This New Move Makes HYDRAPPLE Broken! 

Hydro Pump has a similar effect. Normally it does 0 damage, but it has a very small chance of dealing 110 damage to your opponent.

Hydrapple used Fickle Beam. Hydrapple is going all out for this attack! Main Hydrapple Head: "You heard 'em, GET 'EM BOYS".

imo the strat for fickle beam is to only use it when ur fine with the 80bp chip, but to laugh ur ass off when it nukes them instead

Hydrapple is kinda like Urshifu if he didn’t see the doctor everyday

I love that every VGC video has to have an over enthused 2000’s commercial esque title to help with garnering views. “This move makes Hydrapple broken! But that’s not all! If you call now!”

What if we made the signature move's effect "it can crit but again"

I recently saw a hydrapple next to a skill swap, trick room, hypnosis Malamar, giving it contrary, and it goes hard with leaf storm and Draco meteor, and then super sweet procs twice, making malamar’s hypnosis 100%. I tried it out and it’s pretty fun. Not sure how competitively viable it would actually be, but I enjoyed playing it.

Finally a better dragon pulse

It would be funny if fickle beam had a chance to be 5x as powerful seems all the heads decide to fire

i like that ficklebeam is just dragon pulse but with two different chances to crit differently

This Pokémon is just “mods can we obliterate this person”

Fickle beam is an OHKO move that always attacks but still only has the 30% chance to OHKO

If/when we get evolutions for Flapple and Appletun in Gen 10, what do you think they would be like? For example, for Appletun, they could replace Gluttony with Well-Baked Body.

I think Hydrapple is super under explored. It 4x resists both of Ogerpon Wellspring's STABs, doesn't care about Urshifu's Surging Strikes or Iron Hand's Wild Charge, and there are like three relevant ice types in the form (realistically two, but A. Ninetales is also super underexplored rn.) Yeah it's weak to Flutter Mane's D Gleam and Moonblast, but you can tera if you need to and that weakness can be further covered by partners. Personally I think people need to stop comparing it to Amoongus just because it's bulky and has regenerator. They do separate things; Amoongus is an annoying wall that you need to be prepared for otherwise it'll sleep half your team, heal its partner, and redirect everything. Hydrapple on the other hand can just hit with two STAB nukes in Leaf Storm and Draco Meteor and then just switch out and gain back any chip it took like nothing happened. A potentially interesting core could be Palafin, Hydrapple, and Incineroar. Though who knows how good it would wind up being.

Supersweet syrup activating once is really stupid especially considering intimidate exists

Hmmm... under rainbow terrain, this would be even stronger. You'd need a fire-water-grass trio in your team to pull it off, too, with hydrapple being the grass.

You might have seen this already, but there's a really fun strategy i've seen with supersweet syrup draco meteor hydrapple paired with contrary skill swap malamar. Using skill swap on hydrapple gives malamar supersweet syrup and causes it to activate twice, so now your opponents are at -2 evasiveness. Now if hydrapple uses draco meteor he will get boosted special attack. But wait, there's more! If you then use skill swap onto your opponents, supersweet syrup will activate again, and because hydrapple has contrary now, it gains +1 in evasiveness.

I just want to say thank you for being beginner friendly constantly. I’m still learning and learning what a “bump” means is massive and so helpful. Thank you!

Super sweet syrup should act like intimidate and activate every time you switch in

I think Milotic would be a great partner for Hydrapple and a combo I will probably try out when the new rules et finally starts. My reasoning is that they no only compliment each other in typing but Milotic is an actual useful Hypnosis user due to competitive, which also has access to other support moves that aren't 100% accurate like Icy Wind and Muddy Water (If I'm not confusing learnsets). Milotic also gets access to Dragon Cheer which will help alleviate the Sp.Att drops from Leaf Storms and Draco a lot. I dunno how much the Speed control from Icy Wind will help since it is REALLY slow, but you should be able to get some more favorable match ups

I adore this stupid thing so damn much, he’s perfect

I saw a twitter video where he placed a Hydrapple next to contrary malimar. Malimar skill swapped into the hydrapple so the opponents now have -2 evasion so Malimar can hit its hypnosis. It also gives Hydrapple Contrary so you can go for Dracos and get a plus 2 off of them. Pretty gimmicky, but funny concept.

