November 6, 2024 • 45 mins
In this Pokemon interview, we are joined by TheStaticPikachu, a Pokemon Trainer who participates in VGC and discovered his interest in Pokemon through Super Smash Bros.
TheStaticPikachu shares their initial entrance into the Pokemon franchise by using Pikachu as their main character and being enthralled by it's Volt Tackle Final Smash. Eventually this led to him diving into the anime and Pokemon video games, specifically Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
TheStaticPikachu finishes the show off by sharing his favorite Pokemon and his hopes for the heavily anticipated Pokemon Z-A!
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TheStaticPikachu (00:00):
Hi, I'm TheStaticPikachu, and this is my
Pokemon story.
This is the um, uh, Um, Uh,transcript.
David Hernandez (00:42):
Welcome to as the pokeball turns where we
interview people about theirexperience with Pokemon.
My name is David HernandezToday, I'm joined by the static
Pikachu.
Welcome to the show
TheStaticPikachu (00:55):
Yeah, thank you so much even for like having
me here.
Honestly, super, super happyjust to be talking to a lot of
different people about the stuffthat I really did, grow up with
and super passionate about.
So yeah, very happy to be hereand very grateful for it.
Yeah.
David Hernandez (01:09):
Absolutely, and we were talking a bit before the
show and how For us, it's abouttalking about a franchise.
We enjoy Pokemon.
We both come in from differentangles, but I want to start out
with your name.
You know, clearly it's likePikachu and it's the ability
static.
Is there deeper meaning behindit?
Like why that name of, you know,out of anything for your
username.
TheStaticPikachu (01:28):
Like, it's really interesting because I
remember I made it when I waslike, 13.
I don't think I thought of theability, actually.
Like, I remember, like, I almosttried to combine, like, my name
with, like, two different thingsbecause I think I was either
liking either Kirby at the time.
Then I kind of said, like, youknow, I don't know.
(01:48):
Um, then I want to add it likethe curvy pictures of my dad.
But then I was like, no, no, no.
I want to keep it just like onething.
Don't kind of like mix it upbecause it would have been like
completely like weird.
and then I remember I even kindof looked up like, what is like
a really good thing that cankind of go with like
electricity.
And I remember that I kind ofsaw that it would be like no
static and then like Later on,then I, realized that like, the
(02:10):
ability also was that.
So then like, even my thing onmy, my, my channel, it would
just be like, you know, I havelike a Pikachu that will always
have like static on it.
because I definitely feel likeit's my favorite game of all
time.
And I even actually played itinitially through like the, um,
super smash brothers series.
So I kind of did like throughlike.
Brawl, I kind of learned like,you know, the whole volt tackle
(02:32):
like thing.
And then I was like, you knowwhat?
I really want to actually likeplay the games.
And then ever since then, likefor a whole entire decade, I've
just kind of like, you know,played the games after that.
Really?
David Hernandez (02:44):
So you're for, so sorry, she wasn't
intentional.
It's just happenstance cause youdidn't know about the ability,
but it's, so you say in firstexperience with Pokemon, I
actually started with the smashbrother series.
TheStaticPikachu (02:52):
Yeah, because I kind of was playing, like, I
think this thing called likesubspace emissary.
And then I just heard like someof the themes, like I heard, I
think it was like the diamondpearl ballad and then the dude,
dude, I was like, Oh my gosh, Ifreaking love like the music.
Like I, cause I had no idea likewhere it was from.
Right.
So then it's like, it wasinteresting.
Cause like my first.
First experience of gen four wasironically like, brilliant
(03:14):
diamond and, shining pearl,because a lot of people just
kind of told me like, oh yeah,bro, like diamond pearls, really
good.
Platinum is also like reallygood.
And I never kind of had anopportunity to really play.
And I saw that they wereactually making a remake.
And then, um, I usually justkind of play BDSP, but I know
like there might've been like,Oh yeah, it's not officially
like me, but like game freak aswell.
(03:36):
But it didn't really matter tome because honestly I still want
to, you know, have theexperience of like trying to
lead all the way up to likeCynthia.
So yeah, that was kind of likemy very, First experience of
when I kind of actually sawPikachu because I remember like,
yeah, I remember I started whereI kind of liked, Kirby, but then
I saw that his smash ball justabsolutely just freaking sucked.
And I was like, I knew I liked,um, I want to be something
(03:58):
small.
Like, I knew, like, you know howmy personality was.
I did not want to be like asuper loud, like, sore
character.
Like, I know that, like, So manypeople, I think just mean like
link back in the day, or atleast in like my summer camp.
And then I just kind of saw likePikachu.
And I remember that I just lovelike his I just freaking loved
it.
And I remember like, it was solike impossible to like control.
(04:22):
And then I like tech that stufffor like hours.
Like I was like, Oh no, there'sa way that you can control like
volt tackle and then I wouldalways play like on Pokemon
stadium.
I'm like, let me actually likeplay, uh, Some of the games that
I remember, like it was like Xand Y was my first one.
So that was like 2013.
I was like 11 years ago.
Oh My gosh.
David Hernandez (04:41):
God.
Yeah.
We're getting older, man.
TheStaticPikachu (04:42):
Yeah.
So I think my first wasdefinitely X and Y and Y.
I was so happy that they'remaking Pokemon Legends ZA off of
X and Y.
So that one's going to hit likereally different because like I
already love like Legends RSA somuch.
And when I kind of saw.
You're making it for like myfirst ever game.
Like, yeah, that just reallyexcited me a lot.
David Hernandez (05:05):
You know, just in regards to a bra, I remember,
you know, using Pikachu's volttackles going in circles.
My main was actually Yoshi.
Because I always played Yoshisince the original one.
was just that quirky characterbecause it's a very not, I
guess, natural character to use.
So it always threw people offwhen I used it because they're
not used to facing somebody whoactually knows how to not saying
(05:26):
like I was the best, don't getme wrong, I could view the eggs
and I just knew more of the hitboxes then it was because of the
unfamiliarity of them facing theYoshi main that really gave me
more of a competitive edge thanmore so my skill base, I was the
same way.
Like, I didn't really want to dothe sword characters, which are
like Martha.
And I think it was Ike.
Or I didn't want to do like thebig
TheStaticPikachu (05:45):
Yeah, I don't want to like do Like I don't
want to play this like that'sthe only reason why I never took
like, Smash like supercompetitively and more like some
of the mainline stuff becauselike I really did like a lot of
the story Regarding likemainline because it just really
hit to where my actual life wasbecause I remember like, even
(06:06):
like gen nine that might've cameout like 2022, the DLC actually
has something that was called,stellar Tara.
And I love that because Iremember like my mom told me
when I was like, really, reallyyoung, it was like strive to be
stellar, like never settle forlike mediocrity.
And I just remember like, itjust.
Really like hit diff and I justhad such a high respect for like
(06:28):
how much story and like mainlinestuff usually occurs And it's
why I just really like love thegame.
It's like such a deep pointbecause it really almost always
kind of is really good to kindof describe a little bit of kind
of how my family works or justkind of like the things I just
kind of grew up with so Yeah, Ireally liked the gen nine story
(06:49):
I don't know why so many peoplejust always talk about like the
frames, stuff like that.
I might do like, it's more thanjust like talking about frames,
like it was just like, it was areally, really good story.
Whenever I, when I playedthrough it the first time, you
know?
David Hernandez (07:04):
let's talk about, you know, your
introduction to Pokemon.
You said it started with Brawlwhere you're playing Pikachu and
got, admirated by the VoltTackle, uh, Smash.
And this eventually leads intoyou playing, Pokemon X and Y.
Those are your first experiencewith Pokemon
TheStaticPikachu (07:17):
Yes.
Mm hmm.
David Hernandez (07:18):
it like to kind of jump into that kind of first
experience with Pokemon X or Yand the story and the Pokemon?
TheStaticPikachu (07:25):
Oh yeah.
So I remember like when I playedlike X and Y, like, it was like,
I don't I think it was actuallywhen I was doing Brawl Devil
Tackle, then I actually startedwatching, um, the anime directly
after that.
I think it was like, there wasthis thing, called Boomerang
that kind of showed a lot oflike older, you know, Kanto,
Johto, Hoenn, episodes.
(07:45):
but it's so dope that like now,obviously on like their main
Twitch channel, they just showlike so much, like really good,
like anime stuff.
And I just really love this kindof seeing it.
And then I don't know, I think,you know, it was just like at
like a summer camp.
And I just remembered it.
Like I always told them like,yeah, dude, I freaking love
watching this, man.
It makes me so dope being likeone of these like trainers, man.
And then I don't, I don't knowwho it was.
(08:07):
I just remember like this oneperson was like, Hey, you know,
you, there's like games, right?
Whaaaaat?! And I was like, wait,wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,wait, wait there's games?! Like,
really?
And then like, And he's like,Yeah! Like, just try to buy like
the one, I would say the latestone.
Like he just said to buy thelatest one.
Because I didn't know, where tolike start.
(08:28):
And I was like, What was thelatest one.
And at that, time it was like Xand Y and I just thought it was
like the coolest thing.
Like I was like looking at theend of it.
I thought it was a show.
I thought it was just ass.
That was just like the people.
And then when I kind of saw it,I'm like, wait, I can actually
do that.
And then I just remembered that.
Like, I played, X, Y, and I justcompletely just like loved it so
(08:48):
much.
And I think that like, obviouslynow a lot of people probably
tell me that X and Y was like alot Easier than like a lot of
other ones, because like, yeah,now that I know, like it came
out, like directly after likeblack and white, like two, which
was actually just seem to belike a very, very like,
difficult game.
it really kind of was a littlebit easier to kind of jump into
because of like megas and likehow easy it was just to spam,
(09:10):
like the, the mega buttonthrough my dude.
But yeah, I remember like, yeah,my first ever, like starter was,
Chespin.
And I remember that, like, Ijust.
And I think I just kept goingwith grass.
And, so yeah, I definitely thinkX and Y was definitely very fun.
The only thing that was actuallyvery interesting, like when
you're at a certain age, youmight not like really understand
(09:30):
the story too much.
And I remember that, like when Ikind of played through X and Y,
like, I think again, for liketwo years ago or something like
that, I started to realize therewas actually so much.
So much more story snippets thatwere in there, then you actually
will notice like, there's likeso much more like, almost, cause
I never realized that like, whenyou were playing through X and
Y, you saw the ultimate weapon,I don't know why I never thought
(09:52):
that like, they would use thelies of the actual mons actually
insane.
Like, wait, what?
Like X and Y was actually like alot, like, darker than I guess
you remember.
Cause I think getting X and Y,like when you're like younger,
you just play through it.
You just beat the game, but youdon't really look at like the
really, um, minute details a lotI don't know, I feel like
(10:12):
there's a lot of things in thegame that really require like
almost not really an adultbrave.
I mean, like even like the radarfeature is very hard to like
keep that, you know, like youhave to like keep track of like
being like four places away andlike, you know, on the edge of
the thingies and like all thosedifferent things are like we're
like in a patch of grass, dude.
Like it was actually prettypretty difficult to kind of keep
(10:32):
track of.
Mm hmm.
David Hernandez (10:34):
It is.
And, and just on that note, youknow, Pokemon has like the
surface level, right, where youjust see the cool animated
battles, the power of friendshipand all the stuff that, you
know, you just kind Not noticeif you're young or not aware,
but what I've always loved isthat there's always more
beneath.
If you really want to dig behindit, you mentioned how, you know,
the big weapon, which is themain central story of Pokemon X
(10:54):
and Y for me is always the megaevolution mechanic, because yes,
you see this cool Pokemon, butwhen you read the lore behind
most of the mega Pokemon, a lotof them are in pain.
