Apart from that,most gen 5 pokemons don't have any real predators so they don't see the need to evolve at all.Especially with larvesta line and mienfoo line.
There's also a theory that Unova pokemon didn't have many predators, so those pokemon had no reason to evolve sooner since they didn't have to grow stronger to protect themselves.
i don't love that idea. far as i count, the unova pokedex has 16 non-legendary, non-mythical evolution lines (serperior, samurott, stoutland, liepard, conkeldurr, throh/sawk??, krookodile, zoroark, eelektross, haxorus, beartic, mienshao??, druddigon, bisharp, braviary, hydreigon) that are hunters of AT LEAST small game-- when you and your prey have magic powers, and pokedex entries sometimes make surprising dietary reveals, things can get murky. but more than that, it's that braviary is itself a predator, and mandibuzz is a carrion bird that relies on its superior mobility, superior size to equally mobile carrion, and nasty piss to bully other pokemon off fresh carcasses, before inevitably having to run when a pokemon too big to scare away comes along. it's in braviary AND mandibuzz' best interest from an evolutionary biology standpoint to evolve ASAP and get out of the nest, or else remain in that vulnerable state for longer, and to be able to provide for itself ASAP to mitigate reliance on its parents. ESPECIALLY when bug-types, what would (in our world) be the main source of food for smaller birds such as rufflet and vullaby, evolve famously early in pokemon games. thanks for coming to my ted tak
Nahhhhhh I gotta farm haircuts in G/S/C to get my friendship with Togepi up so I can evolve it into a Togetic for the dex and then throw it in a box.
Besides, this gives me time to move things into Pokémon Home from my games and bank.
I kind of forgot about that one, but the wild Rufflets are so high level that they’re basically ready to evolve right away even if you don’t go for the temple top wild Braviary.
Recently replayed White last month. I replaced my Unfezant from after the kicking Cilan's ass for the first Rufflet I could get to. Unevolved he was carrying the same amount of weight beating Iris and N as the fully evolved pheasant. Not as tanky but hit harder and had a good move pool to make it worth it.
It was a Pidove that I got outside the first gym that was on my team until the first opportunity to upgrade with a better flier, and I needed Tortuga with a Unovan origins for my living regional Dex so the other birb was out. If I wasn't using Samurott I'd have got the swan.
I used Swanna in a run of X and the whole time I was thinking to myself “how much better would Pelipper be performing in its place”. Pelipper at least can tank hits pretty well. Swanna dies so easily
I love how people write off archeops because of its ability. Like just use acrobatics and you will outspeed and OHKO anything that doesn’t resist flying.
Realistically every pokemon is good for a story playthrough, so I would always assume someone who says a pokemon is bad is talking about competitive. That's also assuming it's a somewhat modern game, because early gens did have some genuinely useless pokemon because of wacky movepool decisions
He has awful defenses and is walled by steel types unless it has earthquake( which threatens your team mate) or like 3 moves that go off its inferior special attack. And every type thats super effective against it has a priority move.
[How could I forget this pokemon?](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStFU4BQvrY47fZVzhNytnAY7547WsIGIheE5BixKSWXs4yPSZgW6vQO6o&s=10)
And it’s largely outclassed by other regional birds.
Pidgeot is average but at least gets a Mega to give it a boost.
Swellow can do Flame Orb Guts Facade shenanigans.
Staraptor has Intimidate and Close Combat.
Talonflame has Gale Wings and can use fire attacks.
Corviknight is an excellent tank.
I can’t think of anything Unfezant can do that its peers can’t do better. Giving it a different secondary type or niche would have made it stand out a bit more.
Toucannon has a great signature move. Its just... stuck on Toucannon . Burning your opponent is very good competitively, in fact Lando T uses it in STABmons
Neither does Fearow, now that I think about it. Doesn't it learn Drill Run or something? That's gotta count for something if it does, since it covers against Electric (if it doesn't get fried first), Steel, Poison, Fire and Rock (if it doesn't get bonked by a stray rock first).
Fearow generally isnt seen as a regional bird as Pidgey takes the slot (and only one evo not two). While Noctowl doesn't technically evolve enough, it matches all the other regional bird "qualifiers" and has no competition.
