Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chikorita
We are celebrating the creation of Pokémon Legends Z A with this list featuring one of your starter Pokémon in the game, Chikorita!
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Chikorita's leaf can detect both temperature and humidity
This is a pretty cool fact and kinda brings up the idea of a lot of Grass-type Pokémon!
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Chikorita's demo name in Japanese, "Happa" (meaning "leaf"), was changed to "Chicorita" in the final release
This is a good example of things changing last minute because of the demo, along with the prime example of Umbreon.
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Chikorita has the most known trainers in the Pokémon anime among the Johto first partner Pokémon (Totodile and Cyndaquil); these trainers include Ash, Casey, Vincent, Silver, Lyra, and Horace
That's a lot of trainers.
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Chikorita's sprites in Pokémon Gold and Silver depict it with a yellow body, which was updated in Pokémon Crystal
Now the body is a pale green color that I don't care for, but hey, it's better than yellow. Yellow basically screamed "dying plant" to me.
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Chikorita loves sunlight and uses its leaf to locate sunny areas
I have no idea how you use a leaf to find sunny places, but maybe this Pokémon can teach me.
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Chikorita's name may be a combination of "chicory" (a flowering plant) and "-ita" (a Spanish diminutive suffix)
Female chicory, then?
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Chikorita's leaf emits a pleasant aroma that calms nearby Pokémon
This kinda reminds me of Sylveon, who can also calm down hostile Pokémon.
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Chikorita's design was likely inspired by sauropods, a type of long-necked dinosaur
I don't see it.
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Chikorita was one of the three Johto starter Pokémon, along with Totodile and Cyndaquil, and was reused in Pokémon Legends: Z-A with Tepig as its Fire-type counterpart
I'm not a big fan of the idea of reusing it (at least reuse it by itself or with Cyndaquil too), but oh well. We got what we got.
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Chikorita's body slightly resembles an endive (a variety of chicory) or a pear
It looks more like this than a dinosaur to me, that's for sure.