good evening :)) .. i was doing bosses today..specificly kanto's..and forgot 2 take pikachu with me while was fighting jessie and they didnt asked it...i cant provide screenshot atm cause i am from phone but i will later if u need one..u can check it by yourself too i guess..just i owed to inform u!! have a nice day

Did you started with Pikachu back in pallet?

lol i am not new here...yes and i have faught this boss for over 50 times and first time didnt asked for a pika

I recently fought with J&J and at first attempt i forgot pikachu so they told me they won't challenge me. So it's everything okay for me

thats why i am reporting here maybe its a bug

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Can you please provide screenshots so content scripters will check the 'error' ?

Hello, and thank you for dutifully reporting what you inferred to be a bug, but I can disconfirm it; it is working as intended.

 

If Pikachu is your starter-Pokémon selectee, the boss in question will not stipulate that it must be on-hand in order for it to be challengable; you only need to be registered as a Pikachu-starter, which is discernible to scripts without its insertion in your on-hand lineup.

 

This is a similar parameter employed for other clausal perks of starting with the Electric-type starter, such as its individualized Surf-tutor; because an identificatory variable is registered to your account in unison with selecting your starter Pokemon, the scripts can ascertain that you started with Pikachu by reading that variable, thereby denecessitating the Pokémon-selector prompt.

 

Topic locked, as there is no aberration, here. :)