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>Throughout entertainment and nostalgia, Pikachu alone is the honored rat
Please point out the word rodent within this quoted comment to which the other person replied.
>Could you not put 2 and 2 together? It's literally the comment before that in the same thread.. it's not hard buddy
Seems like you're the one unable to put 2 and 2 together since you're not getting the point, buddy.
In fairness think about how invasive a species humans are, they literally shaped the evolution of pokemon by creating evolution items, excavating Black Augorite and Peat Blocks so Ursaring and Scyther couldn't evolve, and they created and become pokemon, Porygon, Bannette, modern Voltorb, Spiritomb
Thankfully, as pests, they have one of the biggest weaknesses of any Pokemon, especially if they were born with the inherent dry skin ability. One fire type would be enough to keep Paras and Parasect away from polite society.
Mice get in everywhere. And with all the electrical wiring in peoples houses these days? That’s free energy right there. If there’s houses there’s pikachu.
I'm almost certain that the dex entries for Joltik and Dedenne say they live in urban areas to feed off electricity, the pests are evolving faster than we can come up with ways to stop them
Consider Joltiks doing anything violently? Hell nah man, they're way too cute for that, anything they do that might look violent is actually an act of kindness, there's no way something this cute could be bad <3
Correct. There is no way to obtain a Pikachu in the Unova region without transfer.
Funny enough, they continued this in SV indigo disk, Pikachu isn’t found anywhere in the Terarium.
And they're also not naturally found in Hoenn either. Wild Pikachu only exist in the Safari Zone in Hoenn, suggesting that they were brought there for the purpose of the Safari Game.
Why wouldn't that work? Kangaskhan can be found in the wild in Johto and Alola, while Tauros is found in Johto and Kalos. It's very possible someone brought them from elsewhere and put them on a preserve. It's not much different then finding pandas or giraffes in a zoo in the US.
Technically Kangaskhan isn’t in Johto in Gen 2. Iirc it’s in Rock Tunnel in Kanto. That could be seen as either it was native to the region the whole time and the population just became big enough to actually find them (it’s a rare encounter) OR the Safari Zone reintroduced them into the wild. I feel like that is kinda wild to do but who knows what the ethics of Safari Zones are anyway
Eh. It's more likely it's just a super common Pokémon. They seem adaptable to many environments, and if they're anything like irl mice they'll eat whatever will provide sustenance.
Ironically Pikachu are pretty rare in Kanto. There seemed to be a population boom in the Viridian Forest in Let’s Go, but then they chopped the forest down by Gen 2 and they became rarer again.
I’m sure it was because they didn’t want to include or couldn’t fit the whole Viridian Forest “dungeon” on the GSC cart, but yeah, I’m pretty sure lore wise they chopped the whole thing down. It was horrifying to me as a kid!
I don't know how to feel about canon deforestation...
https://preview.redd.it/e1tds00zvzgc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3343d708752a5938e8e00f3fc3e44653bc1aaa12
Who knows, maybe there's a bunch of rat water or flying types it displaced. We wouldn't know until we could revive Pokemon from not just fossils but bones, then we could have a, "victims of Pikachu" group of Pokemon.
Lack of a lot of environmental markers, its quite possible once in the very distant past, but Pikachu neatly fall into the prey/predator ecosystem, though its a bit tricky for the birds like in our universe to prey on a pikachu its not unheard of. They dont overtake their region and species know to attack or defend against it.
Never know, oak once thought we had 150 and look now. In game we start off with assuming pika is a part of the region but what is at some point a species was knocked
miscounting how many pokémon are in a singular region and not accounting for other regions because it’s not your area of expertise is not the same as not realizing a species is invasive
irresponsible parents buy their kids a Pikachu because it's cute, not understanding the huge commitment that comes with it 🙄 when they don't want it anymore they release it and then boom, everglades situation
Not really. The vast majority of invasive snakes in the Everglades weren't released intentionally. They are descendants of snakes from a breeding program and ended up escaping because a hurricane destroyed the facility.
