Thread 58271364

what's your honest opinion about pikachu?

>>58271364 (OP)
Overrated piece of shit

>>58271364 (OP)
Fatchu was peak and then it was all downhill from there

>>58271364 (OP)
Overrated but not as overrated as people might think because Pikachu still loses to several pokemon in terms of popularity.
It is still less overrated than Charizard or the Eeveelutions, but still, if Pikachu is your favorite (not the same as just liking Pikachu) then you are just an NPC.

>>58271364 (OP)
I like them. They are an alright little guy. Sucks that so much drama surrounds it for being the mascot.

>>58271364 (OP)
I think Pikachu deserves more than your favorite.

>>58271364 (OP)
Cute! Especially when he gets mad

>>58271364 (OP)
Based rat pissing off the fandom by btfoing Clefagry and becoming the mascot with its organic popularity since 1996

>>58271364 (OP)
I like the whole line, Alolan Raichu being by far my favorite, I'm still very unsure what to feel about Mega Raichu, I think both Megas look pretty lazy and both being locked behind a 30 dollar DLC that was announced before the game even came out is insulting.
Also, oddly enough the number 26 keeps coming up a lot in my life and lo and behold, that's Raichu's number.

>>58271371
This. Pikachu was a victim of its own popularity ending up ruining its actual appeal (for me). Not due being popular, but due the resulting redesign. Then again im a Raichufag so bias ahoy.

>>58271364 (OP)
i like pichu and alolan raichu, that's about the size of it

>>58271364 (OP)
Became shit when he went on a diet
As he is now pichu is cuter and raichu is cooler. Pichu even has the better alts with the spiky eared and the ukulele.
I don't really like alolan raichu though since they smoothed out all the angles, and the megas are just strange. Y in particular looks like shit. X would be fine but I don't know why the arms are so fucking big and I don't like the color.
Bigachu is alright since it's just pikachu but fat again

>>58271364 (OP)
Pikachu is cute, but I prefer Raichu. Mega Raichu x and y are perfect and I love them both

I see 4 Raichus and a Pichu

>>58271387
Lucario and Greninja are also way more overrated than Pikachu. It isn't as popular as it used to be.

>>58271364 (OP)
Sexy lil thing

>>58271710
Alolan Raichu is meant to be a fat fuck with an addiction for alien mutagenic spiced pancakes, that's why he's so round and smooth.

>>58271364 (OP)
You forgot costume pikachu

I like Raichu more but Raichu fans are so obnoxious I like to see them seethe.

Yes Pikachu is the mascot of the series, yes Raichu will always live in its shadow, and yes it makes sense for Mega Raichu to resemble Pikachu more from a marketing point of view and it doesn't even look bad, enough already

>>58271827
Both Mega Raichu look like they were designed with AI, it's not just the fact they ape off of Pikachu that pisses people off, the 30$ price tag for each of them doesn't help either.

>>58271364 (OP)
He’s cool. Obesity is disgusting and I’m glad they gave him a better chance to live.

>>58271710
>Became shit when he went on a diet
Found the literal fat fucker

>>58271844
That makes no sense, AI would obviously just amplify the characteristics of Raichu based on whatever Raichu images you provide instead of thinking on its own to add Pikachu characteristics. And even if you told it to mix Raichu with Pikachu, there's no way it'd come up with the Y form horns that are originally present on neither Raichu nor Pikachu images it would've been provided with.

>>58271844
And for the DLC well people are correct but it's easier to not care when I played SV and PLA on my PC and will do so with PLA too lmao

>>58271847
The width of the rat is not beholden to trivial human anatomy

Mega Cutechu Y

>>58271852
The repeat body parts thing and the lazy texturing is what made a ton of fags suspect it was made with AI, than fags in a few places actually tried genning a Mega Raichu by feeding their AI with Raichu and Pikachu and quite a few of the gens just so happened to have fucked ears that looked like they were splitting into 2 separate pairs and quite a few had 2 tails as well. You can deny all you want, but Mega Raichu Y's "horns" look like a second pair of ears. Both designs are painfully lazy and uninspired, Mega Raichu X looks fucking awful with Pikachu's colors and Mega Raichu Y's 3D model looks fucking awful in the trailer.
>>58271857
Based pirate fag.

>>58271364 (OP)
Pichu and Pikachu are among my favorite Pokemon though like 90% of that is due to Smash then any role as mascot

>>58271770
the meta reason is that the designer (who was the designer for OG Raichu back in the day) wanted to evoke a loaf of bread

why not just make raichu Y mega pikachu? its obvious thats the intention

cool little feller but I avoid him because he is so overused

>>58271364 (OP)
Removing Pikachu's belly and thickness was a massive fucking mistake. I'm glad Raichu exists.

>>58271911
I didn't like Incineroar at all, then I played Ultimate and now I love this stupid cat, so I definitely understand the feeling.

