Hydro Pump (move)
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| Hydro Pump ハイドロポンプ Hydro Pump | ||||||||||||
| The foe is blasted by a huge volume of water launched under great pressure. | ||||||||||||
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Hydro Pump (Japanese: ハイドロポンプ Hydro Pump) is a damage-dealing Water-type move introduced in Generation I.
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Effect
Hydro Pump inflicts damage and has no secondary effect.
Learnset
Generation I
By leveling up
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Generation II
By leveling up
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By breeding
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Generation III
By leveling up
By breeding
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Generation IV
By leveling up
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By breeding
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In other games
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Squirtle uses Hydro Pump as part of Pokémon Trainer's Final Smash; Triple Finish.
Kyogre also uses Hydro Pump to push enemies away without damaging them when released from a Poké Ball.
In the anime
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| Piplup | Empoleon | Squirtle | Rotom |
| The user blasts a powerful jet of water. | |||
| Pokémon | Method | ||
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| User | First Episode Used In | Notes | |
| | Blastoise blasts powerful jets of water out from the cannons in its shell. | ||
| A wild Blastoise | Beach Blank-Out Blastoise | Debut | |
| Neesha's Shellshocker | Mewtwo Strikes Back | None | |
| Cissy's Blastoise | Fit to be Tide | None | |
| Team Blastoise | Pokémon Water War | None | |
| A Blastoise Jessie borrowed from the Battle Park | One Trick Phony! | None | |
| Gary's Blastoise | The Ties That Bind | None | |
| Sid's Blastoise | Destiny Deoxys | None | |
| Jimmy's Blastoise | Judgement Day! | None | |
| Unknown Trainer's Blastoise | Eight Ain't Enough | None | |
| | Squirtle retreats into its shell and rapidly spins while it fires powerful jets of water from its mouth through all the shell's openings. | ||
| Ash's Squirtle | Misty Meets Her Match | None | |
| | Gyarados blasts a powerful jet of water out of its mouth. | ||
| A wild Gyarados | Houndoom's Special Delivery | None | |
| Trinity's Gyarados | The Perfect Match! | None | |
| Lance's Gyarados | Takin' 'Bout an Evolution | None | |
| Clair's Gyarados | Beauty is Skin Deep | None | |
| Misty's Gyarados | Cerulean Blues | None | |
| A wild Gyarados | A Six Pack Attack! | None | |
| | The red spikes on Feraligatr's head starts to glow light red and it releases a powerful blast of water from its mouth. | ||
| Raiden's Feraligatr | Ring Masters | None | |
| Unknown Trainer's Feraligatr | A Claim to Flame! | None | |
| Unknown Trainer's Feraligatr | Gonna Rule the School! | None | |
| A Coordinator's Feraligatr | New Plot, Odd Lot! | None | |
| | Kingdra blasts a powerful spiraling jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Christopher's Kingdra | Dueling Heroes | None | |
| Clair's Kingdra | Fangs for Nothin' | None | |
| | Croconaw blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Ranger Mason's Croconaw | Mother of All Battles | None | |
| Bryan's Croconaw | The Champ Twins! | None | |
| Khoury's Croconaw | DP147 | None | |
| | Tentacruel blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Kail's Tentacruel | Cerulean Blues | None | |
| | Carvanha blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Shelly's Carvanha | A Three Team Scheme! | None | |
| | Swampert blast a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Tommy's Swampert | Abandon Ship! | None | |
| Morrison's Swampert | Choose it or Lose it! | None | |
| | Golduck blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Unknown Trainer's Golduck | A Double Dilemma | None | |
| Unknown Trainer's Golduck | Saved by the Beldum | None | |
| Katie's Golduck | Shocks and Bonds | None | |
| | Pelipper blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Winona's Pelipper | Sky High Gym Battle! | None | |
| | Relicanth blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Multiple wild Relicanth | The Relicanth Really Can | None | |
| | Kyogre blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| A wild Kyogre | The Scuffle of Legends | None | |
| | Milotic blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Juan's Milotic | Eight Ain't Enough | None | |
| Lucy's Milotic | Queen of the Serpentine! | None | |
| An illusion created by Mismagius | Malice in Wonderland! | None | |
| Wallace's Milotic | Staging a Heroes' Welcome! | None | |
| | Psyduck blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth at the opponent. | ||
| Emily's Psyduck | Sitting Psyduck | None | |
| | Vaporeon blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth at the opponent. | ||
| Galea's Vaporeon | On Olden Pond | None | |
| | Azumarill blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth at the opponent. | ||
| Paul's Azumarill | Shapes of Things to Come! | None | |
| | Lanturn blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Kyle's Lanturn | Pruning a Passel of Pals! | None | |
| | Empoleon blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Barry's Empoleon | Jumping Rocket Ship! | None | |
| | Rotom blasts a powerful jet of water from its pipe. | ||
| Wild Rotom | Get Your Rotom Running! | None | |
| | Omanyte blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Canalave Gym's Omanyte | Dealing With Defensive Types! | None | |
| | Omastar blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Canalalve Gym's Omastar | Dealing With Defensive Types! | None | |
| | Mantyke blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Wild Mantyke | Cheers on Castaways Isle! | None | |
| | Piplup blasts a powerful jet of water from its mouth. | ||
| Piplup of Team Poképals | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness | None | |
In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
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| The foe is blasted by a huge volume of water launched under great pressure. | |||
| Pokémon | Method | ||
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| User | First Episode Used In | Notes | |
| | Gyarados blasts a powerful stream of water from its mouth at the opponent. | ||
| Red's Gyara | Gyarados Splashes In! | Debut | |
| | Wartortle stomps its two hands on the ground and geysers of water shoot up from the ground all around the opponent. | ||
| Green's Blasty | The Jynx Jinx | None | |
In other languages
- Dutch: Hydropomp
- French: Hydrocanon
- German: Hydropumpe
- Italian: Idropompa
- Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese: Hidrobomba
- European Portuguese: Bomba de Água
| | This move article is part of Project MoveDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each move. |

