#thunder pikachu

[plushy-draws]

@heropartnerweek day one: shiny!

While Kouna may not see the appeal, Thunder is pretty excited to be a shiny!

Also changed their bandannas too!

[not-so-average-joseph]

[pkmncenterguy]

Power Seal?

what's that?

Ever wonder why you hear ancient stories about wild raging tyranitar burning villages to the ground, but in trainer battles on tv, a well trained lycanroc can get hit by a hyper beam from one and still be standing? Type advantage aside, thats thanks to power seals!

A standard diagram of a heal ball here. The blue rim, in different colors but in all pokeballs, is where your power seal is. PSA: If you ever notice a crack in that, GO TO YOUR NEAREST POKEMON CENTER IMMEDIATELY! Trade machines can exchange the same pokemon to another empty pokeball, and if you tell a nurse joy its because the seal is broken they’ll transfer your pokemon to a new pokeball for free

But anyway, power seals do exactly what it sounds like: they limit the power of a pokemon’s moves, so that in battles you can only ever knock out your opponents pokemon, and that a trainer’s togedemaru shocking you on accident wont literally kill you. Some people forget because they grow up around pokemon owned by trainers, but wild pokemon are way stronger than we give them credit for. Seriously, we don’t tell kids to avoid the tall grass for nothing. A power seal on your pokeball breaking means your pokemon is suddenly at its full power and very likely to actually hurt other pokemon in battles, so you need to get the pokeball replaced immediately

And if it worries you, pretty much all wild pokemon are aware that being caught means their power being limited, even if they don’t know exactly how. Thats why even the sweetest wild garchomp you have a bond to likely won’t just agree to be caught, lots of pokemon want a battle before you can catch them because they want you to prove you’re stronger than the power they’d be giving up

[bunkerhillbros]

from am.

[chase-omega]

My personal theory as to why Ash's Pikachu won't evolve is because he knows he's an abnormal sort of Pikachu, as implied by Team Rocket early on in the show, and also implied by Ash's Pikachu pulling off certain moves and feats no other Pikachu could ever do. Something to do with his genetics or something, I don't know. Anyway, if he were to evolve, his abnormalities would be cancelled out, and he'd be a regular Raichu instead of being an abnormally strong Pikachu. It'd actually be a DOWNgrade instead of an UPgrade. I also think the Pikachu and the Eevee from the Let's Go games are the same way.

I like that headcanon better than Pikachu's idiotic sense of pride…

And this might just be me, but I also think Pikachu's abnormalities are also the reason his Level seems to reset after certain major events (at the start of every region or after the end of every region). Pikachu's Level resetting is the tradeoff for his immense power.

[nightdragon07]

Why are my Pokemon not evolving, while I exposed my Pikachu to a thunder stone and my Eevee to a water stone. xD

Color pencil drawing 26/08/2024

Art (C) Carol (NightDragon07) Pokemon (C) Game Freak / Nintendo

[oswlld]

ONI ~ 神々山のおなり [ONI: Thunder God’s Tale, 2022] ↳ from Tonko House, created by Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi

[henkeboy]

WHO'S IS HE?!?!!?

This is arguably the best piece of animation I've ever made, every frame is a TREASURE!

[pokemonwearingsportsmerch]

[duckapus]

Had ideas for a few post-arc scenes that I don't currently have the energy to write;

-Ash setting Tama up with a provisional trainer license (basically lets her have Pokemon registered to her despite not being ten yet but she can't do Major Official Trainer Activities like gym challenges, contests, Battle Facilities, etc.) because the Pokemon who've been hanging out with her very much want her to be their trainer. Magcargo's kind of the odd one out since he's only been around her for like an hour cumulatively and he kind of got dragged into this without any idea what was happening but he's still interested because she seems nice. There's some concern about Hoopa staying since he has friends in Dahara City in Kalos... until he points out that Hyperspace Hole still exists and he can come and go literally whenever.

Pikachu officially passes on the role of the Pichu Brothers' chaos wrangler to Absol, in a slightly funny moment where he tries to be all serious about it and put his hand on her shoulder all dramatically, ruined by the fact that he's so much shorter than her that he has to balance awkwardly on his tail to even reach her shoulder (and further undercut by the fact that what he actually says is "they're your problem now. good luck". Also, there is of course much gushing over Gardevoir, Guardeon and Dragaurora's evolutions.

-One of the suggestions for Devos's situation is putting Tonio on the throne, which both he and Valiant are adamantly against because favored by the Muses or not a guy who's been a wandering outlaw and proud of it for nearly a decade is not a good choice for ruling a kingdom in turmoil. Plus having a Songbird as a king would just be weird.

-Kelsie gets Vitality set up in the infirmary and assures everyone that she's expected to make a full recovery eventually, though from what she can tell of how the whole healing flame thing is working it'll take anywhere from one month to three for her to wake up. Then when she's alone she calls Director K to let him know that her reports will be less frequent for the foreseeable future since with Vitality out of commission she's the only medic right now.

-Mr. L presents the completed Meme Suppression Bullets to Jayin, warning her that it will take a few weeks for the virus they're made out of to complete its work. She's not too fussed about that, they'd expected and planned for something like that after all, and sends for her firewalls and their assistants, leading directly into That One Post.

[mangostar]

we need more raichu appreciation fuck pikachu

[plushy-draws]

@heropartnerweek day 3: A Quiet Day

I think I mentioned it before but Thunder is an astronomy nerd! So occasionally when he’s got a day off, he’ll read up on astronomy books

Kouna, on the other hand, just wants to take a nap

[not-so-average-joseph]

[heardatmedschool]

Doctor: How do we treat ventricular tachycardia?

Students: ...

Doctor: That’s right, Thunder Shock ™.

[au-wannabe-the-very-best]

In my SI-Red fic he's gonna name all of his Pokémon, because he WILL be meeting Ash so I wanted a way to differentiate Red's Pikachu and Ash's other than just gender. Red's is a girl and her name is Hoshiko. It means star child. Ash continues to call his Pikachu just Pikachu, and thank god for that because he'd be awful at names.

Other than names though, I'm going with a theme that Red would be more suited to contests, and each of his Pokémon sort of have a title. Almost like they were a Clow Card from Cardcaptor Sakura, actually. Hoshiko's title is The Thunder. And if Red were a card, he'd be The Quiet.

It's the reasoning behind the name of the fic, if that wasn't obvious.

I'm actually really excited because I've got more than half of Red's team planned out, their names, and their titles. And the neat thing is that other than Hoshiko, they're all canon characters from the Pokémon anime, so you may have already seen them before! Who knows, maybe one of them was originally meant to be Ash's Pokémon... wink wink.

If y'all wanna ask me about the fic I'm willing to answer stuff, and I encourage you to ask because it gets me super motivated. I've got an outline and already started on the next chapter, but extra motivation is always welcomed.

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