Posted byu/spardawayne . 6 months ago Pikachu is overrated Why the fuck is pikachu always the main mascot of pokemon when many other pokemon has so much potential in the games and movies. It is just so stupid watching pokemon with pikachu always there.
egadsby 17 points · 6 months ago yeah it's pretty cute, while also being pretty powerful. One of the reasons pokemon was so popular was because it had something for everybody. It had "cute stuff" for the girls (yes I know this is stereotypical), it had action for the boys who were into that, it had classification and weird "sciencey" weaknesses for the nerds, and it had an accomplishment system to get people hooked as well.
P4R451T3 12 points · 6 months ago Excuse me, did you just call Pikachu "pretty powerful?" You do realize that this is a Pokemon that isn't even a final evolution, only has a base stat total of 320, (in comparison, both forms of Raichu have a base stat total of 485), and it has a shoddy base 35 health, base 40 defense, and base 50 special defense, right? That is absolutely fucking terrible, and giving it a Light Ball does not help it because its base speed is still only 90, while plenty of other Pokemon have access to Earthquake and have base 100+ speed. The only possible way a Pikachu could be considered "good" is if you leveled it up to 70+ so that it can one-shot and take hits from pretty much every NPC, but that counts for absolutely everything.