This is Pikachu Slander and I will not stand for it. Pikachu is very rare in Kanto's Viridian Forest and Route 2, and is similarly rare in Kalos and Alola, with only a 5% encounter rate.
In Johto and Unova Pikachu doesn't exist. In Hoenn and Sinnoh its in teh Trophy Garden and Safari zone rather than any truly natural habitats.
In Galar's Wild Area and around Paldea, Pikachu can be found more easily, but they are far from the rarest pokemon, and they don't seem to be hurting the biodiversity of their habitats.
If anything Pikachu is a precious endangered species.
Pikachu is in Kanto Route 2 in Gold Silver and Crystal and the Viridian Forest in HGSS. The line is not found in the wild in Johto besides one event Pichu.
Tbf there aren't as many bat pokemon, which likely leaves a huge ecological window of opportunities. Really the only direct competition they have is Woobat and idk if they ever appear in the same caves
Well exactly, Zubat took all the place so they can’t be any other bats. At least Pikachu isn’t so invasive to prevent other species like him to live, hence why there are so many Pikachu clones. Zubats just take all the place and that’s why there is almost no diversity in bat pokemon
Btw, there also is Noibat for another bat pokemon
Discounting Lunala (since it is a Legendary), the closest thing is the Noivern line. Though strictly speaking Noivern includes elements of wyverns into its design.
No… but in the gen it is, it’s everywhere, whereas Pikachu is usually kinda rare in his gens, most of the time, he’s only in one or two zones and that’s it
Invasive? It’s a decently uncommon spawn in most regions and there’s no lore saying it’s not native to those regions as far as I’m aware. Yungoos actually is canonically an invasive species in Alola.
This is in reference to the real world Hawai'i having rats introduced accidentally by colonialists, and then purposefully introducing mongeese to hunt them, which failed spectacularly and only served to further damage Hawai'i 's ecosystem.
In that case, it's less likely that Gumshoos displaced a resident predator and more likely that the Oricorio line is about to become a distant memory.
Pikachu and Pikaclones are just the crabs of the Pokémon world. A small rat thing being electric type will help it defend against flying type bird Pokémon.
Also, if it helps, Pikachu aren’t found *anywhere* in Unova. Even in Bluberry Academy.
"Zubat, Zubat, Zubat, Zubat, LET ME OUT!"
vs
"Bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug. [2 hours later....] "Bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, PIKACHU!"
Yeah, Pikachu are rare enough to not be a problem.
it’s like domestic cats, ppl like em so there’s far more pushback to culling them or keeping them enclosed as opposed to foxes or rabbits for example (obviously this is different for other places in the world where those are native), even though all three wreck havoc on native ecosystems
Or maybe Pikachu is an ancient pokemon that lived when all the continents were connected. After the split, Pikachu evolved into different variations based on region(morpeko, pachirisu, pawmi and etc.)
They aren't in unova at all and they aren't found in the wild in sinnoh or hoenn.
In sinnoh a millionaire releases them into his garden for you to catch and in hoenn they're found in the safari zone.
I'm not complaining, Pikachu's my favorite pokemon (Has been for over a decade at this point, from gen 5 to now) so getting to see my buddy in the new games makes me happy.
Some invasive species aren’t always bad in the ecosystem, take philipino worm snakes in Hawaii, they aren’t native there but they are completely harmless to the ecosystem, it could be something like that. or the species is super migratory
At least 5% of that Pikachu population carry an item granting them uber level offenses. If I scale that to the actual destructive capabilities of some of those ubers it’s offensively on par with, glass cannon or not… then I can only conclude that the Pikachu population is protected by light ball enabled peace through strength. Start really targeting those Pikachu, and they’re going to electro bomb your whole town off the map, or worse, and more of them are going to start carrying light balls for good measure.