And for me, I'm hoping thisexplores an X, I'm sorry,
Pokemon Z, a, I wonder ifthey're going to eventually
explore, like, is it maybeethical to put Pokemon through
that pain?
to get form.
It's something I've always, I'mcurious to see if Pokemon will
(11:16):
address with it.
I'm hoping they do.
Now
TheStaticPikachu (11:18):
Oh, yeah, I think that, it was interesting
because I remember that I waskind of even watching a lot of
different stuff where I wouldthink a lot of YouTubers, or I
don't really kind of like doingthis, but I know that a lot of
YouTubers use something calledlike, PK hex, where they quite
literally would just like hackin certain things.
They might put like, you know,mega evolutions, like perma mega
evolutions, and I'm like, no,that's like.
(11:40):
Actually, that's painful.
Like, I feel like if youpermanently stay in like mega,
like that is actually very, verypainful because I think it
should only be for like a way touse a little bit of a power up
like a battle.
That's why I feel like I lovemega so much because I you have
a battle mode and you have likea regular mode where I think
that's why I like X and Y andeven Scarlet you have your bike
(12:02):
mode for car ride on.
You have like your.
Battle mode and also evenTarapagos.
I love it so much because it islegit a baby.
If you look like watching this,like walk around, I'm like, Oh
my gosh.
And then like, if I like goesinto battle, it goes into like
that big, like terror shellthing.
So I was like, I, I really dolove that.
I feel like that should alwaysbe like a mainstay thing.
(12:23):
It's why, I always felt that Iwant to actually play the game.
how it should be played kind ofusing the actual rank battle
things in the game.
because I know, cause a lot oftimes people don't usually do,
comp because they always feellike, Oh yeah, there's like too
much RNG, man.
But I honestly feel like there'sa lot of really good ways that
are actually in the game thatkind of mitigate a lot of RNG.
(12:44):
and I feel like, yeah, I didn'twant to actually go into like
more of the hacking type ofroute, because I think I just
valued the product too much.
Like, I just remember like, um,I even kind of mentioned, but
with the whole stellar Tarathing, and I can remember like,
there was like this one, a Marstrial where it was like, I
really felt like I wasconnecting to my dad because he
loved to like be like anaviator.
He loved to fly planes.
We never got to fly.
(13:04):
Got to, and the Mars trial legitwas like you flying through like
rings and I wanted to like showthem a little bit.
So it was like, I, yeah, Ihonestly value like the product
a lot and I didn't want toreally kind of do all the
different stuff, but yeah, whenyou're talking about mega is
like, they would, yeah, theywould hack it to where like you
might have probably six megas,like six entire megas at like
(13:24):
one time.
And I was like, no, like that,that doesn't feel moral at all.
Because like, if something stayspermanent mega, then it will
feel like Pain, like all thefreaking dime
David Hernandez (13:35):
Pokemon X and Y your favorite generation, or did
you find like other generationsyou enjoyed over it at some
point?
TheStaticPikachu (13:41):
Um, I feel like it, yeah, my favorite's not
x and y even though it was myfirst.
my favorite game of all time isdefinitely legend Darius.
So it was interesting how I toldyou that my, then when I heard
the music, uh, was it anemissary?
Like the dude, dude, dude, likeremember I heard that.
Um, yeah.
Gen four is my favorite gen.
(14:01):
I think Sinnoh is so freakinggood.
Like it's really, really good.
I feel like I was either kind ofdebating between either four or
like even seven.
Cause ironically I knew a lot ofpeople didn't really like lakes
on a moon.
I liked how they introduced thisreally unique thing of like top
booze and like, I feel like Ijust, I just love like the whole
(14:24):
thing.
It was just so good.
It's like this whole entire,like unique species of things.
I was like, not necessarily likea broken, like, you know, So
Galeo or Lunala, but like, itwas kind of like this sub
legendary slot.
I love building in.
And I think that the same thinghappened with, Scarlet Violet,
Paradoxes is the same exact typeof thing where it was like, you
(14:45):
had these Saiyans that are notreally super legendary, but
still can like do really well.
And I love building with that,but I think the primary reason I
just love like gen fours.
I feel like I like the Themes alot.
I feel like I really do like,the legendaries a lot.
I think Jen for by far has myfavorite legendaries.
but I feel like definitely, um,PLA took it to where it was like
(15:07):
a really good, like just solid,generation, like overall, cause
I don't really got, I thinkHaseul and Samra was just like,
so like freaking good.
But like, yeah, I feel like Ireally did enjoy.
Like all the different gens thatplay, but I definitely think
four was just very, very solid.
Like I really do kind of likefour is like storyline even.
Um, I know a lot of people havebeen said their favorite can
even be five, which I haven'teven touched.
(15:28):
So I mean like, yeah, I thinkthat, it really kind of depends
on like how good, like the,different stories are, um,
because I feel like a lot oftimes, like some people can
think about certain gens as verycompetitively in terms of like
when you're going to travelaround to like a regional and
see like how much that gen kindof give to you.
Or you can see as like, is theregood shiny hunting methods in
(15:49):
there that they can really kindof utilize in that way?
Or is it also just like thedesigns are better, something
like that was a story good.
So I feel like they really didkind of do well in the story
department.
They just completely did thatsuper well.
I think that some of the designsactually in the game are also
very like unique too.
So yeah, I feel like a lot ofthings in gen nine were actually
(16:11):
brand brand new.
but for a lot of people, I thinkgen nine was honestly just a
game that like you could playthrough, you could just enjoy
it.
You didn't have to do reallyanything else with it, but if
you kind of enjoyed it, that wasthe good part about it.
Cause I know like definitely, Alot of people usually don't like
that, but I think that I justknow a lot of people that would
typically just like Shiny hunt,after they beat the game,
because I think I used to, kindof do a lot of Shiny hunting
(16:33):
when I was in like, you know,Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire days,
and I kind of started to kind ofbuild for like certain comp
stuff, so, yeah, I usually didkind of start off with like, you
know, a lot of different thingswith Shinies and Stuff like that
usually probably after the gamewas done.
David Hernandez (16:46):
Now when it comes to Gen 4, you know, that's
before X and Y.
So was your first experiencewith that region with the BDSP
release?
TheStaticPikachu (16:52):
yeah, it actually was BDSP'd.
I just, I always know that like,a lot of, people even tell me
like, Oh my gosh bro, you playBDSP but you're not playing
like, Diamond and Pearl or Like,I can I know that like, PLA, I
liked it a lot because it almostkind of gave Dialga and Palkia
something that Tina had, but didnot, gain really like origins,
(17:13):
or I feel like a lot of times,like some people might be like,
Oh my gosh, bro.
Like, it's just like a giraffeor it's just like, super like,
no, I mean, like you should havegave it to Dialga and Palkia
already.
I feel like.
PLA was like how gen four wasfinished and I feel like gen
four really is finished nowbecause you kind of did wrap it
up but I feel like x and y wasthe one that doesn't really feel
(17:34):
super finished but I feel likethat's why the next legend is
for gen six because a lot ofpeople are kind of even asking
like why is it not off of likeyou know gen five well because I
think that if you look at likegen nine they'll even kind of
say the Blueberry Academy was inUnova and then like all the
different like themes are likethe Unova battle theme.
So like, I don't think they'retrying to remake Unova because I
(17:57):
think they try to include it byputting it in like a gen nine
DLC type of a part.
because they even remade thetheme and everything, dude.
So, I don't think they weretrying to really remake gen
five.
I think, honestly, what I wasthinking is they might go to the
gen two or something, but thengoing to gen six kind of makes
like a little bit of sense.
I think they still want to keepgoing forward the games.
(18:18):
me personally, I don't thinkthey're going to really be
remaking anything for gen fiveor gen two or gen three or gen
four, gen one anytime soon.
I think it's going to probablybe like all about like, you
know, gen six.
I don't think they should makeone after like gen seven after
that, because I think The sunand moon and moon are kind of
like a little bit still fresh,you know Um, I think that
(18:40):
definitely after plza Theyshould just completely just
focus on like gen 10, which Ithink is gonna be like probably
the best one They're gonnaprobably yeah, it's double
Double digits, man, you havelike 30 years of doing bro.
they have to like, really focuson that after making PLZA.
PLZA is just a very just good,filler, cause I feel like X and
Y is just like so much of themost unfinished game.
(19:02):
Cause every gen was kind ofreally finished.
Like even, gen three had like,Emerald, Omega Ruby, Alpha
Sapphire.
Let's go Pikachu and Eevee forlike Gen one.
Then like even, Sun and Moonalso had Ultra Moon and Ultra
Sun after that.
Every single Gen had somethingexcept for Gen six.
Because Gen six was kind of justlike, You played it and then you
(19:26):
had a zygarde and you had it insun and moon, but not really X
and Y.
There was never like a Z.
So it's like,
David Hernandez (19:34):
in the corner.
Yeah,
TheStaticPikachu (19:35):
so much sense of why they're kind of doing it.
So why?
Because that was like the genthat felt so, so unfinished.
cause a lot of people even likemaking like these type of
hypothesis being like, is therelike this volcanion?
in like that power plant, is itstill like there?
Because there was always onedoor that was just like locked.
I think it was like some desertroute that was in X and Y.
(19:55):
like, yeah, maybe it actuallykind of is still there.
I'm not really sure.
But, I really think that it hasto be more of a flushed out
story really.
David Hernandez (20:03):
I think you bring up an interesting point
because, you know, we thinkabout, you know, for example,
your story to where you come andexperience a remake and a lot of
people who were very down uponBDSP had that prior experience
with Diamond and Pearl back withthe Nintendo DS games.
You clearly didn't have that,which makes the valuable for you
because you get the first timeto experience Sinnoh.
TheStaticPikachu (20:24):
Yeah,
David Hernandez (20:24):
even for me, I enjoyed it because I didn't have
to wait 20 minutes for an attackto happen.
So love speed up.
I you know, the, know, speed up.
I kind of could get away fromthe chibi thing, but that's
another story.
But I think you bring up a goodpoint to where maybe Game
Freak's viewing is like, wherecan we expand the story instead
of let's, find a different wayto not rehash the same game.
You know, you gen five, I neverthought about that.
Gen five is honestly, you know,if I was to be transparent right
(20:48):
now, and people who arelistening, where could they take
the black and white storyline, Iknow you've not played it, that
it already hasn't gone, for gensix, there's a lot more
potential because there's a lotof left unfinished, which
hopefully Pokemon's EA.
TheStaticPikachu (21:01):
People say like, oh, it's not as good as a
problem But then I said like Idon't think it's made for people
like you that probably playeddiamond and pearl I think it
really is for people like mewhere it's like you never really
played gen 4 and this is likeyou were way plenty for and
honestly you still don't evenbecame like my favorite region
um Off of not BDSP, I think mostlikely, Legends RSEs.
(21:22):
I think that like, PLA just,honestly, was just so insanely
good.
You That like, I just love, likeeverything about like gen four
after that.
And I think they really didrebirth gen four in a really
good way.
Cause I remember that a lot ofpeople were really asking about
gen four remakes for a longtime.
they definitely delivered onthat.
(21:43):
Like they definitely did deliveron that.
Cause I think gen four was thefirst, generation that
everyone's talking aboutremaking, because I don't think
there was actually a legit wayto catch like RFC is before the
game came.
because you just had to eitherscratch off a card and just do
all these different stuff withit, my dude.
So it was really, really good tokind of wrap up gen four.
(22:04):
Cause I think it gen four, it'sdefinitely like wrapped up and I
feel like Sun and Moon and Swordand Shield and all these are
just to the too fresh, likethey're too fresh to really
remake them already.
So that's why I was like, yeah,they might either do two, five
or six.
