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Unbridled9 posted...

TheWorstPoster posted...

It's funny how they chose a mediocre and useless Pokemon as their mascot.

Its evolution is far more useful, but still mediocre.

After you catch one, you stick it in the PC until your acquire a thunderstone, evolve it, and then stick it back in the PC.

It was basically a last-minute decision for the anime. Clefairy was likely to be Ash's starter and Pikachu would have just been another mon but they felt Clefairy wasn't as marketable IIRC. So they changed Ash's starter to Pikachu and the rest is history. Notice how, in red and blue, Pikachu isn't special in the slightest? That's because originally he wasn't special. It wasn't till Yellow that it had any degree of speciality and even then it took quite a bit to become notable in-game beyond the yellow exclusivity.

Yeah. I will say if just playing single player though Pikachu was good enough. I beat the entire elite 4 with him alone. Didnt even have surf on him either dealt with brunos rock types with body slam iirc. He was the toughest fight.

I was always mad that you couldnt really evolve Pikachu in that game though and if you did go out of your way to do it he stopped following you around. Even as a kid I thought raichu was cooler even got a plushie of him somewhere ive had since I was a kid.
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