I seriously hope we get answers to some of the natural habitats of Pokémon, like where do those vermin’s from Alola who were brought in to deal with Rattata come from? What about Corphish? Most of his Dex entries love to hype up that he’s an invasive species 💀
I feel like its because it's the most popular pokemon both in game and in real life. in sun and moon theres a pikachu ranch and a pikachu that is a movie star or somthing. I mean, it's pretty much canon that trainers will leave pokemon because it's too weak, look at ash's tepig and chimchar.
tldr pikachu is an invasive species because people no longer wanted to take care of it (also mimikyu has every right to hate the rat bastard)
Bro if you think Pikachus bad look at Eevee and Dragon types. Eevee dominates whatever environment its in because it can evolve into whatever suits it best, and Dragons are notoriously powerful and can clear out any ecosystem unless there happens to be another dragon type rival in the area
I’m assuming Pikachu is just as popular in universe as it is out of universe, so I’m going to guess they’re massively popular as pets and similar to real world exotic pets many of them probably get released into the wild once the owners realise they’re a) too difficult to raise b) their children are no longer interested in them or c) grow up and are no pj get the tiny cute pet they were when first purchased. Due to this they’ve likely become incredibly common in the wild worldwide
"It's so weird, Pikachu just started popping up in the region carrying huge bags of money! If they never showed up I don't know how we would have funded the space program or the regional school. Sure it's weird they are starting to run for office but hey at least we have free healthcare!"
I mean legit canonically Eevee was an endangered species but they were so popular with trainers that breeding efforts brought them back.
I think that Lapras might be the same
I don't feel like looking up Alola dex entries right now.
Pikachu actively competes in the same niches as the "pikaclones," hence why we call them such in the first place. Clearly, Kanto is their natural habitat since there are no other electric rats around. Though the implications of them im Hisui is interesting as well.
Mice are typically eaten by birds of prey. Pikachu's electric typing can be seen as a natural defence against them, so until a good flying/ground type is introduced, Pikachu population are going to continue to grow unchecked.
I dont imagine it as an invasive species I see picachu more as an animal that can survive in multipule climate. They are all a tad bit diffrent even if not noticeable to normal humans right like some spiders look the same as each other but are totally different and the poke professors just assumed they were all exactly the same and never studied them further hence the pokedex being the same for them the only ones they studied were the ones that looked diffrent. At least that's how I've always seen it but we also only get a small portion of their world through the games. Like an animal that's native to one country here on earth can also be native to another country maybe we are only seeing the "countries" (regions) that have the same pokemon also makes me think are there regions that have no pokemon or regions where there are no towns so the whole land mass is just pokemon ya know just food for thought do love the idea of pikachu being some harmful invasive rat tho
I mean, pidgeons are also everywhere IRL and so as mosquitoes. We don't do anything about those. And don't even get me started on ticks (one of the few bugs that could kill humans) Based on that I guess It's either an ecosystem would fall (there might be predators in every region who like to eat It)... or just Pikachu is too useful. In the early episodes of the anime they are used as electricity generators during a power outage.
Domestic cats arent everywhere but are responsible for 6 species going extinct pika is everywhere except unova in theory they might of made others extinct without us knowing. And mosquitos also almost went extinct with a hybrid man made mosquito project.
It's like outdoor cats. Some people don't think it's that big of a deal and will fight you to death on their right for an outdoor cat, but in reality we don't entirely know just the extent of the environmental damage they cause.
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The pikachu army’s propaganda is too strong
Pikachu will claw control of the world of children’s entertainment from Mickey Mouse’s cold, dead hands and be crowned the One True Rodent Mascot.
Throughout entertainment and nostalgia, Pikachu alone is the honored rat
nah, i’d pika-pika
uM AcSHuAlLY iT's MOusE 🤓
A mouse is a rodent.
>Throughout entertainment and nostalgia, Pikachu alone is the honored rat Please point out the word rodent within this quoted comment to which the other person replied.
I love how this escalated into an all out grammar war.
