Normal hedgehogs are great swimmers
Sonic is not a normal hedgehog.
Once I was watching my sister try Sonic Adventure for the first time (got it on Steam from a bundle). I had never played Adventure myself but I knew the Megadrive/Genesis Sonics a bit, more than she did in any case.
She’s just messing around, finds a small pool (more like blue transparent rectangle) and jumps in, laughing about the complete lack of physics or any watery effect.
Then “wait, what the fuck is that loud music, why is it playing now?”… And I’m like “Yeah, that’s the sound of you drowning.” “Oh.”
So as someone who grew up playing sonic on gensis, he seems to be preety damn good underwater and spends alot of time there lol.
He’s a hedgehog who ate the fast-fast fruit
Normal hedgehogs can’t slam back chili dogs though.