{"id":46056,"date":"2018-09-09T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/surfing_pikachu_is_a_new_mode_of_transport_in_pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee"},"modified":"2018-09-09T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T02:05:00","slug":"surfing-pikachu-is-a-new-mode-of-transport-in-pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-and-lets-go-eevee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/09\/surfing-pikachu-is-a-new-mode-of-transport-in-pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-and-lets-go-eevee\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Pikachu Is A New Mode Of Transport In Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! And Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d01054f40a1ec\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d01054f40a1ec\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Pokemon Surfing Pikachu Battle\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d01054f40a1ec\/pokemon-surfing-pikachu-battle.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d01054f40a1ec\/pokemon-surfing-pikachu-battle.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Surfing Pikachu Battle\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As the release of\u00a0<strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/a><\/strong> draws closer, more and more information about the Switch entries are slowly being revealed by\u00a0Nintendo, Game Freak and The\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon Company.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.serebii.net\/\">Serebii.net<\/a>, during this week&#8217;s episode of the Japanese variety show Pokenchi, the game director of the upcoming release &#8211; Junichi Masuda &#8211; showcased brand new footage. Most interestingly was\u00a0a clip of Pikachu on a surfboard.<\/p>\n<p>In battle, Pikachu uses a Water-type move called Splash Surf. Outside of battle, his board doubles as the surf move, Water Walk. It was also confirmed during the segment these special field moves (like HMs) will not take up move slots.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Pokemon Surfing Pikachu\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8db4dda7de438\/pokemon-surfing-pikachu.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8db4dda7de438\/pokemon-surfing-pikachu.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Surfing Pikachu\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Surfing Pikachu started out as a mini-game exclusive to <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gbc\/pokemon_yellow_version_special_pikachu_edition\">Pok\u00e9mon Yellow Version<\/a><\/strong>, which was released on the Game Boy in 1998. The game required a special Pikachu &#8211; obtainable through the Nintendo 64 title\u00a0<strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/pokemon_stadium\">Pok\u00e9mon Stadium<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or at distribution events. This also allowed players to use Pikachu&#8217;s surf move outside of the mini-game.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Surfing Pikachu IMG\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0405f43bd59b7\/surfing-pikachu-img.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0405f43bd59b7\/surfing-pikachu-img.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Surfing Pikachu IMG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>During this same segment, Eevee was shown using a new fire-type move called Flare Burn:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Pokemon Eevee\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2cfe210a66694\/pokemon-eevee.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2cfe210a66694\/pokemon-eevee.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Eevee\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Are you excited to see the return of surfing Pikachu? What Pok\u00e9mon game will you be picking up on release? Tell us below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the release of\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee! draws closer, more and more information about the Switch entries are slowly being revealed by\u00a0Nintendo, Game Freak and The\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon Company. According to\u00a0Serebii.net, during this week&#8217;s episode of the Japanese variety show Pokenchi, the game director of the upcoming release &#8211; Junichi Masuda &#8211; showcased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}