The official site has today updated stating that the Pikachu Colored Pichu is to be given away at Gamestop stores across America from January 30th 2010 to February 14th 2010. This Pichu can be downloaded to Diamond, Pearl and Platinum. Just take your DS and the game to the store and you can download it. As mentioned before, this Pichu is a Shiny Pichu and gives you access to the Spiky-eared Pichu in HeartGold/SoulSilver. It is also confirmed that the Jirachi event will also be given at Gamestop.
Like Pokemon Platinum, Heart Gold & Soul Silver have got special details implemented within the game if you send certain Pokemon over.. In Platinum, this allowed for new forms and capturing of certain Pokemon. However, Heart Gold & Soul Silver have got a slightly different take on this.
If you send over the special Pikachu Coloured Pichu obtained from the special 12th movie event given away from June 19th to July 18th, a special event will activate. This event takes place in Ilex Forest. When you go by Celebi's Shrine in Ilex Forest when you have the Pikachu Coloured Pichu in your party, a Notched-Ear Pichu will appear.
With the Pikachu Colored Pichu and the Spiky Eared Pichu in Ilex Forest, the Spiky Eared Pichu shall then join your team. This Pichu is completely unique and you will be unable to get it by any other means. However, there are a variety of new details about it.
The Spiky Eared Pichu is always female and appears to be given to you at level 30. It has many attacks that Pichu would not normally know. The details are as follows:
Name: Notched-Ear Pichu
Level: 30
Attacks: Volt Tackle
Helping Hand
Swagger
Pain Split
However, there is a draw back to the Notched-Ear Pichu. First, the Pichu is unable to evolve into Pikachu and as such not into Raichu. In addition to this, it is unable to be traded to other games.
If you take the Spiky Eared Pichu to Professor Elm's and have it at the front of your party, you will get some back story of the Pichu. Professor Elm will say that Professor Oak has recently discussed Celebi's time travel abilities and that the Pichu proves his theory. The Notched-Ear Pichu arrived in this time by Ilex Forest through time traveling with Celebi, which explains why it cannot be traded and why the trainer needs to take care of it.
In addition to that, all the time traveling it has done has also caused its body to stick in its current state. Professor Elm then goes to contact all the Pokemon Centre attendants to prevent the Spiky Eared Pichu from being used in game to game trades.
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