Why does Fickle Beam remind me of “I’mma firing my Lazar”

99% of gamblers give up before getting max fickle beam

Hell yeah, the hydrapple I built for the dlc has the exact same move set as the second one you showed Gastrodon is exactly what I had in mind. It’s fun lol

Hydrapple is the pokemon content we've been needing. Gimme that lil apple dragon death machine.

I think this mon actually is gonna go crazy on restricted sun teams, since what it'll end up doing is make Venusaur sleep powder 100% accurate while it is also the fastest thing on the field

Hydrapple is like a gun that have both Mininuke and regular bullet into it's clip

Hydr apple gets access to sweet scent which lowers evasion 2 stages on command vs once per battle on entry, making moves like possibly even a Gouging Fire with Dragon Rush and Stone Edge consistent high damage options AND keep regenerator on the apple

Imagine being on the receiving end of that attack! Gotta be sure to not submerge an infested apple on sugar...

Really good Sneasler showcase

i run a choice specs with the same moveset as the first showcase, with it being able to switch with incineroar

I will be supporting you on Charlotte!!

I love this thing way more than I probably should.

Dragon type Pokémon are eating now boys

probably the only pokemon i can see having good synergy with what looks like a generally useless move, “dragon chant”

If it wasen't for Fickle Beam I would love this guy. He would be a way to mitigate rng with supersweet syrup... Then they went and gave it a move that is usually dragon pulse but sometimes it's actually roar of time haha. Not to mention... there is the insane high role potential of the empowered fickle beam crit; which game freak seemingly wants you to go for by planting the idea in your head with dragon cheer as it's evo requirement. (I know dragon cheer is ally only but you get what I mean) That all aside I love the tera water set in smogon singles since it bluffs hydro pump. Also I suppose in-game doubles allows bluffing aswell.

That's a neat showcase! Really nice sets! ^^ If it's alright to say, I thought Freezai's Contrary Skill Swap team was really cool for Hydrapple! (If me talking about another youtuber upsets you, I understand and will delete this comment if you want, just thought it'd be nice to mention this way to play Hydrapple.)

Theres a youtuber called foofootoo i saw paired it with a Malamar to skill swap Hydrapple Contrary, also you get a second evasion drop as Malamar gets supersweet syrup

I rlly like hydrapple!!

Makes me happy when other people call pokemon goobers

Could you use regenerator on the av tera poison Hydrapple? I just feel like you have to switch if you were to use draco meteor

Contrary hydrapple looks fun. Even if the setup looks inconsistent

I’m waiting for hydrapple to get meme. “Me and the boys going to regionals” *hydrapple screaming*

Hell Moxie Boosted the Guilty Gear fan

I really want to see fickle beams all out attack hit a crit but it’s a 1.8% chance, and I doubt it’ll happen enough for it to be something to worry about in competitive

I cant tell if he said “right” or “ripe” when he was talking about hydrapple fitting on your team and i really hope he went for the pun

What abt syrup bomb? Could be an interesting way for speed control

bug dragon might be better typing or not but hydrapple could’ve made sense to be one. There’s multiple worms in the apple and the main one looks dragon like. Bug/dragon isn’t 4x weak to ice and loses the poison weakness but gains the rock flying ice fairy and dragon for 2x super effective, you lose the grass spore immunity but terra grass would fix that so bug dragon could work

I wonder if there would be a way to make funni beam trigger more often, hmmmmm…

The only down side to super sweet syrup is contry surviper.

Hydraple is definitely RIPE for my team!

