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View Poll Results: Which Pikachu do you think you'll be aiming to catch?
Flying Pikachu 26 48%
Surfing Pikachu 19 35%
Normal, non-Flying, non-Surfing Pikachu 2 4%
None. Don't intend to get the course. 7 13%
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Old April 4th, 2010 (8:29 PM).
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Unfortunately, my Wifi has never worked; however, I am contemplating buying a special cable so that I can directly attach it to my computer/router.
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Old April 5th, 2010 (3:59 PM).
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Last night I was bored and checked for Wi-Fi events and found The Yellow Forest by accident. Since finding out about Surf and Fly Pikachu, I've decided to try to get them. I hope to get them both by tonight. I'm at 6000 steps without even going outside.
Good luck, I got to 10,000 steps and used all my watts for one encounter with a !! and two with a !!! pikachu, which fled as soon as I used evade.
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Old April 5th, 2010 (4:03 PM).
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Never use evade unless you have 1 hp and the other pokemon still has 3 bars, don't use it more than once either. Better chance it at 2-3 bars then risking evade xD
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Old April 5th, 2010 (4:07 PM).
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Never use evade unless you have 1 hp and the other pokemon still has 3 bars, don't use it more than once either. Better chance it at 2-3 bars then risking evade xD
Wish you told me earlier... >_>
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Old April 5th, 2010 (4:49 PM).
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I use evade first just about every time.

I've only had a few flee on me.
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Old April 5th, 2010 (5:14 PM).
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Technically you could evade nonstop and never get hurt, and still have a chance to hurt the other pokemon. Okay, let me give you guys tips on how to get the surfing/flying pikachu.

Read it all and you'll probably have a better chance to catch them! :) For the basics.

The first thing to understand is that each stroll area has 6 pokemon that can be caught in the area. Those are divided into Group A (Rare pokemon), Group B (Uncommon), Group C (Common).

Each of those 6 pokemon are paired off into each of the groups. That means each area has 2 pokemon in group A, 2 in Group B, and 2 in Group C. This is the current grouping for Yellow Forest.

Group A: Surfing Pikachu or Flying Pikachu
Group B: Volt Tackle Pikachu or Flail Pikachu
Group C: Normal Pikachu or Normal Pikachu

Let me also make this CLEAR to you. Every single one of those 6 pokemon in each area are FIXED. That means they are always the same, same gender, same attacks. The only thing that changes is nature, stats. Their levels are also always the same. The common pikachu will be level 10. Flying pikachu will always be level 15 (btw, flying pikachu also already knows thunder O_O).

When you go into a stroll, the game assigns you one pokemon from group A, one from group B, and one from group C. So until you end the stroll and start another, you will be stuck with those.

When you use the pokeradar in the pokewalker. There are 4 levels.

First ! : It's a pokemon from group C
Second ! : Either a pokemon from group C or B
!! : Either a pokemon from group B or A
!!! : It's a pokemon from group A

(You need 10,000 steps to unlock flying pikachu, 9,500 for surfing pikachu, 5,000 for volt tackle pikachu, and 2,000 for flail pikachu. This means until you have the steps necessary that pikachu won't be one of the ones you can find)

TIPS: Now for the real tips & advanced info now that you know the basics.

- When you choose to "Send gift" instead of "Return from stroll", you'll receive the pokemon and items that you got, but it won't reset the pokemon assigned to your stroll. Use this to your advantage. What you should do is get to 10,000 steps, catch 3 !! pokemon (of course if you see a !!! catch it!), send them through gift. Odds are at least one will be from group A. Check their moves, and you'll know if you've been assigned either surf, fly, or volt tackle. Once you have the one you like don't return from stroll until you get as many as you want from that pikachu type. When you send gift you will lose your watts, so be careful.

- BIG TIP: Each stroll area has pokemon types that give advantages. For yellow forest it's electric, ground and grass. What these type advantages does is it decreases the amount of steps needed to catch group A pokemon by 25%. Meaning the first thing you should do is catch whatever pikachu, end stroll, and switch a pikachu in. Having an advantage type also INCREASES chance of encountering a rare pokemon! So with a pikachu on the stroll it only takes 7,500 steps and it'll be easier to catch rare ones!

- Never evade unless you have only 1 hp and the opponent still has 4. Rare pokemons have an extremely high chance of running away. And they tend to evade a lot, so you'll "stare down" (a tie, where nothing happens). Until they run away. (For those that don't know at a catching fight on the pokeradar you have 3 options. Attack. Evade, and Catch. If you attack and the opponent attacks, each loses 1 out of 4 hp. If one attacks and the other evades, the attacker will miss and the evade will attack for 1hp bar. If both evade, you just "stare down".

- Always grab 3 items before sending gifts to make the most of your watts. From this place you can get a light ball, mystery seed, thunderstone and even big root :)

- Although you lose your watts from sending gifts, you don't lose steps. Meaning once you send gift, all you need left during that day is watts.

