Hydro Cannon (move)

Hydro Cannon ハイドロカノン Hydro Cannon

Battles Type  Water Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  150 Accuracy  90% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

Availability Introduced  Generation III Move Tutor in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Move Tutor in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Move Tutor in Pokémon Platinum Move Tutor in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jams the others, and misses one turn of appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Hydro Cannon (Japanese: ハイドロカノン Hydro Cannon) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Hydro Cannon inflicts damage and then forces the user to recharge during the next turn. Unless this attack misses, the user will always have to recharge.

Learnset

Generation III

By move tutor

In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, an elderly woman on Cape Brink will teach Blastoise Hydro Cannon. Like Frenzy Plant and Blast Burn, the Pokémon must have a very high happiness rating.

#   Pokémon Type 0009 Blastoise Water Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Special move

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0158 Totodile Water Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By move tutor

In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver

An elderly man, much like the woman on Cape Brink, appears on Route 228 in the Battle Zone, and will teach it to the three fully evolved Template:Type2 starters of the previous generations, as well as Empoleon. It is also required for each Pokémon to have high happiness rating in order for it to learn Hydro Cannon.

#   Pokémon Type 0009 Blastoise Water 0160 Feraligatr Water 0260 Swampert Water Ground 0395 Empoleon Water Steel Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

File:EmpoleonHydroCannon.png Empoleon File:HydroCannonBlastoise.png Blastoise
Energy is gathered to form a powerful blast of water.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Blastoise fires two powerful orbs of water from its cannons at the opponent.
Gary's Blastoise	Ill-Will Hunting!		Debut
	Empoleon opens its beak and a blue flash appears in front of it. A glowing light blue ball of water appears in front of Empoleon's beak where the flash was and Empoleon fires it at the opponent.
Barry's Empoleon	Barry's Busting Out All Over!		None

Trivia

• Smeargle is the only Pokémon that is not a Template:Type2 starter Pokémon able to learn Hydro Cannon, due to Sketch.
• Mew, though repeatedly said on the Pokédex to be able to learn any move, is not able to learn Hydro Cannon, because the tutors only want to teach it to Water-type starter Pokémon.
• This move has so far been used by Ash's rivals' Pokémon: Gary's Blastoise and Barry's Empoleon.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Hidro Canhão
• Dutch: Hydro Kanon
• French: Hydroblast
• German: Aquahaubitze
• Italian: Idrocannone
• Spanish: Hidrocañón

Variations of the move Hyper Beam
Giga Impact • Rock Wrecker Hyper Beam • Blast Burn • Hydro Cannon • Frenzy Plant • Roar of Time

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