Pikachu has been the face of Pokemon
for over 20 years now. Sure he's adorable
and has been Ash's partner since day one
but, can a Pikachu conquer the galar
region all on his own?
My name is Trendge and we're about to
find out. So obviously Pikachu isn't an
option for starter in generation 8 so we'll
have to pick them up a little later. We
pick Scorbunny as our partner so that
Hop will choose Grookey. We have to get
through the game's tutorial which
includes two battles against Hop before
we can get to Pikachu. Once we arrive
in the wild area we can talk to this
girl and she'll give us a Pikachu as
long as you have Let's Go Pikachu game
data on the same Switch profile. This
Pikachu has the ability to Gigantamax,
and I've seen a few sources say that it
has perfect IVs but I haven't confirmed
that myself. Let's quickly go over the
rules now that we have our new partner.
No Pokemon except Pikachu can be used
in battle. No items can be used in battle,
but held items are okay. And no glitches
or cheats can be used. Pikachu's stats
are...well at least he's fast. We named our
new little buddy Sparkx, and head out the
challenge Galar region. We immediately take on
some max raid battles so that we can get
some experience candy to get Pikachu
ready for his first big battle. We get
Pikachu to level 15 and head to the Budew
Drop Inn to challenge Team Yell.
Pikachu currently knows Electro Ball,
Quick Attack, Thunder Wave, and Double
Team; and he has the ability Static which
is super convenient for this challenge.
Team Yell proves to be no real challenge
and we defeat each member with ease.
After the Gym Challenger Ceremony we get
a chance to take on Hop using only
Pikachu. We have a bit of a level
advantage over his team, but we nearly
get taken out by his Grookey. Thankfully
Electro Ball is a pretty good move, and
we managed to get the win. We make our
way through Route 3, and then head to the
first Galar Mine where we meet our
newest rival Bede. His psychic Pokémon
deal quite a bit of damage but thanks to
Double Team and Electro Ball, we push
through and just barely claim the
victory. Just on the other side of Route
4 we find our very first gym challenge.
Milo is the first gym leader of the
Galar region. He specializes in making
trainers chase Wooloo, working out, and
raising grass type Pokemon. We head into
battle with Pikachu at level 19. We drop
a few Double Teams in hopes to avoid
most of his attacks. We're just barely
able to take down his Gossifleur, but we
meet his Eldegoss, and it takes us down
with no issue.
We tried this battle of a couple
times before I finally accept that we
just can't win at this level. We try
again at level 21 with the move Spark
now under our belt, but it's still no use.
Even a level 23 and 25 I can't defeat
Eldegoss. Surely I can do it at level 27
right? ...I guess not.
I was hoping to save the leftovers for
later in the game but we need them right
now.
With the help of the leftovers we make
it to Eldegoss with full health and
finally claim the first badge. We proceed
to cross route 5 and battle some more
Team Yell members, and pick up the bike
from this nice doctor. Before we can make
it to the next town we have to battle our
old buddy, Hop, again.His Wooloo goes down with no problem but now we have to deal
with his Thwacky, and I'm pretty tired
of grass types at this point. We manage
to paralyze him with Spark but his Razor
Leaf does a ton of damage and he
finishes us off with Double Hit. The
second time around we take the
opportunity to use double team a few
times while battling Wooloo. Our first
attack on Thwacky is a crit and inflates
paralysis. Thwacky misses a double hit and
we fire back with Slam. Hop heals Thwacky
but thanks to our higher evasiveness and
paralysis he doesn't land a single
attac.Thwacky goes down with Corvasquire
right behind him. With that out of
the way we can head to the next town to
take on the second gym leader Nessa. As
you can probably imagine
Nessa's water type Pokemon doesn't stand
a chance against Pikachu. We're easily
able to one-shot both our Goldeen and
her Arrowkuda, and her Drednaw falls
after just two G Max Volt Crashes. Now
that we have the water badge we can
press on to Galar mine number two. We
barely make it through the entrance
before being challenged by that
pipsqueak Bede again. His Solosis drops
right away to Electro Ball, and it only
takes two to take down his Gothita and
it's Hatenna. His Ponyta confuses us and
nearly takes us down thanks to Bede
using a super potion. We get very lucky
and push through the confusion enough to
land two sparks on Ponyta, getting us
the win. We come across Team Yell in the
mines, and this time Hop lends us a hand.
