#016 - Pidgey

PIDGEY

IN SHOW

Pidgey was shown in the first episode, and Ash almost caught one. He failed though, and never tried again. Even Prof. Oak caught a Pidgey and showed off his awesome trainer skills by blasting off Team Rocket within moments of capturing it proving that Team Rocket can be beaten by even untrained pokemon. Pidgey are often seen in the same places and acting like many of the birds we often seen around meadows and forests. They’re just trying to survive. My favourite example of Pidgey though is the Pidgey on Pudgey Pidgey Isle where they were all too fat to fly. It’s sad and maybe it was supposed to be an example of how obesity kills dreams, but I really just loved the image of the fat Pidgey, and who wouldn’t?

WHY YOU WANT A PIDGEY

Pidgey not only evolved into one of the coolest flying pokemon of all time, but it could actually learn Fly all by itself without ever having to level up once. So you could go and catch a baby Pidgey and fly around on it. I thought it was cool. Plus, Pidgey was a nice stable normal type with the flying type thrown in so it had a good balance of moves. Gust and Quick Attack were the staples for a lot of Pidgey trainers and they didn’t disappoint, and you could only look forward to getting better moves as your Pidgey grew.

WHY YOU DO NOT WANT A PIDGEY

Pidgey did take a little while to evolve, and some people didn’t find it that worthwhile. Besides, the other flying type that was available was Spearow and that just appealed to some people. The pokedex picture for Pidgey wasn’t bad but it just wasn’t...Pidgey. It looked like a finch that sort of happened by the office while they were taking the pokemons’ pictures and it got in the way of the camera and instead of shooting another picture they decided that that was as close as they were going to get.

IN SUMMARY

Pidgey was about as normal as you could get. It was like flavour text for the show as it showed that yes, not all pokemon just sat in tall grass waiting to be caught, they actually did act like real animals most of the time, eating at birdfeeders and taking care of their young. Pidgey was, like many of the other original pokemon, a stepping stone onto something much greater but that’s the way we liked them.