Do you use regional birds? Why/why not?
>>25819654
Staraptor is the only good regional bird in-game. Every other ones are shit unless you somehow have a Gale Wings talonflame on your playtrough.
Yes because Swellow made me a bird freak. It ended up being my highest level pokemon in Sapphire for whatever reason and I liked bird pokemon since. Though I tried being different in PT, HG, and B2 with non-birds. The only beginning birds I haven't used were Noctowl and Unfezant.
>>25819754
git gud
Yes, but not the Pidove line since its fucking ugly
Although I prefer Braviary to all those.
>>25819793
and Wingull if that counts?
I'm practically forced to use one so I can Fly and shit.
In post-game I usually catch and train something else to be the perfect HM slave, but until then I have to use two or three just to make things work.
Yes, why wouldn't I? I might replace them later on if there's a Flying-type I like better, but no reason not to use them early on.
>>25819654
I've used them all except for Unfezzant because its ugly as sin.
>>25819654
I only run bug teams whenever possible, so no.
>>25819841
my nig
>implying owls are birds
>>25819991
>>25820009
>AINBA gosdando do Bolem :DDD
>>25819654
Yes.
Because. I use every Pokémon.
I've used Pidgeot and Staraptor, and tried to use Noctowl but it sucked too much.
I never used Noctowl since you get Pidgey just as early, and the Pidove line is terrible.
Staraptor and Talonflame were the aces of my teams.
>>25819654
Staraptor, Swellow and Talonflame are shit.
Unfeazant though... I have no idea of what flying types to use on my B/W playthroughs.
>>25820238
You meant "the shit" right? Those are the best birds.
>>25820265
Yeah I did.
>>25819754
Talonflame is fast as it is, I don't see the need for Gale Wings in a playtrough.
Staraptor is amazing.
Pidgeot and Unfezant have no moves.
Noctowl is nothing special but I love it.
Swellow is kinda decent with Guts.
Pelipper is utterly shit.
Remove birds. Brobat for life.
>>25819654
>Noctowl
>bird
I tend to use the secondary bird(or bat) pokemon of the region when I can
Kanto - Fearow > Pidgeot
Johto-Crobat = Skarmory > Noctowl
Hoenn- Swellow > Pelipper
Sinnoh- Staraptor > Honchkrow (Does it count ?)
Unova- Unfeazant < Braviary
Kalos- Talonflame
I use them mostly so I'm guaranteed someone that can learn fly as soon as I get it.
Pidgeot>Talonflame>Noctowl>Swellow>Staraptor>Unfezant
>>25820445
Always used Pidgeot, Swellow and Talonflame but not the others. Always had the urge to use Skarmory on RSE instead of Swellow though
>>25820690
I used Skarmory on my AS playthrough. Pretty nice to have on your team to be honest.
>>25819654
1. Talonflame
2. Pidgeot
3. Swellow
4. Noctowl
5. Staraptor
6. Unfezant
The only ones I didn't use was Noctowl and Unfezant in my playthroughs.
>>25820238
Just use fly on Golurk, fixed it for ya
>TFW you realize Golurk is literally master-tier regional bird
>>25820793
Holy shit I did not know this. I guess it can even use it decently in combat since it has good attack.
I hate using regional birds because early game throws normals and flying/normals at you. Staraptor should be fire/fighting and noctowl should be flying/psychic. I'm going to hate the gen 7 regional bird if they go back to normal only.
Swellow shouldn't exist. Pelipper is the regional bird of Hoenn.
>>25820886
>staraptor should be fire/fighting
>owls are birds
Speaking of flying types, emolga seems like it has pretty shit stats but is it enough to be all right in game?
>>25820098
>é
WHAT DID I TELL YOU
LEAVE
LEAVE YOU AUTISTIC FAGGOT
Pidgeot is nostalgia
Noctowl has bulk
Swellow has GUTS
Staraptor has clombat & is great in game
Unfezant is CritLord
Birds are cool! >>25820793
not unfezant or staraptor
>>25819654
swellow and staraptor are GOAT
used dodrio recently, was breddy good
>>25819654
How decent would a team consisting of just each regional bird be?
>>25819654
I've never used Swellow and or Tranquil.
