My love for Alolan Raichu
So i love Alolan Raichu. They are my favorite Pokemon and they make me smile. I don't really play much unite... I only started when Ceruledge joined and i have only played him up until this point... even though i haven't played this game in awhile...but to my surprise i think i enjoy playing as Alolan Raichu over Ceruledge. I also think its cute that her per-evolution is heart tailed pikachu. Its a cute idea to seprate the og pikachu thats been in the game for awhile now for Alolan Raichu and of course i had to get the surfer costume lol.
Just to think 12 days ago i finally got my full odds shiny Alolan Raichu from Lets Go Eevee! I've been trying on and off for four months. Well looking at my play hours it translates into 6 full days of shiny hunting lol. But i finally got her and can keep playing this game and finish my video i was making for LGE!
Clip from Lets Go Eevee of getting traded full odds Alolan Raichu from NPC Pystrice (volume may be loud i did no editing just straight from the switch clip function)
Then 7 months ago i was traded a shiny Alolan Raichu from my brother in law in GO. We both had been playing on and off for years but then i really got into GO last summer so i started talking to him more in depth about the game and we started showing each others shiny and i freaked out when i saw that he had a shiny Alolan Raichu from 2020 i was like please i will trade you anything for them lol. I don't remember what i gave him. Either a shiny starter or another shiny alolan. He likes gen 1 and gen 2, so he didn't really care as much, and it had meh stats so i just had to wait a couple months for him to finally save up enough stardust and then she was mine!
SO i was typing this in reverse chronological order but in order to understand my pain (though in the end i'm glad it happened this way) I'll now talk about my first shiny Alolan Raichu from Sword and Shield's Dynamax Adventure dens. 10 months ago after 2 weeks of non stop trying. Which for awhile i just did the regular paths over and over but then i discovered you could reset the same path at the cost of dynite ores. But after running out you have to go back to the regular method. Well after running out i ran out of ores and then did like 5 new runs. came across alolan raichu but decided i didn't have enough to reset. Said nope. NEED like 300 more ore before attempting resets again, BUT right after on a new run with new paths and with only 25 ore (or some low number, can't remember exact) i ran into ANOTHER alolan raichu (which running into him in general is rare) and i'm like okay this is a sign i have to reset and i reset alllll the way until i had no more ore and on the last one (where i caved and didn't use my only beast ball cause i didn't think i'd get him and i didn't want to pay 150 ore for another ball so i used a dive ball instead) and WELL. My shiny boy came home. And hey dive balls are cool too. Works well with him. (I did have shiny charm as well and adventure dens are boosted odds but he still took foreverrrr)
SO imagine my surprise that 9 months ago. ONE. !!1!! MONTH after i caught him in SWSH they came to Scarlet and Violet for a special event outbreak. I was shocked and at the time i felt a little slighted but to cope i caught a total of 35 shiny Alolan Raichu's from the event lol
With the very last one i caught, i switched to my birthday and searched for a shiny raichu with a destiny mark and caught him in a beast ball :) SO now i believe i have a shiny in every game you can have alolan raichu in.... (except sleep idk if he's in that but i don't want to play that lol)
Well... that and... the gen 7 games (cries) SO confession. I skipped gen 7. in my defense i was off to college and i was busy and then they took mega evolutions away so i used that as an out to not play them lol. So i don't think i even saw Alolan Raichu's design for awhile. It wasn't until i saw it sometime around the LGE era and then i discovered it had an AMAZING shiny and then idk i fell in love ever since. I love both its OG colors and Shiny. (i didn't get LGE until this year and i bought the SWSH DLC when it came out but i did not touch the dens until last year lol. So i didn't know they were even in the game lol)
I still have a 3ds but the r button is broken so i can't play some games. (and doesn't own SM/US-UM) But eventually i want to get a new 3ds (will be years probably) but when i do i will also get sun and moon and play em. though i could use an emulator but not sure... i like playing on the original console. Also Getting shiny alolan raichu is easy as hell in that version you just got to hunt for a pikachu or hatch a shiny pichu and the evolve em with a thunderstone. But they won't evolve into my surf board buddy unless in Alola. So i've always had to do a special way to get em.
But essentially i have a Shiny Alolan Raichu on every switch Pokemon game that can have them in it! (and GO) and that makes me so happy! i feel complete lol. Now i just need to finish LGE and make an part 2 to my first video. Next is continuing my hunt for shiny cobalion but also i need to work on home dex for Shiny Keldeo but oof shiny cobalion just does not want to come home :/
Well that's all for now! Thanks for reading me gush about my favorite Pokémon
