Raichu

    #025 #026  —  Raichu #027    
Normal
Alolan
#026    Raichu

Type(s)

Electric

Generation

  I  

Abilities

Ability 1
Static
Hidden Ability
Lightning Rod

Rarity Tier

  Uncommon  

Catch rate

  75/255 (9.8%)  

Base stats

HP
60

Atk
90

Def
55

Sp.Atk
90

Sp.Def
80

Spd
110

Base-stat total: 485
EV Yield

HP
0

Atk
0

Def
0

Sp.Atk
0

Sp.Def
0

Spd
3

EV-yield total: 3

Base Experience

  122  

Gender Ratio

    50%  
  50%    

Height

  0.8m  

Weight

  30kg  

#26B    Alolan Raichu

Type(s)

Electric Psychic

Generation

    

Abilities

Ability 1
Surge Surfer

Rarity Tier

  Unhuntable  

Catch rate

  75/255 (9.8%)  

Base stats

HP
60

Atk
85

Def
50

Sp.Atk
95

Sp.Def
85

Spd
110

Base-stat total: 485
EV Yield

HP
0

Atk
0

Def
0

Sp.Atk
0

Sp.Def
0

Spd
3

EV-yield total: 3

Base Experience

  218  

Gender Ratio

    50%  
  50%    

Height

  0.7m  

Weight

  21.0kg  

Raichu is an Electric-type Pokémon.

Having evolved from Pikachu via contactual exposure to a Thunder Stone, it is the final stage in the evolutionary line of the baby-stage Pichu Pokémon.

It has a Electric— and Psychic-type Alolan counterpart.

  • Pikachu‘s evolution to Alolan Raichu is not coded in PRO.

Obtainability

Wild

  • This Pokémon’s Alolan counterpart does not have a permanent land spawn in the game, however it can be obtainable from Outbreaks. This Pokémon’s Alolan counterpart’s tier is usually Tier 8 when an Outbreak does occur.
Normal
Alolan
Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Cerulean Cave 1F 60-64 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Dragons Neck 30-35 Morning Day Night Uncommon
  • Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly members-accessible
  • Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick
Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
  • Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly members-accessible
  • Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

NPCs

An NPC in room 1 of Cinnabar Island Lab will broker a trade for a Raichu in return for an Electrode.

Moves

Level-up

Level Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 15
Tail Whip Normal Status 100 30
Quick Attack Normal Physical 40 100 30
Thunder Shock Electric Special 40 100 30
  • Emboldened moves denote this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • All moves subsumed on this list are relearnable via the Move Relearners if lost.

TMs/HMs

TM Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
TM1 Mega Punch Normal Physical 80 85 20
TM5 Mega Kick Normal Physical 120 75 5
TM6 Toxic Poison Status 90 10
TM8 Body Slam Normal Physical 80 100 15
TM9 Take Down Normal Physical 90 85 20
TM15 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150 90 5
TM16 Pay Day Normal Physical 40 100 20
TM17 Submission Fighting Physical 80 80 25
TM19 Seismic Toss Fighting Physical 100 20
TM24 Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 15
TM25 Thunder Electric Special 110 70 10
TM28 Dig Ground Physical 80 100 10
TM33 Reflect Psychic Status 20
TM34 Bide Normal Physical 10
TM39 Swift Normal Special 60 20
TM40 Skull Bash Normal Physical 100 100 15
TM44 Rest Psychic Status 10
TM45 Thunder Wave Electric Status 100 20
TM60 Hidden Power Normal Special 60 100 15
TM66 Light Screen Psychic Status 30
TM67 Protect Normal Status 10
TM68 Rain Dance Water Status 5
TM81 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100 15
TM92 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 20
TM96 Thief Dark Physical 60 100 25
TM114 Rock Smash Fighting Physical 40 100 15
TM122 Volt Switch Electric Special 70 100 20
HM05 Flash Normal Status 100 20
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move’s obtainability.

TM-tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Charge Beam Electric Special 50 90 10
Focus Blast Fighting Special 120 70 5
Focus Punch Fighting Physical 150 100 20
Frustration Normal Physical 100 20
Giga Impact Normal Physical 150 90 5
Grass Knot Grass Special 100 20
Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75 15
Wild Charge Electric Physical 90 100 15
Zap Cannon Electric Special 120 50 5
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Move tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Aqua Tail Water Physical 90 90 10
Counter Fighting Physical 100 20
Covet Normal Physical 60 100 25
Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
Dynamic Punch Fighting Physical 100 50 5
Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100 25
Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100 15
Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75 15
Magnet Rise Electric Status 10
Mega Kick Normal Physical 120 75 5
Mega Punch Normal Physical 80 85 20
Rollout Rock Physical 30 90 20
Seismic Toss Fighting Physical 100 20
Shock Wave Electric Special 60 20
Signal Beam Bug Special 75 100 15
Surf* Water Special 90 100 15
Swagger Normal Status 90 15
Swift Normal Special 60 20
Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100 15
Thunder Wave Electric Status 100 20
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.
  • * — Must have started with Pikachu and the Pokémon tutee must be under your OT registry