And then when they kind ofdecided six, it's like, Oh, I
actually don't mind that becauseyou can tell it really is
(22:24):
unfinished.
And I think that another really,Big thing that someone should
have I think that one of thesechatters that actually mentioned
to me was that like Yeah,scarlet violet does not have x
and y legendaries And I waslike, Oh, I should have realized
that.
Like, it's like, I think youhave all those like snack worse
things, like after the game'sdone.
Right.
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And then you'll have like everylegendary from like every game
and you didn't have an X and Ysat all.
And I was like, wait a minute.
That's actually so true.
And this is before PLZA wasannounced.
And then I just, I don't knowwhy.
I just, remember this one personin my chat was like, maybe if
it's actually Gen Now it's kindof like.
You know, that's a good pointwhen you think about it.
(23:06):
Cause like when I started real,I was like, yeah, why do they
just shaft like Zernes andEvolto like that?
And then when I kind of releasedit, I remember like this guy
came back.
He's like, I told you, I waslike, wow, it's actually like
such a smart, thing.
Cause I remember his name waslike Ninten, Patterson, like
that.
And I was like, wow, that was.
Actually, like so insane howlike he really did kind of read
that
David Hernandez (24:02):
you talked about a lot of the experience
with Pokemon, you know,originally you started with
Smash Brothers and I knowPikachu is in your name, but
what is your favorite Pokemon?
Is it actually Pikachu or is itsomething else?
TheStaticPikachu (24:12):
I would still say it's Pikachu, because I
think, ironically, I liked,obviously, the character in the
game, then I really just likethe anime.
I love, like, Ash's Pikachu somuch, so I don't really ever
think it cannot be Pikachu,because that's how I kind of got
into the franchise, like, in thefirst place.
Um, obviously it makes a lot ofsense because like, if you had
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the Clip Ascot, that wouldprobably be a thing to do it.
But, I just remembered that,when I was kind of even playing
through a lot of the games, likeI would remember that even
Pikachu is not necessarilyreally that good like, when I
tried to use like any sort ofPikachu, like on a team, it
would really not do that supergood.
Like, not really like.
The anime is not at all likethat, where it's like, you
really have to do a lot ofthings that kind of make it
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good.
So I would say that even thoughI don't primarily use it when
I'm building a lot of stuff, Ireally do just kind of like how
good, Pikachu was even incertain other games.
I feel like those are so funnyhow, like, it is so good in like
side games and not really likemainline games.
So it was, it was kind of reallyinteresting, but.
I feel like definitely it willstill always be my favorite mom
(25:17):
because the first mom theyhonestly really did see and like
and enjoy and they kind ofbranched out to like other moms
too.
So, but I feel like to kind ofgive like another mom, though, I
feel like I kind of did it towhere, like, some people even
say, like, they would eitherhave like a legendary that might
be their favorite.
Obviously, they might have likea favorite starter because
there's a lot of different,Categories and kind of like
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always do for like certainpeople and then I usually say
like my favorite like sub legendwas actually like Latios because
I knew that my dad really likeda lot of like planes so then it
made a lot of sense why I wouldreally like Latios design.
Then I think like in terms oflike a actual kind of like a
restricted like box artLegendary it was really, really
close.
I really liked, gen four, like,I love like Dialga.
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I love like Palkia.
I love Arceus.
Like, I love those like type ofdesigns because they literally
are like gods of time.
And they're like deities becausesometimes some legendaries are
not like that.
Cause I got obviously karate andMariah, and they're just like.
They're bikes, but they'rereally like super dope bikes.
something like that.
But, I did also like Sun andMoon a little bit.
(26:21):
I just remember like a sudden aton of moon was really good.
I just think that I was kind ofwatching some of the anime.
they made the character seemlike a lot, I would say younger.
And I think it's probablybecause they wanted to really,
put a lot of their stuff intomaking really good animations
because X and Y.
Anime was like peak dawg, andthen it is completely plummeted
when you went to like, gen 7really but I think it's because
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it had to take something out Ithad to like either make the
characters worse to make likethe animations really good And
that was kind of what they kindof did.
But I feel like Gen seven as agame is still really, really
fun.
Like, I mean like even if youlook at like the anime, it might
be like, eh, the, the, theactual game of Sun Moon is very,
very fun.
I think I love a Lola and likethe environments of a Lola being
(27:07):
like Hawaii because even went tolike Hawaii trip, like when I
was like in junior of highschool.
So like, I, I love Hawaii.
I feel like it's a very, verygood.
Region to base a game off of andI think it was obviously a
really good idea.
David Hernandez (27:21):
On that note, you said Pikachu is hard to use
in like, you know, a competitivesetting.
Yeah What would it take?
In your opinion, what would ittake to make Pikachu
competitive, or is that asking alot?
TheStaticPikachu (27:33):
I feel like it's interesting because it's
you gave it an evolution likeyou gave it Raichu, Right?
I feel like you can only kind ofbuff it so much like it can't be
like ashes, you know I mean itwas like I think that you would
give pikachu like the bstbasically of a Raichu And then
kind of start buffing fromthere.
(27:54):
because a lot of people aresaying like, make like a mega
Pikachu, but it wouldn't reallykind of make too much sense
because you have to probablymake, make a right shoe.
I
David Hernandez (28:01):
Well, you had Gigantamax Pikachu as
TheStaticPikachu (28:02):
but yeah, I was really happy about that.
I was like, oh my gosh, wait aminute.
That might be the only thingthat makes it viable.
Let's go.
I was like, yeah, I was like,Gigantamax.
Pikachu is like.
Actually, I remember I just sawit and it was like really,
really funny.
And I think I like how they doPikachu and Eevee kind of like
the same service really, whereit's like they're both mons that
(28:24):
obviously we want to evolve,right?
Especially even Eevee, you wouldwant to evolve that.
So then I was thinking abouteven like Pikachu is like, yeah,
I definitely thought that, like,if I did also have it where
something is not like to evolve,kind of get buffed.
And like, let's go Pikachu andEevee and also, Kind of
happened.
I get the max form.
So it's really good.
But I feel like there's actuallya lot of people that I've even
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kind of met, like they wouldlike legit say to like, they
like it to where something isnot like evolved.
You know what I mean?
Like they would like, cause Ifeel like even Dawn, like a
very, very, big character.
Like she liked Piplup.
Like I don't want to evolve.
I'm just as strong as anEmpoleon.
I'm just as strong.
And I think I like that.
That, type of concept really,we're like, it should be a
choice, whether like you want toevolve or not.
(29:07):
I would honestly believe thatyou can decide to evolve
something, if you want to, but Ialways liked it how they might
have like some people use Yanma,but again, mega, and I was like,
wait, what?
Why would they do that?
But it's because they get thesereally broken hidden abilities
to like, pre evolved mons, andthen it makes it not as good
when you evolve it.
(29:27):
I think I want them to continuedoing that.
Where it's like, if you don'twant to evolve it, the one
that's like probably either likePimplup or Primplup has a
really, really good like abilitythat can really help out a lot.
But it might not have the statsto back it up.
Obviously, that's just aphysical, like, science.
but I mean, kind of having itwhere you can still evolve and
(29:48):
kind of make it like, if youwant to kind of have it be where
they have a little bit more,like, actual attacking power,
that makes sense.
But I feel like giving it eitherlike the light ball that they
did to kind of get a full tackleis also really huge.
or just like another really justgood ability or like another
exclusive move might be a thingthat might really be make me get
you usable.
I feel like it actually might belike a move or like an ability
that would be like the mostlogical ways of kind of buffing
(30:10):
it, because I feel like once youkind of start messing with the,
like the base stats, like it'sjust, you just evolve it, you
know?
David Hernandez (30:16):
crazy idea.
So, you know the Overgrow,Blaze, and Torrent ability for
the starters?
Give something like that toPikachu, but give it a plus six
special attack, attack, andspeed.
TheStaticPikachu (30:26):
Oh, yeah, I'm telling you, I mean, like, it
needs something like that, you
David Hernandez (30:32):
probably, I don't know, it probably broken
itself, but that's the thing gotoff.
Uh, that's the thing that cameout of my head.
TheStaticPikachu (30:37):
No, yeah, I like it, but I feel like, yeah,
I just knew that, like, youmight not be able to really
affect stats too much, but Ifeel like there's such a really
good way That you can kind oflike utilize abilities and what
I mean, like abilities.
It's like sometimes some thingsmight just exist just so it can
be like a redirection thingwhere like something would just
sit there and go for like myelectric time move and you
switch into like a right periodis like, well, lightning rod.
(31:00):
You just completely disnegatedlike a thunderbolt.
It's like a freaking Gyarados,right?
And like, that's so like frigginmassive, dude.
Where it's like sometimesspecific things just exist For
their abilities.
And I really do kind of likethose mons.
I feel like I kind of look at itas like, yeah, just one, the
utility bond and one that'sreally like good for like, you
(31:22):
know, um, damage stuff likethat, my dude.
So like, yeah, I wrote it kindof like that a lot of dude.
David Hernandez (31:28):
You know, last thing I want to talk about is,
you know, how you play Pokemon.
So you said you'd like try tobuild teams.
So it sounds like you have alittle bit of a competitive
background.
Is that your primarily way toplay the main series games is
just try to build competitiveteams.
Do you like the shiny hunt?
Like,
TheStaticPikachu (31:40):
I feel like I like trying to do a mix of it
where I think primarily I dolove doing a lot of stuff in
terms of like building for like,um, BGC, I feel like I
definitely have even had it towhere I was kind of doing some
stuff, even Old like or as dayswhere I feel like, yeah, it's
just really interesting becauseeverything was so hard to put
out when it was just like, youknow, the 3ds era, you know,
(32:01):
where I had to like do a lot ofdifferent things.
There's like a lot of differentmodding, but I think that sword
and shield.
made it like so much easier towhere like, you can like make a
build and also like, show thatbuild and it was like, so much
easier to still do it was so,so, so, so, so good to do.
then I remember that like, Ireally did value the story.
so much.
Cause I feel like the story justlike, always hit like, yeah,
(32:24):
cause I'm in my family.
It always really kind of hitlike a really good area of being
like, I'm going to do bring outof like the story of their
games, even though it might belike, you know, might have to
work on some frame stuff, but Ifelt like I really did kind of
like that because I rememberthat I do.
Run to a lot of from people thatkind of play, you know, the
game, you know, definitely a lotdifferently because I think
that's what I kind of like aboutlike the franchise so much that
(32:45):
there's like so many ways tokind of play the game.
It's not really just like oneway.
And I feel like that is the partthat makes it really good.
And really, like, just alwaysreally successful.
Like, I feel like it should notreally be One way of playing a
game, you know what I mean?
Well, I don't think it shouldjust be, you know, either just
shine and they are just like,you know, building for like a
ladder thing.
It should not be just like, youknow, cars are just Pogo or they
(33:08):
should not just be one thing,because I feel like a lot of
franchises are basicallyspecifically built on like,
competitive backgrounds.
And I know a lot of games thatlike, obviously are really
built, at least for that, thereason why I love doing a comp
thing, at least for Asher's mainlines, because I feel like I
just really love the amount offlexibility you can have with
it.
I just love the community whereI feel like a lot of times I
(33:31):
really just kind of do what Ido.
For the community of people.
And I feel like that's why Ilove this kind of supporting so
much other people.
yeah, you can tell, like somepeople just honestly, just like
love what they do.
They love each other and theyalways support each other.
And I feel like there's not thatmany, things that really kind of
do that really, there's not thatmany things that really will
always have it where ourcommunities will like legit
(33:51):
support each other.
