PIDGEOTTO
IN SHOW
Ash caught a Pidgeotto pretty promptly, and it served him pretty well. And by served him pretty well I meant he only ever used it against Team Rocket, to pop their balloon, blow away smoke screen, or determine where they had taken Pikachu or any of the other pokemon Team Rocket was bound to steal. This was unfortunate because Pidgeotto did seem really awesome. Everyone remembers the scene where Pikachu jumps onto its back and begins to fly away in order to fight a giant Tentacruel. Pidgeotto was often seeing flying fast and free which I think might be because he spent most of his time in his pokeball and he always resented Ash for this. It’s not to say he was never used in a pokemon battle and Pidgeotto did actually see his fair share of gym battles, but he probably could’ve been used as much more than just a staple to make sure Team Rocket was defeated at the end of an episode.
WHY YOU WANT PIDGEOTTO
Pidgeotto could fly and that’s what a lot of people wanted Pidgeotto to do. Fly. So getting from Point A to Point B was never a big a problem when you had a Pidgeotto around. Pidgeotto did unfortunately suffer from ‘exactly the same but...’ Pidgeotto did bring a new look to the table, a much more shiny look at me sort of thing which made us hope for Pidgeot. But otherwise he was just a brightly coloured Pidgey who could hit harder, and was necessary for us to have if we wanted that Pidgeot.
WHY YOU DO NOT WANT A PIDGEOTTO
In the games Pidgeotto actually isn’t much help. Flying types are always useful, but Pidgeotto wasn’t really useful until the Elite 4 and at that point your Pidgeotto wasn’t a Pidgeotto anymore. The picture in game looked like a fatter bigger Pidgey, and I think that let down a lot of people. Pidgeotto isn’t usually shown to be much bigger, and in most ways it’s actually fitter than Pidgey.
IN SUMMARY
We looked forward to Pidgeotto because everything told us he was cool. For many trainers the Pidgey line was a staple, and Pidgeotto was a big part of that. Most people always had at a Pidgey type in their party and when there was no real use for Pidgeotto other than a glorified plane, I can understand why some people might have been a bit upset. Pidgeotto had been with us from the 3rd episode, and he had been fighting Team Rocket for just as long, but Team Rocket never actually shows up in a giant Meowth balloon and smoke screen can’t be just blown away so the things we were expecting our Pidgeotto to do we never actually got to see happen. A lot of people may argue that Pidgeotto is actually a really good pokemon, but I seem him as more as a means to an ends.
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