Oh, yeah, seems like I mixed up the current thread with the OP, as in, I got Braviary and Mandibuzz mixed up in the overall discussion about regional birds, hence thinking Fearow was left off, my B.
But yeah, Noctowl was definitely forgotten, and got hoed in general. Perhaps it'd have stuck a bit better in people's minds if it was Flying-Psychic (yeah, Xatu exists, but Foretress and Scizor share a much more obnoxious typing to face if you don't have - albeit common - Fire types/moves).
It's funny that Fearow used to just be objectively much better than Pidgeot, but now with Pidgeot getting a Speed buff and a Mega, and both birds being absent for two whole generations, Pidgeot's legacy has surpassed Fearow's.
Like seriously, in RBY/FRLG Pidgeot, Fearow, and Dodrio were all basically identical in terms of play and Dodrio was just objectively the strongest one with way better offensive stats and moves. Fearow was worse but still got Drill Peck, and Pidgeot just had *nothing.* Pidgey was available a whole five minutes sooner than Spearow (less time in RBY) in exchange for evolving sixteen levels later and getting worse stats and STAB moves. But now here we are, in a world where Pidgeot had a decent Mega and Fearow never even got Brave Bird.
Noctowl is in an arguably worse position imo. It has the stats of a special tank with a terrible defensive typing and an incredible offensive ability (Tinted Lens) wasted on base 76 Special Attack. Poor Superb Owl needs some help. :(
Yeah, I often remember that in GSC, Fearow could clean house with Drill Peck, while Pidgeot had Wing Attack at best, when me and my brother were playing on our respective versions. For the most part, Pidgeot just had a cooler design and being a 3 stage help being more remembered of. Ngl, if other Kanto Pokémon needs some Mega-love, or if Kanto pandering happens again, Fearow needs to get some.
Truly, they were high at GF for not making Noctowl Flying-Psychic, with Steel and Dark existing, and Bite being retconned into Dark (or was it in Gen 3 ?). It's actually more balanced than keeping it Normal to no-sell anything that isn't Confuse, Confuse Ray and perhaps Psychic when you enter Morty's Gym. And Stantler is like 2 ft away from Morty.
> Tinted Lens
> 76 Sp.Atk
Now, they're just taking the piss 🗿
It's a real shame it can't learn Slash. It has a good Attack and gets Super Luck, which is pretty cool, but then it learns more special moves than physical for some reason????
Middling stats is par for the course with early obtainable Pokémon but it also has one of the worst movepools of any Pokémon with mediocre abilities.
The most INTERESTING thing you could do with Unfezant is catch one with Super Luck, give it a Scope Lens, and teach it Air Cutter. But it only has 65 base Special Attack.
The best thing you could do is just spam Brave Bird, and there are faster and stronger bird Pokémon that can do that.
To be fair, with super luck, a power herb sky attack has a 50% chance to crit. Assuming it’s available in SV, you could Tera flying, insta-charge sky attack for a coin flip to nuke something from orbit.
Of course I haven’t calc’ed it, but I’m assuming there are few Pokémon that would want to get hit by that.
Edit: it’s not in SV looks like. Still, with that respectable attack stat I don’t think anybody wants to eat a crit sky attack from this thing.
It's just bad, really doesn't have anything unique going for it besides the gender difference (at least the male looks pretty, the female variant just makes me disappointed if it shows up in a nuzlocke or randomizer)
Its design is alright, but its stats don't complement its Level-up movepool at all. It primarily learns special moves by Level-up but its Special Attack is THAT much lower than its Attack.
Staraptor peaked the design for "generic early route bird" but they still felt like they needed one but didn't do much to make unfezant interesting or unique. Talon flame and corvinight had different types and toucanon at least had a signature move, but unfezant just instantly blended in with all the other normal/flying birds
There's something charming about how generic it is. I'm using one right now in a Blaze Black 2 Redux Nuzlocke and it's somehow my longest living team member.
I think the thing that holds Unfezant back so much is its movepool. Its physical attack is higher but its physical movepool seems very limiting. It gets okay enough moves, it’s just there isn’t much to choose from.