Team Yell actually manages the take
Pikachu down during this battle, but
since Hop still has Pokemon, he's able to
finish up, and the game still counts it
as a win. I was actually pretty surprised
by this. Our next big battle takes place
in the Budew Drop Inn Lobby against
Marnie. Her Croagunk knows the move
Revenge which takes about half of our
HP right at the start. We struggle to get
past her Scraggy and her Morpeko
uses Quick Attack, taking us down right
away. This time our battle against
Marnie goes a bit differently.
It takes three Discharges to drop Croagunk because Marnie heals him.
Scraggy is unable to attack thanks to
the paralysis from discharge, and he goes
down with ease.
Morpeko misses us twice, and all it
takes is a few Slams to bring it down
and claim the victory. We can now
challenge Kabu for the third gym badge.
Kabu specializes in holding towels and
training fire type Pokemon. His Ninetails
knows the move Will-o-wisp which is super
annoying. We managed to get past Ninetails but his Arcanine takes us down with a
critical hit Flame Wheel. We give it
another shot and this time get lucky
enough to make it past his Arcanine.
We Dynamax and paralyze his Centiscorch
dealing a decent amount of
damage. We get to attack twice more
before Centiskorch can retaliate
thanks to the paralysis, but it's not
enough to bring him down and he takes us
out with a Max Flutterby. We come back at
level 35, and this time Ninetails doesn't
use Will-o-wisp but unfortunately,
Arcanine does. Once again Centiskorch
drops us with a single Max Flutterby. We
try again at level 37 with the move
Thunderbolt now on our side.
Once again we make it to Centiskorch
burned, but this time we still have most of
our health. Max Flutterby takes us all
the way down to half health so things
aren't looking good. We go for a Max
Guard to ensure we won't be hit by his
next attack, and he isn't able to attack
a third time thanks to paralysis. We go
for Thunderbolt and he starts to spam
Smokescreen. Thankfully we only miss once
and Centiskorch falls to a final
Thunderbolt, giving us the third badge. We
have another battle with Team Yell once
we get to Route 6 but as expected,
they prove to be no challenge. Before we
can take on the 4th gym leader we have
to have another battle with Hop. His Cramorant goes down immediately and his Silicobra
becomes paralyzed thanks to Pikachu's
static. He goes for dig so we use Double
Team, causing him to miss his attack.
After a few Slams, Silicobra goes down.
Our evasiveness comes in clutch against
his Thwacky, who isn't able to land a
single attack on us. His last Pokemon Toxel, stands no chance and goes down with
Slam. Allister is the master of being
creepy and raising ghost-type Pokémon.
When we make it to him, Pikachu is level
45 and knows the moves Thunder, Slam,
Thunderbolt, and Double Team.
This is a problem. I completely forgot
that Allister's first Pokemon is a
Galarian Yamask, a ghost and
ground-type. None of my attacks will
inflict any damage to it. All I can do is
spam Double Team, so that he will miss
most of his attacks and burn out all of
my power points that I can use struggle. Yamask actually runs out of power
points before we do, but we're not far
behind. We bring Yamask down with struggle,
but now we have no real moves left for
the rest of this Pokemon, and you're not
able to Dynamax if you have no moves
left. We lower his Mimikyu to about half
health before succumbing to recoil
damage. Thankfully for us, Pikachu has a
rather diverse move set with the use of
TMs and TRs. We grab the TM for Thief, a
dark type move and head back to Allister's
gym.
