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Pikachu! D<

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RAIIII-CHU!
Does anyone else here seriously get sick of seeing pikachu everywhere? I know I do.
For instance I love raichu. They're stronger than pikachu and personally I think they look much better. But because Pikachu's in the series and all the films, because people think he's the cutest it's impossible to find anything relating to raichu (I'm talking about merch, fanart, etc). Even pichu gets more attention. Personally I don't see why only two out of three parts of an evolutionary set should be widely available.
I can only imagine how irrating it must be for people who like even more obscure pokemon. Feel free to share your rants here~
 
Well, it IS the mascot Pokemon.

Plus, cuter = more merchandise.


As for me, part of the joy of loving obscure Pokemon, is that stuff about them aren't widely available. That way it's even better when you find something.
 
Like The Benmeister said, Pikachu is the mascot of pokemon.
They can't just change it to Raichu or some other pokemon.
Also ;355; is cuter than ;026;
 
Pikachu needs to go die. He's the only Pokemon who I have a legit deep-rooted hatred for. The games and the anime need to stay away from one another if you ask me.
 
Imagine how us Swampert fans feel. It's impossible to find any merchandise of the big blue beast. At least Raichu is the evolution of the mascot, so he gets some merchandise and an episode every once in a while when they need Pikachu to prove that Pokemon can beat their evolutions.
 
SergeiDragunov said:
Pikachu needs to go die. He's the only Pokemon who I have a legit deep-rooted hatred for. The games and the anime need to stay away from one another if you ask me.
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This poster is absolutely correct!
 
Since my favorite Pokemon include Lucario and Charizard I have no room to complain but I too prefer Raichu over Pikachu
 
KGB13 said:
;025; > ;026;
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This poster, however, is not!

Alright, now for some reasoning before people go and flame me, which I'm sure will happen anyways. My first Pokemon game was Mystery Dungeon, and, it being the first Pokemon game, I picked Pikachu as my partner.

...Agggggh.

The Pikachu had a nearly unbearable personality. In addition, any time I try to recruit anybody, Pikachu would go and kill them with a Quick Attack. True, some of this is because of my being bad at the game, but again, this was my first Pokemon game. And in my second one, my Sceptile kept a PPmaxed Pound for the entire game. I was bad.

Also, the anime and it's message of "STRONG EVOLVED NON-CUTE POKEMON ARE EEEEEEEEEEEVILLLLL AND YOU SHOULD NEVER EVOLVE ANYONE EVER" promotes Pikachu, which gives it a few negative points.

It and it's clones also get more attention than cool Pokemon like Manectric. For example, most people considered Plusle and Minun, probably the worst Pokemon in the Hoenn dex, the Hoenn electric (which was Manectric), and the two recieved much more attention. I could say the same with Pachirisu stealing Luxray's thunder.
 
GolemGuy said:
I could say the same with Pachirisu stealing Luxray's thunder.
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:P Just wanted to point that out as funny. Also Pachirisu can't evolve so you can't really use that one. Another reason I don't like Pikachu

It beat Volkner's Electivire. I find this highly unbelieveable.
 
What? Pikachu was relatively rare in the 4th Gen games. It was only found in the one garden and only a few trainers had one.... it's the worldwide mascot of Pokemon. You complain too much. Plus if Pikachu dies, Raichu goes right along with him.
 
I sometimes get sick of him too,but a mascot is a mascot.and in yellow,you cant evolve him.I would have owned flareon if it wasn't for pikachu
 
Let me just say this, Pikachu is only hated because it is the Mascot, so of course people are going to go against the flow. Not that I like the Yellow Rat much either, but consider this, lets say one of the Early Evolution stages of your Favorite Pokemon was mascot instead. As much as I'm sure some of you would like to deny it, I'm sure you would hate that Pokemon just as much, and wouldn't even give a glance Pikachu's way.
 
Krug said:
Not that I like the Yellow Rat much either, but consider this, lets say one of the Early Evolution stages of your Favorite Pokemon was mascot instead. As much as I'm sure some of you would like to deny it, I'm sure you would hate that Pokemon just as much, and wouldn't even give a glance Pikachu's way.
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I would still love Charizard or Lucario if they were mascots. The only reason I hate Pikachu is because of Ash's Pikachu. I feel the same with Piplup because of Dawn's Piplup. That and I just like Raichu better. I think it looks better and it's stronger.
 
Shadow Lucario said:
I would still love Charizard or Lucario if they were mascots. The only reason I hate Pikachu is because of Ash's Pikachu. I feel the same with Piplup because of Dawn's Piplup. That and I just like Raichu better. I think it looks better and it's stronger.
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But what I want you to imagine is if Ash's Pikachu was actually Ash's Riolu or Ash's Charmander? Would you then hate those respective Pokemon?
 
Mupen64 Man said:
Pikachu ain't sh*t. Its all about the hitmons
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Motion seconded and passed! (I'm a big,biiiig fan of the hitmons)

But yeah, I never really liked that little yellow rat, outside of my Yellow version pika, Faust ARP. I liked her so much that I replicated her in Platinum, but I never use her. (She was a BEAST in yellow!) Mostly, I don't like it because it's evo, Raichu, is always depicted in the animé as a 'bad guy', I can only think of one or two times off the top of my head when this wasn't the case. They act like trainers that use evolved pokémon only care about power, and I tells ya, I for one, don't. But then again, it is a children's animé...and I guess cute sells.

But I do think that the game and animé need to be seen as seperate. I hate getting weird looks when I buy pokémon games, just because I'm a twenty-one year old woman. It's got a 'kiddy' reputation, at least in America, because of the animé. They're good games, really.

And it is quite hard to find some plushes of obscure pokes. I've only seen one plush of hitmonchan, and it wasn't even the right colour! (He was completely red! Hitmonchans are BROWN) I've never even seen a hitmonlee plush, and hitmontop ones are rare as hell.

In a side note, I did find ladies charms for bracelets in the shape of the hitmons and their adorable little pre-evo. Imma buy it as soon as I get some money...


Sorry about the incoherant little rant here. I'm kinda tired....didn't sleep so well last night. Zombie dreams, you know.


~Nemmeh ;107;
 
One problem I have with Pikachu is that despite being the mascot and being given upgrades from GF such as the light ball, it's still considered terrible in competitive play. This saddens me because it's is suppose to be somewhat good in competitive play (like UU or BL standards) as it's the franchise's mascot.
 
Some of my favorites are Cubone, Sandshrew, Weavile, Gallade, Gardevoir, and Raichu. I have to date not seen a single plush of any of those...

I personally don't mind Pikachu at all. In the anime, I find Piplup more annoying (I miss the old days of no Piplup...), with it's Peeeeeplululup! every two freaking seconds.

And I agree with Nemmeh, I get weird looks when I buy a Pokemon game at a store as well (I'm a 17 year old male). Pokemon games are awesome RPGs, and having a game that's fun and gives you easily 500+ hours of gameplay, is well worth the $35-40 (DPPt-HG/SS). Anime has truly given Pokemon a kiddy name.
 
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