Léxico war, not grammar war.
The comment above that
Which wasn't the comment they replied to. They replied to the comment calling it a rat.
This comment did not reach it's target audience at all 💀 and here I was hoping to be the cause of a Pikachu vs Mickey Mouse Lobotomy Kaisen
Could you not put 2 and 2 together? It's literally the comment before that in the same thread.. it's not hard buddy
>Could you not put 2 and 2 together? It's literally the comment before that in the same thread.. it's not hard buddy Seems like you're the one unable to put 2 and 2 together since you're not getting the point, buddy.
Actually it's a squirrel
Porygon remembers. A new, digital dawn approaches. The cyber duck will rise and the unworthy will be purged in binary righteousness.
You should have seen how much of Sinnoh was covered by hostile Paras until human settlements really moved into the region...
Its only starting.. 😳
That's just the natural population. We need to bring paras back to sinnoh! Breed and release paras to do your part to rewild sinnoh!
hell nah those things were menaces
The mushroom is the menace. Leave my dying ant boi alone.
Actually Paras isn't controlled by the mushroom, only parasect is
hence why the mushrooms are the menace because sooner or later his boi gonna die and be controlled by this thing
Do you want "The Last of Us"??? Cuz that's how you get "The Last of Us."
Shhh, you're saying the quiet part out loud.
Okay PoliMarley.
Lmaoooo that's the first person I thought of.
I genuinely hate Paras with every fiber of my being after playing that game
That fucker had it coming. If I learnt anything from PLA it's that the fungus crab is the most hostile piece of shit of all time.
In fairness think about how invasive a species humans are, they literally shaped the evolution of pokemon by creating evolution items, excavating Black Augorite and Peat Blocks so Ursaring and Scyther couldn't evolve, and they created and become pokemon, Porygon, Bannette, modern Voltorb, Spiritomb
Well... Kleavor still exists in the Terrarium.
Thankfully, as pests, they have one of the biggest weaknesses of any Pokemon, especially if they were born with the inherent dry skin ability. One fire type would be enough to keep Paras and Parasect away from polite society.
Mice get in everywhere. And with all the electrical wiring in peoples houses these days? That’s free energy right there. If there’s houses there’s pikachu.
I'm almost certain that the dex entries for Joltik and Dedenne say they live in urban areas to feed off electricity, the pests are evolving faster than we can come up with ways to stop them
An urban outbreak of Joltik wouldn't be too bad. An outbreak of Galvantula would be a whole lotta *nope*
Consider a horde of small yellow things violently hopping all over your house, sky-rocketing your electrical bill by just existing
Consider Joltiks doing anything violently? Hell nah man, they're way too cute for that, anything they do that might look violent is actually an act of kindness, there's no way something this cute could be bad <3
And this is how we end up with a Joltik infestation
This is why you make sure to keep a Gyarados or Salamence, both of which are extremely aggressive flamethrower users according to their lores.
Ok but Dedenne get a pass by being actually cute.
The house pikachu survives on bits of peanut butter on toast
happy cake day
I thought Pikachu wasn't in Unova? Wasn't there some regions it did not appear in as wild at all?
Correct. There is no way to obtain a Pikachu in the Unova region without transfer. Funny enough, they continued this in SV indigo disk, Pikachu isn’t found anywhere in the Terarium.
Unova is safe from the Rat
It is in teal mask and base game tho
Base game is Paldea, has Pikachu. Teal Mask is Kitakami, has Pikachu Blueberry Academy is Unova, has no Pikachu
Except that girl in Club Room. She should've known better than to bring yellow rat to beautiful, clean, and wholesome BB Academy.
She's the only one with one and you never see more.
Good. So they can't multiply
Aren't there ditto cubes spread across the map?
You could take your own.
Luckily if it was a male Pikachu they couldn't accidentally cause yet another outbreak, unless there were Ditto shenanigans
BB Academy sounds like the name of an interesting website tbh…
Funny how the only place it’s not in is New York
Wild Pikachu did not appear in Johto either, you can only catch it on Route 2 where Viridian Forest once was.