>>58272008
Mega Pikachu: 420 BST
Mega Raichu Y: 585 BST
Gee I wonder why they don't want to intentionally cripple the mega of their mascot

>>58271364 (OP)
In gen 1, their favoritism meant they made Pikachu hard to catch with a low encounter rate.

The favoritism they're giving him now is completely backwards, and makes him feel like he's barely a part of the same world as other pokemon.

>>58271364 (OP)
Genuinely a fantastic and iconic design, all of the hate it gets is so forced. It's the perfect blend of all the series' values and best design traits.

>>58272022
im in the same boat, i didnt like him because im not a fan of the anthro designs, but he's one of the few pokemon i really enjoy playing in that game.
if smash didn't already exist and have Pokemon in it, a platform fighter featuring only Pokemon would be perfect. id love to see more variety with designs and movesets with pokemon but i know they are stuck with picking the "main characters from the latest gen"

>>58271364 (OP)
They already did an expection wih the Gigantamax/Dynamax/whatever shit, why they didn't just do Mega Pikachu? They obviously wanted to

>>58273055
Exception*

>>58271364 (OP)
>Mega
They massacred myboy.

>>58271364 (OP)
It's fine but I refuse to use it because of its mascot status. I get to see it plenty with in-game trainers and in marketing material. I'm mad they changed its cry. Clefairy and Poliwhirl should be given just as much shilling nowadays, at least for a bit, just because it would be fun. Give Poliwrath and Politoed megas or something, you know?

>>58273055
I think gamefreak have made an internal rule that megas are going to be exclusive to final stages. That was always the assumption but it seems like gamefreak isn't willing to break that rule yet. Even eternal flower floette can't actually evolve further. I guess we'll see if they change their tune in the future. I wouldn't mind, primarily because I want new evos for some mons that already have megas.

>>58273055
Gigantomax can be given to anyone, Mega is SPECIFICALLY restricted to fully evolved mons. This lore is absolute.

>>58271364 (OP)
it alright

>>58271364 (OP)
for some inexplicable reason, pikachu is the same as captain falcon to me in the sense that i think of pikachu more as a smash bros character than a pokemon character. no idea why.
in regards to actual pokemon, fatchu was based, and i prefer raichu. raichu's obviously gonna be overshadowed for mascot reasons, which atp i can accept

>>58271620
>26 keeps coming up a lot in my life
Same here. 26 might just become my favorite number
>Raichu, one of my favorite mons, is the 26th pokemon in the national dex
>the line learns arguably the best electric type move, Thunderbolt, at level 26
>TM26 contains Earthquake, one of the best moves in the series
>my birthday is on the 26th

Nothing beats Raichu's Gold and Crystal sprite

>>58273388
Whoops forgot this is a Pikachu thread and not a Raichu thread, sorry OP. Should've made this post as a reply to >>58271620 or >>58273276 instead

>>58273388
Huge rat belly

Sandshrew was better

>>58273233
it's not an internal rule or an assumption, it's outright stated at the tower of mastery in XY by the guy who gives you the mega ring

>>58271364 (OP)
Raichu and pichu are both cuter than pikachu ever could be.

My fave :^)

>>58274177
That right? I wonder why they were testing mega charmander and mega bulbasaur in the z prototype, then. No designs by the way if you hadn't heard of it yet, just 2d images to use as mockups.

Chunky rat

>>58271364 (OP)
So much to this evo line when including Forms. Your image doesn't even include all of them. So to my knowledge. Here's a full list of Forms for the Pikachu evo line:

Pichu
Pichu (Spiky-eared)

Pikachu (Male)
Pikachu (Female)
Pikachu (Cosplay)
Pikachu (Rock Star)
Pikachu (Belle)
Pikachu (Pop Star)
Pikachu (Ph.D)
Pikachu (Libre)
Pikachu (Original Cap)
Pikachu (Hoenn Cap)
Pikachu (Sinnoh Cap)
Pikachu (Unova Cap)
Pikachu (Kalos Cap)
Pikachu (Alola Cap)
Pikachu (Partner Cap)
Pikachu (World Cap)
Pikachu (Partner)
Pikachu (Gigantamax)

Raichu (Male)
Raichu (Female)
Raichu (Alolan)
Raichu (Mega X)
Raichu (Mega Y)

So many Forms! What a great evo line, with so many great Forms. And that's not even including the many more Forms from the various spin-offs. I like all three Pokémon from this evo line all all their Forms.

>>58273388
Pregchu

>>58275568
Pikatwo

>>58271364 (OP)
I used to not like them but I stopped being a contrarian and accepted pikachu as my personal mon and bro

>>58272054
literally what is stopping them from giving it a better bst outside of their own pattern autism?

>>58272054
>>58276178
it's not like they couldn't give it stat boosts in addition to BST either, just like the lightball. Imagine calling it a Mega Lightball, lmao. "In addition to mega evolving, this item boosts Pikachu's Attack, Special Attack, and Speed", that type of thing. Not like it's something they wouldn't do.

>>58271364 (OP)
I like pikachu