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Overview
While mass clicking my fields I came to realize something that I failed to notice before: Surfing Pichu, Surfing Pikachu, Flying Pichu, Flying Pikachu, and Snowboarding Pikachu are all pure electric types. However, their Raichu evolutions have two different typings (Surfing: Water/Electric, Flying: Flying/Electric, and Snowboarding: Ice/Electric).
This made the fact the earlier evolutions were pure electric odder.
If you want to see for yourself, here's the Surfboarding Pikachu and Raichu:
![](https://pfq.link/?_l9js=platform.png)
What I am proposing is that the earlier evolutions share the same typing as the raichu of their variation. This change would cause the typing to be:
Surfing Pichu:
➡️ ![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
Surfing Pikachu:
➡️ ![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
Flying Pichu:
➡️ ![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
Flying Pikachu:
➡️ ![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
Snowboarding Pikachu:
➡️ ![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
Pros:
![](https://pfq.link/?_l9js=platform.png)
![](https://pfq.link/?_S1SY=platform.png)
![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
![water.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/water.png/t=1262702646)
![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
![water.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/water.png/t=1262702646)
![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
![flying.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/flying.png/t=1262702645)
![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
![flying.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/flying.png/t=1262702645)
![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
![electric.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/electric.png/t=1262702645)
![ice.png](https://static.pokefarm.com/img/types/ice.png/t=1262702646)
- Generally makes the typing make sense
- Makes the pre-Raichu evolutions less of a breedable/evolveable type of CS and more of an actual variation
- Allows earlier evolutions to recieve the same benefits (increasing hapiness) from Ice/Water/Flying fields as the Raichu varients
- Changing it is inconvinient
- It has no affect other then how the pokemon reacts in a said field (and keeping us OCD-P folks from being set off whenver we see the lineage, eheh)