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'''Hydrapple''' ([[List of Japanese Pokémon names|Japanese]]: '''カミツオロチ''' ''Kamitsuorochi'') is a dual-type {{2t|Grass|Dragon}} {{OBP|Pokémon|species}} introduced during [[Generation IX]], in [[The Indigo Disk]].

[[File:Hydrapple syrpents.png|thumb|150px|left|Hydrapple's syrpents]]

Hydrapple is a Pokémon composed of seven symbiotic partners known as "syrpents" living within an apple made of red syrup. 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 dominant syrpent's head rises from the center of the apple, and two of the syrpents' tails emerge from its rear. The central, dominant syrpent has the longest body and is further distinguished by its two horns. The left horn has an apple impaled on it. 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.

The syrpents that form Hydrapple have inconstant temperaments. On the rare occasion that the syrpents' moods align, Hydrapple reaches its full potential.

 

 

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** Hydrapple appears in the [[List of Pokémon by Blueberry Pokédex number|Blueberry Pokédex]], despite none of its evolutionary relatives appearing in it, also making it the only member of Applin's evolutionary relatives with this distinction.

* {{p|Dipplin}} and Hydrapple are the only evolutionary relatives introduced within a single [[generation]] that are not next to each other in [[List of Pokémon by National Pokédex number|National Pokédex]] order, with Dipplin being number 1011 and Hydrapple being number 1019.

Hydrapple seems to be inspired by multiheaded serpent-like monsters from different myths, such as the {{wp|Yamata no Orochi}}, an eight-headed dragon or serpent from {{wp|Japanese mythology}}; {{wp|Hachirōgata|Hachirō-Tarō}} or {{jwp|八の太郎大蛇伝説|Hachi no Tarō no Daija}} (where ''daija'' is an alternative reading of ''orochi''), a similar creature in the local myths of Northern {{wp|Tōhoku region|Tōhoku}}, which [[Kitakami]] is based on; the {{wp|Lernaean Hydra}}, a many-headed serpentine monster from {{wp|Greek mythology}}; and {{wp|Ladon (mythology)|Ladon}}, the multi-headed dragon from {{wp|Greek mythology}} that guarded the {{wp|golden apple}}s in the {{wp|Hesperides|Garden of the Hesperides}}, historically said to be located in the {{wp|Iberian Peninsula}} or the {{wp|Canary Islands}}. The fact that the syrpents' moods rarely align may be a reference to the golden {{wp|Apple of Discord}}. 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 {{wp|wyrm}}, a type of dragon — hence its {{t|Dragon}} typing. It also has visual similarities with {{wp|candy apple}}s and the [[Gigantamax]] forms of {{p|Flapple}} and {{p|Appletun}}, while its [[Shiny Pokémon|Shiny]] coloration may be inspired by {{wp|caramel apple}}s or a {{wp|golden apple}}.

The connection between the syrpents and the apple present in Hydrapple's design could draw inspiration from the {{wp|Christian mythology|Christian myth}} of the {{wp|original sin}}, in which a {{wp|Serpents in the Bible|serpent}} tempts Eve into eating the {{wp|forbidden fruit}}, commonly represented as an {{wp|Apple (symbolism)|apple}} in {{wp|Western Christianity}} from a Latin-based {{wp|visual pun}} on ''mālum'' (apple) and ''malum'' (evil). Along these lines, Hydrapple's seven syrpents could reference the number of {{wp|Seven deadly sins|cardinal sins}} or the {{wp|The Beast (Revelation)|seven-headed beast}} from the {{wp|Book of Revelation}}. Alternatively, these may reference the number of {{wp|Archon (Gnosticism)|archon}}s (including the {{wp|Demiurge|creator god}}) in {{wp|Gnosticism}}, commonly associated with the {{wp|Classical planet|seven luminaries}}, as well as the Gnostic depiction of {{wp|Leviathan}} as the world serpent. The physical world is considered intrinsically flawed and chaotic in Gnosticism. This may explain Hydrapple's signature move {{m|Fickle Beam}}, which is doubled in power when the seven syrpents are aligned at random.

Hydrapple may also be a visual pun on the {{wp|Big Apple}}, a nickname for {{wp|New York City}} (The location [[Unova]] is [[Pokémon world in relation to the real world|based on]]) from the 1920's.

Hydrapple may be a combination of ''{{wp|Lernaean Hydra|Hydra}}'' and ''apple''.

|ja=カミツオロチ ''Kamitsuorochi''|jameaning=From {{tt|果 ''ka''|fruit}}, {{tt|花蜜 ''kamitsu''|nectar}}, and 八岐大蛇 ''{{wp|Yamata no Orochi}}''

|fr=Pomdorochi|frmeaning=From ''{{p|Dipplin|Pomdramour}}'', ''{{wp|Golden apple|{{tt|pomme d'or|golden apple}}}}'', and 八岐大蛇 ''Yamata no Orochi''