>>25819654
I have used every single one of them
>pidgeot really never shines aside from being the first real flying type you get in an early game where everything is bugs
>Noctowl is the only special oriented one, should have a different typing and possibly a special normal move and it would be pretty good
>swellow is really fast, guts facade is also amazing considering the speed
>unzefant is almost as bad as pidgeot but has a niche in super luck, at times this thing really pulled trough with scope lens but if anything its the rng dependant one
>pelliper is the one whos really diverse but somehow always ends up as a HM slave
>Staraptor is top notch, especially ingame due to close combat and brave bird
>Talonflame is good, gale wings or not due to having fire moves. gale wings is just the icing on the cake
No, they're always boring and ugly. I like the Talonflame line, apart from Talonflame looking awfully drab in-game, but that's about it.
>>25821087
youd have to use pelliper due to surf
>>25821255
this guy got the niches pretty on point
I pretty much always use the regional bird on my first playthrough. Although I found Unfezant to be underwhelming so I used it less and less in my first playthrough of White (and it was the Pokemon that I switched out for Zekrom).
>>25821255
noctowl has hyper voice you clod
hyper beam too not that it matters
>>25820281
>Pelipper is utterly shit.
Great hm slave famm. Also good for fighting stormin Norman what with Protect and all.
>>25821311
you get hyper voice by move tutor after credits, that isnt something you can account for ingame
>>25819654
Love using Noctowl in hgss. Besides being obtainable early and having a really fun movepool, it has a Wooper-tier backsprite animation.
>>25821255
Pelliper ends up as an HM slave because surf, waterfall, dive, and fly. I seriously hope that HM's are somehow improved in S/M, you literally can not have a playthrough without a water type (sometimes 2) or a flying type.
Noctowl, Unfezant, and Talonflame are the only ones I haven't used in at least one playthrough
G/S and HGSS I started during the day so I never really thought about it I guess, I like Noctowl
Unfezant is just boring and forgettable as shit
I usedPidgeotin Y
I used Fearow for the first time in 3DS Blue and it completely blows the fuck out of Pidgeot outta sky.
I never see the point of having 100 or so new pokemon and then half of them are gated beyond certain points.
If you fight anyone online they have the same teams bar one or two mons each time.
>>25821384
>>25821349
>>25821311
>>25821255
>>25820886
>>25820759
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>>25820566
>Noctowl
When will this meme of Noctowl being a bird die?
>>25821514
the meme entails it isnt dipshit
I definitely have used Staraptor and Unfezant
I don't use any regional Pokemon anymore
I just don't use regional Pokemon anymore
No Regional Birds, Regional Rodents, or Regional Bugs
>>25820281
>Pelipper is utterly shit
It shits on almost every gym leader in the game though.
Roxanne - Water Gun
Brawly - Wing Attack/Air Cutter
Flannery - Water Pulse/Brine
Norman - Protect/Stockpile
Winona - Ice Beam
Tate&Liza - Surf
It is actually hilarious when you think about it.
>>25819654
I used Swellow on my first Ruby run. It evolved early and hit hard, but kind of started to lag behind and I think I eventually dropped it
I used Staraptor in Platinum. No complaints, took a whilte to reach the final form but it pulled its weight amazingly and was useful all the way to the E4
Used Talonflame for a while. It's ok, too bad it has to rely on Flare Blitz and Brave Vird to do decent damage which can be annoying in-game because I have to pop Potions after every battle
Never bothered with the rest
ive used them all except noctowl. but i like noctowls design the best
>>25821818
Adding to this I actually used the underleveled Braviary from BW2 and might I add it as an excelent bird as well. It's a lot like Staraptor, except a bit slower but really bulky.
Not really worth it on any game that doesn't offer you a underleveled one though
>>25819654
No because most of the time my flyer is always a dragon, or something more unique like Drifblim or Xatu.
With 700+ Pokemon, using the route 1 mammal/route 3 bird always feels like a waste.
>>25821887
This.
I tend to avoid the shit the schoolkids on the first route use.
>>25819654
I just noticed how Unfezant and Talonflame look like they are somehow related to each other
>>25820566
I agree with Fearow, but Skarmory, Honchkrow, and Braviary aren't really secondary birds. They just happen to be flying types from that region. Pretty sure you have to beat ask 8 gyms before you can even catch rufflet and Skarmory is pretty late too.
