Pikachu variants

There are many Pikachu variants found in the games, anime, manga, and TCG. The following are the main variants.

Surfing Pikachu

Surfing Pikachu is a Pikachu with a pink surfboard. With this, they are able to wield the move Surf.

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Surfing Pikachu in the anime

In the anime

Puka is a Pikachu that seems to be based off of this, though with a blue surfboard and blue eyes instead of a pink one and black eyes.

Ash's Pikachu later on appeared wielding the aforesaid surfboard.

In the games

Taking a snapshot of Surfing Pikachu in Snap

The Surfing Pikachu was featured in a minigame exclusive to Pokémon Yellow, called Pikachu's Beach. This can only be activated by transferring a Surfing Pikachu from other games.

This Pikachu variant was later seen in Pokémon Snap, appearing at the Beach.

The Surfing Pikachu was later given out through Nintendo events as well as in Pokéwalker's Yellow Forest. Other places where non-Nintendo events unlock this are in Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Battle Revolution.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

In the Yellow arc, Yellow was able to teach Pika the move Surf through the use of Substitute to create a surfboard.

In the TCG

Surfing Pikachu has been featured in the TCG. The following are cards named Surfing Pikachu:

Name	Type	Level	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Surfing Pikachu		13	-	Wizards Black Star Promos	28

Flying Pikachu

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Flying Pikachu as depicted in the TCG

Flying Pikachu is a Pikachu with balloons. With this, they are able to wield the move Fly.

In the games

The Flying Pikachu can be seen in Pokémon Snap, appearing at the Cave.

This Pikachu variant was later given out through Nintendo events as well as in Pokéwalker's Yellow Forest.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Yellow has a Pikachu that can use Fly.

In the TCG

Flying Pikachu has been featured in the TCG. The following are cards named Flying Pikachu:

Name	Type	Level	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Flying Pikachu		12	-	Wizards Black Star Promos	25
				Rising Rivals	113/111
Flying Pikachu		11	-	Unnumbered Promotional cards (no English release)	-

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