With the popularity of Pokémon peaking, we carried out an investigation into the energy of Pikachu's new 'Gigavolt Havoc' attack, and its thermal effect on the ice-shelled Pokémon Sandshrew. With the assumption of a parallel plate capacitor layout, we found the energy of this attack (when fully converted to thermal energy) would melt 16 % ± 5 % (at 273 K) of Sandshrew's shell
