Hydro Pump (move)

**Hydro Pump** (Japanese: **ハイドロポンプ** *Hydro Pump*) is a damage-dealing Water move introduced in Generation I.

## Effect

### Generations I to V

Hydro Pump inflicts damage and has no secondary effect.

Hydro Pump can also be used as part of a Pokémon Contest combination, with the user gaining extra four appeal points if the move Rain Dance was used in the prior turn.

### Generation VI

Hydro Pump's power changed from 120 to 110.

## Description

 **BWB2W2****XYORAS****SMUSUM** | The target is blasted by a huge volume of water launched under great pressure.

## Learnset

### Form change

#### Generation V

 **Bold** indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.*Italics* indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

#### Generation VI

 **Bold** indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.*Italics* indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

#### Generation VII

 **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

Hydro Pump is a long range attack that fires 10 tiles away in a straight line. This move is piercing (can hit multiple targets in a straight line).

### Super Smash Bros. series

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In Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee, Blastoise, a Poké Ball Pokémon, uses Template:Sbw to damage and push away opposing fighters. There are multiple blasts and they can not be reflected. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U, Blastoise is replaced with Kyogre; however, Kyogre's water blasts do not damage opponents.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Squirtle uses Hydro Pump as part of Pokémon Trainer's Final Smash, Triple Finish.

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In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U, Hydro Pump appears as Template:SSB's up special move. Greninja propels itself using two Hydro Pumps, which can also push opponents back. Since there are two Hydro Pumps, Greninja can move in two different directions if two directions are inputted.

### Pokémon GO

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* Prior to an update to Niantic's servers on July 30, 2016, Hydro Pump had a power of 60.
* Prior to an update to Niantic's servers on February 16, 2017, Hydro Pump had a power of 90 and a duration of 3.8 seconds.

### Description

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## In the manga

### In the Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl manga

* Dawn's Piplup attempted to use Hydro Pump in PDP09 but failed to use it.

### In the Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys manga

* Template:GnB told Gyarados to use Hydro Pump in *A Spectacular Battle To Save Ampharos!!* but Jasmine's Steelix finished it off before it got to use the move.

## Trivia

* In 3D games before Pokémon X and Y, when Blastoise uses this move two streams are fired at the target, whereas every other Pokémon only has one stream. Starting in Pokémon X and Y, Blastoise only has one stream.

## In other languages

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de:Hydropumpe
es:Hidrobomba
fr:Hydrocanon
it:Idropompa
ja:ハイドロポンプ
zh:水炮（招式）