Hydro Vortex (move)

Hydro Vortex スーパーアクアトルネード Super Aqua Tornado

Battles Type  Water Category  Varies PP  — (max. —) Power  Varies Accuracy  —% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by Mirror Move Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation VII Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Hydro Vortex (Japanese: スーパーアクアトルネード Super Aqua Tornado) is a damage-dealing Water-type Z-Move introduced in Generation VII.

Effect

Hydro Vortex inflicts damage. Its power and whether it is a special or physical move depends on the move it is based on.

If Breakneck Blitz is used during rain with Weather Ball as its base move, it will turn into Hydro Vortex. This does not occur if Weather Ball is turned into a Z-Move via another move like Sleep Talk.

Base move Power Category Aqua Jet 100 Aqua Tail 175 Brine 120 Bubble Beam 120 Bubble 100 Clamp 100 Crabhammer 180 Dive 160 Hydro Cannon 200 Hydro Pump 185 Liquidation 160 Muddy Water 175 Octazooka 120 Origin Pulse 185 Razor Shell 140 Scald 160 Sparkling Aria 175 Steam Eruption 185 Surf 175 Water Gun 100 Water Pledge 160 Water Pulse 120 Water Shuriken 100 Water Spout 200 Waterfall 160 Weather Ball* 160 Whirlpool 100

Description

Games Description SM The user creates a huge whirling current using its Z-Power to swallow the target with full force. The power varies, depending on the original move.

Learnset

Any non-Mega Evolved, non-Primal Pokémon can use Hydro Vortex if it knows a damaging Water-type move, holds a Waterium Z, and if its Trainer wears a Z-Ring.

In the anime

File:Ia Hydro Vortex pose.png Ia Lana Popplio File:Ia Brionne Hydro Vortex.png Brionne
The user creates a huge whirling current using its Z-Power to swallow the target with full force.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Brionne strikes a series of synchronized poses with its Trainer to build Z-Power. It then swims through a body of water, becoming covered in a light blue torrent of water in the process. It then swims in a circle, creating a vortex of water which attacks the opponent.
Ia's Brionne	SM040		Debut Base move is Aqua Jet
	Popplio strikes a series of synchronized poses with its Trainer to build Z-Power. It then swims through a body of water, becoming covered in a light blue torrent of water in the process. It then swims in a circle, creating a vortex of water which attacks the opponent.
Lana's Popplio	SM040		Base move is Bubble Beam or Aqua Jet

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 超級水流大漩渦 Chīukāp Séuilàuh Daaihsyùhngwō Mandarin 超級水流大漩渦 / 超级水流大漩涡 Chāojí Shuǐliú Dàxuánwō French Super Tourbillon Abyssal German Super-Wassertornado Italian Idrovortice Abissale Korean 슈퍼아쿠아토네이도 Super Aqua Tornado Russian Гидровортекс Gidrovorteks Spanish Hidrovórtice Abisal

Type-based Z-Moves
Breakneck Blitz • All-Out Pummeling • Supersonic Skystrike • Acid Downpour • Tectonic Rage Continental Crush • Savage Spin-Out • Never-Ending Nightmare • Corkscrew Crash Inferno Overdrive • Hydro Vortex • Bloom Doom • Gigavolt Havoc • Shattered Psyche Subzero Slammer • Devastating Drake • Black Hole Eclipse • Twinkle Tackle
Species-based Z-Moves
Catastropika • 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt • Stoked Sparksurfer • Extreme Evoboost Pulverizing Pancake • Genesis Supernova • Sinister Arrow Raid • Malicious Moonsault Oceanic Operetta • Splintered Stormshards • Let's Snuggle Forever • Clangorous Soulblaze Guardian of Alola • Searing Sunraze Smash • Menacing Moonraze Maelstrom Light That Burns the Sky • Soul-Stealing 7-Star Strike

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.