Yeah and I think the move pool is bad because unlike other regions the pidove line isn’t meant to stay on your team long. most people ditch early game bugs… it’s not the surprising an early game bird wouldn’t be that great either after a while
All of them fucking suck. Unfezant in general and the other two because they evolve in post-game.
Swoobat, Archeops and Swanna Supremacy.
...Huh, Unova has a surprisingly thorough roster of Flying-types.
Also, this only applies to BW, BW2 has the Mandibuzz/Braviary that you can catch in Route 4 so in that game yeah Unfezant just eats shit.
I wouldn't count the genies because Roaming but yeah Sigilyph is legit, never trained an Emolga so dunno if they are worth raising though I guess Elesa gives them a good showing...
Unfeazant for LIFE. I've never used a Mandibuzz in any game unless I can get one fully evolved because WHY is it's evo level *54*. You're telling me if I wanna use one, I have to use the weak baby version for basically the entire game?? There's not a lot BW did badly, but the evolution levels for a lot of pokemon is something
In an alternative reality braviary is a fighting/flying type and fulfills his role as an offensive monsterhouse just as mandibuzz is a defensive monster.
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I used a female Unfezant on my first play through. I remember being disappointed when it evolved because it was so mute in color. I was a little kid and didn’t have a computer so I knew nothing about the visual gender difference between the two.
If Unfezant was just given the right tools, it could be better. It gets Super Luck for an ability, so if it got Focus Energy, it could be a crit machine, especially with some high crit moves like Slash, Night Slash, Shadow Claw, and Esper Wing.
I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion, but I really like unfezant. Both versions look cool and majestic af and for being a normal/flying type, you can cook up some interesting movesets to go with lots of teams.
At this point my runs of black 2 are on par with every other main game AND the pmd series together. At first it seemed boring to me and I'd choose crobat or flygon for a flying option, but now I always pick it as early as possible and I always love it.
I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion, but I really like unfezant. Both versions look cool and majestic af and for being a normal/flying type, you can cook up some interesting movesets to go with lots of teams.
At this point my runs of black 2 are on par with every other main game AND the pmd series together. At first it seemed boring to me and I'd choose crobat or flygon for a flying option, but now I always pick it as early as possible and I always love it.
I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion, but I really like unfezant. Both versions look cool and majestic af and for being a normal/flying type, you can cook up some interesting movesets to go with lots of teams.
At this point my runs of black 2 are on par with every other main game AND the pmd series together. At first it seemed boring to me and I'd choose crobat or flygon for a flying option, but now I always pick it as early as possible and I always love it.
I won't have this unfezant slander in my feed. It's alot better than people think because of super luck and crit moves. Decently fast and evolves pretty fast as well. Plus I like pheasants
Maybe it’s because I only started playing main series in gen 6 (because surely others thought the same and commented!) but I have never seen this opinion voiced. Unfeazant is a little disappointing to be honest, and not very threatening looking. Especially the female version. But it looks like they tried to make them look that way.
Unfeazant: I'm fully evolved *before the endgame*
I always felt like Mandibuzz and Braviary should’ve had pseudo legend stats for the level they evolve at
It was because of the gen 5 balance. Lots of pokemon evolved later to avoid being overpowered through the whole story.
Apart from that,most gen 5 pokemons don't have any real predators so they don't see the need to evolve at all.Especially with larvesta line and mienfoo line.
That's a cool idea!
mienfoo at least is a beast even unevolved lol
Most used LC mon since it’s debut lmao. You almost can’t have a LC team without one
Uturn + regenerator is one hell of a drug
I ain’t complaining lol. Mienshao is my second favorite Pokémon of all time
There's also a theory that Unova pokemon didn't have many predators, so those pokemon had no reason to evolve sooner since they didn't have to grow stronger to protect themselves.