And because everything is justso like competitively like
oriented that they don't eventhink about like supporting like
other people whenever they'relike done with their streams,
where I would always think aboutlike, you know, rating into
somebody else.
It might not like, you know, bebuilding for like, let's say
ladder, but they're just likealso do something for like shiny
hunting.
They're also doing something.
They might be speed running, butI feel like honestly, I would.
(34:12):
support them because they'reactually a part of like the
community.
And I really did just kind oflike love, you know, just kind
of supporting them as well.
And I think that it was, it'sreally interesting because I
think I even used to be that waywhere it's like, Oh yeah, bro,
this person's also buildingsomething for this.
And I'm like, yeah, I don't wantto really like to support them
because they're trying to belike an option like that.
And it was honestly just sostupid.
Cause I feel like that's why,like, I never really wanted to
(34:33):
be, associated really with, Someof those communities honestly,
like you never want to kind oflose that type of like love you
have for the game and the lovethat you have like other people
because yeah, a lot of thesegames bring people together.
And I feel like at least in thistype of day and age where a lot
of stuff really is.
Super about like, how, good areyou, how good or high rank you
(34:56):
are.
And definitely I think thatallows me to talk about mainline
people would just innocentlythink like, they would not even
think about building somethingfor like competitive at all, but
I feel like.
The reason I really just dovalue because like, obviously I
just grew up, like, you know,watching, like, you know,
obviously a lot of animals Ijust fricking love like so much.
And I feel like the amount offlexibility and balance that you
can have with like the mainlinegames is why I do it.
(35:18):
It's like, if I'm not doing wellon this, then I can do like
shiny hunting.
If I'm not really doing well onthis and I could like, you know,
shiny hunt another game or likedo like a speed run, or I can
probably try to like do acontest.
Because I actually did like howBDSP even had like, you know,
That's in it.
So I feel like, yeah, that's whyI think I always really love it
because it's just such a lot ofthings that you really can do in
with other people.
(35:40):
And I think that's what I'mreally happy that I was able to
kind of cultivate is that like,people look forward to seeing
some other people that are likein my chat, like they actually
look for, and it's like, Oh, hi,it's not even just like to me.
It can be like to somebody else.
It probably might stopped inlike before.
I was just like, so happy aboutit.
I was like, so happy that like,I had a place where people could
feel comfortable, you know?
And I think that is why stillobviously still do a lot of
(36:02):
different stuff that I do So,um, yeah,
David Hernandez (36:05):
Well, sadly, Pikachu, thank you for coming on
the show.
I do want to finish off thisinterview with one last question
and do a little differently withyou because you actually brought
up a good point.
So normally I have my guestspick up six Pokemon.
They would do with a playthrough, be their dream team.
So you've already said one,you've done one with Pikachu.
I want to give you five morecategories and I want to fit.
I want you to pick a favoritefrom each category I give you.
TheStaticPikachu (36:27):
Okay, mm
David Hernandez (36:28):
So we got Pikachu as your first favorite.
That's going to be on your team.
What's your favorite mega?
TheStaticPikachu (36:34):
Oh Dude, that's such a good.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow, because I don't want todo like an absolutely like
Broken one because I know Idon't want to do like a
legendary.
Yeah That food is actually a lotof really good like megas that
really can be like utilized Iwould definitely say Mega
Salamence is so good.
(36:57):
I mean, like, it's just like,it's like a pseudo legendary.
Like it's not like a legendary.
It's just really just freakinggood to like, even have the
stats of a legendary.
And I feel like, yeah, MegaSalamence is actually even
really kind of set to even bebetter than Mega Rayquaza at a
point because like, usually likeRayquaza can only hit like one
thing, but like Salamence canjust like spam, like hyper voice
and just like do like a lot ofthings.
(37:18):
So like, I would say like MegaSalamence.
And I think that to stay alongwith like what I really talked
about my dad, I'll say MegaLatios because I think Latios is
honestly like a super, reallygood.
It's super like super deep, likefast, my dude.
So yeah, I'd say like MegaLatios.
I think I, I love that Mega alot, dude.
It's really, really good.
Oh,
David Hernandez (37:38):
What would be your favorite?
Legendary
TheStaticPikachu (37:42):
that's really interesting.
it's really, really interesting.
Cause I feel like, I wouldobviously probably pick
something from gen four.
the only thing is, is it like alegendary or is it like a
mythical?
Nick, cause I know like somepeople, some people might get
off on that, but I don't want tobe like,
David Hernandez (37:58):
a legend.
Okay.
In this case, legendary ormythical
TheStaticPikachu (38:01):
I definitely say my favorite mythic.
I'll say I'll combine.
I'll definitely say it wasArceus.
I think I just love that mod.
I know I can never really likeuse it, but I remember that
definitely in terms of like,regulations or like a lot of
things.
Cause you can probably buildlike something that would be,
even in the game or just kind oflike the one you can catch in
the game.
Um, then I'll definitelyprobably say like either, um,
(38:21):
Dialga or also something fromGen 7.
It's either Dialga or Lunala,but I definitely think for the
sake of kind of leaving it alittle bit diverse, I'd probably
say like, yeah, I just loveLunala.
Oh my gosh, like that, that,that moment is honestly like
when I saw it, like it was justso beautiful.
It's like, geez, it was actuallyjust so Good and I thought it
was actually just like a veryunique mon And um, yeah, I'll
(38:43):
definitely take a mega latiosand like lunala definitely can
create like a very like diversething for the team So i'll
definitely like pick lunalathough.
Yeah
David Hernandez (38:50):
So we got Pikachu.
We've got mega Latios and we'vegotten a lot.
No Lunala
TheStaticPikachu (38:54):
Mm hmm.
David Hernandez (38:55):
What would be your favorite starter?
TheStaticPikachu (38:57):
Oh Wait, oh my gosh.
Okay.
Oh Wow, good thing is I don'twant to get into things.
I know like my first is actuallylike Chesspin, and I know I
don't want to Necessarily doThat though, I feel like there's
actually just so much reallygood starters.
I feel like it kind of gottenout of like either Gen 7 or Gen
(39:20):
8.
Cause I know like Gen 7 by farhad like a lot of really good
starters in it.
Wow.
Cause I want to say, I think,cause I'm going to probably do
it for my mod though.
I think I might have to, cause Idon't think it's my favorite
starter, but I feel like myfavorite starter that I see.
I love Popplio, like it's by farlike one of the cutest starters.
(39:40):
I feel like in Gen 8, they kindof did the water starter a
disservice.
I'm sorry.
I can tell you, but like Poppliowas like, just so, so like cute.
I know it's known that a lot ofpeople don't even like like
Primarina a lot.
I would have thought it wasactually just very, very like
wild to me.
I was honestly just reallysurprised by it, but I feel
like.
I would say I think my favoritestarter in terms of like, I
(40:03):
would say just look becausesometimes I don't want to only
think about like, how good it isand like in a battle.
But like I say, like, Popplio isby far the cutest one that I
think I have seen, but I'm goingto pick Chimchar because I have
a certain mob that is Chimchar.
He usually helps me out with alot of different like, you know.
Egg stuff like that my dude andI feel like having an infernape
(40:24):
is really really just like supersolid So i'll definitely pick
like, um gym jar though.
Yeah
David Hernandez (40:29):
So we got Pikachu mega Latios Lunala and
infernate.
The next one your favoritePokemon from Gen 4.
TheStaticPikachu (40:37):
Oh See, yeah, that's what I was like, um, I
already used a legend Cuz Idefinitely think there's
actually a lot a lot of reallygood ones from gen 4 where it's
like I remember that like eventhe
David Hernandez (40:51):
if you want to choose a Legendary, you can.
This is your team.
So,
TheStaticPikachu (40:54):
Oh, yeah, I think that I know there's a lot
of really good Stars, I know Ieven saw Terry was really good A
lot of different ones that theyhave even in Gen 4.
A lot of different, like, sublegendaries, I remember, would
act like pretty good.
Um, because I feel like that'swhere I really kind of like a
lot about.
I even remember that was likeone that's actually really big
about like, Gen 5.
They actually introduced like alot of different like,
subliminaries, but I feel likein terms of like gen form, even
(41:19):
though I already do have a,psychic, I would say Cresselia.
I love the design of Cresselia.
Oh my gosh.
It's so freaking good.
And I remember that it also goesback to, When I was talking
about like brawl, right?
Where I was like, I remember thestage of spirit pillar.
This was, this was before I evenactually went to spirit pillar.
Cause I remember that like theyoga was one that I actually did
(41:41):
not mind could just slowed youdown.
Right.
And then I remember that pocketlegit did like a whole entire
one 80.
On the entire freaking screennow, I was like, I did not like
that and that's why to this dayI'm not gonna ever be team
parole because I just freakingdid not like that type of thing.
They did on spear builder onthat Um, but then I remember
that like, chrysalia He justsits around this little thing It
(42:01):
was like a psycho cut I think itwas and I was like, hey, I
really like like chrysalia LikeI thought it was actually a
really um Good, um, I really didkind of like it a lot because I
know like a lot of peopleusually do not Usually a lot of
like psychic like they didn'tlike the whole as self mass for
OOXY and like stuff like thatBut I like it.
I would do
David Hernandez (42:18):
So we got Pikachu.
We got Megalodon, Lulana,Infernape and Cresselia.
last one you have to choose is aPokemon from your favorite type.
TheStaticPikachu (42:28):
Oh No, I think that's it's really like super
interesting because I You wouldthink it would probably be like
electric, you know, I wouldprobably pick like, you know an
electric mod and do stuff likethat, but I honestly think like
my favorite type actually toit's really kind of changed
overall like so much actuallybecause it used to kind of be A
(42:50):
lot of like different things.
I feel like it used to kind ofeven be like, grass.
They always like pick just likegrass starters, like all the
time.
It was like, love, but grassreally, was a good way because a
lot of times people would notreally pick grass.
It would always like usuallypick, fire.
I feel like a lot of peoplereally do always pick like fire
starters, you know?
And I feel like it was actuallystill very, Beneficial for them
(43:10):
though because like they'reusually on the early rouse There
really is usually like bugs andgrass like really anyway So then
like it was always like super,smart to pick like the fire
starter whenever playing like agame but I feel like I really
did kind of like grass a lot andI think i'm gonna still stick to
Grass in all honesty, but Iremember like yeah, I did pick
jasmine first.
(43:30):
I still do like solid liketyping my dude And I feel like
in terms of my favorite typing,I think it would actually be
either electric or grass So i'mgoing to actually pick something
that kind of combines Those twothings at first you're like even
like rotom even can kind of belike electric and grass So that
was actually like really reallyinteresting they kind of did
like a lot because I feel like Ilike something like that really.
(43:52):
I definitely think that I'llprobably pick Rotom Moe.
Yeah, Rotom.
Moe.
I feel like it really does kindof like incorporate both me
having electric and also like agrass, which I feel like I kind
of like both of those.
So yeah, I kind of really do.
I feel like that's also from Gen4 too.
So yeah, Gen 4 had like quite areally, a lot of really good
ones.
It even had like, yeah, Rotom'sreally like super good, man.
David Hernandez (44:16):
Well StaticPikachu, thankyou for
coming on the show before yougo.
If people want to check out yourcontent, if they want to connect
with you, where can they go?
By all means, please plug away
TheStaticPikachu (44:24):
Oh, yeah.
Thank you again so much forhaving me.
I do pretty much a lot of daily.
twitch streams I also havestatic, because BGC on YouTube,
but I feel like I'm just astatic Pikachu on Twitch.
I think that's going to probablybe my primary one even in
discord, I do have a discord.
I do have that linked whenever Ido kind of have like a live
stream, even as well.
So that's pretty much where youcan find me.