I have a small question. There was already an attempt of heightening the chance of the doubled power Fickle Beam by putting Serene Grace on Hydrapple, however, that didn't work because that didn't count as a seconday effect. So... would putting Sheer Force on Hydrapple work and still let Fickle Beam release their powerful blast?

would be cool if loaded dice worked with Fickle Beam

its like having Strange Crits

Holy hell I’m early. Well, the dragon will join my team even before the video is over

Instruct oranguru for double fickle beam+tr shenanigans?

Malamar is Hydrapple's best teammate. Bar none.

Magma Storm Heatran stocks are rising

I dont love the idea of using leafstorm and draco, because you essentially HAVE to switch the guy out, and youre not running regenerator because youre working off super sweet syrup

I hope Dondozo pulls a Coalossal and becomes really good again

could you give like a tutorial on just like EV spreads in general

Ngl for as useful as supersweet syrup's evasion drop is, the fact that it only procs once per battle really makes me not want to use it. Switching isn't nearly as common in doubles and there are enough situations that I can see why its useful, but in situations where your opponents strategy has switching built into it it just bothers me

Imagine if someone gave this thing serene grace in anything goes mode inside pokemon showdown

Things could've gone south if the opposition had a tera fairy umbreon. Luckily for you, he chose another type that's somewhat decent.

What about using Malamar with contrary and skillswap?

Blud forgot Regenerator

Dracoapple is too cute and good ❤

Gamer sups got BCAA my guy?

Does serene grace make it double power more tho

Hey look guilty gear reference

Name the hydrapple "WorldEater"

I don't really understand why GF decided supersweet syrup can only activate once but intimidate can be cycled. Attack Drop > Evasiveness drop imo.

Why do you never max out two stats? Like what does 4 Def, 12 Spdef and 4 Speed do instead of just going for 252 Spatk (and 4 somewhere else)? Stopping after "hitting he bump" makes sense but I don't get why that's a threshold you don't want to just hit, but hit exactly and not go over it

I love sneasler

Unrelated but how did you get 2 pokemon for your icon?

does bro own gamersupps or something?

I know Hydrapple is right for my team because it is shaped like my best friend

Can fickle beam go all out and crit at the same time?

Moxie. Do you take suggestions for video ideas?

Had a dream Ampharos was banned in vgc for being too good in trick room teams. Idk what was my dream cooking

You should try out my Mamoswine team. It has slightly off meta picks but it’s fun and the Hitmontop is possibly the most fun and effective pivot mon I have used in a while. Can deal with Incineroar as well as support Mamo, and create good matchups turn one. Team ID: HHT9L3

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What about pairing it with skill swap Serene grace Blissey?

Hydrapple, regardless of Fickle Beam, either 6-0s or does nothing. No in between. I've swept full Ubers teams and gone down to a fucking family of mice. Mon's absurd.

Couldnt you run it with a king's rock maushold?

Hydrapple is a silly Pokemon.

i don't understand why poison tera?

Gato=1

You're usually pretty level-headed and evaluate new things well. If this title is just pure clickbait, I'm going to be upset. I trust you.

Gato=1?? Do you play gear 😭

I’d be interested to see how an assault vest kingambit and hydrapple would pair under trick room. Self target syrup bomb and rack up defiant boosts for three turns while you get slower. I’m not sure how confident I am about its effectiveness and taking a special attack from a base 120 mon, but could be fun for casual

Moxie I will find you and steal all of your shinies unless you link the damn music you use alr

Imagine if we had a spread move that acted like stored power except it removed screens and it got more powerful the more stat boosts the opposing pokemon have

I just feel bad for it. There's so much competition for being a grass type in general, let alone the competition for being a trick room special attacker. The sunk cost of not running torkoal or bloodmoon, in addition to the sunk cost of not running rillaboom or amoongus, is just too much ground to make up imo

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Somewhat off topic, but I notice a lot of "So, yeah." "But, yeah" transitional phrases in your sentences. Personally, I think they degrade the quality of your script and are better off omitted. They're like filler. Cheers!