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Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 10:28:47 No.32365296 View View Reply Original Report

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Do they have any reason to exist? Does anyone even like them? Their designs are shit and Fearow sucks compared to Pidgeot. Would the series be different in any way if they were never made?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 10:32:09 No.32365310 Report

Quoted By: >>32365384 >>32365619

>>32365296
Ash would've been attacked by a flock of Pidgey, that's it.

Fuck Spearow and Fearow, ugly Pokemon. Ugly shinies too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 10:33:42 No.32365317 Report

Quoted By: >>32365619

Why were they created? Did GF think "hey, we need another trash bird for the start of the game"?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 10:45:11 No.32365371 Report

Quoted By: >>32365408 >>32365419

Pokemon, at its core, is an RPG.
If you start out fighting dragons and mewtwos, you do not get that sense of progression.
Thus, this pokemon, the weedle line and rattata line exist among others.
Not every pokemon needs to be good just like every enemy in an rpg doesn't need to be good.
That is one nice nuance that RBY had, it was a game and not an entity where they had to focus on making every character sell.
Its interesting when you think of pokemon like that, I.E. Onix is just the first boss.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 10:47:35 No.32365384 Report

Quoted By: >>32365432

>>32365296
>>32365310
>thinking these designs are ugly
Feel free to off yourselves any time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 10:50:59 No.32365408 Report

Quoted By: >>32365749

>>32365371
But unlike Weedle, Caterpie and Rattata, Spearow (and especially Fearow) is ugly as sin and are weaker than their counterparts. Butterfree, Beedrill and Pidgeot are all really decent to have on your team up to the Elite Four, but Fearow is shit and cannot be salvaged.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 10:52:28 No.32365416 Report

Quoted By: >>32367388

>>32365296
Lots of gen 1 mons got megas
Only gen 1 mons got regional forms
Fearow line gets none

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 10:52:45 No.32365419 Report

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>>32365371
They could at least have made Spearow a counterpart to Pidgey, giving it 2 evolutions instead of just 1 and let the final stage have the same BST as Pidgeot. That way it would be reasonable for it to exist, but as it stands now, they're fucking nothing compared to the Pidgey line. Plus Fearow's design is disgusting.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 10:54:50 No.32365432 Report

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>>32365384
>Thinking this looks good
Contrarian shitpost or genuine shittiest taste on the board.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:07:10 No.32365488 Report

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I like both of them. Great designs

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:08:58 No.32365497 Report

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>>32365432
You seem to be mad about birds today, anon.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:11:36 No.32365507 Report

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Do they have any reason to exist? Does anyone even like them? Their designs are shit and Incineroar and Primarina suck compared to Decidueye. Would the series be different in any way if they were never made?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:12:29 No.32365512 Report

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Spearow and Fearow are just the evil imps of the Pokemon world.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:14:00 No.32365516 Report

Quoted By: >>32365528

>>32365296
Fearow is better than Pidgeot in Gen 1

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:14:10 No.32365517 Report

Quoted By: >>32365990

>>32365507
The series would be very different, yes. Sun and Moon would be the first games to only have 1 starter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:16:32 No.32365528 Report

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>>32365516
>Fearow was superior in Gen 1
>Made inferior to Pidgeot from Gen 2 onwards
>Pidgeot gets BST boosts
>Fearow gets nothing
>Pidgeot gets a Mega Evolution
>Fearow gets nothing
>Even when Spearow and Fearow are literally everywhere in Sun/Moon, they get no boosts whatsoever to give players a reason to catch them
It's like GameFreak hates Fearow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:37:25 No.32365619 Report

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>>32365317
>>32365296
>>32365310
t. pidgeyfags

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:39:51 No.32365627 Report

Quoted By: >>32365652

Fearow is way better ingame than Pidgeot up to Gen 6.

>in Gen 1, actually starts with Flying STAB
>evolves way earlier
>is faster until Gen 6, stronger too
>gets Drill Peck

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:45:31 No.32365650 Report

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Yeah, chiming in to say OP's premise is incorrect.

In RB, it was pretty much Dodrio > Fearow > Pidgeot, so the game was rewarding you for either delaying adding a Normal/Flying to your team, or otherwise incentivising you to swap out the Pidgeotto/Fearow you had at the time, to start over with a Doduo.