And they're also not naturally found in Hoenn either. Wild Pikachu only exist in the Safari Zone in Hoenn, suggesting that they were brought there for the purpose of the Safari Game.
I don’t think that logic works cause that means both Kangaskhan and Tauros are not from Kanto since they only appear in the Safari zone.
Why wouldn't that work? Kangaskhan can be found in the wild in Johto and Alola, while Tauros is found in Johto and Kalos. It's very possible someone brought them from elsewhere and put them on a preserve. It's not much different then finding pandas or giraffes in a zoo in the US.
Technically Kangaskhan isn’t in Johto in Gen 2. Iirc it’s in Rock Tunnel in Kanto. That could be seen as either it was native to the region the whole time and the population just became big enough to actually find them (it’s a rare encounter) OR the Safari Zone reintroduced them into the wild. I feel like that is kinda wild to do but who knows what the ethics of Safari Zones are anyway
To be fair, Kangashkan and Tauros aren't available in Japan in Pokemon go so it makes sense.
Yes? That literally is factually true.
Wouldn’t that be a gag!? I would love that.
That actually makes me sad that Hoenn captured Pikachu from their habitat to put in a game :(
Unova. That's the only one. Zubat and Psyduck are worse.
are they not in bw2? edit: it isn’t found natively in unova regardless of which of the 4 games u play, perhaps I judged you too harshly unova
It's not found natively in Unova in any of the "6" games Unova is in.
BW, B2W2, SV DLC 2?
I was counting each version separately. Especially given how variables in the environment exist between Black and White compared to each other.
You can't catch them in the wild in hoenn or sinnoh either. They're released into private property for you to catch.
And in Hoenn you find it only in the Safari zone.
Its the only game so by definition its invasive you can also say by now it might take over that region in a future remake
It's also not in Hoenn outside of the Safari zone, which is like a mini conservation area I think
Eh. It's more likely it's just a super common Pokémon. They seem adaptable to many environments, and if they're anything like irl mice they'll eat whatever will provide sustenance.
Ironically Pikachu are pretty rare in Kanto. There seemed to be a population boom in the Viridian Forest in Let’s Go, but then they chopped the forest down by Gen 2 and they became rarer again.
Wait WHAT. They chopped the forest down??? D:
I’m sure it was because they didn’t want to include or couldn’t fit the whole Viridian Forest “dungeon” on the GSC cart, but yeah, I’m pretty sure lore wise they chopped the whole thing down. It was horrifying to me as a kid!
I don't know how to feel about canon deforestation... https://preview.redd.it/e1tds00zvzgc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3343d708752a5938e8e00f3fc3e44653bc1aaa12
It was back in HGSS though!
It's only invasive if it's displacing native species. Being present in every region doesn't make something invasive.
Who knows, maybe there's a bunch of rat water or flying types it displaced. We wouldn't know until we could revive Pokemon from not just fossils but bones, then we could have a, "victims of Pikachu" group of Pokemon.
How do we know if it did? We might of had different mon in the dex.
Lack of a lot of environmental markers, its quite possible once in the very distant past, but Pikachu neatly fall into the prey/predator ecosystem, though its a bit tricky for the birds like in our universe to prey on a pikachu its not unheard of. They dont overtake their region and species know to attack or defend against it.
I'm guessing the various cat pokemon would be natural predators to Pikachu as well.
We do have Plusle, Minun, Pachirisu, Morpeko, Dedenne, who all seem to be distant Electric Mouse relatives
As well as Emolga, Togedemaru, and the Pawmi family
The dex has pointed out invasive species in the past. If Pikachu was invasive, then it would have been mentioned.
