Hydrapple (Pokémon)

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Hydrapple (Japanese: カミツオロチ Kamitsuorochi) is a dual-type introduced during Generation IX, in The Indigo Disk.
It evolves from when leveled up while knowing . It is one of 's final forms, the others being and .
==Biology==
Hydrapple is a Pokémon composed of seven symbiotic creatures known as "syrpents" living within an apple-shaped structure completely made of red syrup.Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet | Hydrapple Each syrpent has green, leaf-shaped eyestalks with yellow eyes; a long green body with a pale yellow underbelly; and a tail tipped with leafy green ornaments.
Three of the seven syrpents are always visible outside of the syrup apple: the central syrpent, which is the dominant entity in the system, rises from the center of the apple; and two of the syrpents' tails emerge from its rear. The central syrpent has the longest body and is further distinguished by its two horns. The left horn has an apple impaled on it, which appears to be the same apple that the Pokémon inhabited when it was an . The four other syrpents composing Hydrapple are usually hidden within the syrup, with only the tops of their closed eyestalks visible from without. Sometimes, the four hidden syrpents emerge from the syrup so that five of Hydrapple's heads are visible. To move, Hydrapple's two tail syrpents work together to push its entire body across the ground.
The seven syrpents that form Hydrapple have inconstant and fickle temperaments, and rarely work together as a team. On the rare occasion that the syrpents' moods align, Hydrapple unleashes its full power.
Hydrapple and its pre-Evolution , are the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move and the only known Pokémon that can have as an Ability. Hydrapple is also the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move .
===Evolution===
Hydrapple evolves from and is one of the final forms of .
(For specifics on this Pokémon's Evolution in the games, refer to Game data→Evolution data.)
==Game data==
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===Learnset===
Hydrapple is available in Version 3.0.0+.
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==Trivia==
* Hydrapple is the only one of 's evolutionary relatives to be a third-stage evolution.
** Hydrapple appears in the Blueberry Pokédex, despite none of its evolutionary relatives appearing in it, which also makes it the only member of Applin's evolutionary relatives with this distinction.
* Dipplin and Hydrapple are the only:
** Evolutionary relatives introduced within a single generation that are not next to each other in National Pokédex order, with Dipplin being number 1011 and Hydrapple being number 1019.
** .
* Hydrapple's existence was indicated before the release of The Indigo Disk by the fact that Dipplin could use the Eviolite.
* Hydrapple is the only Pokémon that requires a TM to obtain, as Dipplin cannot learn without it.
* As Dynamax and Gigantamax are exclusive to , Hydrapple is the only one of Applin's final forms to not have a Gigantamax form.
===Origin===
Hydrapple seems to be inspired by multiheaded serpent-like monsters from various myths, such as the , an eight-headed dragon or serpent from ; or (where daija is an alternative reading of orochi), a similar creature in the local myths of Northern , which Kitakami is based on; the , a many-headed serpentine monster from ; and , the multi-headed dragon from that guarded the s in the , historically said to be located in the or the . The fact that the syrpents' moods rarely align may be a reference to the golden . Like its evolutionary relatives, Hydrapple also appears to be based on the popular image of a worm burrowing into an apple, as well as a pun on the , a type of dragon — hence its typing. It also has visual similarities with s and the Gigantamax forms of and , while its coloration may be inspired by s or a .
The connection between the syrpents and the apple present in Hydrapple's design could draw inspiration from the of the , in which a tempts Eve into eating the , commonly represented as an in from a Latin-based pun on mālum (apple) and malum (evil). Along these lines, Hydrapple's seven syrpents could reference the number of or the from the . Alternatively, these may reference the number of s (including the ) in , commonly associated with the , as well as the Gnostic depiction of as the world serpent. The physical world is considered intrinsically flawed and chaotic in Gnosticism. This may explain Hydrapple's signature move , which is doubled in power when the seven syrpents are aligned at random.
Since Hydrapple was introduced in The Indigo Disk, it may also be a visual pun on the , a nickname for (the location Unova, where Blueberry Academy is located, is based on).
====Name origin====
Hydrapple may be a combination of , dragon, and apple. The term "syrpent" may be a combination of syrup or wyrm and serpent.
Kamitsuorochi may be a combination of 果 ka (fruit), 花蜜 kamitsu (nectar), and 八岐大蛇 .
==In other languages==
Syrpent
==Related articles==
* Pokémon fusion
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