Game Theory: You're WRONG About Ash's Pikachu! (Pokemon)

We did it? I think we finally got it after five full seasons of anime 276 episodes chasing this

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through Kanto Johto and the orange islands we finally got it, that's a lot of episodes and I think it's worth celebrating. We can do it? Please yes, I believe we can do what yes, prepare for trouble and double down on it to protect the world from devastation, unite all people within our nation, expose the evils of truth and love, extend our reach to the stars above matpat dan. the team theorist takes off at the speed of light surrender now or prepare to fight meow, that's a really weak

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The YouTube bozos realize that he is only level 40. What but how can it be? We've covered almost 300 episodes and five movies, I don't know. maybe things will get better in the next 300 hello internet, welcome to

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, level 99 headache for any developer who doesn't think about the details of their fictional universe, as an example of the latest episode of the Pokémon anime that is presented to us. a problem season 14 episode 1 the beginning of the black and white arc pikachu faces a trainer's new level 5, snivy, and loses and not only loses after landing a blow pikachu is hit twice by snivy and faints, it's a explosion and it's Absurd at this point in the series, Ash's adventures have covered 600 episodes and 13 movies, he's been to five regions with a total of 52 badges, as if it shouldn't be physically possible for that loss to have happened, literally, running numbers I shouldn't. have happened and last time we started on an impossible mission calculating pikachu's actual level at the time of the snivy battle to show how impossible pikachu's defeat would be here and yes sure the mechanics don't fully translate to the anime, etc., but we can roughly translate what we know from the

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s to the anime to get a general idea of ​​how strong Pikachu should be at this point in his adventure, but to do so we had to watch the show literally every episode from start to finish because , i guess.

Friends, before our research, there was no complete list of all of Pikachu's fights in the anime, so as our bleeding eyes can attest, now there's a long story short. I don't want to see Brock awkwardly staring at women again in the last episode. we were able to get to the end of the johto arc at the beginning of season six. 276 episodes in pikachu was at a surprisingly low 40. but when you really look at the data, it makes sense that what we found while looking was that he doesn't fight as much as you might think in the anime.

Sure, Pikachu regularly takes off from Team Rocket, but he participates in real battles against other mods that can give him experience. Pikachu averages between 20 and 25 fights per arc, which isn't all. a lot relative to the number of episodes, instead he's usually sidelined for whatever shiny new Pokémon the anime wants to push from that generation, giving him limited opportunities to get stronger so how powerful is pikachu , well, we have another 324 episodes and eight cover movies and I'm determined this won't be a three-way, so let's start a lot more always, you don't have to rub it in with the advanced Pokémon theme, you don't have to rub it in as we get started.

Some quick reminders to find the experience of fighting Pokémon if they are wild. I'm taking the route they are on and using the mid-level number for that route for trainer battles. Instead, I'm using the average level or average level for all trainers on that route by adding them all together and then dividing by the number of trainers with Gym Leaders and Team Rocket appearances. I'm just using the level of those Pokémon directly from the games. Here is the equation we are putting all that information into. which I went into much greater detail last time and lastly we're going to take pikachu's total experience and find the cube root because pikachu is part of the fast medium experience category and if you have any questions about the battles or the facts and figures, I use a The link to the full paper is in the description below this video, right next to the subscribe button.

Figure, if you haven't pressed him yet, you probably should, because let's face it, no other person in the world is going to take such a dumb question so seriously. You clicked on the video so clearly that you are at least moderately interested in getting the answers to this kind of thing, so join the community of theorists. Already 46 of you are not subscribed, right? Isn't that what it's supposed to be? Saying which brings us to the next stop on our hohen journey and this is where things really get interesting. You see, there's a

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online written by Reddit user Joe's Cool that claims that Pikachu's level resets at the beginning of all other regions, not including Orange. islands to quote that original theory in the final episode of johto, hohen alone, james shoots a giant magnet which causes a bunch of things to emerge and hit Ash, knocking him unconscious, also, pikachu gets trapped in the magnet and his electricity runs out .

