Well, in the anime Ash once had Pikachu use Thunderbolt on itself to recover from some damage.
Idk if this helps or not but when does the anime ever follow the games? Pikachu doesn't have the ability Volt Absorb so DERP. I'm trying to help.
Pikachu is a Mouse Pokemon but it doesn't really look one like.
To me anywaysDugtrio/Duglett have never been seen underground, and if they have it's just their heads.
And I still don't know if that's a nose or a mouth on themAnd it seems that some Pokemon tend to look like safari animals.
Zebstrika, Tauros, Rhyhorn, Doduo, Girafarig, Donphan, etc.
Even though Pikachu was Ash's very first Pokemon and has traveled and battled everywhere it got beat when it faced off with a starter Snivy in gen5.
In gen 4 there's a lot of Pokemon evo's that were from Gen1/2/3
Weavile evolved from Sneasel
Magnezone evolved from Magnetron
Yanmega from Yanma
etc
When Porygon evolves it's name never changes but adds letters to it
Porygon - Porygon2 - Porygon-Z
In Pokemon PMD only Diagla, Palkia and Darkrai were used in major plots. Shaymin was added in PMD: Sky. The rest of the leggies were found in deep dungeons. Arceus was shown but never talked about or heard of. It was a stature at the end of a dungeon.
How is Scolipede super freaking fast when it's about 442 lbs.
The Litwick line of evo's seem to be the only one based off of a furniture. [correct me if I'm wrong]
Druddigon is the one dragon type that doesn't evolve that isn't a legendary.
Deino line is the latest dragon type to evolve [Or so I think, freaking lv 64 man]
Virizion the Pokemon is spelled the same way as Virizion the phone service.
In the Pokdex Landorus comes after Reshiram and Zerkrom instead of a Trio Pokemon.
#641
Tornadus
#642
Thundurus
#643
Reshiram
#644
Zekrom
#645
Landorus
Stableye and Spiritomb are the two Pokemon without any weaknesses.
Reshiram, Kingdra and Kyurem are the only dragon types who aren't weak to Ice types.
The evo line of Klink keeps adding gears to it, Klink's first evo body stays with it throughout the entire evo line.
Tynamo is a fish looking Pokemon but isn't water, instead it's Electric and almost has no weakness. Unless certain moves are used to counter it's ability.
Ariados and Galvantula are like the only Spider-like Pokemon.
There's 649 Pokemon in all.
if only they had one more they could have evened it.AND THAT'S ALL FOR NOW FOLKS.
Disclaimer: this is all figured out by me and I'm an idiot so don't trust me and look for yourself if you don't believe me.