Pidgeot

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Pidgeot (大比鸟)
Species/Race	Pokémon; evolved from Pidgey into Pidgeotto, then Pidgeot 12 85 190
Gender	Female 12 97 304
Type	Flying / Normal 304
Affiliation	Zhang Cheng’s Pokémon team 12 304
Occupation/Role	Flying-type battler, scout, and aerial transport; counters Grass-type threats to Zhang Cheng’s Water Pokémon 8 57 190 210
Trainer	Zhang Cheng 12
Ability	Keen Eye 12 97 304
Potential	B-grade 12 97 304
Highest documented level	Level 59 304
Held item	Sharp Beak 304
Status	Last shown knocked out by Chen Shan’s Aggron and recalled by Zhang Cheng 395
First Appearance	Chapter 12 as Pidgey; Chapter 190 as Pidgeot 12 190

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Pidgey — Level 3	12	Captured while newly hatched. Already proficient with Steel Wing; her scanner profile lists four egg moves: Foresight, Steel Wing, Brave Bird, and Air Slash.
Pidgey — Level 6	14	Reached through daily summer training with Poliwag; learned Gust.
Pidgey — Level 7	20	Leveled up after an easy victory over Oddish, aided by her type and level advantages.
Pidgey — Level 9	45	Advanced through training and became able to use the egg move Air Slash.
Pidgey — Level 11	60	Reached after drawing with the higher-level Machop in a double knockout.
Evolution — Pidgeotto	85	Evolved during her battle with Ye Tian’s Butterfree. Zhang Cheng had withheld her from earlier battles to save the impending evolution for a critical moment.
Pidgeotto — Level 16	97	Profile records Twister and Quick Attack, alongside the learned moves Thief, Protect, Hurricane, and Roost. Hurricane, Protect, and Roost still required practice.
Pidgeotto — Level 27	136	Learned Feather Dance, allowing her to sharply reduce an opponent’s Attack.
Pidgeotto — Level 33	171	Reached after another month of regular training; Zhang Cheng continued working toward her final evolution.
Evolution — Pidgeot, Level 36	190	Evolved shortly before the college entrance exam. Gained a major increase in strength, learned Wing Attack, and awakened Sky Attack as an egg move.
Pidgeot — post-evolution mastery	194	Confirmed to have mastered Brave Bird, which she used to remove three-fifths of Alakazam’s HP in one hit.
Pidgeot — Level 59	304	Retained B-grade potential and Keen Eye. Her expanded repertoire included Tailwind, Mirror Move, Fly, Facade, Aerial Ace, and U-turn.

Background / History

Zhang Cheng chose Pidgey as his intended second Pokémon to cover Poliwag’s weakness against Grass types. He also valued the species’ common availability, three-stage evolution, Mega Evolution potential, eventual flight speed, and access to Hurricane for his planned Rain Team 8.

He encountered this particular Pidgey eating Pecha Berries at an orchard. Her B-grade potential and four egg moves persuaded him to capture her. She fought Poliwag fiercely, resisted the first Poké Ball, and was caught with a second ball after Water Gun knocked her out. Zhang Cheng immediately took the badly injured infant Pokémon to the orchard’s Treatment Room 12.

After recovering, she became affectionate toward Zhang Cheng and joined Poliwag as his teammate. Early training emphasized Steel Wing and speed, but her low level initially kept her out of stronger matches. Zhang Cheng consequently sought suitable wild opponents to build her practical experience 12 13 45 49.

Her evolution into Pidgeotto became a deliberately timed battle reversal against Butterfree. Sustained training later brought her to Pidgeot, fulfilling Zhang Cheng’s longstanding plan to use her for aerial travel as well as combat 85 171 190.

Personality

Pidgeot is proud and initially aloof. As Pidgey, she mostly listened to Poliwag’s enthusiastic conversation with a haughty expression, responding only occasionally. She also enjoyed showing off her strength, favoring the powerful, flashy Steel Wing over the comparatively clumsy Tackle 12 13.

Her pride does not prevent affection or cooperation. After Zhang Cheng treated and fed her, she perched on his shoulder and rubbed her wing against his cheek. She later followed unfamiliar instructions to negotiate with other Pokémon and eagerly watched the Mareep Egg in anticipation of a new teammate 12 46 49.

She is tenacious under pain and exhaustion. Against Venusaur, poisoning failed to stop her Brave Bird charge; against Delphox, she continued exchanging powerful attacks until she could no longer battle. Zhang Cheng’s commands also help her regain composure when she panics or becomes confused during a fight 85 103 249 268.

Abilities & Skills

Keen Eye

Her recorded Ability prevents opponents from lowering her accuracy and ignores increases to a target’s evasiveness 12 97 304.

• Recorded consistently from her initial Pidgey profile through her level-59 Pidgeot profile 12 97 304.

Flight and Speed

Pidgeot uses aerial movement to evade close-range attacks, scout terrain, and carry Zhang Cheng 57 190 202.