The events cause Ash to lose part of his memory and Pikachu to lose the power he gained during his journey. This explains why Ash and Pikachu seem to reboot. They both get caught up in an accident that seriously injures them and this is a great theory that explains a lot or at least it would if the episodes didn't directly contradict everything and again I know because I have to watch them all to make the theory, I'm sure we'll see pikachu overload at the end of johto pikachu if you're on fire You must have a high fever, but in the next episode, at the beginning of Hoenn, we are told several times that Pikachu can recover and return to his normal state.

The production of Pikachu is incredible. It seems like Pikachu's electrical pressure has reached normal levels and all. Not even mentioning the fact that Ash's memory seems to be completely unaffected by all of this. Something similar happens in In the Shadow of Zekrom, the first black and white episode of the series. In this episode, Pikachu and Ash get caught in a storm cloud and Pikachu gets trapped. overloaded by Zekrom's electricity Pikachu is completely engulfed within a powerful electric field, all the electric energy Pikachu absorbed from the storm was too much and that would explain why Pikachu can't use any electric type moves and although it certainly seems to hinder him temporarily.

Pikachu's level again does not reset as even without electricity he can still use advanced moves like the iron tail which, as we saw earlier in the anime, Pikachu had trouble learning. It's also worth noting that Pikachu fully recovers one episode later and was also upset. Being overcharged is a very common occurrence throughout the series with no long term consequences for your power levels, anyway, all of which is to say that there is no solid evidence that the levels are reset here and it would also ruin the game. fun to find out what the big problem is.

The number is at the end of this, so Owen, the playable region of Ruby Sapphire and then Emerald, this region spans four full seasons of the anime and Ash once again uses Pikachu as his main Pokémon, which means many more battles for he. Things start simple. It's just a basic journey following the games' path, but halfway through things get a little fun as Season 8 shifts to follow Pokémon Emerald more closely to coincide with the release of that game. You can see this in episode 18 of season 8 with the introduction of juan who is the eighth gym leader in emerald, unlike wallace from ruby ​​and sapphire, the anime also includes the battle frontier who is only present in

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emerald, in the end there were 47 total region wins for pikachu, almost double that of any of the previous arcs instead of reading all that information, which would be silly and long and tedious and no one wants to hear it, i'll just list them here with episode number path and level.

Yes, I told you there were many and like I said. The Google Doc will be linked in the description below, so if you really want to dig in, you can find all the information there anyway. The main place to stop is right at Meow, this is where Ash goes to the battle border and engages. The brain of the frontier now, how the battle frontier works in Pokémon Emerald is that there are two categories of play, level 50 and open level. Level 50 is the first class for Pokémon level 50 or lower and all opposing Pokémon will be at level 50 while they are open.

Level means that any Pokémon above level 50 can enter and the opponent's Pokémon will match your highest level Pokémon. Luckily for us, at this point in the series, Pikachu is actually capped at 47. So it only qualifies for the level 50 mode, which means all of the frontier brain Pokémon will be leveled up to 50. I love it. when things go well after beating the brains, he only gains one level and so Pikachu finishes the Hoenn region at level 48. Next, Sinnoh and this region, Owen was very easy, nothing. Complicated, easy to follow, but I knew it was too good to be true.

Sinnoh was determined to break me another four seasons region, another 49 battles which you can see here, but the worst part, the worst worst part, was Team Rocket first, you, Jesse and James in the immortal words of markiplier it's a great time for the brain, so the first Pokémon that Pikachu encounters in the Sinnoh region is Dawn's new piplup, which is pretty easy, it's level 5, all the starter Pokémon are, however, in that first episode, Pikachu too meets Meowth Mime Jr and Wabafet from Team Rocket. Of course, it makes quick work of it, but the problem is that we have very little to continue with in the levels.

Mime Jr is probably the least complicated, as we see him use the imitation moves in episode 17 of season 9. We also know that the move is based on Evolution is considered important within the Pokémon anime universe, as he later , in Diamond and Pearl, Apom learns the double strike and shortly after evolves into Ambipom, so although it has been a while since Mime Jr used Mimic, he couldn't have leveled up, otherwise he would have evolved into Mr. Mine means that Mime Jr here in this battle is at level 32. While that's a little harder to understand, but we know that he was traded in route 34 of the Johto region, which would have brought him to roughly level 11.

