Ash's Pikachu

Pikachu
General Information
Pokémon	Pikachu
Gender	Male
Ability	Static
Owner	Professor Oak (formerly) Ash Ketchum
Home	Professor Oak's Laboratory, Pallet Town, Kanto (formerly)
Status	With Ash
Other Information
When Caught	Prior to Pokémon - I Choose You!
When Obtained	Pokémon - I Choose You! (by Ash)
Where Obtained	Professor Oak's Laboratory, Pallet Town, Kanto (by Ash)
Poké Ball	Poké Ball
Relationships
Relatives	Pikachutwo (clone)
Alternate counterparts	Pikachu (alternate timeline) Pikachu (Mirror World)

Pikachu is Ash's starter Pokémon, given to him by Professor Oak.

Personality

Initially, Pikachu showed himself to be a rude and aggressive Pokémon, attacking a crowd of people for no reason and refusing to listen to Ash. However, when Ash saved Pikachu from a flock of Spearow, he became extremely loyal to Ash.

Pikachu is generally friendly to humans and Pokémon he hasn't met before. Pikachu took a particular liking to Misty very quickly, and he has retained this liking ever since.

Pikachu has a particular fondness for ketchup, but he will eat and enjoy almost any food.

Pikachu, Meowth and Meowthtwo were the only Pokémon not to fight in the giant battle of originals vs clones, choosing to stand there and take Pikachutwo's attacks.

When Pikachu temporarily developed amnesia, he became very believing to everything Team Rocket told him and became loyal to them. However, after recovering, he regained his original personality.

Battle Skills

Pikachu is known to be very powerful for a Pikachu, with Meowth saying that Pikachu's power "far exceeds its evolutionary level". Pikachu has shown himself able to fight on par with Legendary and Mega Pokémon, such as defeating Brandon's Regice and Korrina's Mega Lucario, and drawing with Tobias's Latios.

The possibility of evolving into Raichu was brought up to Pikachu after being defeated by Lt. Surge's Raichu, when Nurse Joy gave Ash a Thunder Stone. Ash allowed Pikachu to decide, but he smacked the Thunder Stone away, expressing his desire to not evolve and later defeated Raichu using moves that Pikachu knew that Raichu didn't learn as it evolved too soon to do so. Much later, Pikachu fought Sho's Raichu and fought on par with him, until Raichu used Hyper Beam at point blank range, severely injuring Pikachu. While he was recovering, Ash brought up the subject of Pikachu evolving again. Once again, Pikachu chose not to evolve, and defeated Raichu in a rematch with a combination of speed and spinning techniques learned from Dawn.

Moves Used

Move	First Known Use
Thunder Shock	Pokémon - I Choose You!
Thunderbolt	Showdown in Pewter City
Leer	The School of Hard Knocks
Agility	Electric Shock Showdown
Quick Attack	Electric Shock Showdown
Thunder	Abra and the Psychic Showdown
Double-Edge	Friend and Foe Alike
Tackle	The Double Trouble Header
Iron Tail	All Things Bright and Beautifly The Winner by a Nosepass (mastered)
Volt Tackle	May's Egg-Cellent Adventure
Electro Ball	Dancing With the Ducklett Trio!
Electroweb	A Battle Hand-Off!
Bold indicates a move that Pikachu currently knows. Italics indicates a move that Pikachu has not used for a while, and likely no longer knows.

Z-Moves

Move	Base Move	First Known Use
Gigavolt Havoc	Thunderbolt Electro Ball (formerly) Electroweb	The Guardian's Challenge!
Breakneck Blitz	Quick Attack	Trial and Tribulation!
10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt	Thunderbolt	10,000,000 Reasons to Fight!
Bold indicates a Z-Move that Pikachu currently has access to. Italics indicates a Z-Move that Pikachu no longer has access to.