Raichu

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Raichu ライチュウ - Raichu
Pikachu < Raichu > Sandshrew
Species	Type
Mouse Pokémon
Number	Ability
#26	Static
Height	Weight
2'07" (0.8m)	66.1 lbs. (30kg)
Gender Ratio
Male: 50%	Female: 50%
Evolves From	Evolves Into
Pikachu	None
Egg Group	Catch Rate
Field/Fairy	75
Tier	EV Yield
UU	3 Speed

Raichu

The electric mouse Pokemon. The evolved form of Pichu and Pikachu.

Evolution chain

Pichu--Happiness-->Pikachu--Thunderstone-->Raichu

Pokedex Entries

Diamond
It turns aggressive if it has too much electricity in its body. It discharges power through its tail.

Pearl
It can loose 100,000-volt bursts of electricity, instantly downing foes several times its size.

Platinum
Its tail discharges electricity into the ground, protecting it from getting shocked.

Characteristics

Raichu is vary much like it's evolution family, but with very distinctive features. It is an orangy-brown mouse Pokemon with brown ears, paws and markings. It also has a cream stomach, and yellow cheeks. These yellow pouches are the key to it's Electric power, it stores up if it hasn't been released and so the build up can make it angrier. It has a long black tail which a large lightning bolt shape is attatched to. Females' tails are smaller and blunt at the end. It is one of three Pokemon able to use the attack volt tackle and is the second Pokemon to show this attack in the anime.

Anime appearences

- LT.Surge's Raichu stored up Ash's Pikachu's electricity to overwhelm it with power. Pikachu later returned and defeated it with speed. (Electric shock showdown) - Raichu was an auditionee in 'Lights camera quacktion.' - Raichu was a trouble maker at the 'Pokemon only park.' (Pikachu's Vacation.) - Raichu was one of the pokemon affected by the crystal in 'Raikou; the legend of thunder.' - It's latest appearance is in the newest series Diamond and Pearl where it is coincidentally alike to LT.Surge's Raichu. It conquered Ash's Pikachu with tremendous power that Pikachu couldn't match with, causing Pikachu and Ash to consider evolving. Pikachu decided to stay the way it was, and defeated the Raichu similar to the preveous defeat by a Raichu. -Ash's Pikachu was asked to pretend as a lady's pokemon as it had ran off by scratching it's head occasionally. The lost Pikachu named "Sugar" returned to save Pikachu from Team Rocket as a Raichu, so it could learn Focus Punch.

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Major portions of this page were written by: Boo