Appletun (Pokémon)

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Appletun Apple Nectar Pokémon タルップル Tarupple #842 Appletun Gigantamax Appletun Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Grass Dragon Unknown Unknown Gigantamax Appletun Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Abilities Ripen or Gluttony Cacophony Gigantamax Appletun Cacophony Thick Fat Hidden Ability Cacophony Hidden Ability Cacophony Gigantamax Appletun Cacophony
Gender ratio Unknown 50% male, 50% female	Catch rate 45 (11.9%)
Breeding Egg Groups Grass and Dragon Hatch time 20 cycles
Height 1'04" 0.4 m Appletun 78'09"+ 24.0+ m Gigantamax Appletun 0'0" 0 m {{{form3}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form4}}}	Weight 28.7 lbs. 13.0 kg Appletun ??? lbs. ??? kg Gigantamax Appletun 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form3}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form4}}}
Mega Stone [[|]] [[|]]
Base experience yield Unknown Gen. IV Unknown IV 170	Leveling rate Erratic
EV yield Total: 2 Appletun 2 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed Gigantamax Appletun 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed
Shape	Footprint File:F842.png Gigantamax Appletun
Pokédex color   Green	Base friendship 50
External Links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Appletun (Japanese: タルップル Tarupple) is a dual-type Grass/Dragon Pokémon introduced in Generation VIII.

It evolves from Applin when exposed to a Sweet Apple. It is one of Applin's final forms, the other being Flapple.

Appletun has a Gigantamax form.

Biology

Appletun is a dragon-like Pokémon whose body is reminiscent of apple pie. It is mostly green with a yellow underside and lower jaw, and it has an orange spot on its chest that resembles an apple core.^[1] It has a piece of an apple on its head worn as a helmet. Its leaf-like eyestalks usually droop down from under the apple helmet as though they were ears, but may be lifted up to reveal small beady eyes. It has black slits for nostrils on the tip of its muzzle. It has a large hump on its back with a several overlapping stripes that resemble an apple pie's crust. It has red and green leaves on the top of its pie-like back. It has short, bulky legs with paws, and a stout tail.

Appletun's body is caked in sweet nectar, whose smell attracts Bug-type Pokémon which Appletun preys on. The skin on its back is said to be tasty, and children used to eat it as a snack.

When exposed to Gigantamax energy, Appletun's body changes, becoming larger and stouter. A giant apple engulfs most of its body, leaving only its head, neck and tail exposed. Its leaf-like eyestalks stand up straight and it has a piece of the apple covering its head, with yellow carvings on it resembling nostrils. Its cheeks are rounded and it hangs its mouth open, letting its red tongue loll out. Its neck becomes taller and stretches upwards, while its tail becomes elongated and wraps around the base of the apple. Three red clouds float around its neck. Gigantamax Appletun and Flapple are physically identical.

The sweet nectar that covers Appletun's body overflows from the top of its apple after Gigantamaxing, and it increases in thickness as well, allowing it to absorb more damage than normal. Gigantamax Appletun can shoot out massive amounts of nectar, enough to drown its opponents.

Appletun is the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move Apple Acid.

Gigantamax Appletun is the only known Pokémon capable of using the G-Max Move G-Max Sweetness.

In the anime

Main series

Appletun in the anime

Major appearances

Minor appearances

Appletun made its debut in Errand Endurance!, where one was pulled from the Rocket Prize Master by Jessie.

A Trainer's Appletun appeared in JN115.

Pokédex entries

Pokémon: Twilight Wings

A Trainer's Appletun appeared in The Gathering of Stars.

In the manga

Appletun in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Milo's Appletun first appeared in PASS25.

In the TCG

Main article: Appletun (TCG)