(44:45):
And I really do appreciate youfor, having me obviously just
love just kind of talking abouta lot of these different, gens
and love because kind of sharingit, my dude.
So I'm just really happy thatyou reached out to me.
David Hernandez (44:55):
Thank you for listening to As the Pokeball
Turns.
Follow all my socials and joinour Discord community to stay
connected by clicking any of thelinks in the description of this
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Until next time.
Hi, I'm TheStaticPikachu, and this is my
Pokemon story.
This is the um, uh, Um, Uh,transcript.
David Hernandez (00:42):
Welcome to as the pokeball turns where we
interview people about theirexperience with Pokemon.
My name is David HernandezToday, I'm joined by the static
Pikachu.
Welcome to the show
TheStaticPikachu (00:55):
Yeah, thank you so much even for like having
me here.
Honestly, super, super happyjust to be talking to a lot of
different people about the stuffthat I really did, grow up with
and super passionate about.
So yeah, very happy to be hereand very grateful for it.
Yeah.
David Hernandez (01:09):
Absolutely, and we were talking a bit before the
show and how For us, it's abouttalking about a franchise.
We enjoy Pokemon.
We both come in from differentangles, but I want to start out
with your name.
You know, clearly it's likePikachu and it's the ability
static.
Is there deeper meaning behindit?
Like why that name of, you know,out of anything for your
username.
TheStaticPikachu (01:28):
Like, it's really interesting because I
remember I made it when I waslike, 13.
I don't think I thought of theability, actually.
Like, I remember, like, I almosttried to combine, like, my name
with, like, two different thingsbecause I think I was either
liking either Kirby at the time.
Then I kind of said, like, youknow, I don't know.
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Um, then I want to add it likethe curvy pictures of my dad.
But then I was like, no, no, no.
I want to keep it just like onething.
Don't kind of like mix it upbecause it would have been like
completely like weird.
and then I remember I even kindof looked up like, what is like
a really good thing that cankind of go with like
electricity.
And I remember that I kind ofsaw that it would be like no
static and then like Later on,then I, realized that like, the
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ability also was that.
So then like, even my thing onmy, my, my channel, it would
just be like, you know, I havelike a Pikachu that will always
have like static on it.
because I definitely feel likeit's my favorite game of all
time.
And I even actually played itinitially through like the, um,
super smash brothers series.
So I kind of did like throughlike.
Brawl, I kind of learned like,you know, the whole volt tackle
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like thing.
And then I was like, you knowwhat?
I really want to actually likeplay the games.
And then ever since then, likefor a whole entire decade, I've
just kind of like, you know,played the games after that.
Really?
David Hernandez (02:44):
So you're for, so sorry, she wasn't
intentional.
It's just happenstance cause youdidn't know about the ability,
but it's, so you say in firstexperience with Pokemon, I
actually started with the smashbrother series.
TheStaticPikachu (02:52):
Yeah, because I kind of was playing, like, I
think this thing called likesubspace emissary.
And then I just heard like someof the themes, like I heard, I
think it was like the diamondpearl ballad and then the dude,
dude, I was like, Oh my gosh, Ifreaking love like the music.
Like I, cause I had no idea likewhere it was from.
Right.
So then it's like, it wasinteresting.
Cause like my first.
First experience of gen four wasironically like, brilliant
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diamond and, shining pearl,because a lot of people just
kind of told me like, oh yeah,bro, like diamond pearls, really
good.
Platinum is also like reallygood.
And I never kind of had anopportunity to really play.
And I saw that they wereactually making a remake.
And then, um, I usually justkind of play BDSP, but I know
like there might've been like,Oh yeah, it's not officially
like me, but like game freak aswell.
(03:36):
But it didn't really matter tome because honestly I still want
to, you know, have theexperience of like trying to
lead all the way up to likeCynthia.
So yeah, that was kind of likemy very, First experience of
when I kind of actually sawPikachu because I remember like,
yeah, I remember I started whereI kind of liked, Kirby, but then
I saw that his smash ball justabsolutely just freaking sucked.
And I was like, I knew I liked,um, I want to be something
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small.
Like, I knew, like, you know howmy personality was.
I did not want to be like asuper loud, like, sore
character.
Like, I know that, like, So manypeople, I think just mean like
link back in the day, or atleast in like my summer camp.
And then I just kind of saw likePikachu.
And I remember that I just lovelike his I just freaking loved
it.
And I remember like, it was solike impossible to like control.
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And then I like tech that stufffor like hours.
Like I was like, Oh no, there'sa way that you can control like
volt tackle and then I wouldalways play like on Pokemon
stadium.
I'm like, let me actually likeplay, uh, Some of the games that
I remember, like it was like Xand Y was my first one.
So that was like 2013.
I was like 11 years ago.
Oh My gosh.
David Hernandez (04:41):
God.
Yeah.
We're getting older, man.
TheStaticPikachu (04:42):
Yeah.
So I think my first wasdefinitely X and Y and Y.
I was so happy that they'remaking Pokemon Legends ZA off of
X and Y.
So that one's going to hit likereally different because like I
already love like Legends RSA somuch.
And when I kind of saw.
You're making it for like myfirst ever game.
Like, yeah, that just reallyexcited me a lot.
David Hernandez (05:05):
You know, just in regards to a bra, I remember,
you know, using Pikachu's volttackles going in circles.
My main was actually Yoshi.
Because I always played Yoshisince the original one.
was just that quirky characterbecause it's a very not, I
guess, natural character to use.
So it always threw people offwhen I used it because they're
not used to facing somebody whoactually knows how to not saying
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like I was the best, don't getme wrong, I could view the eggs
and I just knew more of the hitboxes then it was because of the
unfamiliarity of them facing theYoshi main that really gave me
more of a competitive edge thanmore so my skill base, I was the
same way.
Like, I didn't really want to dothe sword characters, which are
like Martha.
And I think it was Ike.
Or I didn't want to do like thebig
TheStaticPikachu (05:45):
Yeah, I don't want to like do Like I don't
want to play this like that'sthe only reason why I never took
like, Smash like supercompetitively and more like some
of the mainline stuff becauselike I really did like a lot of
the story Regarding likemainline because it just really
hit to where my actual life wasbecause I remember like, even
(06:06):
like gen nine that might've cameout like 2022, the DLC actually
has something that was called,stellar Tara.
And I love that because Iremember like my mom told me
when I was like, really, reallyyoung, it was like strive to be
stellar, like never settle forlike mediocrity.
And I just remember like, itjust.
Really like hit diff and I justhad such a high respect for like
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how much story and like mainlinestuff usually occurs And it's
why I just really like love thegame.
It's like such a deep pointbecause it really almost always
kind of is really good to kindof describe a little bit of kind
of how my family works or justkind of like the things I just
kind of grew up with so Yeah, Ireally liked the gen nine story
(06:49):
I don't know why so many peoplejust always talk about like the
frames, stuff like that.
I might do like, it's more thanjust like talking about frames,
like it was just like, it was areally, really good story.
Whenever I, when I playedthrough it the first time, you
know?
David Hernandez (07:04):
let's talk about, you know, your
introduction to Pokemon.
You said it started with Brawlwhere you're playing Pikachu and
got, admirated by the VoltTackle, uh, Smash.
And this eventually leads intoyou playing, Pokemon X and Y.
Those are your first experiencewith Pokemon
TheStaticPikachu (07:17):
Yes.
Mm hmm.
David Hernandez (07:18):
it like to kind of jump into that kind of first
experience with Pokemon X or Yand the story and the Pokemon?
TheStaticPikachu (07:25):
Oh yeah.
So I remember like when I playedlike X and Y, like, it was like,
I don't I think it was actuallywhen I was doing Brawl Devil
Tackle, then I actually startedwatching, um, the anime directly
after that.
I think it was like, there wasthis thing, called Boomerang
that kind of showed a lot oflike older, you know, Kanto,
Johto, Hoenn, episodes.
(07:45):
but it's so dope that like now,obviously on like their main
Twitch channel, they just showlike so much, like really good,
like anime stuff.
And I just really love this kindof seeing it.
And then I don't know, I think,you know, it was just like at
like a summer camp.
And I just remembered it.
Like I always told them like,yeah, dude, I freaking love
watching this, man.
It makes me so dope being likeone of these like trainers, man.
And then I don't, I don't knowwho it was.
(08:07):
I just remember like this oneperson was like, Hey, you know,
you, there's like games, right?
Whaaaaat?! And I was like, wait,wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,wait, wait there's games?! Like,
really?
And then like, And he's like,Yeah! Like, just try to buy like
the one, I would say the latestone.
Like he just said to buy thelatest one.
Because I didn't know, where tolike start.
(08:28):
And I was like, What was thelatest one.
And at that, time it was like Xand Y and I just thought it was
like the coolest thing.
Like I was like looking at theend of it.
I thought it was a show.
I thought it was just ass.
That was just like the people.
And then when I kind of saw it,I'm like, wait, I can actually
do that.
And then I just remembered that.
Like, I played, X, Y, and I justcompletely just like loved it so
(08:48):
much.
And I think that like, obviouslynow a lot of people probably
tell me that X and Y was like alot Easier than like a lot of
other ones, because like, yeah,now that I know, like it came
out, like directly after likeblack and white, like two, which
was actually just seem to belike a very, very like,
difficult game.
it really kind of was a littlebit easier to kind of jump into
because of like megas and likehow easy it was just to spam,
(09:10):
like the, the mega buttonthrough my dude.
But yeah, I remember like, yeah,my first ever, like starter was,
Chespin.
And I remember that, like, Ijust.
And I think I just kept goingwith grass.
And, so yeah, I definitely thinkX and Y was definitely very fun.
The only thing that was actuallyvery interesting, like when
you're at a certain age, youmight not like really understand
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the story too much.
And I remember that, like when Ikind of played through X and Y,
like, I think again, for liketwo years ago or something like
that, I started to realize therewas actually so much.
So much more story snippets thatwere in there, then you actually
will notice like, there's likeso much more like, almost, cause
I never realized that like, whenyou were playing through X and
Y, you saw the ultimate weapon,I don't know why I never thought
(09:52):
that like, they would use thelies of the actual mons actually
insane.
Like, wait, what?
Like X and Y was actually like alot, like, darker than I guess
you remember.
Cause I think getting X and Y,like when you're like younger,
you just play through it.
You just beat the game, but youdon't really look at like the
really, um, minute details a lotI don't know, I feel like
(10:12):
there's a lot of things in thegame that really require like
almost not really an adultbrave.
I mean, like even like the radarfeature is very hard to like
keep that, you know, like youhave to like keep track of like
being like four places away andlike, you know, on the edge of
the thingies and like all thosedifferent things are like we're
like in a patch of grass, dude.
Like it was actually prettypretty difficult to kind of keep
(10:32):
track of.
Mm hmm.
David Hernandez (10:34):
It is.
And, and just on that note, youknow, Pokemon has like the
surface level, right, where youjust see the cool animated
battles, the power of friendshipand all the stuff that, you
know, you just kind Not noticeif you're young or not aware,
but what I've always loved isthat there's always more
beneath.
If you really want to dig behindit, you mentioned how, you know,
the big weapon, which is themain central story of Pokemon X
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and Y for me is always the megaevolution mechanic, because yes,
you see this cool Pokemon, butwhen you read the lore behind
most of the mega Pokemon, a lotof them are in pain.
And for me, I'm hoping thisexplores an X, I'm sorry,
Pokemon Z, a, I wonder ifthey're going to eventually
explore, like, is it maybeethical to put Pokemon through
that pain?
to get form.
It's something I've always, I'mcurious to see if Pokemon will
(11:16):
address with it.
I'm hoping they do.
