Needle Arm
ニードルアーム Needle Arm
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Type  Grass
Category  Physical
PP  15 (max. 24)
Power  60
Accuracy  100%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
  • Makes contact
  • Affected by Protect
  • Not affected by Magic Coat
  • Not affected by Snatch
  • Not affected by King's Rock
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
May affect anyone adjacent to the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
Condition  Smart
Appeal  1
Jam  4 ♥♥♥♥
Badly startles the Pokémon in front.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  3 ♥♥♥
A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Needle Arm (Japanese: ニードルアーム Needle Arm) is a damage-dealing Grass-type move introduced in Generation III. Prior to Generation V, it was the signature move of Cacnea and Cacturne.

Effect

Needle Arm inflicts damage and has a 30% chance of causing the target to flinch.

Description

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Games Description
RSE Attacks with thorny arms. May cause flinching.
FRLG An attack using thorny arms. It may make the foe flinch.
The user attacks by wildly swinging its thorny arms. It may also make the target flinch.


Learnset

By leveling up

# Pokémon Type Level
I II III IV V VI
331   Cacnea Grass Grass 37 45 45 ''''
332   Cacturne Grass Dark 41 53 53 ''''
556   Maractus Grass Grass     22 ''''
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.
A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method.
An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.


In the anime

 
Mime Jr.
 
Cacturne
 
Cacnea
The user attacks by wildly swinging its thorny arms.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
  One of Cacnea's arms glows white. It then swings its arm and hits the opponent with it.
James's Cacnea A Mudkip Mission Debut
  The dark green patches on Cacturne's arms and legs glow white and grow into huge needles.
Harley's Cacturne A Hurdle for Squirtle None
  The ball on top of Mime Jr's head glows white, and both of its arms glow white as well. It then hits the opponent with one of its arms.
James's Mime Jr. Dawn's Early Night! Used via Mimic


In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga


In other generations

Trivia

  • If Secret Power is used in tall grass, it will have the animation of Needle Arm.
  • All Pokémon that can learn this move are based on a cactus.

In other languages

Language Title
Mandarin Chinese 針葉暗器 Zhēnyè Ànqì
  Dutch Naald Arm
  Finnish Piikki-isku (early AG, BF)
Neulamäjäys (later AG)
  French Poing dard
  German Nietenranke
  Greek Βελονογροθιά
  Hindi सुइओं की बाहें Suion Ki Baahein
  Italian Pugnospine
  Portuguese Braço Agulha
  Brazilian Portuguese Braço de Agulha
  Serbian Bodljikava Ruka
Spanish   Latin America Brazo Aguja
  Spain Brazo Pincho


Variations of the move Needle Arm
  Needle ArmForce Palm


  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.