ZA's new menace is confirmed to become even scarier in the DLC

Pokemon Legends: ZA Its Mega Dimension DLC is launching soon, on December 10th, and there will be a new trailer in just over a week. Many fans have completely beaten the base game, with various side missions, including quests to unlock both Xerneas and Yveltal. Pokemon Legends: ZAAnd Infinite ZA Royale, but there's more side content to do. It mainly revolves around ranked battles in the game, as they are not only a way to test your abilities against other trainers, but they also provide players with some special or rare rewards. These are:

Bottle caps and gold bottle caps – Obtained at the end of ranked matches and at the end of the season Pokemon Legends: ZA.
Greninzite and Delfoxite – Obtained at Rank Y and Rank S respectively, when first reached in Season 2. Chesnutite will be available in Season 3 on November 26.
Fast Ball, Lure Ball, Level Ball, Heavy Ball, Love Ball, Friend Ball and Moon Ball – Received as a random end-of-match reward for ranked battles.
Sport Ball, Dream Ball, and Safari Ball – Based on rank placement at the end of Seasons 1, 2, and 3 respectively.

Because these are all valuable and sought-after prizes, competing Pokemon Legends: ZARanked battles are a matter of when rather than if. This means that using powerful and skilled teams is important, and that's why the current meta heavily favors critters like Xerneas, Garchomp, Metagross, Excadrill, Vaporeon, Charizard, and Skarmory. However, a new threat has appeared in the ranked battles, and that is none other than Pikachu.

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It's time to welcome Pokemon Legends: Best of ZA to the Glass Cannon category

It would be foolish to think that Pikachu would be competitively competent Pokemon Legends: ZA Before it comes out, but the game makes it possible. There are a few reasons for this:

Pokemon Legends: ZAItems held include the Light Ball, which is exclusive to Pikachu, and doubles its attack stats.
since Pokemon Legends: ZA Instead of turn-based combat, there are real-time battles, Pikachu can spam his attacks in a row to defeat slower opponents.
Pikachu has access to Charge, which increases its Sp. The damage output from its other Electric moves, along with the defense, means it can deal incredible amounts of damage with attacks like Volt Tackle and Thunderbolt.
Pikachu can learn Dig and Play Rough, which is great for moving towards targets, as well as Brick Break, which is the only move in the game that breaks the Reflect and Light screen.
Pikachu can use Light Screen, Reflect, Agility and Nasty Plot as buffing moves if necessary. Nasty plot stacked with charges.

Why you should use Pikachu in Pokemon Legends: ZA

The reason Pikachu is so strong is because of Light Ball, Charge and Plus getting inside Pokemon Legends: ZA All stack. This means that a Pikachu with 252 IVs and 31 EVs in Attack can one-shot Pokemon like Pokemon using Light Ball, with Charge active, plus Volt Tackle, since it has a base 120 Power.

Because the only type of defense per electric moves is ground, the main user of which is Garchomp in Pokemon Legends: ZAPikachu can run play rough and still do a lot of damage to the popular dragon-type. Otherwise, it might be wise to switch when opponents use Ground-type Pokemon. Still, Pikachu can theoretically one-shot almost every non-ground Pokemon in the game with the right setup, and there are many instances of players getting 5+ KOs per match.

How Pokemon Legends: ZA's Mega Dimension DLC Will Buff Pikachu

Like, if you haven't used Pikachu Pokemon Legends: ZA Still, now might be the best time to do it. This is especially true because the Mega Dimension DLC is right around the corner, and this is very good news for Pikachu lovers.

in fact, Pokemon Legends: ZAThe DLC adds two Mega Raichu variants, which will essentially boost Pikachu's evolution in more and different ways. This means that a good Pikachu build will not only serve you well in the upcoming Season 3, but it can also provide even more value when Mega Raichu X and Y are released on December 10th. Pikachu has a low 320 BST compared to Raichu's 485, but with Light Ball, it can become a bigger threat. Now, Raichu's BST will be 585 with its Mega Evolutions, which means they will probably be better than Pikachu – potentially with a new type combination.