Pokemon GO: Start the game with a Pikachu

Ok, heads up to those guys playing the legit and legal Pokemon GO. There’s actually a way to start the game with a Pikachu, the iconing Pokemon from the series itself. We all know that when you do start the game, you are given choices for your first Pokemon, and Pikachu is usually not in those choices. We can confirm that there is an Easter egg in the game, and you can actually get the cute yellow electric type Pokemon as your first.

Usually, when you start out the Pokemon GO game, you are given a choice of either Charmander, Bulbasaur, or Squirtle as your first pets. These Pokemon are cute and powerful when levelled-up. But they’re not Pikachu, and we wants our Pikachu. So there is actually a way to make the game release Pikachu as a choice for your first Pokemon.

We can confirm here that these directions work, which suggests that this is not a glitch but an actual hidden feature. Here’s what needs to be done:

1. First, the player will want to sign up for Pokemon GO as normal.
2. Next, the Professor will speak to that player a bit about how Pokemon GO works, and they’ll be given their choice of three Pokemon. These Pokemon will pop up and the player will be very tempted to tap them – but they shouldn’t!
3. The player will want to begin walking away from the Pokemon. Very far away. So far away that they’re no longer on their smartphone’s screen.
4. When they’ve gotten far enough away, these same three Pokemon will pop up again in the area of the map the player has gotten to, arranged just a bit different.
5. The player must keep walking.

Once the player has made these Pokemon disappear three times, they’ll be in for a treat. On the fourth reappearance of these Pokemon, they’ll find a fourth – Pikachu!

A caveat though, if you’re expecting Pikachu to be more powerful than the other Pokemon – no he’s not. The Pikachu you’ll get is not overpowered nor underpowered. It’s just Pikachu, which we think is cuter than most, but that’s the extent of our interest there.

VIA: SlashGear