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Pikipek is an avian Pokémon with black plumage. Its gray beak is long with a pointed, black tip, and it has large blue eyes. There is a white, mask-like marking on its face. This marking extends down its neck before ending in a tuft of feathers on its chest. A large crest sweeps upward from the back of its head with a red stripe along the top that ends at its beak. The undersides of Pikipek's wings are white, and it has thin gray legs and feet. It has a flat tail.
Despite its slender appearance, Pikipek has powerful neck muscles and is able to strike 16 times per second with its beak. This allows it to not only drill through wood, but shatter stone as well. The holes it drills in trees are used for nesting, storing food, and collecting small, glittering objects. The noise of this Pokémon pecking can be used to communicate with others. This Pokémon feeds on Berries and is able to attack opponents by zipping the leftover seeds at them. These shots have enough force to embed the seeds in trees.[1]Talonflame is a natural predator of Pikipek. Pikipek preys on Metapod.
A Pikipek appeared in Dewpider Ascending!, where it kept attacking a wild Dewpider with Peck. It eventually popped the Dewpider's bubble helmet and forced it to retreat into the lake from which it came.
Multiple Pikipek debuted in The Delivery of Rotom and the Girl. They flocked around a Figy Berry tree that Moon needed to heal Sun's injured ankle. However, with her archery skills, Moon distracted the Pikipek long enough for her to knock a Berry out of the tree.
If you spot a hole in a tree in the jungle, it’s probably a Pikipek’s food storage. It uses its hard beak to repeatedly peck at the tree until it bores a hole.
Wireframe model of Pikipek as shown in the Pokémon Direct
Pikipek was the first Generation VII Pokémon to be officially shown; this happened during the February 2016 Pokémon Direct. At the time, it was unnamed and appeared as a wireframe model.
Pikipek seems to be based on a pileated woodpecker. It may also be partially based on a baby toco toucan, judging by its evolution into Trumbeak and Toucannon.
Name origin
Pikipek may be a combination of picus (Latin for woodpecker), pick, and peck.
Tsutsukera may be a combination of 突き tsutsuki (pecking) and 啄木鳥 keratsutsuki (woodpecker).
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