>>25821887
>Dragonite can learn almost every HM except Flash
>Fly/Surf/Waterfall + your choice of Cut or Rock Smash, or Dive in Hoenn, for post-game map traversal and/or hunting specific pokemon
My opinion on the fat bastard turned around overnight when I figured out it's an even better HM slave than Bibarel
dodrio is the best gen 1 bird but you can't get it early like pidgey and spearow
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>>25820793
>>25822111
In White 2 you can get get Braviary near the desert route on a certain day so that's a powerful flier
>>25822185
My nigga
Dodrio was fun as fuck back when Tri Attack was physical, just a shame like you said Doduo is found later on in comparison to Pidgey and Spearow
>>25821272
I meant competitively
I used a Noctowl in Silver and Staraptor is one of my all time faves. I've never liked any of the others except Pidgeot.
>>25823485
>Noctowl
>bird
>>25820566
Pelipper is the secondary regional bird, Ash had swellow
>>25822185
It still learns drill peck before fearow, though...
>Pidgeot only gets wing attack.
>>25820281
pelipper is great though both as an hm slave and actually in-game in oras
>>25823672
But you can get Fearow much sooner.
>>25820238
unfezant is so weird. it's movepool looks like it was designed to be a special attacker. it would've been great as a special attacker, actually, since it wouldn't have to compete with stuff like fearow, pidgeot, dodrio, etc
I usually try to since I use them as a flyer and hate switching my team around constantly. If I don't want to use the regional bird I try to find something else that can learn fly and use it instead.
>>25819654
I always tend to go for the secondary birds since the ones you find first are usually amazingly boring.
Fearow/Dodrio in gen1
Skarmory and Murkrow in gen2
Altaria in gen 3
Don't remember what flier I used in gen 4 but it wasn't starraptor
Gen 5 was that Braviary you find early in BW2
and Gen 6 I used hawlucha
>>25819654
I love birds and the regional ones have pretty neat designs, so yeah. I have to say Noctowl is my favourite of the lot even though it sucks total ass.
Still haven't used Unfezant though.
>>25819754
>Needing good stats/abitlies in playthroughs
Really ?
why is noctowl on the picture?
>>25823689
further proof that GF just rolls dice most of the time
>>25819654
I liked Noctowl, but I've never given much of a shit about regional birds. The Fletchling line was a step in the right direction, IMO - something more interesting than the usual Normal/Flying. If the leaks are true and we get a Woodpecker for the S&M regional bird, I might use it - especially if they do something neat and make it Flying/Grass with an Acorn or Pinecone beak or something neat like that.
>>25826218
>implying owls are birds
Most of the time I try to find something more interesting to be my flier, last couple runs have been Volcarona and Drifblim. But the couple times I have tried the regular birds they turned out pretty well. Staraptor is fantastic, Pelipper is at least solid enough for ingame.
>>25819991
>>25820445
>>25820674
>>25820932
>>25821514
>>25823609
>>25826234
lol XD!!!!!! i love memes :p
I almost always use a bird of some kind. My current playthrough is I think the first one where I haven't.
>>25819991
Irrelevant, pidgey is native to Johto too
Used em in every gen except 5 where I used a Swoobat as my Flyer instead.
>>25819654
swellow with flame orb wins the Royale
>what is facade
I've literally tried to use every one of these fuckers though, unfezant and talonflame just didn't fit my style, however.
Kanto and Johto I used Fearow.
Hoenn I used Pelliper.
Sinnoh I used Staraptor.
Unova I used Archeops.
Kalos I used Talonflame.
>>25819654
>gen 1
Dodrio > Fearow > Pidgeot
>gen 2
Xatu > all
>gen 3
Pelipper > Swellow
>gen 4
no lie, Staraptor is pretty baller
>gen 5
Sigilyph
>gen 6
Hawlucha
>>25821851
>underleveled Braviary is only available on Mondays
thank god it's a monday
>>25826313
Wew what a relief
>>25820281
>Pelipper is utterly shit.
its bulky as fuck though
plus it can protect and use both fly AND surf making it a great utility mon
>Pidgeot line
They are decent but I preferred the Fearrow line.
>Noctowl line
It's annoying as all fuck to train Hoothoot. Fuck him.
>Swellow line
Never trained it in game but it was a beast when I used in Emerald and LG's post game.
>Staraptor line
It happened something weird to me with Staraptor. My first run on PlatinumI skipped gen 4was a Nuzlocke and I never found any Starly or Staravia as the first route pokemon until it was past the time it became a plague and potential threat to my team, so I started to dislike it.
I'm sure it's an amazing pokemon but fuck him and endeavor.
>Unfezant line
Who?
>Talonflame line
Great even after turning into a smogonmon memebird.