This time we're able to inflict some
damage on Yamask, but he likes to use
the move Disable, preventing us from
using our new move. While waiting for the
move become available again we use
double team to increase our evasiveness. We
make it to his Mimikyu again, and use
Thunder to deal massive damage, and we
get lucky enough to inflict paralysis.
Another Thunder brings Mimikyu down.
Here's where our next problem begins as
Cursola knows the move Curse which
deals way more damage each turn than the
leftovers will restore. We take out his
Cursola quickly, but the curse is
here to stay. Allister Gigantamaxes his
Gengar who we hit with max darkness
taking about half of his HP. We get
Gengar down to his last sliver of
health, but he gets the best of us and
Pikachu goes down. We try this battle a
few more times
all with similar results. On our next
attempt we max out our evasiveness
using double-team while battling Yamask. We make it to Cursola with full
health but we can't one-shot it and it
uses curse again. We use max darkness
on Gengar to get him down to yellow HP.
He uses the same move on us and we fire
back once more taking him down and
claiming the ghost badge. Before we can
take on gym number 5, we have to have a
little battle with Bede at the Crayola
ruins. Since we still know the move thief,
we plowed right through his team with
very little issue. Bede is kicked out of
the gym challenge by Chairman Rose and
we chuckle all the way through Glimwood
Tangle. We pop out at Ballonlea and head
straight for the next gym. Fortunately
for us,
Iron Tail is one of the many TMs
that Pikachu can learn, so we teach it to
him to prepare for the battle against
Opal. Opal ask questions throughout the
battle that gives Pikachu stat buffs,
assuming the questions are answered
correctly. We take out her Galarian Weezing
with a couple of iron tails and her Mawile with a thunder. Togekiss falls
after a thunder and a thunderbolt and,
her GMax Alchremy goes down after three
max steel spikes. Wth the fifth badge by
our side, we head to Route 7 have another
battle against Hop. This battle proved to
be one of the most challenging in this
entire run. We first attempted this
battle at level 49. His Trevenant knows the
move horn leech which steals a very
large chunk of our HP. To make matters
worse he also knows confuse ray. We
aren't able to beat his first Pokemon on
this first attempt.
I teach Pikachu the move thief again in
hopes to make dealing with Trevenant a
bit easier. Thankfully that helped but he
still manages to confuse us before we
make it to Snorlax. Snorlax is such a
tanky pokemon that not even thunder deals
much damage eventually Bodyslam takes us out.
I tried this battle so many times that
I. lost count. Level 52, nothing. 55
not a chance.
At level 60 I make it to his last Pokemon
Rillaboom, but I still can't beat him,
thanks to Hop using a healing item.
Finally after several attempts at this
battle at level 62, Rillaboom goes
down, and we can continue our journey. We
cross route 7, 8, and 9
arriving in Sirchester at the location of
the sixth gym. Melony specializes in being
thicc as hell, and ice type Pokemon.
Pikachu is pretty over leveled thanks to
that ridiculous Battle with Hop. Frossmoth
goes down after a Thunder and
Thunderbolt but Darmanitan actually
takes us out with Icicle Crash. Maybe
we're not that over leveled after all. On
our second attempt well hit Darmanitan
with a devastating Thunder, and
finish him off of a thunderbolt. Eiscue
does very little damage to us and also
drops after a Thunder and a Thunderbolt.
Melony's final Pokemon is a G Max
Lapras who does a decent amount of
damage with two G max moves. We fire back with three G Max Volt Crashes and claim
the ice badge from this goddess. I'm
pretty sick of Hop at this point but
that's just too bad for me because it's
time to battle him again in Circhester.
His Dubwool goes down easy enough but we miss three Thunders in a row on
Snorlax, causing us to be taken out by a body
slam and hail damage. We lose to Hop a
few more times and come back at level 65.
We take out Dubwool and Snorlax, and hail
damage finishes off Rillaboom for us.
