Hydro Cannon (move)

Hydro Cannon ハイドロカノン Hydro Cannon

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

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

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 Move tutor in Pokémon Black and White

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

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

Hydro Cannon on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Hydro Cannon on Eevee's Movedex

Hydro Cannon (Japanese: ハイドロカノン Hydro Cannon) is a damage-dealing Water-type 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

By move tutor

Various move tutors will teach Hydro Cannon to the fully evolved Water-type starters if their happiness rating is maximized:

• In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, an elderly woman on Cape Brink will teach Hydro Cannon to Blastoise only.
• In Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, an elderly man appears on Route 228 in the Battle Zone, and will teach the move to all four fully evolved Water-type starters.
• In HeartGold and SoulSilver, the Move Tutor for Hydro Cannon can be found in the Move Deleter/Move relearner's house in Blackthorn City.
• In Black and White, the Move Tutor that can teach Hydro Cannon appears in a house on Route 13, and will teach it to all five fully evolved Water-type starters.

#	Pokémon		Type		Game
					FRLG	E	XD	DP	Pt	HGSS	BW
009		Blastoise	Water		Water		✔			✔	✔	✔	✔
160		Feraligatr	Water		Water					✔	✔	✔	✔
260		Swampert	Water	Ground					✔	✔	✔	✔
395		Empoleon	Water	Steel					✔	✔	✔	✔
503		Samurott	Water		Water								✔
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

Special move

Generation III

#   Pokémon Type Obtained in 158 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.

In the anime

Blastoise	Barry's Empoleon	Kenny's Empoleon
Energy is gathered to form a powerful blast of water.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Blastoise	Blastoise fires two powerful orbs of water from its cannons at the opponent.
Gary's Blastoise	Ill-Will Hunting!		Debut
Empoleon	Empoleon opens its beak and a blue flash of light appears in front of it. Then, 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. Sometimes, Empoleon fires three light blue balls of water, one after the other.
Barry's Empoleon	Barry's Busting Out All Over!		None
Kenny's Empoleon	Last Call - First Round!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

	Blastoise	Swampert and Feraligatr
The user fires a powerful stream of water from its body at the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Round/Chapter Used In		Notes
Blastoise	Blastoise points its cannons at the opponent and fires an extremely powerful stream of water from each of the cannons and its mouth at the opponent.
Green's Blasty	Mewtwo Participates in the Battle		Debut
Swampert	Swampert releases a powerful stream of water from its mouth at the opponent.
Ruby's Zuzu	The Final Battle III		None
Feraligatr	Feraligatr releases a powerful stream of water from its mouth at the opponent.
Silver's Feraligatr	The Final Battle VII		None

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (International)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (International)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (International)	FRLG	DPPt	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (International)	HGSS	Generation V	BW	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (International)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battle Revolution (Alternative animation)	Battrio	PMD: Red and Blue	PMD: Time, Darkness, Sky	Rumble	Rumble Blast

Trivia

• Smeargle is the only Pokémon that is not a Water-type 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 rivals' Pokémon in the anime: Gary's Blastoise, Barry's Empoleon and Kenny's Empoleon.
• Despite being only available in Genaration III and beyond, Hydro Cannon appeared early on in the Pokémon TCG on a Blastoise card.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 水電炮 Shuǐ Diànpào Dutch Hydro Kanon French Hydroblast German Aquahaubitze Greek Υδραυλικό Ολμοβόλο Hindi पानी की तोफ Paani ki Toap Italian Idrocannone Korean 하이드로캐논 Hydrocannon Portuguese Hidro Canhão Serbian Hidro Top Spanish Hidrocañón

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

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.