Do I even have to say it? I hate Normal/Flying types, because they are redundant and uninspired and I hate them.
Now, I understand why Taillow and Wurmple and Zigzagoon exist. They want to have the niches that they had in the first games, but with different Pokemon. And that would be admirable, if they didn't create Pokemon that were just as forgettable and lame.
Compare with the 5th generation. They said, "screw it, let's just start over" and filled the game with nothing but new Pokemon. In the world of Unova, there are no Pidgey. Then they created their Pidgey analogue, because they had to. They had no other choice, that niche has to be there. and could they have done a better job? yeah, but let's get to that in time.
But in the 3rd generation, 1st and 2nd gen Pokemon freely mix and mingle. There is no in-universe reason why Pidgey can't be the little bird Pokemon you find in the early routes of Hoenn. If they had admitted that they ran out of ideas for these kind of Pokemon after the first one, and just ran with Pidgey for 4 generations, I don't think anyone would've minded or cared.
The only thing Taillow has going for it is that it is quite visually different from Pidgey, Fearow, or nearly any other Normal/Flying, because it doesn't use the same brown and tan color palette.
Overall: 2/10
Umm "In the world of Unova, there are no Pidgey"? Erm, what about Pidove. That little thingy looks more like Pidgey than Taillow, plus it's a normal/flying..!!
ReplyDeleteBut Pidove is not Pidgey. That's the point of him saying that; they couldn't put honest-to-goodness Pidgey in the game, so they created Pidove to fill that niche. Tailow didn't need to fill that niche because Pidgey existed in the same game.
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