It takes a while to take down Pincurchin
because he keeps using curse, but we finally
get him down and make it to his final
Pokemon Corviknight, and he goes down
with a single Thunder. With Hop out of
the way, we can head down Route 9
towards Spikemuth. we have a quick battle
with a few Team Yell members along the
way but they don't pose any threat.
Before we're granted entance into Spikemuth,
we have to battle Marnie. Marnie
kicks things off her Liepard who drops
after a single Thunder. Toxicroak
confuses us with Swagger, but we take
it out with a Thunderbolt and Thunder. We
push through the confusion and drop
Scrafty with a couple Thunderbolts. We
miss several attacks against her Morpeko
and it that somehow takes Pikachu down.
We lose the second time thanks to poison
damage, and try again at level 69. Nice.
This time Morpeko is taken out by a
critical hit Thunder and we can head
into Spikemuth. In order to begin the
seventh gym challenge, we have to have a
second pokemon in our party for a double
battle. We catch a Magikarp and head into
the gym. Piers is the next gym leader
we have to face and there's no Dynamaxing in his gym. His Scrafty takes a lot
of our HP with Brick Break and Payback,
but we take him down with a couple
electric attacks. Malamar survives a
Thunder from Pikachu, and takes us down
with Payback. On our second attempt, we
bring down Scrafty a bit more smoothly,
but Malamar still hits us pretty hard
with payback. We bring it down and
Piers sends out Obstagoon. We hit him for
half his HP with the Thunder and he
fires back with Throat Chop, nearly
bringing us down. Thunderbolt finishes
him off and Piers sends outs Skuntank.
Piers flat out tells you that Skuntank
knows the moves Sucker Punch, so we use
Double Team four times. This also allows
the leftovers to heal us up a bit. Skuntank switches to Toxic, but misses
a Sucker Punch. A Thunder takes him to
his last bit of health, and he nearly
takes us out with another Sucker Punch.
We fire back on with one more
Thunderbolt, and claim the Dark Badge
from Piers. There's only one gym badge
to go, so let's not waste any time. We
teach Pikachu the move Play Rough, and
catch another Magickarp to prepare for
the next gym. Raihon specializes in
selfies and dragon-type pokémon. Play
Rough takes out Flygon right at the
start. Gigalith takes out Magikarp and
Raihan sends out Sandaconda. Neither
Sandaconda or Gigalith are dragon
types, so i'm in trouble here. My electric
attacks won't work on Sandaconda, and
will barely damage Gigalith. They quickly
take Pikachu out with Earth Power and
Body Press. Don't give up hope yet though
because Pikachu has another trick up
his sleeve.
Pikachu can learn the move Surf,
which is not only super effective
against ground and rock types, but also
hits all Pokemon on the field in double
battles. The first time we try this out we
land a critical hit on Sandaconda and
it goes down. It doesn't do a ton of
damage on Gigalith, but it's better
than what we were doing before.
Unfortunately it's still not enough to
win the battle. We try again a few more
times at increased levels but we're
still not able to get the win. We're able
to get close a few times, but apparently
level 85 is the magic number. We make it
to Duraludon with Gigalith still on
the field. We use Surf so that Gigalith
will go down, but also to do a small
amount of damage toDuraludon. We take a
Max Rockfall like a champ, and Gigantamax
Pikachu. Max Starfall brings Duraludon down to yellow health and he
fires back with a max knuckle dealing
very little damage. It only takes one
more max Starfall to bring down Duraludon for good. With the eighth and final
badge in hand we can head into the
semi-finals.
After trucking through the snowy Route
10. We find ourselves in Windon. Once we
make it to Windon Stadium, we battle our
first rival Marnie.
Marnie's Liepard and scrappy both go down to a single Play Rough given that
they're weak to fairy-type moves. It only
takes one Thunder to take out our Toxicroak,
and another Play Rough to eliminate
her partner Morpeko. Her ace in the
hole is a  Gigantamax Grimsnarl. We
paralyze him, and deal massive damage with
just one attack. He fires back with G Max
Snooze, but it's too late. One more attack
from Pikachu brings him down.
