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Spiky-Eared Pichu
ギザみみピチュー Gizamimi Pichu
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Spiky-Eared Pichu (Japanese: ギザみみピチュー Gizamimi Pichu) is a female Pichu. Her physical appearance is no different from an ordinary Pichu, other than the three spikes at the tip of her left ear, hence her name.
In the anime
The Spiky-Eared Pichu appeared in the movie Arceus and the Jewel of Life as Damos's friend. She helped Pikachu and Piplup find the keys for Ash, Dawn, Brock and Damos to escape from their jail cell after they were imprisoned by Marcus.
She was first mentioned at the end of a movie preview when movie director Kunihiko Yuyama talked about a "small, yellow Electric-type that would save the world."
She also has an ending dedicated to her.
Moves used
In the games
She appears in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver as an event Pokémon obtained in Ilex Forest. She will appear and join the player's party if the Pikachu-colored Pichu is brought to the shrine as the first Pokémon in the party. She has her own unique in-battle and overworld sprites and cannot evolve or be traded outside of HeartGold and SoulSilver. Aside from her unique sprite, moves, and inability to be traded or evolve, she is identical to a normal Pichu in terms of stats. Her maximum stats for the Pokéthlon are different from a regular Pichu. Interestingly, however, her base stats do not differ from a normal Pichu's; the same trend occurs with most other Pokémon with multiple forms which share their base stats, such as Rotom or Arceus. If a Pokémon uses Transform on it, it will have a spiky ear.
Shiny sprites for Spiky-Eared Pichu exist in the coding of the games, although it remains unknown if this special Pichu has the 1 in 8192 chance of being shiny like all other Pokémon encountered in the wild. It is highly likely that the data was only included, as in the case of Template:Type2 Arceus, to prevent the game from crashing if someone was to hack the game, or by default due to every other form difference having both normal and shiny forms despite availability of these Pokémon as shiny.
If taken to Professor Elm, it is revealed that she has traveled through time with Celebi. Elm claims that he and Professor Oak were researching the time travel abilities of Celebi, and claims that this Pichu proves his main theory. He adds that the reason it cannot evolve is because it has been time traveling for so long. He will then call all the Pokémon Center attendants to prevent Spiky-Eared Pichu from being used in trades.
Pokéthlon stats
Sprites
In the manga
In the manga adaptation of the movie, Spiky-Eared Pichu is a wild Pokémon that the characters meet in the distant past. She assists the characters in escaping from the movie's main antagonist, Marcus.
In the TCG
In the Ilex Forest with the Pikachu-colored shiny Pichu
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Spiky-Eared Pichu in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
Trivia
- A picture of a Pikachu short poster that featured the Spiky-Eared Pichu alongside Pikachu and Piplup was leaked several days before this Pokémon was officially revealed.
- Spiky-Eared Pichu is apparently very fond of Grepa Berries.
- Spiky-Eared Pichu's inability to be traded outside of HeartGold and SoulSilver can be explained as being preventative of trading an alternate form to a game in which it does not appear, as happens in Platinum when entering the trade center with Rotom in an appliance or Giratina in its Origin Forme, by returning them to the forms they appeared in in Diamond and Pearl. As Spiky-Eared Pichu cannot freely change between forms, it is ultimately unable to be traded at all.
See also
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Pichu.
