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Applin Apple Core Pokémon カジッチュ Kajicchu #840 Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Grass Dragon
Abilities Ripen or Gluttony Bulletproof Hidden Ability
Gender ratio     50% male, 50% female	Catch rate 255 (43.9%)
Breeding Egg Groups Grass and Dragon Hatch time 5140 - 5396 steps
Height 0'08" 0.2 m	Weight 1.1 lbs. 0.5 kg
Base experience yield 52	Leveling rate Erratic
EV yield Total: 1 0 HP 0 Atk 1 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed
Shape	Footprint
Pokédex color   Green	Base friendship 50
External Links Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Applin (Japanese: カジッチュ Kajicchu) is a dual-type Grass/Dragon Pokémon introduced in Generation VIII.

It evolves into Flapple when exposed to a Tart Apple or Appletun when exposed to a Sweet Apple.

Biology

 

Applin's body seen in New Pokémon Snap

Applin is a small, worm-like Pokémon with a light green body and a dark green underside. Its head is round with two pink nostrils. Above its head are two large leaf-like eyestalks which house its two small black eyes. These eyestalks give the apple it lives in the appearance of having a stem with leaves. It also has two thin hairs on the tip of its tail.

Applin is both the lightest and shortest Dragon-type Pokémon, and also one of the shortest Grass-type Pokémon. As soon as it's born, it burrows into an apple that looks like a Leppa Berry, which serves as a home, food source, and protection against preying bird Pokémon. The flavor of the apple determines which evolution Applin will evolve into.

In the anime

Main series

Major appearances

Minor appearances

Pokémon: Twilight Wings

In The Gathering of Stars, an Applin was at the Isle of Armor.

In the manga

In the TCG

Main article: Applin (TCG)

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

Stats

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/TR

Generation VIII Other generations: None

TM   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  TM31 Attract Normal Status — 100% 15

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

By breeding

Generation VIII Other generations: None

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 Applin 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 Applin in that game. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Applin Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Applin

By tutoring

Evolution

Unevolved Applin  Grass  Dragon	Tart Apple →	First evolution Flapple  Grass  Dragon
	Sweet Apple →	First evolution Appletun  Grass  Dragon

Sprites

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

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

Trivia

• Applin and its evolved forms are the only Pokémon that are in the Grass and Dragon Egg Groups.
• Applin has the lowest base Speed stat of all Dragon-type Pokémon.

Origin

Applin appears to be based on the larvae of codling moths, which burrow into apples and feed on its core, inhibiting growth and ripening them earlier. Its evolution methods may be a reference on how the host plant deters its herbivory. Sour wild fruits usually have thicker epidermis and core than the sweeter domesticated varieties, thus Flapple keeping the apple skin and being smaller while Appletun grows bigger and internalizes the whole fruit.

Considering its Dragon typing, it may also be based on Ladon, a dragon from Greek fake stories that guards the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides. It may also draw inspiration from the biblical serpents, sometimes referred to as dragons, one of which persuades Eve to eat from the forbidden fruit of the Tree of knowledge, most of the time depicted as an apple. It shares many physical similarities with the Lindworm, a serpentine dragon with only two arms and no legs (which Applin also has), and whose name is like the "worm" of insect larvae. It may also be a pun on wyrm.

Name origin

Applin may be a combination of apple and inside or tannin, a biblical serpentine dragon.

Kajicchu may be a combination of 齧る kajiru (to gnaw), 果実 kajitsu (fruit), and 虫 chū (bug; worm).

In other languages

Language Title Meaning  Japanese カジッチュ Kajicchu From 齧る kajiru, 果実 kajitsu, and 虫 chū  French Verpom From ver, pomme or a play on vert pomme  Spanish Applin Same as English name  German Knapfel From knabbern and Apfel  Italian Applin Same as English name  Korean 과사삭벌레 Gwasasakbeollae From 과 (果) gwa or 사과 (沙果) sagwa, 와사삭 wasasak, and 벌레 beollae  Cantonese Chinese 啃果蟲 Hánggwóchùhng From 啃 háng, 果 gwó, and 蟲 chùhng  Mandarin Chinese 啃果蟲 / 啃果虫 Kěnguǒchóng From 啃 kěn, 果 guǒ, and 蟲 / 虫 chóng

[hide]More languages  Thai คาจิชชู Khachitchu Transcription of Japanese name

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