• Aerial evasion: Flew above Hitmonlee’s High Jump Kick, causing it to miss and suffer recoil 202.
• Quick Attack: Serves as a fast finishing move and a repositioning tool. Against Spiritomb, she used its acceleration to escape Shadow Sneak and close in for Aerial Ace, despite Quick Attack itself being unable to damage the Ghost type 103 306.
• Scouting: Investigated the forest route during the Spearow incident and later located Machop at a waterfall 57.
• Transport: Carried Zhang Cheng to the Challenge Tower after her final evolution 190.
• Recorded flight capability: Her scanner description states that Pidgeot can fly at Mach 2 at an altitude of one thousand meters 304.
• Limits: Prolonged flight exhausted her during the Machop battle, while Trick Room restricted her usual speed advantage against Dusknoir 60 356.

Hurricane

Hurricane is a major special Flying-type attack, formed by gathering energy into a storm filled with cutting wind blades 267 304.

• Rain synergy: Zhang Cheng selected her partly because Hurricane has a stated 100% hit rate in rain 8.
• Defensive breakthrough: Overwhelmed Sceptile’s Protect and inflicted numerous cuts before Brave Bird finished the battle 304.
• Against Reflect: Bypassed Medicham’s physical-damage reduction because Hurricane is a special move 266 267.
• Improving control: An early attempt failed against Grovyle because she could not control the unstable energy; she succeeded on her next attempt after Zhang Cheng encouraged her 116.
• Limits: Dusknoir’s high defenses reduced its damage, and Furret’s Lax Incense caused a miss 323 356.

Brave Bird

Brave Bird is her strongest documented attack: a full-body charge powered by Flying-type energy 194 304.

• Heavy damage: Removed three-fifths of Alakazam’s HP despite Pidgeot taking Psychic during the approach 194.
• Breaking Protect: Shattered defensive barriers used by Serperior, Whimsicott, and Tsareena 273 280 370.
• Focused barrier penetration: Against Chen Shan’s Venusaur, she concentrated energy on her beak and attacked one point, causing cracks to spread across Protect 395.
• Recoil: Injures Pidgeot as well as her target, making repeated use costly when she is already weakened 268 304.
• Physical countermeasures: Whimsicott’s Cotton Guard and priority Charm greatly reduced its damage 280.

Air Slash and Other Offensive Moves

Air Slash is one of her signature ranged attacks, creating invisible blades from compressed air and Flying-type energy 193 203.

• Air Slash: Used to interrupt attacks and recovery attempts; repeated strikes stopped Leafeon’s Synthesis and ultimately defeated it 250 332.
• Steel Wing: Her first mastered egg move. It overpowered Doduo’s Aerial Ace and later provided super-effective offense against Florges 12 103 165.
• Twister: Supplies Dragon-type coverage, used against Emolga, Noivern, and Spiritomb 250 288 306.
• Aerial Ace: Finished Spiritomb after Quick Attack brought her into close range 306.
• Wing Attack: Learned upon evolving into Pidgeot and used in her later clash with Heracross 190 307.
• Other recorded attacks: Tackle, Gust, Fly, Facade, and U-turn appear in her level-59 profile; Sky Attack is separately recorded at her final evolution 190 304.

Defense, Recovery, and Disruption

Pidgeot supplements her offense with protection, healing, move copying, and forced switching 304 323 356.

• Protect: Blocks attacks and status moves, including Steelix’s Stone Edge, Leafeon’s Grass Whistle, and Furret’s Toxic. Powerful attacks can still break it 260 323 324 332 395.
• Roost: Restores her condition during prolonged battles; used against Spiritomb and while trapped by Dusknoir’s Mean Look 305 356.
• Mirror Move: Copied Dusknoir’s Will-O-Wisp to burn it in return and weaken its physical offense 356.
• Whirlwind: Forced Haxorus back into its Poké Ball, removing the boosts transferred from Furret through Baton Pass 323.
• Thief: Learned through a Technical Machine with Poliwag’s assistance. Initially unreliable, it later successfully stole Butterfree’s Pecha Berry 65 85.
• Additional utility moves: Foresight, Sand Attack, Feather Dance, Agility, and Tailwind are documented in her move records 136 170 304.

Type Advantages and Vulnerabilities

• Grass-type counter: Frequently deployed to protect Zhang Cheng’s Water Pokémon from Grass-type opponents 8 210 370.
• Fighting-type matchup: Uses flight and Flying-type attacks against close-range fighters such as Machop, Hitmonlee, and Heracross 60 202 306.
• Normal-type immunity: Chosen against Dusknoir because her Normal typing makes Ghost-type attacks ineffective 356.
• Ground-type immunity: Steelix could not rely on its Ground-type attacks against her 324.
• Elemental weaknesses: Ice, Electric, and Rock attacks pose major threats; Thunderbolt and Head Smash account for several documented defeats 194 250 333 395.
• Status and attrition: Poison repeatedly leaves her vulnerable after defeating an opponent. Burns weaken her physical attacks, though Air Slash and Hurricane remain usable alternatives 250 314 356 395.