- Don't waste your energy shaking the walker. Grab a fan, point towards ceiling, put pokewalker on it. Small vibrations are enough to register. Feel free to ask any questions! :)
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Old April 5th, 2010 (5:15 PM).
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Most likely the flying pikachu, a mouse that can fly, sounds nice lol.
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Old April 5th, 2010 (5:26 PM).
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I got the route at 5:00 Pm (was not tired even though school day) 4 days later i have a flying pikachu and a volt tackle pikachu and a broken pokewalker i need to replace so now the route and the pokewalker are useless to me and i have nothing else to do then to rerun soul silver or get heart gold or to rerun gold and silver
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Old April 5th, 2010 (5:28 PM).
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Most likely the flying pikachu, a mouse that can fly, sounds nice lol.
Google flying pikachu and you'll see the source of his flying powers :p
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Old April 5th, 2010 (5:29 PM).
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i got a surfing pikachu off someone for like 4 shinies... and i think its hacked :( .
and one more question, can they be shiny from the pokewalker?
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Old April 5th, 2010 (5:46 PM).
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I have some of the surfing and flying pikachus. As of now, I have 6 surfing pikachus and 2 flying ones. : U I hope to get more.
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Old April 5th, 2010 (5:57 PM).
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I made the mistake of catching 3 Pikachu thinking one of them would know Surf/Fly. Then I found out I had to have 10000 steps to even have a chance for that(it always has annoyed me that the PokeWalker resets the step counter everyday). As awesome as it would be to have one of those things. I'm not walking that much in one day just for a Pikachu, no matter if it can fly, swim, or breakdance >_>;
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Old April 5th, 2010 (6:10 PM).
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I have been trying for the past few days to get a Surfing or Flying Pikachu. The rarest of the Pikachus I have captured is one that knows Flail.
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I made the mistake of catching 3 Pikachu thinking one of them would know Surf/Fly. Then I found out I had to have 10000 steps to even have a chance for that(it always has annoyed me that the PokeWalker resets the step counter everyday). As awesome as it would be to have one of those things. I'm not walking that much in one day just for a Pikachu, no matter if it can fly, swim, or breakdance >_>;
The biggest misconception is that the pokewalker is a pedometer.

It is not.

1 step in pokewalker is not 1 step in real life.

The way it records is more like "as long as constant motion is registered you gain about 2 steps per second" In a normal walking day you'll get almost 20 thousand points or more.

Grab your pokewalker, and move up and down slowly almost in like a wavelike manner, it wont count anything, and then after a while when motion is constant, or when you stop, it will register for how long the motion was on.

Sad to disappoint all those that wanted to use the pokewalker as a fitness thing like pedometers xD
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Old April 5th, 2010 (6:31 PM).
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FINALLY managed to catch one of the !!! Pikachu. Checked it when I transferred it over, and it was of the Flying variety. :3 I'm happy. I want a surfer still, though. Once I have that, I'll have one of each kind~

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I got the yellow forest on the 2nd and still haven't been able to find a flying/surf Pika. mostly I'm just collecting Male Lv10's.

What do I do with all these extra Pikachus? what are you guys doing with yours?
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Old April 6th, 2010 (5:19 AM).
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I shall have ago tomorrow. Might take my doggies for an extra long walk :)
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10.000 + steps is lolfail ...

Maybe I'll try . I'm getting Yellow Forest tomorrow (kind dad has kind neighbour who lets me use Wi-Fi ! :D ) and I'll try strapping it on a washing machine for the sole Surfer and Flyer Pikachu . If not, I'll take an extra long road on the country road . I got 7000 + steps from just making it once, so twice would get me 14.000 - 15.000 steps ...

I don't even have a total of 14.000 steps >_< I got the game last Friday, sooo ... >__>
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Old April 6th, 2010 (7:49 AM).
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got the yellow forest route 2 days ago. first day i didnt do anything with it, but yesterday i made an effort to get some good stuff from it. i put my oddish onto it, and over the day, i accumulated around 30000 steps (mostly from shaking the darn thing up and down watching TV - ive tried the fan method, it didnt work)
spending every single watt i had, i only encountered maybe 8 !! pikas, and no !!!. several of these i KOd due to unlucky critical hits. managed to catch 3 in the end. when i checked i had 2 surfers and a volt tackle pika! also managed to get 4 or 5 miricle seeds, a thunderstone, light ball and a big root.
trying again today! got 15000 steps already and i aint used a single watt yet!
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Old April 6th, 2010 (8:01 AM).
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haha, am I the only one who already GOT a surfing Pikachu from the pokewalker? I think I want a Flying one too, though I don't really need to.
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Old April 6th, 2010 (2:06 PM).
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I'm too lazy to walk, so I am going to build a machine that counts "steps" to get my Pikas. Lolz.
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I will do when i find you where i can but a Pokewalker on its own.
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I caught 2 flying Pikachus. Weirdddd
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I currently have the Surfing Pikachu, still trying for the Flying Pikachu.
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