So let's go. With the idea that he has traveled two regions and taking into account Pikachu's level increase, I put him at level 40. However, the most difficult thing in this case is Meowth. The last time we saw him lose a battle was in Kanto, where I estimated his level was 31. It would be safe to assume that he grew at the same rate as Arbok and Wheeze until they were released, meaning at this point I have estimated that Meowth is at level 70, which I know seems high, but again it's not going to reach all that. A big difference in the final count.

The last anomaly in this region is the battle tower that Ash takes over during his time in Twin Leaf Town, season 12 episode 36. The battle tower in diamonds and pearls is slightly different than the battle border. in that the only option is level 50 with all Pokémon in your party dropping to that level regardless of their actual level, since this throws up a lot of calculations. Instead I went for the open level approach from the battle front, making his opponents the same level as Pikachu which at this point is 58. and now we're finally here after Pikachu fights a few more Pokémon, finally we are in the universal region, this is once again where the series tries to do a soft reboot trying to make ash and pikachu seem like a new team, however we know this is not true at all.

Ash retains all of his memories of his trip so far. When Dawn rejoins the team, we have this interaction and later when Dawn specifically asks about Brock cooking for her and Ash on the trip. We also know that Pikachu retains all of the moves he's learned up to this point, like Iron Tail, which it's unlikely a new Pokémon trainer would have taught a new Pikachu, even the show half-heartedly sticks to its own reboot as in that same one. episode, we find it hard to say that pikachu is back to level 5 when he is actively being called the most powerful pikachu in the world, so with all that said, it means that here we are, we have finally reached that final grand level of pikachu in his battle. vs snivy what is the level 90 100 200 we will buckle up because that number is after compiling all 148 of pikachu's battles in over 600 episodes and doing very elaborate calculations to get there please pikachu's final level is 61.

Kind of disappointing, right? has gone through five entire regions, most people are getting close to that level after doing a single run through a game, even if you didn't like some of them.My estimates for Team Rocket battles, if we remove them completely from the equation, would still put only Pikachu. at level 59. Any way you look at it, he's not as powerful as we all think he should be. I've seen forums of people online saying it must be a hundred, if the levels are over a hundred, right now it would be like a thousand. period, but after sitting down and poring over all the episodes looking for every little detail, I can definitely tell you that's not the case, he's in his early 60s at best, so what does that mean for our battle against the navy?

Simply put, Snivy should still do it. I've been toast, as I mentioned at the beginning, Pikachu is the first to land a hit with a successful quick attack to give Snivy the best possible chance. Let's assume this is just the best level 5 you could get with one HP. of 21 and defense of 12 and let's also say that pikachu is my lowest estimate of level 59. at that level, pikachu's lowest attack stat could be 69 with a bn40 fast attack base power and the randomization function set to its lowest setting of 0.85. You can use the game's equations to calculate that Pikachu's attack would deal 95 damage and Snivy's 21 HP minus 95 damage equals. negative 74.

Snivy could be knocked out three more times with just that hit and to round it out, let's say that somehow way snivy survived the quick attack when he goes on the offensive his attack and special attack stats are 11. pikachu's lowest possible stats here would be hp 110 defense 52 special defense 64. let's also say that the randomizer hits at its highest point and both attacks are critical hits for snivy with a tackle that has a base power of 50 and a blade tornado that is 65, the highest total damage that could be done would be 32 hit points pikachu would still have 78 hp left so, Where does all this leave us?

Well I did it, I calculated what pikachu level is a task that no sane person has completed. I feel amazing and also very, very empty. The show is painfully repetitive anyway, kudos to Ash, sure you lost to Snivy, you don't know that you have to weaken a Pokémon before catching it and you didn't realize that bug Pokémon are weak against flying types, but it you achieved Win against the elite four using a Pokémon that's half their level and that has to factor into something, so maybe you're better than everyone gives you credit for Draco.

Is he a water type, not ash, is he a grass type, doesn't matter, he's still an idiot, but hey, that's it? just a theory a game theory thanks for watching