Equipment / Items

• Sharp Beak — Increases the power of her Flying-type moves. It gave Brave Bird a slight edge over Staraptor’s Reckless-boosted Take Down and strengthened Hurricane against Medicham 260 267.
• Lost Sharp Beak — Her attacks weakened after she lost the item during the Delphox matchup. A Sharp Beak is again listed in her later level-59 profile 268 304.
• Thief Technical Machine — Purchased by Zhang Cheng for 30,000 Pokémon Coins to teach her Thief 65.
• Stolen Pecha Berry — Taken from Butterfree with Thief, then immediately consumed by Butterfree through Bug Bite, denying Pidgey its poison-curing benefit 85.

Relationships

• Zhang Cheng — Trainer. His treatment and feeding established her early affection; their coordination later allowed a timed evolution and repeated attacks under severe pressure 12 85 119 268.
• Poliwag / Poliwhirl / Poliwrath — First teammate and initial capture opponent. Sparred with her, helped teach Thief, and fought alongside her against R Organization members 12 14 65 100.
• Mareep / Flaaffy / Ampharos — Teammate. Pidgey anticipated Mareep’s hatching and later cooperated with her against the Poochyena pair 49 65.
• Machop — Wild training acquaintance. Met through Pidgey’s scouting, accepted Zhang Cheng’s food after the Pokémon encouraged him, and drew with Pidgey in their battle 57 59 60.
• Ye Tian’s Butterfree — Early rival whose poison tactics prompted Pidgey’s carefully saved evolution into Pidgeotto 85.
• Ye Tian’s Grovyle / Sceptile — Recurring opponent and established rival. Pidgeotto defeated Grovyle; the later Pidgeot defeated Sceptile with Hurricane and Brave Bird 116 304.
• Ye Tian’s Heracross — Longstanding rival who initially feared Pidgeotto after repeated losses. He later defeated her to overcome that fear and challenged her again as Pidgeot 118 119 306 307.
• Togekiss — Fellow Flying-type teammate trained as a potential replacement for Pidgeot’s Grass-countering role, with additional usefulness against Dragon types 347.

Story Role / Major Battles

Early Training and Assessments

Opponent / Event	Contribution or result
Oddish	Won easily and reached level 7 20.
Magnolia Forest training	Battled suitable wild opponents, supported Poliwag against Poochyena, and improved Air Slash 56 57 59.
Machop	Fought to a double knockout; reached level 11 60.
Ye Tian’s Butterfree	Endured poison and evolved into Pidgeotto at Zhang Cheng’s chosen turning point 85.
R Organization encounter	Knocked out Zubat with Hurricane and helped defeat the criminals’ remaining Pokémon 100.
Xie Wen’s Doduo	Gained the early advantage, but Endeavor equalized their HP; the provided account ends before the decisive exchange 103.
Ye Tian’s team	Defeated Grovyle, then lost to Heracross after continuing despite earlier injuries 116 119.
Normal-class assessment	Finished Loudred with Quick Attack, securing Zhang Cheng’s successful assessment 125.
Elite Trainer assessment	Faced Ludicolo before its confusion-induced self-knockout, then heavily damaged Alakazam with Brave Bird; the supplied account leaves the final outcome unresolved 193 194.

Later Competitive Battles

Opponent / Event	Contribution or result
Xia Bin’s Shiftry	Dealt super-effective Air Slash damage and forced its recall; Zhang Cheng withdrew her when Raichu entered 210.
Wang Lu’s Venusaur and Emolga	Defeated Venusaur despite poisoning, then fell to Emolga’s Thunderbolt while landing Twister 249 250.
Duan Hong’s Staraptor and Blaziken	Defeated Staraptor after surviving Hyper Beam, then lost to Blaziken while exhausted 260 261.
Li Han’s Medicham and Delphox	Forced Medicham’s withdrawal with special Flying attacks, then severely weakened Delphox before fainting 267 268.
Bai Lu’s Whimsicott	Broke Protect and pressed through poison, but Cotton Guard and Charm allowed Whimsicott to survive the final documented Brave Bird 280.
Ye Tian’s Sceptile and Spiritomb	Defeated both opponents before facing Heracross again 304 306.
Han Tian’s Victreebel and Rhyperior	Defeated Victreebel after being badly poisoned; recalled against Rhyperior’s unfavorable matchup 314.
Chu Qing’s Baton Pass strategy	Used Whirlwind to eject the boosted Haxorus and erase Furret’s transferred enhancements; later blocked Steelix’s Stone Edge before switching out 323 324.
Su Qian’s Leafeon and Gengar	Defeated Leafeon despite its boosted Attack, then lost to Gengar’s Thunderbolt before Hurricane could fully form 332 333.
Jiang Chi’s Dusknoir	Countered its burn with Mirror Move and sustained herself with Roost, but Mean Look and Destiny Bond forced a double knockout 356 357.
Qin Yi’s Tsareena	Broke Protect with Brave Bird, evaded Grass Whistle, and finished Tsareena with Hurricane 370 371.
Chen Shan’s Venusaur and Aggron	Defeated Venusaur but suffered Toxic; Aggron’s Head Smash then broke Protect and knocked her out during Zhang Cheng’s Champion-level assessment attempt 395.