Spiky-eared Pichu

Spiky-eared Pichu ギザみみピチュー Gizamimi Pichu

Spiky-eared Pichu

Debuts in Arceus and the Jewel of Life Gender Female Ability Static Current location Michina Town (anime) Ilex Forest (games)

This Pokémon is fully evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Pichu Shōko Nakagawa Kayzie Rogers

Spiky-eared Pichu (Japanese: ギザみみピチュー Gizamimi Pichu) is a female Pichu. Her form is different from the one of an ordinary Pichu, as she has three spikes at the tip of her left ear, hence her name.

In the anime

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Pikachu with Spiky-eared Pichu

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. This ending displays her love for Grepa Berries.

She made an appearance in Meloetta's Moonlight Serenade.

Moves used

Using Iron Tail	Move First Used In Thunder Shock Arceus and the Jewel of Life Iron Tail Arceus and the Jewel of Life
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

In the games

Spiky-eared Pichu and Pikachu-colored Pichu in a Double Battle

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 (or one of its evolutions) 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 nearly identical to a normal Pichu in that her base stats are the same as a normal Pichu's. However, her maximum stats for the Pokéathlon are different. 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 is impossible to obtain due to the game assigning the Spiky-eared Pichu a fixed personality value that is predetermined according to the Trainer ID number and secret ID. This ensures that the personality value will never result in a Shiny nor a male Spiky-eared Pichu.

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 then calls all the Pokémon Center attendants to prevent Spiky-eared Pichu from being used in trades; however, the attendants do not permit it into a trading facility prior to this either. Spiky-eared Pichu is also unable to be transferred through the Poké Transfer into a Generation V game due to its past time traveling.

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, HeartGold, and SoulSilver when entering the trade center with Rotom in an appliance, Giratina in its Origin Forme, or Shaymin in its Sky Forme, by returning them to the forms they appeared in Diamond and Pearl. As Spiky-eared Pichu cannot freely change between forms, this explains the need to make her untradeable within Generation IV. However, it is unclear why her data does not exist in Generation V.

	Types: Electric Unknown Ability: Static Held item: Zap Plate
Pichu♀ Lv.30
Volt Tackle Electric Physical   --       Helping Hand Normal Status   --       Swagger Normal Status   --       Pain Split Normal Status   --

Pokéathlon stats

Speed 5/5 ★★★★★	Power 1/1 ★
Skill 3/5 ★★★☆☆	Stamina 1/3 ★☆☆
Jump 3/4 ★★★☆	Total 13/18 ★★☆

Artwork

Artwork from Arceus and the Jewel of Life	In the Ilex Forest with the Pikachu-colored Pichu	With the Pikachu-colored Pichu

Sprites

Sprite and back sprite	Shiny sprite and Shiny back sprite	Overworld sprite

In the manga

The Spiky-eared Pichu in Pokémon Adventures

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

The Spiky-eared Pichu first appeared in All About Arceus IX, where she was seen accompanying Gold's Pibu helping out Celebi in finding the herbs needed to cure Giovanni's disease. When several Team Rocket Grunts tried to stop Ken, Al and Harry from helping Celebi under Giovanni's orders, they accidentally trampled over the Pichu duo, which causes them to retaliate by shocking the Grunts with a combined electric attack. When Pichu met up with Gold, Gold saw Spiky-eared Pichu and was teasing Pibu about finding a date.

In the Arceus and the Jewel of Life 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

This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Spiky-eared Pichu in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Spiky-eared Pichu Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Spiky-eared Pichu					Movie Commemoration Random Pack		009/022
					Movie Commemoration Random Pack		010/022
					Movie Commemoration Random Pack		011/022
					DPt-P Promotional cards		042/DPt-P
					Unnumbered Promotional cards

Trivia

• A picture of a Pikachu short poster that featured Spiky-eared Pichu alongside Pikachu and Piplup was leaked several days before this Pokémon was officially revealed.
• Spiky-eared Pichu's sprite in HeartGold and SoulSilver is in a different pose than that of a normal Pichu, but she retains the two frames that a normal Pichu uses in her animation; thus, she is the only Pokémon to have more than one frame other than its standard pose in its animation in Generation IV.
• Spiky-eared Pichu is the only form difference that is not carried over into later games in the main series, as it cannot be transferred to Generation V games.
• Spiky-eared Pichu's inability to evolve is similar to that of the protagonists of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky; in both cases, this was due to the fact that they had time traveled, but in the latter the protagonists can evolve eventually.
• According to Shoko Nakagawa's autobiography, the Spiky-eared Pichu was originally going to be a 'White Pichu' (ホワイトピチュー).

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ギザみみピチュー Gizamimi Pichu	Literally "Notched-Ear Pichu".
French	Pichu Troizépi	From trois (three) and épine (spike).
German	Strubbelohr-Pichu	From strubbelig (tousled) and Ohr (ear).
Italian	Pichu Spunzorek	From spuntone (spike) and orecchio (ear).
Portuguese	Pichu de orelha talhada	Literally "Sliced-Ear Pichu".
Spanish	Pichu Picoreja	From pico (point) and oreja (ear).
Korean	삐쭉귀 피츄 Ppijjukgwi Pichyu	Literally "Sharp-Ear Pichu".
Chinese (Taiwan)	刺刺耳皮丘 Cìcì'ěr Píqiū	Literally "Spiky-Ear Pichu".

See also

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Pichu.

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