Now
TheStaticPikachu (11:18):
Oh, yeah, I think that, it was interesting
because I remember that I waskind of even watching a lot of
different stuff where I wouldthink a lot of YouTubers, or I
don't really kind of like doingthis, but I know that a lot of
YouTubers use something calledlike, PK hex, where they quite
literally would just like hackin certain things.
They might put like, you know,mega evolutions, like perma mega
evolutions, and I'm like, no,that's like.
(11:40):
Actually, that's painful.
Like, I feel like if youpermanently stay in like mega,
like that is actually very, verypainful because I think it
should only be for like a way touse a little bit of a power up
like a battle.
That's why I feel like I lovemega so much because I you have
a battle mode and you have likea regular mode where I think
that's why I like X and Y andeven Scarlet you have your bike
(12:02):
mode for car ride on.
You have like your.
Battle mode and also evenTarapagos.
I love it so much because it islegit a baby.
If you look like watching this,like walk around, I'm like, Oh
my gosh.
And then like, if I like goesinto battle, it goes into like
that big, like terror shellthing.
So I was like, I, I really dolove that.
I feel like that should alwaysbe like a mainstay thing.
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It's why, I always felt that Iwant to actually play the game.
how it should be played kind ofusing the actual rank battle
things in the game.
because I know, cause a lot oftimes people don't usually do,
comp because they always feellike, Oh yeah, there's like too
much RNG, man.
But I honestly feel like there'sa lot of really good ways that
are actually in the game thatkind of mitigate a lot of RNG.
(12:44):
and I feel like, yeah, I didn'twant to actually go into like
more of the hacking type ofroute, because I think I just
valued the product too much.
Like, I just remember like, um,I even kind of mentioned, but
with the whole stellar Tarathing, and I can remember like,
there was like this one, a Marstrial where it was like, I
really felt like I wasconnecting to my dad because he
loved to like be like anaviator.
He loved to fly planes.
We never got to fly.
(13:04):
Got to, and the Mars trial legitwas like you flying through like
rings and I wanted to like showthem a little bit.
So it was like, I, yeah, Ihonestly value like the product
a lot and I didn't want toreally kind of do all the
different stuff, but yeah, whenyou're talking about mega is
like, they would, yeah, theywould hack it to where like you
might have probably six megas,like six entire megas at like
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one time.
And I was like, no, like that,that doesn't feel moral at all.
Because like, if something stayspermanent mega, then it will
feel like Pain, like all thefreaking dime
David Hernandez (13:35):
Pokemon X and Y your favorite generation, or did
you find like other generationsyou enjoyed over it at some
point?
TheStaticPikachu (13:41):
Um, I feel like it, yeah, my favorite's not
x and y even though it was myfirst.
my favorite game of all time isdefinitely legend Darius.
So it was interesting how I toldyou that my, then when I heard
the music, uh, was it anemissary?
Like the dude, dude, dude, likeremember I heard that.
Um, yeah.
Gen four is my favorite gen.
(14:01):
I think Sinnoh is so freakinggood.
Like it's really, really good.
I feel like I was either kind ofdebating between either four or
like even seven.
Cause ironically I knew a lot ofpeople didn't really like lakes
on a moon.
I liked how they introduced thisreally unique thing of like top
booze and like, I feel like Ijust, I just love like the whole
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thing.
It was just so good.
It's like this whole entire,like unique species of things.
I was like, not necessarily likea broken, like, you know, So
Galeo or Lunala, but like, itwas kind of like this sub
legendary slot.
I love building in.
And I think that the same thinghappened with, Scarlet Violet,
Paradoxes is the same exact typeof thing where it was like, you
(14:45):
had these Saiyans that are notreally super legendary, but
still can like do really well.
And I love building with that,but I think the primary reason I
just love like gen fours.
I feel like I like the Themes alot.
I feel like I really do like,the legendaries a lot.
I think Jen for by far has myfavorite legendaries.
but I feel like definitely, um,PLA took it to where it was like
(15:07):
a really good, like just solid,generation, like overall, cause
I don't really got, I thinkHaseul and Samra was just like,
so like freaking good.
But like, yeah, I feel like Ireally did enjoy.
Like all the different gens thatplay, but I definitely think
four was just very, very solid.
Like I really do kind of likefour is like storyline even.
Um, I know a lot of people havebeen said their favorite can
even be five, which I haven'teven touched.
(15:28):
So I mean like, yeah, I thinkthat, it really kind of depends
on like how good, like the,different stories are, um,
because I feel like a lot oftimes, like some people can
think about certain gens as verycompetitively in terms of like
when you're going to travelaround to like a regional and
see like how much that gen kindof give to you.
Or you can see as like, is theregood shiny hunting methods in
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there that they can really kindof utilize in that way?
Or is it also just like thedesigns are better, something
like that was a story good.
So I feel like they really didkind of do well in the story
department.
They just completely did thatsuper well.
I think that some of the designsactually in the game are also
very like unique too.
So yeah, I feel like a lot ofthings in gen nine were actually
(16:11):
brand brand new.
but for a lot of people, I thinkgen nine was honestly just a
game that like you could playthrough, you could just enjoy
it.
You didn't have to do reallyanything else with it, but if
you kind of enjoyed it, that wasthe good part about it.
Cause I know like definitely, Alot of people usually don't like
that, but I think that I justknow a lot of people that would
typically just like Shiny hunt,after they beat the game,
because I think I used to, kindof do a lot of Shiny hunting
(16:33):
when I was in like, you know,Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire days,
and I kind of started to kind ofbuild for like certain comp
stuff, so, yeah, I usually didkind of start off with like, you
know, a lot of different thingswith Shinies and Stuff like that
usually probably after the gamewas done.
David Hernandez (16:46):
Now when it comes to Gen 4, you know, that's
before X and Y.
So was your first experiencewith that region with the BDSP
release?
TheStaticPikachu (16:52):
yeah, it actually was BDSP'd.
I just, I always know that like,a lot of, people even tell me
like, Oh my gosh bro, you playBDSP but you're not playing
like, Diamond and Pearl or Like,I can I know that like, PLA, I
liked it a lot because it almostkind of gave Dialga and Palkia
something that Tina had, but didnot, gain really like origins,
(17:13):
or I feel like a lot of times,like some people might be like,
Oh my gosh, bro.
Like, it's just like a giraffeor it's just like, super like,
no, I mean, like you should havegave it to Dialga and Palkia
already.
I feel like.
PLA was like how gen four wasfinished and I feel like gen
four really is finished nowbecause you kind of did wrap it
up but I feel like x and y wasthe one that doesn't really feel
(17:34):
super finished but I feel likethat's why the next legend is
for gen six because a lot ofpeople are kind of even asking
like why is it not off of likeyou know gen five well because I
think that if you look at likegen nine they'll even kind of
say the Blueberry Academy was inUnova and then like all the
different like themes are likethe Unova battle theme.
So like, I don't think they'retrying to remake Unova because I
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think they try to include it byputting it in like a gen nine
DLC type of a part.
because they even remade thetheme and everything, dude.
So, I don't think they weretrying to really remake gen
five.
I think, honestly, what I wasthinking is they might go to the
gen two or something, but thengoing to gen six kind of makes
like a little bit of sense.
I think they still want to keepgoing forward the games.
(18:18):
me personally, I don't thinkthey're going to really be
remaking anything for gen fiveor gen two or gen three or gen
four, gen one anytime soon.
I think it's going to probablybe like all about like, you
know, gen six.
I don't think they should makeone after like gen seven after
that, because I think The sunand moon and moon are kind of
like a little bit still fresh,you know Um, I think that
(18:40):
definitely after plza Theyshould just completely just
focus on like gen 10, which Ithink is gonna be like probably
the best one They're gonnaprobably yeah, it's double
Double digits, man, you havelike 30 years of doing bro.
they have to like, really focuson that after making PLZA.
PLZA is just a very just good,filler, cause I feel like X and
Y is just like so much of themost unfinished game.
(19:02):
Cause every gen was kind ofreally finished.
Like even, gen three had like,Emerald, Omega Ruby, Alpha
Sapphire.
Let's go Pikachu and Eevee forlike Gen one.
Then like even, Sun and Moonalso had Ultra Moon and Ultra
Sun after that.
Every single Gen had somethingexcept for Gen six.
Because Gen six was kind of justlike, You played it and then you
(19:26):
had a zygarde and you had it insun and moon, but not really X
and Y.
There was never like a Z.
So it's like,
David Hernandez (19:34):
in the corner.
Yeah,
TheStaticPikachu (19:35):
so much sense of why they're kind of doing it.
So why?
Because that was like the genthat felt so, so unfinished.
cause a lot of people even likemaking like these type of
hypothesis being like, is therelike this volcanion?
in like that power plant, is itstill like there?
Because there was always onedoor that was just like locked.
I think it was like some desertroute that was in X and Y.
(19:55):
like, yeah, maybe it actuallykind of is still there.
I'm not really sure.
But, I really think that it hasto be more of a flushed out
story really.
David Hernandez (20:03):
I think you bring up an interesting point
because, you know, we thinkabout, you know, for example,
your story to where you come andexperience a remake and a lot of
people who were very down uponBDSP had that prior experience
with Diamond and Pearl back withthe Nintendo DS games.
You clearly didn't have that,which makes the valuable for you
because you get the first timeto experience Sinnoh.
TheStaticPikachu (20:24):
Yeah,
David Hernandez (20:24):
even for me, I enjoyed it because I didn't have
to wait 20 minutes for an attackto happen.
So love speed up.
I you know, the, know, speed up.
I kind of could get away fromthe chibi thing, but that's
another story.
But I think you bring up a goodpoint to where maybe Game
Freak's viewing is like, wherecan we expand the story instead
of let's, find a different wayto not rehash the same game.
You know, you gen five, I neverthought about that.
Gen five is honestly, you know,if I was to be transparent right
(20:48):
now, and people who arelistening, where could they take
the black and white storyline, Iknow you've not played it, that
it already hasn't gone, for gensix, there's a lot more
potential because there's a lotof left unfinished, which
hopefully Pokemon's EA.
TheStaticPikachu (21:01):
People say like, oh, it's not as good as a
problem But then I said like Idon't think it's made for people
like you that probably playeddiamond and pearl I think it
really is for people like mewhere it's like you never really
played gen 4 and this is likeyou were way plenty for and
honestly you still don't evenbecame like my favorite region
um Off of not BDSP, I think mostlikely, Legends RSEs.
(21:22):
I think that like, PLA just,honestly, was just so insanely
good.
You That like, I just love, likeeverything about like gen four
after that.
And I think they really didrebirth gen four in a really
good way.
Cause I remember that a lot ofpeople were really asking about
gen four remakes for a longtime.
they definitely delivered onthat.
(21:43):
Like they definitely did deliveron that.
Cause I think gen four was thefirst, generation that
everyone's talking aboutremaking, because I don't think
there was actually a legit wayto catch like RFC is before the
game came.
because you just had to eitherscratch off a card and just do
all these different stuff withit, my dude.
So it was really, really good tokind of wrap up gen four.
(22:04):
Cause I think it gen four, it'sdefinitely like wrapped up and I
feel like Sun and Moon and Swordand Shield and all these are
just to the too fresh, likethey're too fresh to really
remake them already.
So that's why I was like, yeah,they might either do two, five
or six.
And then when they kind ofdecided six, it's like, Oh, I
actually don't mind that becauseyou can tell it really is
(22:24):
unfinished.
And I think that another really,Big thing that someone should
have I think that one of thesechatters that actually mentioned
to me was that like Yeah,scarlet violet does not have x
and y legendaries And I waslike, Oh, I should have realized
that.
Like, it's like, I think youhave all those like snack worse
things, like after the game'sdone.
