Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-33007077-20170901110229/@comment-31680260-20170915005858

StormySeasSinkShips wrote: Jallybwan wrote: Vertroyer wrote: Jallybwan wrote: Zed if you're reading this I'd like to you know that Pikachu as a pokemon just sucks seriously tho the stats suck, the movepool sucks, only thing good is that it's famous  Raichu's okay but it's basically a weaker Jolteon Shots fired Wasn't intending to insult him, but if you look at their stats compared to Jolteon, you have to admit, Jolt's just better in pretty much every way.

HP: Jolteon has 5 more

Attack: Raichu has 25 more

Defense: Jolteon has 5 more

Special Attack: Jolteon has 20 more

Special Defense: Jolteon has 15 more

Speed: Jolteon has 20 more

As you can see, Jolteon is better in every stat except for Attack. Except... you'd never really use Raichu for a physical attacker, since it's got almost zero good physical moves. Both of their movepools are fairly shallow.

Jolteon's abilities:

- Volt Absorb (heals 25% HP when hit by an Electric move)

- Quick Feet (doubles Speed when confused)

Raichu's abilities:

- Static (30% chance to paralyze opponent when they use a contact move on Raichu)

- Lightning Rod (redirects Electric attacks to Raichu, and raises Sp Atk by one stage when hit by Electric moves, immune to Electric)

Both of Jolteon's abilities help it in some way, and both are useful. As for Raichu, only one of its abilities are good (Static phuckin sucks), and that's mostly in Double Battles, which are fairly uncommon outside of PvP.

I like Raichu, but there's literally no reason to use it if you have a Jolteon. Actually, in recent gens, stats are determined by the Pokemon's personality. A Hardy Pikachu (Lvl 20) may have a higher attack than a Bashful Pikachu (Lvl 20) or a Mischevious Jolteon (Lvl 20) I'm aware of that. Actually, a Bashful Pikachu will have the same Attack as a Hardy one, assuming the same IV's on each one. They're both neutral natures. There is no Mischievous nature. Either way, we're assuming that all else is equal here, so both Raichu and Jolteon have beneficial natures (Timid or Modest) and perfect 31/31/31/31/31/31 IV's.