Next up is our old pal Hop. He starts off
with his buddy Dubwool who Pikachu crushes with Thunder. His tanky Snorlax is next. We
hit him with thunder and take about half
of his HP, but unfortunately we don't
inflict paralysis. He fires back with
High Horse Power, taking a good chunk of
our HP, and we manage to miss our next
attack allowing him to land another High
Horse Power. We miss again, and Snorlax
takes us down. On our next attempt we
land our first and third Thunder on
Snorlax bringing him down. Hop sends out
his Pincurchin next, and we attack it
with play rough. It deals quite a bit of
damage, and one more takes him out.
Corvaknight goes down with a thunder, but
Rillaboom's the one I'm concerned
about. which I Ganton max and go for G
Max volt crash which is guaranteed to
inflict paralysis. Lucky for us it works
out perfectly and Rillaboom is unable to
attack. We sent a max star fall his way,
taking his health down to the red.
Rillaboom is able to attack this turn,
and hits us with Max Quake dealing a
good amount of damage, but not enough to
bring Pikachu down. Hop uses a full
restore on Rillaboom, crushing my dreams
in the process. We both go back to our
normal forms, and we hit Rillaboom with
a play rough, taking him down to his last
speck of health. He fires back with high
horse power and Pikachu is taken out. So
close. I lose to Hop a handful of times
but I know we can beat him at this level.
The trick is to max out our evasiveness
and get Hop to use his full restore
earlier in the battle. We get him to use
it on his Dubwool and roll through the rest of
his team. Once you make it to Rillaboom,
we go for the paralysis with G max
Volt Crash and thankfully he can't
attack...twice. With no more full restores
at his disposal, Hop loses his final
Pokemon to a Max Starfall. Chairman Rose
and Oleana start to cause trouble, so of
course it's up to Hop and I to
stopped them. We find Oleana waiting
for us on top of Chairman Rose's tower and
begin to battle. She starts off with a Frosslass
who loses most of its HP to Play
Rough. It fires back with Icy Wind, which
doesn't do much damage but it lowers
Pikachu's speed, allowing her attacked first
the next round. She uses Will-o-wisp and
burns Pikachu.Frosslassfalls to
another play rough and her Milotic goes
down to a single Thunder. Her Salazzle
attacks with Venoshock but thankfully it
only takes one Surf to knock it out her
next Pokemon. Tsarenna is especially
annoying because it knows the move
attract. We managed to land two thunders
despite Pikachu's infatuation, but Tsareena
gets the best of us and Pikachu goes
down. After a few more tries we push past
her team avoiding Will-o-wisp and a
track and a make it to our last Pokemon
a GMAX Garbodor. I was mashing the "A"
button so fast that I didn't Giganta max
Pikachu but managed to land that
critical hit Thunder anyway.
Garbodor fires back with a max quake,
but it's not enough and we bring him
down on the next turn. Back at Windon
stadium, we have to battle Bede again.
Turns out he's still bitter. His Mawile
cuts Pikachu's attack with his
intimidate ability but it doesn't matter
because thunder brings it down in one
hit. Gardevoir is up next and it's able
to survive a Thunder from Pikachu. It
uses wish, then we go for surf and
attempt to bring it down.Then Bede uses
a full restore.
Surf does a decent amount of damage but
the wish comes true and Gardevoir is
fully healed again. We hit it with a surf
and a Thunder and Gardevoir goes down. He sends out his
angry unicorn next, and it manages to
avoid a thunder. Our second attack lands
with no issue and Rapidash goes down.
His last Pokemon is a G Max Hatterene.
We attack with Max Starfall dealing
a decent amount of damage, and it fires
back with max mindstorm also dealing
quite a bit of damage in return. We go
for G Max Volt Crash on the next turn
and win the battle. Nessa is next and as
you can probably guess we have no issue
clearing out our water type team with
Pikachu's Thunder. Her G Max Dreadnaw
is taken out with ease as well.