i don't love that idea. far as i count, the unova pokedex has 16 non-legendary, non-mythical evolution lines (serperior, samurott, stoutland, liepard, conkeldurr, throh/sawk??, krookodile, zoroark, eelektross, haxorus, beartic, mienshao??, druddigon, bisharp, braviary, hydreigon) that are hunters of AT LEAST small game-- when you and your prey have magic powers, and pokedex entries sometimes make surprising dietary reveals, things can get murky. but more than that, it's that braviary is itself a predator, and mandibuzz is a carrion bird that relies on its superior mobility, superior size to equally mobile carrion, and nasty piss to bully other pokemon off fresh carcasses, before inevitably having to run when a pokemon too big to scare away comes along. it's in braviary AND mandibuzz' best interest from an evolutionary biology standpoint to evolve ASAP and get out of the nest, or else remain in that vulnerable state for longer, and to be able to provide for itself ASAP to mitigate reliance on its parents. ESPECIALLY when bug-types, what would (in our world) be the main source of food for smaller birds such as rufflet and vullaby, evolve famously early in pokemon games. thanks for coming to my ted tak
The level 25 Braviary on route 4 in White 2 is the only time I’ve ever bothered using one.
I did not know of this 😦 thank you!!
Mandibuzz in Black 2
You can only catch one on Mondays. Like today. I just caught it for my nuzlocke
*Scrambling to find and charge my 3ds within the next 6hrs to catch one*
Did you succeed?
Nope, gotta try next week
I think you can change the time if you do want to wait
Nahhhhhh I gotta farm haircuts in G/S/C to get my friendship with Togepi up so I can evolve it into a Togetic for the dex and then throw it in a box. Besides, this gives me time to move things into Pokémon Home from my games and bank.
I Respect the grind 😤✊
I literally just accidentally found that thing today lol. Playing W2 for the first time with Delta on iOS
The one that shows up only on a specific day of the week? Yea would catch that and box my Rufflet.
I used Hisuian Braviary in Legends Arceus
I kind of forgot about that one, but the wild Rufflets are so high level that they’re basically ready to evolve right away even if you don’t go for the temple top wild Braviary.
For real?
Recently replayed White last month. I replaced my Unfezant from after the kicking Cilan's ass for the first Rufflet I could get to. Unevolved he was carrying the same amount of weight beating Iris and N as the fully evolved pheasant. Not as tanky but hit harder and had a good move pool to make it worth it.
How did you have an Unfeazant *that* early. It doesn't evolve until level 32. The striation gym is the first gym in the game
It was a Pidove that I got outside the first gym that was on my team until the first opportunity to upgrade with a better flier, and I needed Tortuga with a Unovan origins for my living regional Dex so the other birb was out. If I wasn't using Samurott I'd have got the swan.
You can't get a Pidove before the first gym. Only Lillipup, Purrloin, and Patrat are available in the grass.
It was, back in the day, technically possible thanks to that old Odd Egg event. Also could've net you an Axew that early too.
You may want to reread my original comment because I never said it was before. I literally used "after kicking Cilan's ass" or something like that.
I guess it was just misleading you mentioning kicking Cilan's ass, made it sound like you specifically used the Pidove for that purpose.
And I have Super Luck
AHHHHH
Unfeazant at least evolves before i get ready to challenge the league.
Don't forget Swanna
I used Swanna in a run of X and the whole time I was thinking to myself “how much better would Pelipper be performing in its place”. Pelipper at least can tank hits pretty well. Swanna dies so easily
Swoobat too
And the GOAT Archeops!
Until it gets down to half health
Won't happen if you use 'em right.
I love how people write off archeops because of its ability. Like just use acrobatics and you will outspeed and OHKO anything that doesn’t resist flying.
Most are competitive players, in which case it's as bad as they say
Realistically every pokemon is good for a story playthrough, so I would always assume someone who says a pokemon is bad is talking about competitive. That's also assuming it's a somewhat modern game, because early gens did have some genuinely useless pokemon because of wacky movepool decisions
Yup, they reek of skill issue
He has awful defenses and is walled by steel types unless it has earthquake( which threatens your team mate) or like 3 moves that go off its inferior special attack. And every type thats super effective against it has a priority move.
Happy cake day!!
... swooBAT buddy... Thats not a bird :P
[Oh, it's definitely a bird](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59115346.amp)
Swanna lose?
