What is the strongest bird Pokemon that you will first encounter on your adventure?
1st Gen- Pidgeot
2nd Gen- Noctowl
3rd Gen- Swellow
4th Gen-Staraptor
5th Gen- Unfezant
Based on stat totals, which one has the highest stats, etc.
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Talonflame is a strong contender. It’s insane speed and access to hard hitting STAB Flare Blitz and Bravebird/Acrobatics provides plenty of damage, while also having speedy utility moves to keep itself alive with Will-O-Wisp and Roost. It also has 2 great abilities in Flame Body, and the one point busted Gale Wings ability. It’s Fire typing however, is a double edge sword, it’s Offensive stab overlaps with its Flying for most it’s super effective hits, only adding Steel and Ice, while making it 4x weak to rock and adding a Water weakness.
Toucannon is another story. While having a quite impressive Attack Stat, all its other stats are Average to Mediocre. Not fast Enough to really sweep anyone or survive a decent hit. It’s main gimmick is Having Skill Link and access to Rock Blast and Bullet Seed, but with such low speed and no speed setup you can’t even really use the Skill Link Kings Rock strategy without support from other Pokemon such as Sticky Web.
Corviknight is a monster. Combining impressive defensive stats with an amazing Steel/Flying Typing. While not really impressive on the offensive spectrum it does have access to to Body Press, a non stab damage move that utilizes its excellent Defense stat to do damage. Overall Corviknights very few flaws make it a strong contender.
Overall, Staraptor debatably still holds the title of best Regional Bird Pokémon, even after all these years. It’s stats best fit the role of physical sweeper of all other regional birds, Close Combat and Brave Bird have near immaculate coverage, only 19 Pokemon whatsoever can resist both of these attacks, and having Normal Stab drops this number to 5. It also has pseudo-bulk with Intimidate and Roost.
Overall I’d put them
Hope this helps.
Unfezant has the highest base stat total of all the Pokemon you showed.Noctowl has the highest HP.Staraptor has the highest Attack, although Swellow has Guts.Unfezant has the highest Defense, although Staraptor has Intimidate.Noctowl has the highest Special Attack.Noctowl has the highest Special Defense.Swellow has the highest Speed.
However, Unfezant is definately not the strongest. Noctowl, Swellow, and Staraptor are better than it. Maybe Pidgeot, but Unfezant’s support function helps it be better than Pidgeot I think.
Staraptor is the best. WHile the others have stats all over the place and never in one good area, Staraptor knows what it is doing. It’s Sweeping with 120 base Attack and 100 base Speed. And with Intimidate making it weasy for it to switch in on weaker physical attacks and take priority better, it does the job all that much better. It can also use its DW ability of Reckless to hit everyting even harder. Because it has powerful STAB recoil moves with Brave Bird and Double-Edge. Also something that makes it best of the Pokemon you listed is the fact that it learns Close COmbat, allowing it to use a base 120 power attack against the Steel and Rock types that would usually wall the birdies.
