Why so many Pichus??

I’m playing Pokémon Moon again (for the 4th time) and have decided to put a Raichu in my team. After a good 30-45 minutes, I finally caught a Pichu from the grass right before the stairs leading to Iki Town and wanted to train it a little bit before battling Hau. I then noticed I was seeing an awful lot of Pichu in this area, which is super suspicious considering the fact that it took me so long to findmyPichu in the first place.

I decided to conduct a little experiment with the other Pokémon in my team; with the Pokémon in the front of the team, encounter 10 wild Pokémon in the same area and count the number of Pichu found. My Popplio and Pikipek both encountered 0/10 Pichu each, but my Pichu found 7/10! There’s obviously something going on here and I wanted to know if anyone else has had the same thing happen to them.

Thanks!

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

I believe that it has to do with probability but also that your Pichu most likely has the ability “Static”. Which has the following outside of battle effect:

“If a Pokémon with Static is the leading party Pokémon, it is 50% more likely that a wild Pokémon encountered will be Electric type.”

That would explain why you encountered more Pichus when your Pichu was in the front of your party.

//Jofly