By the time you got to FRLG, I think they'd thrown the Pidgey line a lot of bones with its moveset, so that Fearow didn't really have any edge over it, but they were functionally about equal. Now, after the fact, they've gone all in with Mega Pidgeot, which casts Fearow into total irrelevancy, and probably even Dodrio into question as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:45:51 No.32365652 Report

Quoted By: >>32366170 >>32366632 >>32366665 >>32366994

>>32365627
And Dodrio is better than both

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 12:02:41 No.32365712 Report

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>>32365296
The INGAME viability is more or less like this
>Gen 1
Fearow>>>Pidgeot( Fearow is faster, stronger, evolves early and has better moves)
>Gen 2
Fearow>Pidgeot(Drill Peck at lv40 makes Fearow a little worse)
>Gen 3
Pidgeot>Fearow(Pidgeot gets Wing Attack earlier while Fearow has Drill Peck still at lv40)
>Gen 4
Fearow>Pidgeot( Spearow gets Aerial Ace at lv17)
>Gen 5
Both are not available
>Gen 6
Pidgeot>Fearow
>Gen 7
Only Fearow available

If we are talking about Competitive instead Fearow is better than Pidgeot until gen 3. After that Pidgeot gets Brave Bird in gen 4, Hurricane in gen 5 and a speed increase and a Mega in gen 6

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 12:10:09 No.32365749 Report

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>>32365408
>Butterfree, Beedrill and Pidgeot are all really decent to have on your team up to the Elite Four, but Fearow is shit and cannot be salvaged.
>Butterfree and Beedrill (Non mega) being better than Fearow
Nigger please Fearow is trash but Butterfree and Beedril are steaming turds.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 12:12:15 No.32365758 Report

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>>32365296
All Pokémon exist for reason.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 12:19:35 No.32365797 Report

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>>32365296
in a team only 6, if all the monsters you like would be difficult to choose

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 12:25:02 No.32365830 Report

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>>32365296
>Their designs are shit
Fuck off, vulture-chicken-heron is rad as fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 13:03:45 No.32365967 Report

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I like spearow but fearow is pretty ugly. This was a perfect candidate for an alola form as it didn't get a mega, it's gen one, and it's severely outclassed by power creep and its own generation, but it got nothing. I hope it gets some attention one day.

On the other hand I'm sort of glad it didn't get an Alolan form because we all know they would have made this thing part dark like all the others.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 13:14:02 No.32365990 Report

Quoted By: >>32366000

>>32365517
Naw, you have Yellow

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 13:17:45 No.32366000 Report

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>>32365990
And Gale of Darkness I think.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 13:18:47 No.32366005 Report

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I liked it in the TFS Nuzlocke

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Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 13:19:05 No.32366006 Report

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>>32365296
Fuuuuck you, I love them!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 14:15:00 No.32366170 Report

Quoted By: >>32366632

>>32365652
this Dodrio is best bird

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 14:55:01 No.32366291 Report

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>>32365296
Spearow looks fine, Fearow is the uggliest

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 15:45:57 No.32366498 Report

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>>32365296
Assumedly to add weak enemy variety in the original RPGs so that you'd have easy enemies that weren't all one kind of bird (Pidgey).
Apparently some do.
Not particularly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 16:09:06 No.32366632 Report

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>>32365652
>>32366170
muh niggas

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 16:14:30 No.32366665 Report

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>>32365652

True, but it takes a while to appear in most games except XY where it's quite early, while Fearow is ironically Victory Road exclusive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 17:11:53 No.32366994 Report

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>>32365652
This. I always picked up a spearow early game and dropped it the second doduo showed up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 17:22:43 No.32367069 Report

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>>32365296
Go outside, how many types birds do you see? More than one? That's why there was Spearow. They were trying to make a world full of animals. It'd be weird if every bird was a Pidgey.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 17:26:11 No.32367089 Report

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>>32365296
>Fearow sucks compared to Pidgeot
It's objectively better ingame. You can't even get mega pidgeot in story mode.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 17:28:49 No.32367101 Report

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>>32365296
Saying Fearow looks like shit is also basically saying Ho oh looks like shit too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 17:31:17 No.32367121 Report

Quoted By: >>32367162

>pokemon that aren't garchomp or gardevoir exist
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 17:38:39 No.32367162 Report

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>>32367121
thank god

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Apr 2017 18:12:41 No.32367388 Report

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>>32365416
Fearow is busy guarding ev reset berries from a nearby tree

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