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📅 Updated:2026-06-14
🕒 Created:2017-06-22
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Spiky-eared Pichu (Japanese: ギザみみピチュー Gizamimi Pichu) is a Pichu. Its form is different from the one of an ordinary Pichu, as it has three spikes at the tip of its left ear, hence its name.
Spiky-eared Pichu (Japanese: ギザみみピチュー Gizamimi Pichu) is a Pichu. Its form is different from the one of an ordinary Pichu, as it has three spikes at the tip of its left ear, hence its name.
Spiky-eared Pichu first appears in pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver as an event pokémon obtained in Ilex Forest. If the player interacts with the shrine while walking with a Pikachu-colored Pichu, she will appear and join the player's party. If the player's party is full, they will have to deposit a pokémon and return to accept her.
Spiky-eared Pichu has her own unique in-battle and overworld sprites and cannot evolve or be traded outside of its original game. Aside from her unique sprite, moves, and inability to be traded or evolved, she is nearly identical to a normal Pichu in that her base stats are the same as a normal Pichu's. However, her maximum stats for the Pokéathlon are different. If a pokémon uses Transform on her, it will have a spiky ear. Shiny sprites for Spiky-eared Pichu exist in the coding of the games, although it is impossible to obtain one due to the game assigning the Spiky-eared Pichu a fixed personality value that is predetermined according to the Trainer ID number and secret ID. This ensures that the personality value will never result in a Shiny nor a male Spiky-eared Pichu.
If taken to Professor Elm in New Bark Town, it is revealed that she has traveled through time with Celebi. Elm claims that he and Professor Oak were researching the time travel abilities of Celebi, and adds that this Pichu proves his main theory. He adds that the reason she cannot evolve is because she has been time traveling for so long and then calls all the pokémon Center attendants to prevent Spiky-eared Pichu from being used in trades; however, the attendants do not permit her into a trading facility prior to this either. Spiky-eared Pichu is also unable to be transferred through the Poké Transfer into a Generation V game due to her past time traveling.
