>>58226408You could. The whole "umm but the sprout tower BOSS (which, one, can you really call that a boss, and two, he was completely optional in GSC by the way) uses one so Falkner can't use one too" has no real ground to stand on. Whether it's Pidgey or Hoothoot, it doesn't make a big difference from a gameplay standpoint, and Hoothoot was a new pokemon at the time, compared to Pidgey which we had already seen again and again and again.
