The Heck is Hydrapple!? 🍎🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉

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Did you know, the reason we depict the forbidden fruit as an apple is a pun? In Latin, Malum is a word that can mean Apple but can also mean Evil or Bad

I love the fact that Regenerator is a fitting ability due to the whole, "Cut off one head, two more rise up in it's place"

Given that the actual Hydra had blood that was ludicrously toxic, I wouldn’t recommend eating the syrup. Also fitting we encounter them in the region that introduced Hydreigon.

“Syrpent” being named is absolutely wild to me! It is the latest non-Pokémon Pokemon, like Kangaskhan’s baby except even closer to an actual Pokemon because they’re confirmed as separate entities in the apple AND actually have a pun based name like many Pokemon do!

Hydrapple's French name is "Pomdorochi", that we can translate as "Orochiapple". The Japanese name also seems to be based on Yamata-no-Orochi

I always thought Dipplin was incomplete. Like theres no way that was its final evolution. Seeing Hydrapple...yep that fixed it. I LOVE IT ITS SO COOL AND SILLY

Hydrapple looks fierce and cute at the same time! I'm happy with how they approached the design. Definitely using one on my teams

I cannot stress how much I LOVE "syrpent" as a portanteau. It's PURE brilliance. Who thought of that word, GIVE THEM A DAMN RAISE. Also, HA, I covered the candied apple first.

I like Hydrapple. Like, really like it. The design looks cool and well done. The two tails on the back remind me of Ghidorah’s two tails. It’s definitely my favorite out of its evolutionary line.

I am 100% on board with making Applin the next pokemon who gets a ton of new forms.

Hydrapple looks so much cooler than what fans thought it would be! Way to "tie" it all in together so quickly!

Did you know that Dipplin's & Hydrapple's Syrupy Bomb will change from red to gold if it is shiny? The color change remains as the speed effect drops each turn too. I'm pretty sure this is the only time a shiny form has changed a move animation!

I bet Fawful's Minion would love to see the entire origin of Dipplin and Hydrapple. He already did to Flapple and Appletun after all

I got something you may have missed: hydrapple looks similar to gigatemax flapple/appleton. Perhaps hydrapple looks the way it does as a dna remnant of the potential if the Applen had evolve into the other two.

i personally think Hydrapple is, albeit somewhat loosely, based on King Ghidorah, mainly because of the shiny colors and how it looks when all the heads join in when it uses Fickle Beam and the fact that this same gen introduced Baxcalibur, which is literally just Godzilla, so it would make sense to also add Godzilla's greatest rival as a Pokémon imo

I think you should have talked about the Yamata no Orichi inspiration, it's French name is Pomdorochi, which come from pomme d'or (golden apple) and Yamata no Orochi, this could tie it even more with The Japan Based Kitakami .

Hydrapple looks so cool as "syrpents"!

Maybe I’m looking into it too much, but I always felt there was a distinct reason Dipplin/Hydrapple was added to Kieran’s team. It isn’t until Dipplin is on his team that we begin to notice a shift in his character, and by the time we see him again he’s a completely different person, this time with a Hydrapple. It feels like his relationship with Dipplin/Hydrapple kinda mimics the idea of temptation and corruption that we see in the story of the Garden of Eden. Not to say that Hydrapple is responsible for his character arc, but I think it draws a nice parallel for what could be some of Hydrapple’s inspiration.

Hydrapplin is also a reference to the Yamato no Orochi story in Japanese mythology