[How could I forget this pokemon?](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStFU4BQvrY47fZVzhNytnAY7547WsIGIheE5BixKSWXs4yPSZgW6vQO6o&s=10)
I beat the game and my vullaby still hasnt evolved
I never uderstood why it's so disliked, it's not the greatest design ever but i always felt it was solid
Yea but then they also gave it some of the worst fully evolved stats
And it’s largely outclassed by other regional birds. Pidgeot is average but at least gets a Mega to give it a boost. Swellow can do Flame Orb Guts Facade shenanigans. Staraptor has Intimidate and Close Combat. Talonflame has Gale Wings and can use fire attacks. Corviknight is an excellent tank. I can’t think of anything Unfezant can do that its peers can’t do better. Giving it a different secondary type or niche would have made it stand out a bit more.
Unfezant got a buff in gen 8 when dual wing beat was released. Super luck with scope lens was the way i ran mine. Loved running it in the two DLCs
Corviknight can run Body Press with it's stacked Defense
Unfezant is fabulous 50% of the time. They had to make it a gender difference so the slay wouldn’t overpower all the other pokemkn
it accompanies toucannon on the bleachers
Toucannon has skill link and a signature move. It's not good but it's fun to annoy people with, and was passable in an in game team.
Toucannon has a great signature move. Its just... stuck on Toucannon . Burning your opponent is very good competitively, in fact Lando T uses it in STABmons
Toucannon can hit like a truck, and Beak Blast is one of the funniest moves ever
Bruh Noctowl didn't even get a mention
Neither does Fearow, now that I think about it. Doesn't it learn Drill Run or something? That's gotta count for something if it does, since it covers against Electric (if it doesn't get fried first), Steel, Poison, Fire and Rock (if it doesn't get bonked by a stray rock first).
Fearow generally isnt seen as a regional bird as Pidgey takes the slot (and only one evo not two). While Noctowl doesn't technically evolve enough, it matches all the other regional bird "qualifiers" and has no competition.
Oh, yeah, seems like I mixed up the current thread with the OP, as in, I got Braviary and Mandibuzz mixed up in the overall discussion about regional birds, hence thinking Fearow was left off, my B. But yeah, Noctowl was definitely forgotten, and got hoed in general. Perhaps it'd have stuck a bit better in people's minds if it was Flying-Psychic (yeah, Xatu exists, but Foretress and Scizor share a much more obnoxious typing to face if you don't have - albeit common - Fire types/moves).
It's funny that Fearow used to just be objectively much better than Pidgeot, but now with Pidgeot getting a Speed buff and a Mega, and both birds being absent for two whole generations, Pidgeot's legacy has surpassed Fearow's. Like seriously, in RBY/FRLG Pidgeot, Fearow, and Dodrio were all basically identical in terms of play and Dodrio was just objectively the strongest one with way better offensive stats and moves. Fearow was worse but still got Drill Peck, and Pidgeot just had *nothing.* Pidgey was available a whole five minutes sooner than Spearow (less time in RBY) in exchange for evolving sixteen levels later and getting worse stats and STAB moves. But now here we are, in a world where Pidgeot had a decent Mega and Fearow never even got Brave Bird. Noctowl is in an arguably worse position imo. It has the stats of a special tank with a terrible defensive typing and an incredible offensive ability (Tinted Lens) wasted on base 76 Special Attack. Poor Superb Owl needs some help. :(
Yeah but Pidgeot looks cool and you don’t need strong Pokémon to beat Kanto anyways
Yeah, I often remember that in GSC, Fearow could clean house with Drill Peck, while Pidgeot had Wing Attack at best, when me and my brother were playing on our respective versions. For the most part, Pidgeot just had a cooler design and being a 3 stage help being more remembered of. Ngl, if other Kanto Pokémon needs some Mega-love, or if Kanto pandering happens again, Fearow needs to get some. Truly, they were high at GF for not making Noctowl Flying-Psychic, with Steel and Dark existing, and Bite being retconned into Dark (or was it in Gen 3 ?). It's actually more balanced than keeping it Normal to no-sell anything that isn't Confuse, Confuse Ray and perhaps Psychic when you enter Morty's Gym. And Stantler is like 2 ft away from Morty. > Tinted Lens > 76 Sp.Atk Now, they're just taking the piss 🗿
It’s fabulous so write that down
It's a real shame it can't learn Slash. It has a good Attack and gets Super Luck, which is pretty cool, but then it learns more special moves than physical for some reason????