Right.
(22:44):
And then you'll have like everylegendary from like every game
and you didn't have an X and Ysat all.
And I was like, wait a minute.
That's actually so true.
And this is before PLZA wasannounced.
And then I just, I don't knowwhy.
I just, remember this one personin my chat was like, maybe if
it's actually Gen Now it's kindof like.
You know, that's a good pointwhen you think about it.
(23:06):
Cause like when I started real,I was like, yeah, why do they
just shaft like Zernes andEvolto like that?
And then when I kind of releasedit, I remember like this guy
came back.
He's like, I told you, I waslike, wow, it's actually like
such a smart, thing.
Cause I remember his name waslike Ninten, Patterson, like
that.
And I was like, wow, that was.
Actually, like so insane howlike he really did kind of read
that
David Hernandez (24:02):
you talked about a lot of the experience
with Pokemon, you know,originally you started with
Smash Brothers and I knowPikachu is in your name, but
what is your favorite Pokemon?
Is it actually Pikachu or is itsomething else?
TheStaticPikachu (24:12):
I would still say it's Pikachu, because I
think, ironically, I liked,obviously, the character in the
game, then I really just likethe anime.
I love, like, Ash's Pikachu somuch, so I don't really ever
think it cannot be Pikachu,because that's how I kind of got
into the franchise, like, in thefirst place.
Um, obviously it makes a lot ofsense because like, if you had
(24:33):
the Clip Ascot, that wouldprobably be a thing to do it.
But, I just remembered that,when I was kind of even playing
through a lot of the games, likeI would remember that even
Pikachu is not necessarilyreally that good like, when I
tried to use like any sort ofPikachu, like on a team, it
would really not do that supergood.
Like, not really like.
The anime is not at all likethat, where it's like, you
really have to do a lot ofthings that kind of make it
(24:54):
good.
So I would say that even thoughI don't primarily use it when
I'm building a lot of stuff, Ireally do just kind of like how
good, Pikachu was even incertain other games.
I feel like those are so funnyhow, like, it is so good in like
side games and not really likemainline games.
So it was, it was kind of reallyinteresting, but.
I feel like definitely it willstill always be my favorite mom
(25:17):
because the first mom theyhonestly really did see and like
and enjoy and they kind ofbranched out to like other moms
too.
So, but I feel like to kind ofgive like another mom, though, I
feel like I kind of did it towhere, like, some people even
say, like, they would eitherhave like a legendary that might
be their favorite.
Obviously, they might have likea favorite starter because
there's a lot of different,Categories and kind of like
(25:37):
always do for like certainpeople and then I usually say
like my favorite like sub legendwas actually like Latios because
I knew that my dad really likeda lot of like planes so then it
made a lot of sense why I wouldreally like Latios design.
Then I think like in terms oflike a actual kind of like a
restricted like box artLegendary it was really, really
close.
I really liked, gen four, like,I love like Dialga.
(26:00):
I love like Palkia.
I love Arceus.
Like, I love those like type ofdesigns because they literally
are like gods of time.
And they're like deities becausesometimes some legendaries are
not like that.
Cause I got obviously karate andMariah, and they're just like.
They're bikes, but they'rereally like super dope bikes.
something like that.
But, I did also like Sun andMoon a little bit.
(26:21):
I just remember like a sudden aton of moon was really good.
I just think that I was kind ofwatching some of the anime.
they made the character seemlike a lot, I would say younger.
And I think it's probablybecause they wanted to really,
put a lot of their stuff intomaking really good animations
because X and Y.
Anime was like peak dawg, andthen it is completely plummeted
when you went to like, gen 7really but I think it's because
(26:44):
it had to take something out Ithad to like either make the
characters worse to make likethe animations really good And
that was kind of what they kindof did.
But I feel like Gen seven as agame is still really, really
fun.
Like, I mean like even if youlook at like the anime, it might
be like, eh, the, the, theactual game of Sun Moon is very,
very fun.
I think I love a Lola and likethe environments of a Lola being
(27:07):
like Hawaii because even went tolike Hawaii trip, like when I
was like in junior of highschool.
So like, I, I love Hawaii.
I feel like it's a very, verygood.
Region to base a game off of andI think it was obviously a
really good idea.
David Hernandez (27:21):
On that note, you said Pikachu is hard to use
in like, you know, a competitivesetting.
Yeah What would it take?
In your opinion, what would ittake to make Pikachu
competitive, or is that asking alot?
TheStaticPikachu (27:33):
I feel like it's interesting because it's
you gave it an evolution likeyou gave it Raichu, Right?
I feel like you can only kind ofbuff it so much like it can't be
like ashes, you know I mean itwas like I think that you would
give pikachu like the bstbasically of a Raichu And then
kind of start buffing fromthere.
(27:54):
because a lot of people aresaying like, make like a mega
Pikachu, but it wouldn't reallykind of make too much sense
because you have to probablymake, make a right shoe.
I
David Hernandez (28:01):
Well, you had Gigantamax Pikachu as
TheStaticPikachu (28:02):
but yeah, I was really happy about that.
I was like, oh my gosh, wait aminute.
That might be the only thingthat makes it viable.
Let's go.
I was like, yeah, I was like,Gigantamax.
Pikachu is like.
Actually, I remember I just sawit and it was like really,
really funny.
And I think I like how they doPikachu and Eevee kind of like
the same service really, whereit's like they're both mons that
(28:24):
obviously we want to evolve,right?
Especially even Eevee, you wouldwant to evolve that.
So then I was thinking abouteven like Pikachu is like, yeah,
I definitely thought that, like,if I did also have it where
something is not like to evolve,kind of get buffed.
And like, let's go Pikachu andEevee and also, Kind of
happened.
I get the max form.
So it's really good.
But I feel like there's actuallya lot of people that I've even
(28:46):
kind of met, like they wouldlike legit say to like, they
like it to where something isnot like evolved.
You know what I mean?
Like they would like, cause Ifeel like even Dawn, like a
very, very, big character.
Like she liked Piplup.
Like I don't want to evolve.
I'm just as strong as anEmpoleon.
I'm just as strong.
And I think I like that.
That, type of concept really,we're like, it should be a
choice, whether like you want toevolve or not.
(29:07):
I would honestly believe thatyou can decide to evolve
something, if you want to, but Ialways liked it how they might
have like some people use Yanma,but again, mega, and I was like,
wait, what?
Why would they do that?
But it's because they get thesereally broken hidden abilities
to like, pre evolved mons, andthen it makes it not as good
when you evolve it.
(29:27):
I think I want them to continuedoing that.
Where it's like, if you don'twant to evolve it, the one
that's like probably either likePimplup or Primplup has a
really, really good like abilitythat can really help out a lot.
But it might not have the statsto back it up.
Obviously, that's just aphysical, like, science.
but I mean, kind of having itwhere you can still evolve and
(29:48):
kind of make it like, if youwant to kind of have it be where
they have a little bit more,like, actual attacking power,
that makes sense.
But I feel like giving it eitherlike the light ball that they
did to kind of get a full tackleis also really huge.
or just like another really justgood ability or like another
exclusive move might be a thingthat might really be make me get
you usable.
I feel like it actually might belike a move or like an ability
that would be like the mostlogical ways of kind of buffing
(30:10):
it, because I feel like once youkind of start messing with the,
like the base stats, like it'sjust, you just evolve it, you
know?
David Hernandez (30:16):
crazy idea.
So, you know the Overgrow,Blaze, and Torrent ability for
the starters?
Give something like that toPikachu, but give it a plus six
special attack, attack, andspeed.
TheStaticPikachu (30:26):
Oh, yeah, I'm telling you, I mean, like, it
needs something like that, you
David Hernandez (30:32):
probably, I don't know, it probably broken
itself, but that's the thing gotoff.
Uh, that's the thing that cameout of my head.
TheStaticPikachu (30:37):
No, yeah, I like it, but I feel like, yeah,
I just knew that, like, youmight not be able to really
affect stats too much, but Ifeel like there's such a really
good way That you can kind oflike utilize abilities and what
I mean, like abilities.
It's like sometimes some thingsmight just exist just so it can
be like a redirection thingwhere like something would just
sit there and go for like myelectric time move and you
switch into like a right periodis like, well, lightning rod.
(31:00):
You just completely disnegatedlike a thunderbolt.
It's like a freaking Gyarados,right?
And like, that's so like frigginmassive, dude.
Where it's like sometimesspecific things just exist For
their abilities.
And I really do kind of likethose mons.
I feel like I kind of look at itas like, yeah, just one, the
utility bond and one that'sreally like good for like, you
(31:22):
know, um, damage stuff likethat, my dude.
So like, yeah, I wrote it kindof like that a lot of dude.
David Hernandez (31:28):
You know, last thing I want to talk about is,
you know, how you play Pokemon.
So you said you'd like try tobuild teams.
So it sounds like you have alittle bit of a competitive
background.
Is that your primarily way toplay the main series games is
just try to build competitiveteams.
Do you like the shiny hunt?
Like,
TheStaticPikachu (31:40):
I feel like I like trying to do a mix of it
where I think primarily I dolove doing a lot of stuff in
terms of like building for like,um, BGC, I feel like I
definitely have even had it towhere I was kind of doing some
stuff, even Old like or as dayswhere I feel like, yeah, it's
just really interesting becauseeverything was so hard to put
out when it was just like, youknow, the 3ds era, you know,
(32:01):
where I had to like do a lot ofdifferent things.
There's like a lot of differentmodding, but I think that sword
and shield.
made it like so much easier towhere like, you can like make a
build and also like, show thatbuild and it was like, so much
easier to still do it was so,so, so, so, so good to do.
then I remember that like, Ireally did value the story.
so much.
Cause I feel like the story justlike, always hit like, yeah,
(32:24):
cause I'm in my family.
It always really kind of hitlike a really good area of being
like, I'm going to do bring outof like the story of their
games, even though it might belike, you know, might have to
work on some frame stuff, but Ifelt like I really did kind of
like that because I rememberthat I do.
Run to a lot of from people thatkind of play, you know, the
game, you know, definitely a lotdifferently because I think
that's what I kind of like aboutlike the franchise so much that
(32:45):
there's like so many ways tokind of play the game.
It's not really just like oneway.
And I feel like that is the partthat makes it really good.
And really, like, just alwaysreally successful.
Like, I feel like it should notreally be One way of playing a
game, you know what I mean?
Well, I don't think it shouldjust be, you know, either just
shine and they are just like,you know, building for like a
ladder thing.
It should not be just like, youknow, cars are just Pogo or they
(33:08):
should not just be one thing,because I feel like a lot of
franchises are basicallyspecifically built on like,
competitive backgrounds.
And I know a lot of games thatlike, obviously are really
built, at least for that, thereason why I love doing a comp
thing, at least for Asher's mainlines, because I feel like I
just really love the amount offlexibility you can have with
it.
I just love the community whereI feel like a lot of times I
(33:31):
really just kind of do what Ido.
For the community of people.
And I feel like that's why Ilove this kind of supporting so
much other people.
yeah, you can tell, like somepeople just honestly, just like
love what they do.
They love each other and theyalways support each other.
And I feel like there's not thatmany, things that really kind of
do that really, there's not thatmany things that really will
always have it where ourcommunities will like legit
(33:51):
support each other.
And because everything is justso like competitively like
oriented that they don't eventhink about like supporting like
other people whenever they'relike done with their streams,
where I would always think aboutlike, you know, rating into
somebody else.
It might not like, you know, bebuilding for like, let's say
ladder, but they're just likealso do something for like shiny
hunting.
They're also doing something.
They might be speed running, butI feel like honestly, I would.
(34:12):
support them because they'reactually a part of like the
community.