Egg Moves

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Bestow Normal Status 15
Bide Normal Physical 10
Charge Electric Status 20
Disarming Voice Fairy Special 40 15
Double Slap Normal Physical 15 85 10
Encore Normal Status 100 5
Endure Normal Status 10
Fake Out Normal Physical 40 100 10
Flail Normal Physical 100 15
Lucky Chant Normal Status 30
Present Normal Physical 90 15
Reversal Fighting Physical 100 15
Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100 15
Tickle Normal Status 100 20
Volt Tackle Electric Physical 120 100 15
Wish Normal Status 10
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • For more information on egg-move-tutors, refer to: Egg Moves.

Type Effectiveness

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Alolan

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:

 2×  Weak to  1×  Neutral to  ½×  Resistant to  0×  Immune to
Ground
Bug
Dark
Dragon
Fairy
Fighting
Fire
Ghost
Grass
Ice
Normal
Poison
Psychic
Rock
Water
Electric
Flying
Steel
None
  • All darkened weakness types have a 4x weakness due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type weaknesses.
  • All darkened resistance types have a 1⁄4x resistance due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type resistances.

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:

 2×  Weak to  1×  Neutral to  ½×  Resistant to  0×  Immune to
Bug
Dark
Ghost
Ground
Dragon
Fairy
Fire
Grass
Ice
Normal
Poison
Rock
Water
Electric
Fighting
Flying
Psychic
Steel
None
  • All darkened weakness types have a 4x weakness due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type weaknesses.
  • All darkened resistance types have a 1⁄4x resistance due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type resistances.

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience Raichu requires to advance per level.

Level XP Level-Up Differential
1 97 10
2 107 10
3 154 47
4 274 120
5 504 230
6 881 377
7 1441 560
8 2220 779
9 3257 1037
10 4586 1329
11 6245 1659
12 8271 2026
13 10699 2428
14 13567 2868
15 16911 3344
16 20768 3857
17 25174 4406
18 30167 4993
19 35782 5615
20 42056 6274
21 49027 6971
22 56730 7703
23 65202 8472
24 74481 9279
25 84601 10120
26 95602 11001
27 107518 11916
28 120386 12868
29 134244 13858
30 149128 14884
31 165074 15946
32 182120 17046
33 200302 18182
34 219657 19355
35 240221 20564
36 262031 21810
37 285124 23093
38 309538 24414
39 335307 25769
40 362471 27164
41 391064 28593
42 421125 30061
43 452689 31564
44 485795 33106
45 520479 34684
46 556777 36298
47 594728 37951
48 634368 39640
49 675735 41367
50 718865 43130
51 763796 44931
52 810566 46770
53 859212 48646
54 909772 50560
55 962283 52511
56 1016785 54502
57 1073315 56530
58 1131912 58597
59 1192614 60702
60 1255461 62847
61 1320493 65032
62 1387749 67256
63 1457270 69521
64 1529099 71829
65 1603276 74177
66 1679846 76570
67 1758853 79007
68 1840343 81490
69 1924365 84022
70 2010968 86603
71 2100205 89237
72 2192134 91929
73 2286816 94682
74 2384317 97501
75 2484712 100395
76 2588083 103371
77 2694526 106443
78 2804152 109626
79 2917090 112938
80 3033498 116408
81 3153570 120072
82 3277547 123977
83 3405737 128190
84 3538543 132806
85 3676494 137951
86 3820308 143814
87 3970973 150665
88 4129878 158905
89 4299019 169141
90 4481331 182312
91 4681237 199906
92 4905595 224358
93 5165365 259770
94 5478690 313325
95 5876844 398154
96 6416321 539477
97 7205050 788729
98 8463628 1258578
99 10682271 2218643
100 15072636 4390365

Special counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

Raichu coalesced with an assortment of other Pokémon to have a Christmas-thematized counterpart as a product of the 2016 Christmas Event.

  • Original counterpart

  • Shiny Raichu

  • Christmas Raichu

  • Pink Raichu

  • Halloween Raichu

  • Alolan Raichu Front Sprite.png

    Alolan Raichu

  • Shiny Alolan Raichu.png

    Shiny Alolan Raichu

External Links

  • Raichu’s Bulbapedia
  • Raichu’s Serebii