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Let's talk Pikachu

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 21:29:05 No.55249105 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>55249137 >>55249281 >>55249682 >>55249715 >>55249924 >>55250179 >>55250208 >>55251683 >>55252707

There's lots of discussion about many pokemon but I've noticed that I rarely ever see discussion about the series own mascot on this board

Be honest with me..

If this thing wasn't the mascot of the franchise would anyone even remember that it exists?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 21:37:09 No.55249137 Report

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>>55249105
>If this thing wasn't the mascot of the franchise would anyone even remember that it exists?
the only reason it became a mascot was because of how popular it was. It isn't like CHARIZARD who was given inflated importance since the beginning, Pikachu was nothing more than a random early shitmon that the devs went out of their way to hide by making it rare, yet people loved the thing anyway.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 21:38:13 No.55249143 Report

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she cute

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 22:01:11 No.55249281 Report

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>>55249105
I'm convinced the Pikachu Mandela effect is because kids remember the back sprite which *may* look like it could be interpreted as a black tip.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 22:01:47 No.55249284 Report

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It was effective against Misty if you were a Charmander kid. So probably it would still have fans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 22:42:12 No.55249543 Report

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>>55249137
It's not totally random and they weren't scared to make the coolest pokemon rare. GF knew it was cute (that's what Nishida was brought in for, after all). There's a girl begging for one at the museum and there's a pikachu fanatic at the fan club. It's one of the six mons that appear on the first SGB borders, along with clefairy. It was nowhere near mascot status but it was prominent despite its rarity.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 22:59:55 No.55249653 Report

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Should've made Eevee the Mascot

The franchise would've been 10x more popular

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 23:06:09 No.55249682 Report

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>>55249105
>GF tried to push that faggy Clefairy down our throats
>Pikachu btfo'd through natural appeal

Fairy type lost from the start and now they're overcompensating by making it broken

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 23:08:29 No.55249694 Report

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>>55249137
Fat Pikachu is the essence. They should have kept him like that

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 23:13:19 No.55249715 Report

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>>55249105
Why is there no ghost type Pikaboo

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 23:14:23 No.55249723 Report

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>>55249715
>what is Mimikyu

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 23:43:45 No.55249897 Report

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>>55249682
I'm surprised Pikachu didn't get retconned into a Fairy type during Gen 6

It's in the fairy egg group

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 23:48:03 No.55249924 Report

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>>55249105
>If this thing wasn't the mascot of the franchise would anyone even remember that it exists?
yes because hes cute

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 00:29:05 No.55250109 Report

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>>55249897
Because that was Dedenne‘s gimmick.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 00:45:14 No.55250179 Report

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>>55249105
>If this thing wasn't the mascot of the franchise would anyone even remember that it exists?
Probably.
Kanto already has a lot of these first-stage cutemons that are more popular than their evolutions despite being relatively rare.
Clefairy, Jigglypuff, Psyduck...
If Pikachu hadn't been the mascot it'd have just been another one of those - but let's be real, Pikachu is the mascot because it just has the most mass appeal, stradling the perfect line between cute and cool.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 00:53:09 No.55250208 Report

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>>55249105
I mean, could be worse.

I personally always loved Jigglypuff's pranks during S1/S2 but it's slightly too faggy as a mascot.

MissingNo will always be the hidden Gen 1 games mascot for me, used to be the ultimate must have back in elementary school

At least we got Charizard as secondary main mascot

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 00:57:58 No.55250235 Report

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Why is it that Pikachu is exempt from being picked on for being weak? Sure, it involves into Raichu but still.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 01:19:42 No.55250342 Report

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>>55250235
I think it was stronger than Mewteo in gen 2 with a Light Ball. Don't quote me tho

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 01:20:02 No.55250344 Report

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pikachu feet

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 01:20:53 No.55250348 Report

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>>55250342
Mewtwo*

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 01:27:03 No.55250390 Report

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>>55250235
My bigger question is why was it so hard to breed one with Volt Tackle?

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 01:29:34 No.55250400 Report

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>>55250390
In Gen 3 I meant

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 01:31:27 No.55250409 Report

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>>55250390
>>55250400

Because the light ball was rare and you could only get it in Emerald. If you had Ruby or Sapphire only then it was impossible

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 02:03:50 No.55250558 Report

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>>55250179
>t just has the most mass appeal, stradling the perfect line between cute and cool.
And sexy. You forgot the sex appeal

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 06:08:43 No.55251561 Report

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>>55250558
Eevee is better

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 06:55:01 No.55251683 Report

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>>55249105
Pikachu is so cute it fucking angers me

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 13:24:49 No.55252707 Report

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>>55249105
I will admit I've always had a soft spot for Pikachu, he's just such a cute little fella. Especially with cuddly plushies like this!

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 13:38:40 No.55252755 Report

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>>55250409
You can get it on wild pikachu in RS
It’s absent from frlg

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