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Pikachu

Mouse Pokémon

Electric

This intelligent POKéMON roasts hard BERRIES with electricity to make them tender enough to eat.

Base Stats

HP 35

Attack 55

Defense 40

Sp. Atk 50

Sp. Def 50

Speed 90

Total 320

Type Effectiveness

Weak to

ground 2x

Resistant to

flying ½x steel ½x electric ½x

Held Items

Oran Berry 50%Light Ball 5%

Forms

Evolution Chain

Pichu

→

Pikachu Happiness 220

→

Raichu Thunder Stone

Moves

Locations

Kanto Route 2 South Towards Viridian City

Viridian Forest

Kalos Route 3

Santalune Forest

Celadon City Prize Corner

Details

Category Mouse Pokémon

Height 0.4 m

Weight 6.0 kg

Base Exp 112

Growth Rate Medium

Capture Rate 190

Base Happiness 70

Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀

Habitat Forest

Egg Groups Ground ,Fairy

Sprites

Front

Back

Front Shiny

Back Shiny

Front ♀

Back ♀

Front Shiny ♀

Back Shiny ♀

Official Art

Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ou Usage: 0.1%

UU OU 1V1

Light Ball

Moves

Item

Light Ball

Strategy Overview

GSC Pikachu is a high-risk, high-reward Pokemon and is actually not too bad of a choice for a UU team. The addition of Light Ball gives Pikachu potential to hit things very hard, and it has a decent enough Speed stat (278, which is slightly above the "average" threshold of 268) to where it could potentially strike twice without getting hurt, once on the switch, the other right after. With a Light Ball, Pikachu's Special Attack is the second highest in GSC, after only Mewtwo. The flip side, of course, is the fact that Pikachu is OHKOed by most decent STAB attacks, so only switch Pikachu in when you know it is not going to get hurt.