And I really did just kind oflike love, you know, just kind
of supporting them as well.
And I think that it was, it'sreally interesting because I
think I even used to be that waywhere it's like, Oh yeah, bro,
this person's also buildingsomething for this.
And I'm like, yeah, I don't wantto really like to support them
because they're trying to belike an option like that.
And it was honestly just sostupid.
Cause I feel like that's why,like, I never really wanted to
(34:33):
be, associated really with, Someof those communities honestly,
like you never want to kind oflose that type of like love you
have for the game and the lovethat you have like other people
because yeah, a lot of thesegames bring people together.
And I feel like at least in thistype of day and age where a lot
of stuff really is.
Super about like, how, good areyou, how good or high rank you
(34:56):
are.
And definitely I think thatallows me to talk about mainline
people would just innocentlythink like, they would not even
think about building somethingfor like competitive at all, but
I feel like.
The reason I really just dovalue because like, obviously I
just grew up, like, you know,watching, like, you know,
obviously a lot of animals Ijust fricking love like so much.
And I feel like the amount offlexibility and balance that you
can have with like the mainlinegames is why I do it.
(35:18):
It's like, if I'm not doing wellon this, then I can do like
shiny hunting.
If I'm not really doing well onthis and I could like, you know,
shiny hunt another game or likedo like a speed run, or I can
probably try to like do acontest.
Because I actually did like howBDSP even had like, you know,
That's in it.
So I feel like, yeah, that's whyI think I always really love it
because it's just such a lot ofthings that you really can do in
with other people.
(35:40):
And I think that's what I'mreally happy that I was able to
kind of cultivate is that like,people look forward to seeing
some other people that are likein my chat, like they actually
look for, and it's like, Oh, hi,it's not even just like to me.
It can be like to somebody else.
It probably might stopped inlike before.
I was just like, so happy aboutit.
I was like, so happy that like,I had a place where people could
feel comfortable, you know?
And I think that is why stillobviously still do a lot of
(36:02):
different stuff that I do So,um, yeah,
David Hernandez (36:05):
Well, sadly, Pikachu, thank you for coming on
the show.
I do want to finish off thisinterview with one last question
and do a little differently withyou because you actually brought
up a good point.
So normally I have my guestspick up six Pokemon.
They would do with a playthrough, be their dream team.
So you've already said one,you've done one with Pikachu.
I want to give you five morecategories and I want to fit.
I want you to pick a favoritefrom each category I give you.
TheStaticPikachu (36:27):
Okay, mm
David Hernandez (36:28):
So we got Pikachu as your first favorite.
That's going to be on your team.
What's your favorite mega?
TheStaticPikachu (36:34):
Oh Dude, that's such a good.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow, because I don't want todo like an absolutely like
Broken one because I know Idon't want to do like a
legendary.
Yeah That food is actually a lotof really good like megas that
really can be like utilized Iwould definitely say Mega
Salamence is so good.
(36:57):
I mean, like, it's just like,it's like a pseudo legendary.
Like it's not like a legendary.
It's just really just freakinggood to like, even have the
stats of a legendary.
And I feel like, yeah, MegaSalamence is actually even
really kind of set to even bebetter than Mega Rayquaza at a
point because like, usually likeRayquaza can only hit like one
thing, but like Salamence canjust like spam, like hyper voice
and just like do like a lot ofthings.
(37:18):
So like, I would say like MegaSalamence.
And I think that to stay alongwith like what I really talked
about my dad, I'll say MegaLatios because I think Latios is
honestly like a super, reallygood.
It's super like super deep, likefast, my dude.
So yeah, I'd say like MegaLatios.
I think I, I love that Mega alot, dude.
It's really, really good.
Oh,
David Hernandez (37:38):
What would be your favorite?
Legendary
TheStaticPikachu (37:42):
that's really interesting.
it's really, really interesting.
Cause I feel like, I wouldobviously probably pick
something from gen four.
the only thing is, is it like alegendary or is it like a
mythical?
Nick, cause I know like somepeople, some people might get
off on that, but I don't want tobe like,
David Hernandez (37:58):
a legend.
Okay.
In this case, legendary ormythical
TheStaticPikachu (38:01):
I definitely say my favorite mythic.
I'll say I'll combine.
I'll definitely say it wasArceus.
I think I just love that mod.
I know I can never really likeuse it, but I remember that
definitely in terms of like,regulations or like a lot of
things.
Cause you can probably buildlike something that would be,
even in the game or just kind oflike the one you can catch in
the game.
Um, then I'll definitelyprobably say like either, um,
(38:21):
Dialga or also something fromGen 7.
It's either Dialga or Lunala,but I definitely think for the
sake of kind of leaving it alittle bit diverse, I'd probably
say like, yeah, I just loveLunala.
Oh my gosh, like that, that,that moment is honestly like
when I saw it, like it was justso beautiful.
It's like, geez, it was actuallyjust so Good and I thought it
was actually just like a veryunique mon And um, yeah, I'll
(38:43):
definitely take a mega latiosand like lunala definitely can
create like a very like diversething for the team So i'll
definitely like pick lunalathough.
Yeah
David Hernandez (38:50):
So we got Pikachu.
We've got mega Latios and we'vegotten a lot.
No Lunala
TheStaticPikachu (38:54):
Mm hmm.
David Hernandez (38:55):
What would be your favorite starter?
TheStaticPikachu (38:57):
Oh Wait, oh my gosh.
Okay.
Oh Wow, good thing is I don'twant to get into things.
I know like my first is actuallylike Chesspin, and I know I
don't want to Necessarily doThat though, I feel like there's
actually just so much reallygood starters.
I feel like it kind of gottenout of like either Gen 7 or Gen
(39:20):
8.
Cause I know like Gen 7 by farhad like a lot of really good
starters in it.
Wow.
Cause I want to say, I think,cause I'm going to probably do
it for my mod though.
I think I might have to, cause Idon't think it's my favorite
starter, but I feel like myfavorite starter that I see.
I love Popplio, like it's by farlike one of the cutest starters.
(39:40):
I feel like in Gen 8, they kindof did the water starter a
disservice.
I'm sorry.
I can tell you, but like Poppliowas like, just so, so like cute.
I know it's known that a lot ofpeople don't even like like
Primarina a lot.
I would have thought it wasactually just very, very like
wild to me.
I was honestly just reallysurprised by it, but I feel
like.
I would say I think my favoritestarter in terms of like, I
(40:03):
would say just look becausesometimes I don't want to only
think about like, how good it isand like in a battle.
But like I say, like, Popplio isby far the cutest one that I
think I have seen, but I'm goingto pick Chimchar because I have
a certain mob that is Chimchar.
He usually helps me out with alot of different like, you know.
Egg stuff like that my dude andI feel like having an infernape
(40:24):
is really really just like supersolid So i'll definitely pick
like, um gym jar though.
Yeah
David Hernandez (40:29):
So we got Pikachu mega Latios Lunala and
infernate.
The next one your favoritePokemon from Gen 4.
TheStaticPikachu (40:37):
Oh See, yeah, that's what I was like, um, I
already used a legend Cuz Idefinitely think there's
actually a lot a lot of reallygood ones from gen 4 where it's
like I remember that like eventhe
David Hernandez (40:51):
if you want to choose a Legendary, you can.
This is your team.
So,
TheStaticPikachu (40:54):
Oh, yeah, I think that I know there's a lot
of really good Stars, I know Ieven saw Terry was really good A
lot of different ones that theyhave even in Gen 4.
A lot of different, like, sublegendaries, I remember, would
act like pretty good.
Um, because I feel like that'swhere I really kind of like a
lot about.
I even remember that was likeone that's actually really big
about like, Gen 5.
They actually introduced like alot of different like,
subliminaries, but I feel likein terms of like gen form, even
(41:19):
though I already do have a,psychic, I would say Cresselia.
I love the design of Cresselia.
Oh my gosh.
It's so freaking good.
And I remember that it also goesback to, When I was talking
about like brawl, right?
Where I was like, I remember thestage of spirit pillar.
This was, this was before I evenactually went to spirit pillar.
Cause I remember that like theyoga was one that I actually did
(41:41):
not mind could just slowed youdown.
Right.
And then I remember that pocketlegit did like a whole entire
one 80.
On the entire freaking screennow, I was like, I did not like
that and that's why to this dayI'm not gonna ever be team
parole because I just freakingdid not like that type of thing.
They did on spear builder onthat Um, but then I remember
that like, chrysalia He justsits around this little thing It
(42:01):
was like a psycho cut I think itwas and I was like, hey, I
really like like chrysalia LikeI thought it was actually a
really um Good, um, I really didkind of like it a lot because I
know like a lot of peopleusually do not Usually a lot of
like psychic like they didn'tlike the whole as self mass for
OOXY and like stuff like thatBut I like it.
I would do
David Hernandez (42:18):
So we got Pikachu.
We got Megalodon, Lulana,Infernape and Cresselia.
last one you have to choose is aPokemon from your favorite type.
TheStaticPikachu (42:28):
Oh No, I think that's it's really like super
interesting because I You wouldthink it would probably be like
electric, you know, I wouldprobably pick like, you know an
electric mod and do stuff likethat, but I honestly think like
my favorite type actually toit's really kind of changed
overall like so much actuallybecause it used to kind of be A
(42:50):
lot of like different things.
I feel like it used to kind ofeven be like, grass.
They always like pick just likegrass starters, like all the
time.
It was like, love, but grassreally, was a good way because a
lot of times people would notreally pick grass.
It would always like usuallypick, fire.
I feel like a lot of peoplereally do always pick like fire
starters, you know?
And I feel like it was actuallystill very, Beneficial for them
(43:10):
though because like they'reusually on the early rouse There
really is usually like bugs andgrass like really anyway So then
like it was always like super,smart to pick like the fire
starter whenever playing like agame but I feel like I really
did kind of like grass a lot andI think i'm gonna still stick to
Grass in all honesty, but Iremember like yeah, I did pick
jasmine first.
(43:30):
I still do like solid liketyping my dude And I feel like
in terms of my favorite typing,I think it would actually be
either electric or grass So i'mgoing to actually pick something
that kind of combines Those twothings at first you're like even
like rotom even can kind of belike electric and grass So that
was actually like really reallyinteresting they kind of did
like a lot because I feel like Ilike something like that really.
(43:52):
I definitely think that I'llprobably pick Rotom Moe.
Yeah, Rotom.
Moe.
I feel like it really does kindof like incorporate both me
having electric and also like agrass, which I feel like I kind
of like both of those.
So yeah, I kind of really do.
I feel like that's also from Gen4 too.
So yeah, Gen 4 had like quite areally, a lot of really good
ones.
It even had like, yeah, Rotom'sreally like super good, man.
David Hernandez (44:16):
Well StaticPikachu, thankyou for
coming on the show before yougo.
If people want to check out yourcontent, if they want to connect
with you, where can they go?
By all means, please plug away
TheStaticPikachu (44:24):
Oh, yeah.
Thank you again so much forhaving me.
I do pretty much a lot of daily.
twitch streams I also havestatic, because BGC on YouTube,
but I feel like I'm just astatic Pikachu on Twitch.
I think that's going to probablybe my primary one even in
discord, I do have a discord.
I do have that linked whenever Ido kind of have like a live
stream, even as well.
So that's pretty much where youcan find me.
(44:45):
And I really do appreciate youfor, having me obviously just
love just kind of talking abouta lot of these different, gens
and love because kind of sharingit, my dude.
So I'm just really happy thatyou reached out to me.
David Hernandez (44:55):
Thank you for listening to As the Pokeball
Turns.
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connected by clicking any of thelinks in the description of this
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Until next time.
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