>Gamefreak company realised Pikachu is so shit that they didn't

>>32998142
>charizard getd both megas
>venasaur gets his
>blastoise is cucked

>>32998142
It's so weird. Pikachu is iconic but instead GF gives red a second water type?

Woah a mascot pokemon that is NFE wasn't on his team meant to be somewhat challenging?!!!!?!!??!?!?! WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!? Why is gamefreak so stupid compared to me!!!!!!!!!

>>32998161
These are the mons he had in HGSS (minus Pikachu obviously)

>>32998161
Double reasoning is Lapras is both a pure Gen I mon versus Espeon and also large and in charge like his other mons to stress how cute and small Pikachu is.

>>32998142
There was so much hype for Red and Blue before SM was released

After the release and how horribly implemented these characters were in the game, the only one who care are Red and Blue shippers and bara porn artists

How could SM fuck up this bad?

>>32998171
Or they needed to give red a pokemon that can take advantage of the now eterbal hail in MT. Silver.

It would be anti-climatic for the big 50 streak boss battle to have a shitmon that dies to a feather

>>32998183
This. Don't forget all seven mons (including Espeon) he uses are either giftmons or mandatory battle (Snorlax).

light ball now also acts like pikanium-z
does this change anything?

>>32998159
Blastoise gets its Mega in the Normal Battle. This team is Red's team for Super Battle.

>>32998142
>red is literally that dumb kid with the starter trio, the snorlax and lapras giftmon

Better than Charizard, Mozart, Snorlax, Lapras at least

>>32998142
Of course Pikachu is shit. It's not even fully evolved. Why would they give a boss a 'mon with such a low BST?

>>32998196
>252+ Atk Huge Power Pikachu Catastropika vs. 252 HP / 88+ Def Ferrothorn: 147-173 (41.7 - 49.1%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
>252+ Atk Huge Power Pikachu Catastropika vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Toxapex: 468-552 (153.9 - 181.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
As long as you have type advantage, I guess it's okay
(Note: Huge Power to simulate Light Ball, reference attack is Volt Tackle)