Nah, a while ago a amended the rules after ResolverOshawott's inquiry and decided if an attack has the chance to cause an addition status effect, the challenger has to roll a ten faced die and if the sum is five or above, the status effect takes effect despite the chance officially listed (I.e. Thunder has a 30% chance to paralyz but in this roleplay it's pretty fifty/fifty). Why don't you save the whole respect thing for an actual player character? I kind of don't have the inspiration to play a Pikachu but you can challenge Pierre or Kiku if you want.
Speaking of Pierre, I'm just going to say I didn't change his name, I just realized auto correct was changing it to some water brand o.0 Pierre is how his name is supposed to be spelled >.<