Detective Pikachu Mewtwo/Pikachu downgrade

[Ionliosite]

Thunderbolt, Electro Ball and Volt Tackle are the 3 moves listed on his profile. This is something literally any Pikachu can have, and it toally isn't only his.

 

[Imaginym]

Technically, Volt Tackle isn't that common a move. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Volt_Tackle_(move)#Learnset

From Emerald onwards, a Pichu where either parent held a Light Ball will know Volt Tackle. In Generation 7, move tutors are needed for it. Otherwise, it's the move of a gift Pikachu in Pokemon Battle Revolution, via the Pokewalker, or an Event Move.

So yes, there could be any number of Pikachu that know Volt Tackle, but I'm not sure what circumstances easiest allow the Pikachu Harry was in the body of to know Volt Tackle.

Presumably, it'd have to be a Pikachu born as a Pichu, born to parents where one held a Light Ball.

And there may not be many ways to relearn it if it's forgotten after being born with it.

 

[Ionliosite]

A lot of that is not really important, since any number of Pikachu can have Volt Tackle and we've seen quite a few of them across media beyond just Ash. Volt Tackle may be uncommon, but it's still a regular move a Pikachu can have.

 

[Imaginym]

I mean, I suppose in theory, it's possible all of those Pikachu, the one Harry entered the body of, knew Volt Tackle as a result of one of a parent Pikachu (Or Raichu) holding a Light Ball, given wild Pikachu can have an LB as a held item. (Or found a tutor or something.)

I'm not sure how many individuals in media other than the games have how they had Volt Tackle be made evident to the audience, but I suppose there's at least one plausible way for all individuals without a specified explanation.

(How Harry remembered the move, I don't know. I would've thought he wouldn't know how, due to being an amnesiac. Unless he found the Detective Pikachu setting's equivalent of a tutor or a move relearner that works for a move first learned at birth, in an evolution prior to what the Pokemon was when Harry entered its body.)

 

[ProfessorKukui4Life]

Not to mention, Harry's not even a trainer. Least not anymore. His main stichk in the story is being a detective instead of a battler, so we don't have anything that even suggests his pikachu is even a well trained one in the first place.

 

[Super_Ascended_Sean_Pazdera]

Except he battled Sebastian's Charizard, who IS a frequent battler, and won prior to the events of the story.

 

[Ionliosite]

So you say the Detective Pikachu should be scaled to that Charizard?

 

[DatOneWeeb]

To be fair, he probably won via type advantage.

 

[Super_Ascended_Sean_Pazdera]

So you say the Detective Pikachu should be scaled to that Charizard?

Oh yes. In the movie Detective Pikachu only couldn't hurt him because he couldn't use any moves at the time.

 

[Super_Ascended_Sean_Pazdera]

We should also make a Game Detective Pikachu profile too.

 

[Ionliosite]

Oh yes. In the movie Detective Pikachu only couldn't hurt him because he couldn't use any moves at the time.

So your solution to this issue is scaling Pikachu to 7-A for fighting a Charizard. Got it.

 

[Super_Ascended_Sean_Pazdera]

> THAT Charizard

 

[Ionliosite]

Ok, so, literally what I said. Charizard is 7-A in case you missed it.

 

[Super_Ascended_Sean_Pazdera]

Sebastian's is not.

 

[Ionliosite]

Why? It's a Charizard, Charizard is 7-A by default unless it has higher feats on a consistent basis.

 

[Super_Ascended_Sean_Pazdera]

If that were the case in the Detective Pikachu universe, Pikachu wouldn't have been put at Wall Level in the first place.

 

[Ionliosite]

Which is why I'm saying the profile is absolutely wrong, since a Pikachu can't possibly be Wall level, that's below even a Pichu.

 

[Super_Ascended_Sean_Pazdera]

So you WANTED me to say he's 7-A?

 

[Ionliosite]

No, I don't want you to say. It's just that you say he scales to a Charizard, and Charizards are 7-A.