#018 - Pidgeot

PIDGEOT

IN SHOW

It finally happened! Ash has returned from the Indigo Plateau and is ready to take a break from all this pokemon trainer nonsense when, oh no! A Fearow is leading a group of Spearow to attack the local group of Pidgey. It’s downright terrorizing them. If Pokemon wasn’t a kid show we knew that the Pidgey would’ve been wasting away to nothing as the Spearow destroyed their nests and their lives. But Ash is here to rescue them and Pidgeotto once part of the same clan is out to seek revenge. Oh wait, did I say Pidgeotto? I meant the newly evolved Pidgeot who will not allow his old friends and family to be tortured by the angriest bird in Pallet Town. And he’s big enough for Ash to ride him while he’s battling. This just got amazing! But then...wait what? Pidgeot’s gonna stay so that he can protect his group? I guess that’s alright but....

That’s the shattered feeling millions of kids felt as one of the coolest pokemon to ever evolve in Ash’s team left within one episode, never to be seen again.

WHY YOU WANT A PIDGEOT

If the idea of flying around on a giant bird doesn’t appeal to you I don’t know what else will. Pidgeot was a bird of prey unlike any other and when we were ready to beat the Elite 4 he was there to face the fighting pokemon head on and win the day for us. Pidgeot may not have received a lot of flying moves from his new form, but the ones he had he had perfected and we were all gonna sleep safer at night knowing we had a Pidgeot out their protecting us.

WHY YOU DO NOT WANT A PIDGEOT

Pidgeot learned no new moves. This meant you were relying on Fly and Wing Attack as your two main moves plus any other TM’s you had taught him and for some trainers this wasn’t enough. Your pokemon had to be more skilled than this and if they weren’t they were of no use to you. Pidgeot lost out on that. And his picture...I don’t even want to think of it. It’s Blastoise bad and that’s saying something.

IN SUMMARY

We as an audience were broken up when Pidgeot left and it doesn’t get any easier because every time Ash visits Pallet Town you know Pidgeot’s there in those tree lines and we’ll never get to see it again. We’ll never again get another awesome aerial battle off the back of a giant bird. I mean...we’ll always have Charizard but it’s just not the same thing. We had wanted to see Pidgeotto evolve so much and when we finally got it, it was taken away from us immediately. I think that’s why a lot of people despise Fearow, even if they originally really liked him. But at least we could have our very own Pidgeot in the game, and as long as we ignored the picture he was at least average. What more could we ask for?