its arms, Beedrill repeatedly stabs the opponent with the stingers on its arms or Beedrill stabs the opponent with one of the stingers on its arm or on its rear.
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
A Trainer's Beedrill	A Shipful of Shivers		None
Jimmy's Beedrill	The Legend of Thunder!		None
Casey's Beedrill	The Bug Stops Here		None
A Trainer's Beedrill	In the Knicker of Time!		None
Multiple wild Beedrill	Cutting the Ties That Bind!		None
Multiple wild Beedrill	Three Jynx and a Baby!		None
Multiple wild Beedrill	Second Time's the Charm!		None
Goh's Beedrill	Raid Battle in The Ruins!		Beedrill cannot legally use Twineedle in Generation VIII
Escavalier	Escavalier's lances glow bright blue and it charges towards the opponent with them.
Dirk's two Escavalier	Mewtwo — Prologue to Awakening		None

In the manga

The Electric Tale of Pikachu

	Beedrill
The user repeatedly stabs the opponent with a pair of stingers.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
Beedrill	Beedrill repeatedly stabs the opponent with the stingers on its arms.
Jeanette Fisher's Beedrill	Welcome to the Big Leagues		Debut

Pokémon Adventures

	Beedrill	Escavalier
The user stabs the opponent with a pair of stingers.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
Beedrill	Beedrill rapidly stabs the opponent with its stingers.
Giovanni's Beedrill	The Beedrill All and End All		Debut
Escavalier	Escavalier launches itself at the opponent and jabs it with its arms.
Alder's Escavalier	The Lesson Ends Here		None

In other generations

Core series games

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Side series games

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Spin-off series games

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Trivia

• In Generation II only, Twineedle is the only move that can poison a Steel-type Pokémon. This is because Steel-type Pokémon are only coded to be immune to Poison-type moves.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 雙針 Sēungjām * 雙頭針 Sēungtàuhjām Mandarin 雙針 / 双针 Shuāngzhēn Croatian Dvostruka Bodlja Czech Dvoj-žihadlo Danish Tvenål Dutch Dubbelnaald Finnish Kaksoispistin (EP002) Kaksoisneula (EP077) French Double DardVIII+ Double-DardI–VII German Duonadel Greek Δίδυμα Κεντριά Indonesian Jarum Ganda Italian Doppio Ago Korean 더블니들 Deobeulnideul Polish Atak Żądłem* Atak Igieł* Żądło* Portuguese Brazil Agulha Dupla (GO, JN014–present, TCG, manga, The Official Pokémon Handbook) Agulhas Gêmeas (early anime) Portugal Agulha Dupla Serbian Četnička Bodlja Spanish Doble AtaqueVI+ DobleataqueI–V Swedish Dubbelnål* Dubbelgaddattack* Thai ดับเบิ้ลนีดเดิ้ล Turkish Çifte İğne Vietnamese Mũi Kim Đôi

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