Allister is up again, and he kicks things
off with a Dusknoir. Play Rough and
Thunder brings it down, and Alistair
sends out Chandelure next who goes down
with a surf. His poltergeist is pretty
annoying because it keeps using protect
and it actually manages to take us out
due to us missing  Thunder. The next
time around we go for double team
knowing it'll use protect and ultimately
take it out with a couple of thunders.
His dreaded Cursola is back but
thankfully it only takes one attack to
bring it down. Finally we make it to his
Gengar, who is defeated with Volt Crash and Max
Starfall. Raihan is the last one we
have to get through in this tournament.
He starts off with Torkoal who goes
down with a couple Surfs. Flygon is
right behind him after a play rough. It
takes a few surfs to get past Turtinator,
and only one play rough to drop Goodra.
Duraludon is last, and after a few Max
Star Falls, Raihan uses a Full
Restore. We go back to our normal forms
and pelt him with Play Roughs until he goes down. We have to take care of some more
story stuff before we can face Leon, so
our next big battles against Chairman
Rose. We have quite a difficult time with
this fight, struggling to even make it past
his first Pokemon. We teach Pikachu
Brick Break after several failed
attempts. We're able to take out 
Escavalier with a Thunder and a Brick
Break, and Farrothor, Perrserker and
Klingklang go down after two brick
breaks each. Finally we make it to his G Max
Copperaja who goes down after two max
knuckles.
We had some trouble against Eternatus, and
had to get pikachu to level 95 to beat
him, but we did manage to get it done.
It's finally time to face the Galarian
champion, Leon. The trick to getting
past his Aegislash is to use Double Team
when he uses King Shield. It takes me
quite some time to get it just right as
he can be a bit unpredictable. This will
also help us avoid Shadow Ball which
does a ton of damage. We also have to be
careful with his Haxorus as a knows the
move
earthquake. We battle Leon several times
at level 95 but we just couldn't win. We
have no choice but to make the final
push to level 100 and try again. On one
of our attempts, we get lucky and take out
Aegislash with a single critical hit
Thunder. At level 100 Pikachu can take
down Haxorus with a single play rough and
Intelon is no issue as long as we
don't miss, and Dragapult goes down with
one Play Rough. Mr. Rime comes out and now
things get interesting.
A single Thunder doesn't take it down
and it uses Teeter dance, so now Pikachu
is confused. We're able to push through
the confusion to use another Thunder, and
make its Leon's the last Pokemon
Charizard. We out speed and go for a G
Max Volt Crash, and with that Pikachu has
single-handedly become the new champion
of Galar. But... Can we beat Hop one last
time? in order to win this battle
we need his team to miss their attacks a
lot. We max out our evasiveness and get
to work. Doubwool and Snorlax go down
pretty quickly but it's Rillaboom that
I'm worried about. We hit him with a
critical hit Thunder and thankfully he
misses a Drum Beating. Another Thunder
isn't enough to bring it down and he
lands his next Drum Beating, taking over
half of our HP. We take the last bit of
his health with Theif, and Hop sends out 
Pincurchin. We use play rough and thief and,
he goes for Recover. This only helps
us regain more health from leftovers and
Pincurchin quickly goes down. Corviknight
goes down with a single Thunder but now
we have to face his Zacian. He misses a
close-combat
and we land our first thunder. He misses
again, and another thunder takes him to his
last bit of health. He misses one last time
and thief brings him down for good. I
know this probably looked pretty easy,
but I did this battle many many times I
was convinced that it just couldn't be
done, but we undoubtedly have the
strongest Pikachu in all of Galar. This
challenge was a little tougher than I
expected, however at the same time I'm
surprised that I was able to win the
last battle against Hop.
Thanks for watching! What Pokemon should
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My name is Trendge, and I'll see you on
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