Hydrapple is a Pokémon composed of seven symbiotic creatures known as "syrpents" living within an apple completely 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.[1] 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 and fickle temperaments. Due to this, the seven syrpents rarely work together as a team. This also prevents Hydrapple from unleashing both full potential and full power. On the rare occasion that the syrpents' moods align, Hydrapple reaches its full potential.
Hydrapple is the only one of Applin's evolutionary relatives to be a third-stage evolution.
Hydrapple appears in the Blueberry Pokédex, despite none of its evolutionary relatives appearing in it, which also makes it the only member of Applin's evolutionary relatives with this distinction.
Dipplin and Hydrapple are the only:
Evolutionary relatives introduced within a single generation that are not next to each other in National Pokédex order, with Dipplin being number 1011 and Hydrapple being number 1019.
The connection between the syrpents and the apple present in Hydrapple's design could draw inspiration from the Christian myth of the original sin, in which a serpent tempts Eve into eating the forbidden fruit, commonly represented as an apple in Western Christianity from a Latin-based pun on mālum (apple) and malum (evil). Along these lines, Hydrapple's seven syrpents could reference the number of cardinal sins or the seven-headed beast from the Book of Revelation. Alternatively, these may reference the number of archons (including the creator god) in Gnosticism, commonly associated with the seven luminaries, as well as the Gnostic depiction of Leviathan as the world serpent. The physical world is considered intrinsically flawed and chaotic in Gnosticism. This may explain Hydrapple's signature move Fickle Beam, which is doubled in power when the seven syrpents are aligned at random.
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For other sprites and images, please see Hydrapple images on the Bulbagarden Archives.