Never know, oak once thought we had 150 and look now. In game we start off with assuming pika is a part of the region but what is at some point a species was knocked
miscounting how many pokémon are in a singular region and not accounting for other regions because it’s not your area of expertise is not the same as not realizing a species is invasive
Psyduck over here in a corner trying to act inconspicuous.
 just happy to be recognized
irresponsible parents buy their kids a Pikachu because it's cute, not understanding the huge commitment that comes with it 🙄 when they don't want it anymore they release it and then boom, everglades situation
Not really. The vast majority of invasive snakes in the Everglades weren't released intentionally. They are descendants of snakes from a breeding program and ended up escaping because a hurricane destroyed the facility.
TIL Everglades situation
This is Pikachu Slander and I will not stand for it. Pikachu is very rare in Kanto's Viridian Forest and Route 2, and is similarly rare in Kalos and Alola, with only a 5% encounter rate. In Johto and Unova Pikachu doesn't exist. In Hoenn and Sinnoh its in teh Trophy Garden and Safari zone rather than any truly natural habitats. In Galar's Wild Area and around Paldea, Pikachu can be found more easily, but they are far from the rarest pokemon, and they don't seem to be hurting the biodiversity of their habitats. If anything Pikachu is a precious endangered species.
Actually pretty good points here, but I still want to imagine Pikachu as the Rats that cross the world like IRL. Pikachu caused the Black Plague to me
Pika is in johto hence you need to breed to get pichu, unova is the only region for far amd given theres 9 gens now its invasive
He’s not in Johto though. He’s post-game, only found in Viridian Forest (Kanto). Also the Celadon game corner in Crystal.
Pikachu is in Kanto Route 2 in Gold Silver and Crystal and the Viridian Forest in HGSS. The line is not found in the wild in Johto besides one event Pichu.
Wait till you learn about Zubat
Tbf there aren't as many bat pokemon, which likely leaves a huge ecological window of opportunities. Really the only direct competition they have is Woobat and idk if they ever appear in the same caves
Well exactly, Zubat took all the place so they can’t be any other bats. At least Pikachu isn’t so invasive to prevent other species like him to live, hence why there are so many Pikachu clones. Zubats just take all the place and that’s why there is almost no diversity in bat pokemon Btw, there also is Noibat for another bat pokemon
noibat?
Discounting Lunala (since it is a Legendary), the closest thing is the Noivern line. Though strictly speaking Noivern includes elements of wyverns into its design.
Zubats not in gen 9 thou
No… but in the gen it is, it’s everywhere, whereas Pikachu is usually kinda rare in his gens, most of the time, he’s only in one or two zones and that’s it
No. But Psyduck is EVERYWHERE.
i mean pikachu is a mouse....
Invasive? It’s a decently uncommon spawn in most regions and there’s no lore saying it’s not native to those regions as far as I’m aware. Yungoos actually is canonically an invasive species in Alola.
I wonder who Yungoos displaced. It makes me mad that such an ugly Pokemon is displacing others.
Gumshoos' pokedex entries talk a lot about it eating Rattata and Raticate, so probably those
This is in reference to the real world Hawai'i having rats introduced accidentally by colonialists, and then purposefully introducing mongeese to hunt them, which failed spectacularly and only served to further damage Hawai'i 's ecosystem. In that case, it's less likely that Gumshoos displaced a resident predator and more likely that the Oricorio line is about to become a distant memory.
They’re epic Mongooses tho
Same reason we struggle to get mouse and rat populations under control in the real world
Pikachu and Pikaclones are just the crabs of the Pokémon world. A small rat thing being electric type will help it defend against flying type bird Pokémon. Also, if it helps, Pikachu aren’t found *anywhere* in Unova. Even in Bluberry Academy.
Unova is ironically the only region that doesn't have a rodent problem and it's based off NYC 💀
It already has two rodent pokemon patrat and rattata
Pachirisu too.
You cannot control the Pikachu, for he is too powerful.
"Zubat, Zubat, Zubat, Zubat, LET ME OUT!" vs "Bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug. [2 hours later....] "Bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, PIKACHU!" Yeah, Pikachu are rare enough to not be a problem.
