Was Pikachu Viable in Yellow?

In aPrevious question I askedI found out that the Pikachu in Yellow was no stronger than a regular Pikachu. I would never consider using a normal Pikachu in gen 1. What I’m asking was it more common to ditch the Pikachu or did People keep it? Was it a valuable asset to teams?

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The only Pikachu you’ll find in the game, this Electric-type cannot beevolved in Yellow and follows you around, similar to Ash’s Pikachu onthe television show. Unique to this Pikachu is the fact that it hasemotions, which can be checked by talking to it. This Pikachu getsThunderbolt at level 25 as well. To see Pikachu’s emotions and whataffects them, click

It wasn’t really valuable though it was used a lot because of it’s resamblance to Ash’s Pikachu and back then many trainers wanted to act as if they were Ash in their various games, even now this is still possible. I know you would never use a Pikachu but their are a limited amount of electric types so deal with it Jojo :P

Electric types in Yellow

Other then the fact that it learns thunderbolt at lv.25, that it can’t evolve and that it shows emotions, it isn’t really valuable

Click on this link to read more and to see it’s emotions