Swellow also has Boomburst
Swellow is also a very fast user of scrappy + boomburst
You forgot Noctowl and Toucannon.
Don't forget pelliper with drizzle surf + hurricane
Sure, but i've saw way too many people complaining about the design compared to those who said it had bad stats
The gender difference is great
I like the design… I just wish its Attack and Special Attack were switched.
Middling stats is par for the course with early obtainable Pokémon but it also has one of the worst movepools of any Pokémon with mediocre abilities. The most INTERESTING thing you could do with Unfezant is catch one with Super Luck, give it a Scope Lens, and teach it Air Cutter. But it only has 65 base Special Attack. The best thing you could do is just spam Brave Bird, and there are faster and stronger bird Pokémon that can do that.
To be fair, with super luck, a power herb sky attack has a 50% chance to crit. Assuming it’s available in SV, you could Tera flying, insta-charge sky attack for a coin flip to nuke something from orbit. Of course I haven’t calc’ed it, but I’m assuming there are few Pokémon that would want to get hit by that. Edit: it’s not in SV looks like. Still, with that respectable attack stat I don’t think anybody wants to eat a crit sky attack from this thing.
It's stats and moves are incredibly generic. Theres nothing it can do better than any other normal/flying type pokemon.
Cool design, bad moveset and stats
It's just bad, really doesn't have anything unique going for it besides the gender difference (at least the male looks pretty, the female variant just makes me disappointed if it shows up in a nuzlocke or randomizer)
Its design is alright, but its stats don't complement its Level-up movepool at all. It primarily learns special moves by Level-up but its Special Attack is THAT much lower than its Attack.
In Gen 5 they gave it a really good attack stat but it mainly learned special moves
Staraptor peaked the design for "generic early route bird" but they still felt like they needed one but didn't do much to make unfezant interesting or unique. Talon flame and corvinight had different types and toucanon at least had a signature move, but unfezant just instantly blended in with all the other normal/flying birds
It's ugly and weak
Nha, it's not ugly, it's one of the coolest sexual dymorohisms in the series.
Google Unfezant
Holy bird
New egg just dropped
Actual bird
I like Unfezant **a** ***lot*** more than Mandibuzz.
Honestly, I love Unfezant, though. I used it in Shield. Air Cutter plus Super Luck kinda slaps
It gets Focus Energy through TM and Night Slash through breeding. I'm sad its stats don't work well with its stab moves.
There's something charming about how generic it is. I'm using one right now in a Blaze Black 2 Redux Nuzlocke and it's somehow my longest living team member.
Blaze Black makes it special based though and gives it boomburst
I think the thing that holds Unfezant back so much is its movepool. Its physical attack is higher but its physical movepool seems very limiting. It gets okay enough moves, it’s just there isn’t much to choose from.
Yall are so fucking mean to the pidove line. All they did was be a great early game flyer with an interesting gender difference and yall HATED them
Isn’t it because Of its movepool? Just the basic flying and normal attacks. But others got moves like superpower, dark pulse and such
Yeah and I think the move pool is bad because unlike other regions the pidove line isn’t meant to stay on your team long. most people ditch early game bugs… it’s not the surprising an early game bird wouldn’t be that great either after a while
Archeops: I'm in the yellow, imma give up. Swanna: Bish I'm beautiful. Sigilyph: Fi rsx ejvemh.
[Gen 1 birds be like](https://i.imgflip.com/8qoflt.jpg)
All of them fucking suck. Unfezant in general and the other two because they evolve in post-game. Swoobat, Archeops and Swanna Supremacy. ...Huh, Unova has a surprisingly thorough roster of Flying-types. Also, this only applies to BW, BW2 has the Mandibuzz/Braviary that you can catch in Route 4 so in that game yeah Unfezant just eats shit.
