If Ash would take this step, he might actually win a league.

>>27891659
Just evolve Pikachu into Alolan Raichu you fuck

File: 1471496335449.png (106KB, 519x456px) Image search: [Google]

106KB, 519x456px

>Pikachu still doing work even though it's an unevolved meme
>Don't evolve it
>why am I losing ;_;

>>27891795
But Pikachu is from Kanto

If ever there was a time for the meme rat to finally evolve, Alola is it for sure.

>>27891853
Turns out Professor Oak actually caught Pikachu on a vacation of Alola!

File: 1463290677845.jpg (34KB, 645x859px) Image search: [Google]

34KB, 645x859px

>>27891856
>yfw when they buff Light Ball to make Raichu even more useless

File: 1453787414001.gif (3MB, 720x405px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 720x405px

>>27891940
Wrong picture but oh well.

>>27891853
There's not alolan Pikachu so any Pikachu while in alola can evolve into an alolan Raichu.
Think of cubone and marowak.

No, he won't
He didn't lose because he's incompetent (well he kind of is, but stick with me)
It doesn't matter how good he gets, or how much he learns along his journeys, or how strong his pokemon become
I mean fuck's sake, he could even be allowed to use 6 mega pokemon against the final league battle and he'd still lose

Because he's supposed to, because they don't want him to win, because the anime is shit

>>27891659
Just imagine how strong Pikachu would be as a Raichu.

>>27891932
Oak needs to die already, he has no buisness post gen 5

>>27891659
>implying raichu is better than pikachu

>>27891659

Pikachu literally slapped the thunderstone out of Ash's hand

it doesn't want to evolve, and if he forced it, it would just stop fighting for him

>>27891940
>light ball now doubles speed
Please.
Raichu is shit and deserves to be shit, it ruined the Pikachu line.

Pikachu is all about being small and fast. Making him evolve would ruin it's style.

Besides, after today, it's ridiculous to think "Pikachu should be able to do more!"

>>27893284
You fuck off right now nigger

>>27893327
but raichu is faster than pikachu

>>27893327
But Raichu are faster than Pikachu.

>>27891795
Don't fucking ruin Pikachu's flawless design by turning it into that monstrosity please.

>>27893411
>>27893408

>game mechanics
>anime

guys it's been 20 years, you should better by now

>>27893474
literally in the first episode that raichu appears in, brock advises ash that pikachu has an advantage since raichu was no longer able to learn moves by levelling up

>>27893500

And the move Pikachu learns in that episode is Quick Attack and that meant Pikachu was faster, and then in general Raichu established itself as sluggish in the anime from there on out.

>>27893500

and also by literally running circles around it

>>27893544
pikachu already knows quick attack and agility and therefore would retain its speed even as a raichu

>>27893500

remember the episode where they go that academy where children learn how to battle pokemon with an interface that was EXACTLY like the Gen 1 games, and the whole point was to show how battling in their world completely shit all over those rules?

sometimes I feel like the only person who remembers that

>>27893604
wow a bad anime is inconsistent who knew

what if ash actually got a fucking light ball for his chu ???

>>27893566

it's not gonna happen, Pikachu doesn't want the damn evolution. it is completely opposed to that happening.

File: ibegtodiffer.png (64KB, 200x200px) Image search: [Google]

64KB, 200x200px

>>27891659
Yeah no. Writers will keep him from winning, don't matter if Pikachu evolves or not.

>>27892125
No. It has to be a Pikachu caught in the Alola region and have the little cross symbol on the status page.

>>27892125
Only Pikachu caught in Alola can evolve into a Alolan Raichu, that's the purpose of the new hexagon to make sure that this pokemon come from SM. If you want a normal Raichu you have to import a Pikachu from VC RBY

>>27893622

no anon, that was the point. the episode was literally meant to illustrate to the viewer that games =/= anime and to never expect such. the kids at the academy learned that after getting rekt.

sincd then, the anime has been pretty consistent in its commitment to showing how the game rules don't apply

>>27893718

You mean the plus?

Also, you can also import a pentagon Pikachu for normal Raichu.

>>27893204
he had any business in gen V?