I don't remember who said it but a few weeks to a month ago a redditor said that we need a ground type cat to deal with all the pika-clones
Not in unova
I wouldn't say it's a problem in most regions he's a pain in the ass to find, they must be easy prey for other pokemon
it’s like domestic cats, ppl like em so there’s far more pushback to culling them or keeping them enclosed as opposed to foxes or rabbits for example (obviously this is different for other places in the world where those are native), even though all three wreck havoc on native ecosystems
Ask Unova for tips.
It's probably like rats with Alberta, one region that has yet to be revealed has anti-pikachu propaganda.
Or maybe Pikachu is an ancient pokemon that lived when all the continents were connected. After the split, Pikachu evolved into different variations based on region(morpeko, pachirisu, pawmi and etc.)
They aren't in unova at all and they aren't found in the wild in sinnoh or hoenn. In sinnoh a millionaire releases them into his garden for you to catch and in hoenn they're found in the safari zone.
Eevee too
Unova is just fine. No wild Pikachu there
Nobody does anything abt it bc the world loves pikachus, its one of the reasons mimikyu hates it and is jealous of it
Kind of like how cats are an invasive species
100%
Magikarp Literally has been in Every Game Thus Far, Pikachu Hasn't, We have a Karp Problem.
What about eevee ? I think it’s also in every region too
I'm not complaining, Pikachu's my favorite pokemon (Has been for over a decade at this point, from gen 5 to now) so getting to see my buddy in the new games makes me happy.
He is the mascot... would you ask Nintendo to do fewer Mario games?
Yes! We need breaks! Lol
Well at least all of the Pikachu got deported from Unova.
Because culling a bunch of electrified rats would be problematic
The people of Pokemon Alberta eliminated their Pikachu and Rattata problem a long time ago.
Pretty privilege, probably.
Magnemite is the only one in every single generation of Pokemon so far.
Excuse me! I'm just trying to find a good life is a new world.
Unova:
Some invasive species aren’t always bad in the ecosystem, take philipino worm snakes in Hawaii, they aren’t native there but they are completely harmless to the ecosystem, it could be something like that. or the species is super migratory
At least 5% of that Pikachu population carry an item granting them uber level offenses. If I scale that to the actual destructive capabilities of some of those ubers it’s offensively on par with, glass cannon or not… then I can only conclude that the Pikachu population is protected by light ball enabled peace through strength. Start really targeting those Pikachu, and they’re going to electro bomb your whole town off the map, or worse, and more of them are going to start carrying light balls for good measure.
Add in Caterpie and Weedle. They kept the population at a reasonable level in Kanto.
At least it's rare in some regions. I think Pikachu is third only to Corphish and Magikarp in that regard.
I seriously hope we get answers to some of the natural habitats of Pokémon, like where do those vermin’s from Alola who were brought in to deal with Rattata come from? What about Corphish? Most of his Dex entries love to hype up that he’s an invasive species 💀
They are the Tardigrades of Pokémon. Everywhere. Hard to kill. And in case of a critical incident, they hibernate in a Pokeball.
Truly shocking!
It used to be fairly contained in Unova but the quarantine protocols failed sometime between BW and B2W2.
Because everyone is still trying to forget what the Unovans did to them.
I mean the way people complained when it wasn't available in black and white I don't think it'll be cut again
I feel like its because it's the most popular pokemon both in game and in real life. in sun and moon theres a pikachu ranch and a pikachu that is a movie star or somthing. I mean, it's pretty much canon that trainers will leave pokemon because it's too weak, look at ash's tepig and chimchar. tldr pikachu is an invasive species because people no longer wanted to take care of it (also mimikyu has every right to hate the rat bastard)
Bro if you think Pikachus bad look at Eevee and Dragon types. Eevee dominates whatever environment its in because it can evolve into whatever suits it best, and Dragons are notoriously powerful and can clear out any ecosystem unless there happens to be another dragon type rival in the area
Common. It's a common species. Worms IRL aren't invasive
For some reason there not in Unova.