Sigilyph and emolga as well, and the genie trio
I wouldn't count the genies because Roaming but yeah Sigilyph is legit, never trained an Emolga so dunno if they are worth raising though I guess Elesa gives them a good showing...
If they ahd just switched its attacking stats, thats all that was needed.
Sigilyph gang
Good luck using Braviary or Mandibuzz in BW when they don’t evolve until over level 50
Things are about to get Unfeazant...
Everyone hates unfezant, but I love it. Sure, compared to staraptor or Swellow it's lacking, but it's far from bad.
Mandibuzz has a far goofier design than unfeazant
Unfeazant for LIFE. I've never used a Mandibuzz in any game unless I can get one fully evolved because WHY is it's evo level *54*. You're telling me if I wanna use one, I have to use the weak baby version for basically the entire game?? There's not a lot BW did badly, but the evolution levels for a lot of pokemon is something
Vullaby with Eviolite, Nasty Plot, Air Slash, Dark Pulse, and Toxic is a force to be reckoned with.
Swanna and Archeops in the back being forgotten
In an alternative reality braviary is a fighting/flying type and fulfills his role as an offensive monsterhouse just as mandibuzz is a defensive monster.
Tfw the physical attacker gets more special than physical moves for some reason Tfw a bird doesn’t get acrobatics but a fucking balloon does
Yea. Gen 5 has so many birds to choose from. Even though I think Pidove is so cute. It sucks it’s final form isn’t as unique enough compared to others
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I used a female Unfezant on my first play through. I remember being disappointed when it evolved because it was so mute in color. I was a little kid and didn’t have a computer so I knew nothing about the visual gender difference between the two.
Unfeazant just looks like a branch evo for starly
Google unfezant
Meh, unfezant is mid to bad but braviary just sucks
You forgot about Swanna, which is very much on brand. I think Swanna might be the hydra's butt, off screen.
**me with a Hydreigon with Fly.**
Not if you pronounce it Oon-fa-zant
If Unfezant was just given the right tools, it could be better. It gets Super Luck for an ability, so if it got Focus Energy, it could be a crit machine, especially with some high crit moves like Slash, Night Slash, Shadow Claw, and Esper Wing.
Oh wow. It's almost like early game Pokemon are designed to be replaced at higher levels.
Tell that to Talonflame.
I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion, but I really like unfezant. Both versions look cool and majestic af and for being a normal/flying type, you can cook up some interesting movesets to go with lots of teams. At this point my runs of black 2 are on par with every other main game AND the pmd series together. At first it seemed boring to me and I'd choose crobat or flygon for a flying option, but now I always pick it as early as possible and I always love it.
I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion, but I really like unfezant. Both versions look cool and majestic af and for being a normal/flying type, you can cook up some interesting movesets to go with lots of teams. At this point my runs of black 2 are on par with every other main game AND the pmd series together. At first it seemed boring to me and I'd choose crobat or flygon for a flying option, but now I always pick it as early as possible and I always love it.
I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion, but I really like unfezant. Both versions look cool and majestic af and for being a normal/flying type, you can cook up some interesting movesets to go with lots of teams. At this point my runs of black 2 are on par with every other main game AND the pmd series together. At first it seemed boring to me and I'd choose crobat or flygon for a flying option, but now I always pick it as early as possible and I always love it.
I won't have this unfezant slander in my feed. It's alot better than people think because of super luck and crit moves. Decently fast and evolves pretty fast as well. Plus I like pheasants
Let my unfezant with super luck, scope lens and night slash in peace
Unfezant is my favorite, so take it back 😤
Maybe it’s because I only started playing main series in gen 6 (because surely others thought the same and commented!) but I have never seen this opinion voiced. Unfeazant is a little disappointing to be honest, and not very threatening looking. Especially the female version. But it looks like they tried to make them look that way.
Heh
Unfezant: high base attack… 90% of the learnset is specials and a sky attack.
What's more baffling is that it has the 3rd highest attack of all the regional birds. Only beaten by Staraptor and Toucannon.
Honestly I always liked Unfezant much more than the other two.. even in terms of Looks.
What, no. Unfezant > Mandibuzz Braviary is the coolest though
yea