LagomorphShipping

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LagomorphShipping is the belief in a romantic relationship between Ash's Pikachu and Dawn's Buneary. The name originates from Lagomorpha, the order that rabbits and pikas, Buneary and Pikachu's real-world counterparts, belong to. This is one-sided canon on Buneary's side, whose crush on Pikachu is a running feature in the series; Pikachu has yet to reciprocate.

Evidence

Buneary's hints

• Almost every time Buneary sees Pikachu, she has hearts in her eyes.
• Early on, Buneary has a habit of raising her fur to cover her face with whenever she sees Pikachu.
• Setting the World on its Buneary

Buneary develops a crush after seeing Pikachu save a potato. At one point, she grabs Pikachu and starts dancing with it, causing Pikachu to yell and Buneary to cry. When Dawn asks Buneary if she wants to come along with them, Brock says, "You can spend time with Pikachu." Ash finishes with saying, "Looks like she'll like that."

• Wild in the Streets!

After Pikachu, Aipom, and Turtwig finish practicing, Buneary hop over and started petting Pikachu.

• O'er The Rampardos We Watched

After Pikachu beats Roark's Onix, Buneary looks over at it with affection.

• All Dressed Up With Somewhere To Go!

Pikachu's impersonations of Ash, Brock and Dawn's Pokémon (Buneary included), resulted in a look of utter adulation from Buneary.

• Steamboat Willies!

When Pikachu grabs the ring that Piplup missed in a game of ring toss, it is able to rebound the ring on to the 100 point peg, after which Buneary happily showered it with adoration.

• A Stand-Up Sit-Down!

Ash and Dawn have a double battle in Contest style, with Pikachu and Aipom versus Buizel and Buneary. However, Buneary's first instinct is to flirt with Pikachu, striking a pose and winking at it, until Dawn states, "This is an appeal battle, not a date."

• A Maze-ing Race

Buneary is walking away from Happiny to try to go through the maze by herself. Pikachu runs up to her and grabs her hand to try to get her to stop. This makes Buneary really happy and the three proceed to walk together, all the while the two hold hands together and Happiny being piggy-backed by Pikachu with Buneary comforting Happinny while she is being lulled to sleep, giving them the impression of being a small family.

• Tears for Fears

When all the group's Pokémon are asleep, Buneary is seen with her arm around Pikachu.

• Throwing the Track Switch

Buneary is massaging Pikachu's stomach after it and Ash became bloated from over-eating.

• The Bells Are Singing!

Pikachu's positive response to Buneary's new vest causes her to blush.

• A Full Course Tag Battle

After the battle with Team Rocket, Buneary goes up to Pikachu and starts flirting with it. The flirting is obvious enough that May even pointed out that Buneary seems to like Pikachu.

• Arriving in Style!

When Dawn and Buneary win the Hearthome Collection, Buneary hugs Pikachu.

• Get Your Rotom Running!

When hiding in the elevator and looking outside for Rotom, Buneary hides with Ash and Pikachu on the left, despite Piplup and Dawn hiding on the right side of the elevator. Also, when telling Brock about Rotom, once again, Buneary hides behind Pikachu.

Pikachu

• Setting the World on its Buneary

Pikachu gave itself up to Team Rocket after failing to save Buneary. It then helped her to escape after.

• A Full Course Tag Battle

When Buneary comes up to Pikachu to flirt with it, Pikachu begins to blush. However, this can be taken as a sign of embarrassment, because Pikachu looked uneasy and sheepish afterward.

• When it yelled at Buneary for grabbing and dancing with it she started to cry. It then attempted to comfort her.

Other

• Settling A Not-So-Old Score

The pair are seen together cheering for Dawn at the Contest in Floaroma Town.

• Hold The Phione!

A wild Phione became jealous of the relationship between Buneary and Pikachu.

Trivia

• In the games, Buneary and Pikachu are both in the Ground egg group, and therefore can breed.
• Under the rules of egg moves, the offspring of such a pairing would be Buneary that know Thunderbolt and Iron Tail, as these are moves Pikachu knows that Buneary can learn via TM. They would also know the moves Quick Attack and Agility if Dawn's Buneary knew them, though she has not yet demonstrated this knowledge.
• Many supporters of this shipping use it as a evidence of Template:S (Ash and Dawn), in a similar fashion to how people use Template:S as evidence of Template:S; Professor Oak once stated that the feelings of a trainer are reflected by their Pokémon. As such, if two Pokémon fall in love, the trainers will too. However, if Dawn has a crush on Ash, she is to date being a lot more subtle about it than Buneary is about her feelings for Pikachu. Some will also point out that Buneary had a crush on Pikachu before Dawn caught her.
• Both have defeated a Legendary Pokémon before. Pikachu defeated Brandon's Regice in Pace — The Final Frontier! and Buneary defeated a wild Phione in Hold the Phione!. They are merely the second and third, respectively, however. Ash's Charizard defeated Noland's Articuno in The Symbol Life

Notable LagomorphShippers

• Dawn
• May

This article is part of Project Shipping, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each couple in Pokémon.