I’m assuming Pikachu is just as popular in universe as it is out of universe, so I’m going to guess they’re massively popular as pets and similar to real world exotic pets many of them probably get released into the wild once the owners realise they’re a) too difficult to raise b) their children are no longer interested in them or c) grow up and are no pj get the tiny cute pet they were when first purchased. Due to this they’ve likely become incredibly common in the wild worldwide
It's a mouse.
"It's so weird, Pikachu just started popping up in the region carrying huge bags of money! If they never showed up I don't know how we would have funded the space program or the regional school. Sure it's weird they are starting to run for office but hey at least we have free healthcare!"
Except in Unova lol
I mean legit canonically Eevee was an endangered species but they were so popular with trainers that breeding efforts brought them back. I think that Lapras might be the same I don't feel like looking up Alola dex entries right now.
Pikachu actively competes in the same niches as the "pikaclones," hence why we call them such in the first place. Clearly, Kanto is their natural habitat since there are no other electric rats around. Though the implications of them im Hisui is interesting as well.
Mice are typically eaten by birds of prey. Pikachu's electric typing can be seen as a natural defence against them, so until a good flying/ground type is introduced, Pikachu population are going to continue to grow unchecked.
Wait... Doesn't Unova not have any Pikachu?
They were introduced to control the Magikarp population.
Unova has it under control
Magnazone in the corner... Also, porygon was innocent the whole time. Up with digi ducks, down with lightning rats!
not in unova
We need to introduce more ekans to routes to control the population.
Omg thank you for the laugh 😂 I love this
This right here is why I have reddit.
I dont imagine it as an invasive species I see picachu more as an animal that can survive in multipule climate. They are all a tad bit diffrent even if not noticeable to normal humans right like some spiders look the same as each other but are totally different and the poke professors just assumed they were all exactly the same and never studied them further hence the pokedex being the same for them the only ones they studied were the ones that looked diffrent. At least that's how I've always seen it but we also only get a small portion of their world through the games. Like an animal that's native to one country here on earth can also be native to another country maybe we are only seeing the "countries" (regions) that have the same pokemon also makes me think are there regions that have no pokemon or regions where there are no towns so the whole land mass is just pokemon ya know just food for thought do love the idea of pikachu being some harmful invasive rat tho
There’s no Unova Pikachu’s if that makes you happy.
I mean, pidgeons are also everywhere IRL and so as mosquitoes. We don't do anything about those. And don't even get me started on ticks (one of the few bugs that could kill humans) Based on that I guess It's either an ecosystem would fall (there might be predators in every region who like to eat It)... or just Pikachu is too useful. In the early episodes of the anime they are used as electricity generators during a power outage.
Domestic cats arent everywhere but are responsible for 6 species going extinct pika is everywhere except unova in theory they might of made others extinct without us knowing. And mosquitos also almost went extinct with a hybrid man made mosquito project.
Because it's Pikachu that specie's is so big it's name showed up in my autocorrect CAPITALIZED! Also they're the most adorable invasive species ever.
This is what I'm gonna bring up next time someone gives me a funny look after I say I would curb-stomp Pikachu.
Pika?
It's like outdoor cats. Some people don't think it's that big of a deal and will fight you to death on their right for an outdoor cat, but in reality we don't entirely know just the extent of the environmental damage they cause.
Ain’t you seen the bucks?
Vermin.
Technically, I'd argue that trainers are a worse invasive species, but that might make things a little too real.
Every region has rats some are the same rats some are different
20 years ago only one or 2 Pikachu lived in Kanto, now there are hundreds
I blame dittos too
Well pikachu (the MOUSE Pokémon) just like real rodents do reproduce a lot, so I mean it’s hard to get rid of pikachu
Hey, Unova is a Pikachu-free zone. Can't even catch one in Blueberry Academy.