Recently, @koch_neB attended this year’s Pikachu Outbreak event in Yokohama, where hundreds of Pikachus roamed the Minato Mirai neighborhood.
And so he pressed on, even though rotating around to squeeze through the passage meant that he was now getting stabbed in the face.
But while the Pikachus seen in the Pokémon anime and video games are compact, nimble creature, the ones that show up in Yokohama are larger and chubbier.
On the subject of pain, while Pikachu has been shown to be capable of learning all sorts of attack techniques like Thunderbolt and Wild Charge, defense-boosting skills aren’t really his forte.