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PIKACHU |ピカチュウ [PIKACHU] | PIKACHU | PIKACHU |피카츄 [PIKACHU] |比卡超 [BEIKACHIU] |皮卡丘 [PIKAQIU]

#025 The Mouse Pokemon

Static |Lightning Rod [Hidden]

ELECTRIC TYPE

50% MALE 50% FEMALE | Catch Rate: 190

1'04″ / 0.4 m

13.2lbs / 6.0kg

Field and Fairy Egg Group/ Egg Hatch Time: 5355-5609



When several Pikachu gather, their electricity can build and cause lightning storms. This pokemon is intelligent, roasting berries with electricity to eat them. It also likes to blast new things with electricity. While it raises its tail to check for danger, it can be struck by lightning. If you try to pull its tail, it will try to bite you. When angered, it immediately discharges electricity from its cheeks. It stores electricity in the electric sacs in its cheeks, and if it notices another Pikachu is weak, it'll use an electric shock to recharge it.



Evolves From:

Pichu [Level up with a High Friendship]

Evolves Into:

Raichu [After use of a Thunder Stone]

Design Origins:

Pikachu has several physical aspects of many rodent species, and it's category name suggests it's based off a mouse. No, it has very little in common with the real-world Pika and has long ears like those of other Lagomorpha family members.

Name Origins:

-Pikachu is a combination of the onomotopiea "Pika Pika" [which is the sound of sparkling] and "Chu Chu" [The sound of either a mouse's squeak or kissing].

-Beikachiu is a transliteration of it's Japanese/English/French/German/Korean/etc. name, with the last character of its name meaning "Super".

-Beikachiu is also a transliteration of it's Japanese/English/French/German/Korean/etc. name.

Pikachu’s Most Powerful Physical Attack:

THROUGH NORMAL GAMEPLAY:

FOCUS PUNCH [Learned from a Tutor]

Powerful but with a drawback. It's base power of 150 is amazing, but it takes two turns to perform and if the user is attacked while it powers up, it loses focus and cannot perform the attack. It's useful in Toughness Contests.

THROUGH EVENTS:

MEGA KICK and VOLT TACKLE [One is the Atsuto Uchida Pikachu and the other is the PGL Pikachu]

A.U.Pikachu - MEGA KICK

A normal type move with a base power of 120, this Cool category move has a low accuracy, this move is all about a powerful hit and strikes adjacent pokemon to the foe.

PGL Pikachu - VOLT TACKLE

An electric type move that's useful in Cool contests! It's base power of 120 makes it a powerful strike, and the move itself is exclusive to the Pikachu evolutionary line. When attacking, the user receives recoil damage, and has a 10% chance to paralyze. It may also hit adjacent foes.

Pikachu's Most Powerful Special Attack:

THROUGH NORMAL GAMEPLAY:

THUNDER [Learned at level 58 and from TM 25]

An inaccurate move, this electric type's base 110 power is nothing to sneeze at. Useful in Cool contests, it can hit pokemon during Sky Drop, Fly, and Bounce and deal double damage in the process. When raining, this move's will always hit, and when sunny it's only 50. It has a chance to paralyze its foe, if the foe is not an electric type itself.

THROUGH EVENTS:

SURF [Through MANY Events. Pikachu's had a lot of opportunity to get this move]

An accurate and decent water type attack, useful in Beauty contests. It's base power of 90 isn't bad at all, and it will strike all pokemon on the field except the user. It can also be used to cross bodies of water.



Trivia:

-Niue released a 1-dollar coin featuring this pokemon as part of a commemorative promotion for the Pokemon franchise, with Pikachu on one side, and the nation's coat of arms on the other.

-Pikachu, Riachu, Rattata, Raticate, Sandshrew, and Sandslash are all called "Mouse Pokemon".

- In 2008, a new protein was discovered that helps carry electrical impulses from the eyes to the brain. The Japanese researchers that discovered it called it "Pikachurin", based on how both the pokemon and the protein having "lightning-fast moves and shocking electric effects".

-There have been 3 Pikachu balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The first was called "Flying Pikachu" and was flown from 2001 to 2005. The second had glowing cheeks and chased a Pokeball balloon, and was used until 2014 where the most recent one was debuted. This balloon has Pikachu wearing a green scarf and holding onto a tiny Pikachu-shaped snowman.

-Early depictions of Pikachu showed it had a differently colored belly, much like Raichu. It was easiest to spot in its sprites for Red, Green, and Blue as well as the international releases of Pokemon Red and Blue.

-Pikachu is the only core-series starter pokemon that has a pre-evolved form... but at the time Pokemon Yellow was announced, Pichu did not exist.

-As of this current generation, Pikachu has the most event-exclusive moves available to it.

-In Pokemon Yellow, and games following Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, Pikachu's cry is the same as the anime as voiced by Ikue Ohtani. Pikachu is the only pokemon to do this.



Artist Notes:

Holy shit it's a PIKACHU! This over-hyped pokemon is a passing favorite of mine to be sure, but my heart belongs to both it's Pre-Evolution AND it's Evolution. I don't know why, but maybe over-saturation to Pikachu has caused me to have a greater love of Pichu and Raichu, and dislike Pikachu in comparison. I'll choose any of the "Pikachu-Clone" pokemon over it just about every time too. That being said, there's something to appreciate about the classics. This pegasus pony's lightning bolt cutie mark is a show of how it's skill lies in electricity... like it's inspiration.

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Published : Feb 24, 2016