>>16444445"It" is fine if the word its replacing has no gender value or an ambiguous one. Like the English word "bridge" is neither feminine nor masculine, so "it" is fine.
If you're referring to a Pikachu, technically you would either use the plural pronoun if you wanted to refer to the species as a whole, or he/she because the Pikachu has a gender. "It" leaves ambiguity which is not ideal but no one who isn't an English or Linguistics major would call you on it; it's not important in this scenario.
tl;dr:
u r a homo 
