#0731 · Alola · Generation 7

Pikipek

Woodpecker Pokémon · Normal/Flying-type

Pikipek is a Normal/Flying-type Pokémon, the Woodpecker Pokémon, number 731 (#0731) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 7 and comes from the Alola region. It is 0.3 m tall and weighs 1.2 kg.

Pikipek is the Woodpecker Pokémon, a tiny black bird that can peck 16 times a second, and the Pokédex says you can read its mood from the rhythm of its tapping. It looks spindly, but the Pokédex says its neck muscles are heavy-duty.

How to pronounce Pikipek

Pikipek is pronounced PIK-ee-pek. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Pikipek said out loud:

In Japanese it is ツツケラ (Tsutsukera).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Pikipek is 0.3 m tall and weighs 1.2 kg. It has black plumage, a long grey beak with a black tip, big blue eyes and a white mask-like marking that runs down its neck to a tuft on its chest. A crest with a red stripe sweeps upward from behind its head. Bulbapedia says it feels no pain when it uses its neck muscles, which is how it can drill through wood and shatter stone.

Behaviour

Pikipek uses the holes it drills for nests and food stores, and Bulbapedia adds that it also collects small glittering objects in them. The noise of its pecking is also how it talks to other Pokémon.

Habitat

Bulbapedia says it usually lives in damp forests. In Scarlet and Violet it is found in the Coastal Biome and Torchlit Labyrinth of The Indigo Disk, and in 1-star Tera Raid Battles at Blueberry Academy.

Diet

It feeds on Berries, and the Pokédex says it fires the leftover seeds from its mouth as ammunition.

Powers

Peck, Rock Smash and Drill Peck are its tools, with Echoed Voice, Supersonic and Screech for noise and Bullet Seed for its Berry seeds. Its Ability Skill Link makes multi-hit moves such as Fury Attack and Bullet Seed hit their full number of times, Keen Eye prevents its accuracy from dropping, and Pickup is hidden. Base Attack 75 is its one real strength.

Name origin

Pikipek may combine picus (Latin for 'woodpecker'), 'pick' and 'peck'. The Japanese name is Tsutsukera (ツツケラ), possibly from tsutsuki ('pecking') and keratsutsuki ('woodpecker').

Design inspiration

Pikipek looks modelled on a pileated woodpecker. Since its line ends in toucan-like forms, it may also borrow from a young toco toucan.

Evolution notes

Pikipek evolves into Trumbeak at level 14, which evolves into Toucannon at level 28.

In the games

Pikipek is one of the early birds of Alola, found in Sun and Moon and their Ultra versions on Routes 1, 4, 5 and 6 and in the Poké Pelago. Bulbapedia lists it as unobtainable in Legends: Z-A.

In the anime

A flock of wild Pikipek debuted in 'First Catch in Alola, Ketchum-Style!', raised by a Trumbeak and a Toucannon and searching for food on Melemele Island.

Fun facts

• Pikipek was the first Generation VII species other than Magearna to be shown officially, as an unnamed wireframe model in the February 2016 Pokémon Direct.
• Bulbapedia says Talonflame hunts Pikipek in the wild, and Pikipek in turn feeds on Metapod.
• In the anime episode 'Dewpider Ascending!', a Pikipek kept pecking a wild Dewpider with Peck until it popped the bubble helmet.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Pikipek (Pokémon) · Serebii: Pikipek (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 35
• Attack: 75
• Defense: 30
• Sp. Atk: 30
• Sp. Def: 30
• Speed: 65

Pikipek’s base stat total is 265. Its highest stat is Attack.

Type matchups

What is Pikipek weak to?

Pikipek takes extra damage from Electric (2×), Ice (2×), Rock (2×) moves.

It resists Grass (½×), Bug (½×).

It is immune to Ground, Ghost moves.

Evolution

How does Pikipek evolve?

Pikipek evolves into Trumbeak at level 14.

The whole family: Pikipek, Trumbeak, Toucannon.

• Trumbeak evolves into Toucannon at level 28.

Abilities

• Keen Eye: Prevents accuracy from being lowered.
• Skill Link: Extends two-to-five-hit moves and Triple Kick to their full length every time.
• Pickup (hidden ability): Picks up other Pokémon's used and Flung held items. May also pick up an item after battle.

Moves

Moves Pikipek learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (32)

Pikipek can learn 32 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Protect, Acrobatics, Thief, Facade, Aerial Ace, Flame Charge, Air Cutter, Endure, Sunny Day, Bullet Seed, Brick Break, U-turn, Air Slash, Sleep Talk, Rest, Swords Dance, Fly, Gunk Shot, Substitute, Tailwind, Hyper Voice, Heat Wave, Helping Hand, Brave Bird, Tera Blast, Smack Down, Knock Off, Uproar, Dual Wingbeat, Endeavor, Feather Dance.

Egg moves (3):Boomburst, Gunk Shot, Sky Attack.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Flying.
• Egg cycles: 15 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 1,920).
• Catch rate: 255 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
• Growth rate: Medium (1,000,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 1 Attack effort value.
• Base experience yield: 53.

Pokédex entries

It may look spindly, but its neck muscles are heavy-duty. It can peck at a tree 16 times per second! (Ultra Moon)

It pecks at trees with its hard beak. You can get some idea of its mood or condition from the rhythm of its pecking. (Ultra Sun)

This Pokémon feeds on berries, whose leftover seeds become the ammunition for the attacks it fires off from its mouth. (Moon)

It can peck at a rate of 16 times a second to drill holes in trees. It uses the holes for food storage and for nesting. (Sun)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Lightest Normal type in Gen 7: 1.2 kg.
• Shortest Normal type in Gen 7: 0.3 m.
• Lightest Flying type in Gen 7: 1.2 kg.
• Shortest Flying type in Gen 7: 0.3 m, shared with 2 others.
• Lowest base stat total among Flying types in Gen 7: 265.
• Taller than 4% of all Pokémon (0.3 m).
• Heavier than 5% of all Pokémon (1.2 kg).
• Base stat total 265, ranked #946 of 1,025.
• One of 27 Pokémon that are both Normal and Flying.
• One of 51 black Pokémon.
• Number 10 of 88 Pokémon introduced in Generation 7 (Alola).
• Part of an evolution family of 3 Pokémon.
• Can learn 44 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 255: about 33.3% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 4 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Pikipek (Pokémon), Serebii: Pikipek (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (PIK-ee-pek): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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