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In events

Wild Area News

Stats

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/TR

Generation VIII Other generations: IX

TM   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  TM08 TM08 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150150 090}}90% 5 TM09 TM09 Giga Impact Normal Physical 150150 090}}90% 5 TM11 TM11 Solar Beam Grass Special 120120 100}}100% 10 TM17 TM17 Light Screen Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 30 TM18 TM18 Reflect Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM19 TM19 Safeguard Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 25 TM21 TM21 Rest Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM24 TM24 Snore Normal Special 05050 100}}100% 15 TM25 TM25 Protect Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM28 TM28 Giga Drain Grass Special 07575 100}}100% 10 TM31 TM31 Attract Normal Status 0000— 100}}100% 15 TM34 TM34 Sunny Day Fire Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM39 TM39 Facade Normal Physical 07070 100}}100% 20 TM50 TM50 Bullet Seed Grass Physical 02525 100}}100% 30 TM57 TM57 Payback Dark Physical 05050 100}}100% 10 TM76 TM76 Round Normal Special 06060 100}}100% 15 TM81 TM81 Bulldoze Ground Physical 06060 100}}100% 20 TR01 TR01 Body Slam Normal Physical 08585 100}}100% 15 TR10 TR10 Earthquake Ground Physical 100100 100}}100% 10 TR17 TR17 Amnesia Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TR20 TR20 Substitute Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR24 TR24 Outrage Dragon Physical 120120 100}}100% 10 TR26 TR26 Endure Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR27 TR27 Sleep Talk Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR39 TR39 Superpower Fighting Physical 120120 100}}100% 5 TR46 TR46 Iron Defense Steel Status 0000— 00—}}—% 15 TR52 TR52 Gyro Ball Steel Physical 0000— 100}}100% 5 TR59 TR59 Seed Bomb Grass Physical 08080 100}}100% 15 TR62 TR62 Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 08585 100}}100% 10 TR65 TR65 Energy Ball Grass Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TR77 TR77 Grass Knot Grass Special 0000— 100}}100% 20 TR79 TR79 Heavy Slam Steel Physical 0000— 100}}100% 10 TR94 TR94 High Horsepower Ground Physical 09595 095}}95% 10 TR99 TR99 Body Press Fighting Physical 08080 100}}100% 10

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Appletun Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Appletun

By breeding

Generation VIII Other generations: IX

Parent   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  Defense Curl* Normal Status — —% 40 Recycle Normal Status — —% 10 Rollout Rock Physical 30 90% 20 Sucker Punch Dark Physical 70 100% 5

Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Appletun in Generation VIII Moves marked with a double dagger (‡) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation. Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Appletun in that game. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Appletun Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Appletun

By tutoring

By a prior evolution

Side game data

Evolution

Unevolved Applin  Grass  Dragon

Sweet Apple →

First evolution Appletun  Grass  Dragon

Forms

Gigantamax

Gigantamax Factor Appletun Appletun  Grass  Dragon

Dynamax Band ↔

Lasts for three turns Gigantamax Appletun Appletun  Grass  Dragon

Sprites

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation VIII.
Generation VIII Sword Shield

For other sprites and images, please see Appletun images on the Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Appletun and Flapple are the only Pokémon to have physically identical Gigantamax forms, although they are still treated as different Pokémon as they have distinct Pokédex entries, G-Max Moves, and cries.
  • This is also the only instance of two different species of Pokémon that can be physically identical without the use of Transform, Imposter, or Illusion.
• Appletun and its evolutionary family:
  • are the only Pokémon that are in the Grass and Dragon Egg Groups.
  • require only 600,000 experience points to reach level 100, the lowest among Generation VIII Pokémon.
• Despite requiring the Sweet Apple to evolve from Applin, Appletun's signature move, Apple Acid, specifies it uses tart apples to attack.

Origin

Appletun, like its evolutionary relatives, appears to be based on the popular image of a worm burrowing into an apple, as well as a pun on the wyrm, a type of dragon — hence its Dragon typing. Visually, Appletun is similar to reptiles such as tortoises, while its back resembles desserts like the apple pie or the apple turnover. Appletun may also be based on the tale of Bel and the Dragon, about a dragon that bursts open after being fed a cake.

Appletun's Gigantamax form appears to be based on a caramel apple or a candy apple. Appletun and Flapple having identical Gigantamax forms may be a reference to convergent evolution, which can lead to separate organisms independently developing identical characteristics and body plans.

Name origin

Appletun may be derived from apple, Appleton (a toponym denoting a place where apples grow), ton (unit of weight, referencing its bulk), apple turnover, and under.

Tarupple may be a combination of tart, 怠い tarui (sluggish), たっぷり tappuri (onomatopoetic word for plenty), and apple.

In other languages

Language Title Meaning Japanese タルップル Tarupple From tart, 怠い tarui, たっぷり tappuri, and apple French Dratatin From dragon and tarte tatin Spanish Appletun Same as English name German Schlapfel From schlapp and Apfel Italian Appletun Same as English name Korean 단지래플 Danjirapple From 단 dan, 지루하다 jiruhada, and apple Mandarin Chinese 豐蜜龍 / 丰蜜龙 Fēngmìlóng From 豐 fēng, 蜜 mì, 蜂蜜 fēngmì, and 龍 lóng Cantonese Chinese 豐蜜龍 Fūngmahtlùhng From 豐 fūng, 蜜 maht, 蜂蜜 fūngmaht, and 龍 lùhng

More languages Thai ทารุปเปิล Tharuppoen Transcription of Japanese name

Related articles

• Gigantamax

Notes

External links

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