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Pokémon Details

#025 Pikachu
Pokédex Info
Type 1: Electric
Type 2: -
Height: 1' 04"
Weight: 13.0 lb
It keeps its tail raised to monitor its surroundings. If you yank its tail, it will try to bite you.
Catch it in:

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Evolved from: -Evolves into: Raichu  (with Thunder Stone)
Locations: Yellow players receive Pikachu as their starting Pokemon, but Red/Blue owners can catch multiple Pikachus in Viridian Forest and the Power Plant. Note that there is only one Pikachu in Pokemon Yellow -- and it can't be directly evolved into a Raichu. 
This Pokémon naturally learns the following techniques (Red/Blue evolution levels are in parentheses):
LV 01 (01) - ThundershockLV 01 (01) - GrowlLV 06 (--) - Tail WhipLV 08 (09) - Thunder WaveLV 11 (16) - Quick AttackLV 15 (--) - Double TeamLV 20 (--) - SlamLV -- (26) - SwiftLV 26 (--) - ThunderboltLV 33 (33) - AgilityLV 41 (43) - ThunderLV 50 (--) - Light Screen
Tips: Pikachu is the superstar among its fellow Pokemon. Not only is it a pretty able Electric Pokemon, it got so popular that Nintendo eventually gave the yellow mouse its own Game Boy and N64 games. If you play Pokemon Yellow, you don't have much of a choice and start off with a special little Pikachu (one that gets angry when you store it in a Poke Ball), but that shouldn't stop Blue/Red players from catching a Pikachu of their own early on in the game as well. However, there is a difference between the Yellow version Pokemon and its Blue/Red counterpart. The stats are the same, but Yellow Pikachu is able to learn Tail Whip, Double Team, Slam, Thunderbolt and Lightscreen on its own. Blue/Red Pikachu lacks those techniques but can learn Swift at level 26 (Yellow Pikachu has to learn it from a TM). This gives Yellow players a slight advantage, since they can use the powerful Thunderbolt technique at level 26.

RTENOTITLE As far as moves go, let Pikachu learn all the major Electric techniques like Thunder Wave, Thunderbolt (replace Thundershock with Thunderbolt at level 26) and Thunder. Swift's a great attack against faster Pokemon that like to Dig or Fly, but Pokemon Stadium players may want to reserve the fourth attack slot for something even better: Surf. To find out how you can teach Pikachu Surf, check out our secrets page . Don't get too attached to Growl or Tail Whip, though. You can safely replace them with better moves like Quick Attack or Thunder.

Pikachu doesn't have very high HP, so your battles should be all about speed. A great way to turn around a battle against a quick enemy is to start off with Thunder Wave. Pikachu really shines when you let it zap Water or Flying Pokemon and it defends well against other Electric Pokemon, but it also has a fatal weak spot. Ground Pokemon are 100% immune to Electric attacks. And as if that wasn't enough, Ground techniques like Dig also tend to knock Pikachu out with one single hit. So whatever you do, don't send a Pikachu into battle with a Ground Pokemon.

This Pokémon can learn the following HMs and TMs:
TM 01 - Mega PunchTM 05 - Mega KickTM 06 - ToxicTM 08 - Body SlamTM 09 - Take DownTM 10 - Double EdgeTM 16 - Pay DayTM 17 - SubmissionTM 19 - Seismic TossTM 20 - RageTM 24 - ThunderboltTM 25 - ThunderTM 31 - MimicTM 32 - Double TeamTM 33 - ReflectTM 34 - BideTM 39 - SwiftTM 40 - Skull BashTM 44 - RestTM 45 - Thunder WaveTM 50 - SubstituteHM 05 - FlashHM 03 - Surf (Stadium only)
OffenseAdvantage: Water, FlyingDisadvantage: Electric, Grass, Dragon, Ground (can't hit)DefenseAdvantage: Flying, ElectricDisadvantage: Ground
Origin: Pikachu is one of the few Pokemon names that has been carried over from the Japanese. In Japanese, "pika" means spark or sparkly -- which describes the electric nature of Pikachu. To make the name match Pikachu's adorable look, its namegivers appended the "cute" version of the verb "to be", which is "dechu" (the regular form is desu) and abbreviated it to "chu". Incidentally, "chu" also means kiss in Japanese. Incidentally, there is also an American rock mouse called "Pika" (it looks kind of like a Guinea Pig), but Nintendo assures us that any similarities are merely coincidental.

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