Appearance
Applin is a small light-green worm with a dark underside, pink nostrils, and black eyes on two leafy stalks. It hides inside an apple.
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Applin
Apple Core Pokémon
GrassDragon
- Height
- 0.2 m
- Weight
- 0.5 kg
- Generation
- 8
- Region
- Galar
Applin is a Grass / Dragon-type Pokémon, No. 840 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 8 (Galar region).
« As soon as it’s born, it burrows into an apple. Not only does the apple serve as its food source, but the flavor of the fruit determines its evolution. »
Its story
Lifestyle
From birth it burrows into an apple for home, food, and protection. Apart from it, Applin weakens; the fruit's flavor decides Flapple, Appletun, or Dipplin.
Name origin
Applin is a worm inside an apple, and a pun on the wyrm, a dragon. Its name combines apple and in.
Did you know?
- It is both the lightest and the shortest Dragon-type Pokémon.
- In Galar, giving an Applin is a romantic custom.
- Fruit-eating Noibat sometimes mistakes the apple-hiding Applin for food.
Found in the Pokédex of:
GalarPaldea
In other languages
Verpom
Knapfel
カジッチュ과사삭벌레啃果蟲