Is Pidgey Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Route 29 catch that earns a permanent roster spot through utility. Crystal's two-region structure means constant travel between Johto and Kanto, and Pidgeot's MoveFly makes that manageable. The battle contribution is moderate throughout, but the HM value alone justifies keeping Pidgey's line around.
Pidgey trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Pidgey has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Pidgeotto trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Pidgeotto has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Pidgeotto has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Jasmine's team hits Pidgeotto's weaknesses hard.
Pidgeotto trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Pidgeot trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Pidgeot trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Pidgeot trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Pidgeot resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Pidgeot has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Pidgeot trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Pidgeot trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Pidgeot trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Pidgeot trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Pidgeot has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Pidgeot has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Pidgeot has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Pidgeot has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Pidgeot trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Pidgey on Route 29 (walking, Lv 2-3, common).
Recommended Moves
- LV 9FlyingGustPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- LV 15NormalQuick AttackPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- LV 29FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Cianwood City
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM47SteelSteel WingPower 70Accuracy 90%PP 25Route 28
Evolve Pidgey to Pidgeotto
Pidgey evolves into Pidgeotto at Level 18. Your Pidgey should hit Level 18 before you reach Whitney, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 18)
- LV 18FlyingGustPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 35
- LV 18NormalQuick AttackPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Cianwood City
- LV 33FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM47SteelSteel WingPower 70Accuracy 90%PP 25Route 28
Evolve Pidgeotto to Pidgeot
Pidgeotto evolves into Pidgeot at Level 36. Your Pidgeotto should hit Level 36 before you reach Clair, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 36)
- LV 36FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- LV 36FlyingGustPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 35
- LV 36NormalQuick AttackPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Cianwood City
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TM47SteelSteel WingPower 70Accuracy 90%PP 25Route 28
How to Get Pidgey in Crystal
Nineteen encounters across 14 routes make Pidgey unavoidable in the early game, common almost everywhere from the very first patch of grass. You won't go looking for this one, it finds you.
14 locations to catch Pidgey
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Pidgey is where the line starts, caught through walking encounters at Lv. 2-15. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
- Step 1Pidgey ✓Route 36Lv.4-6GrassRate 70%DayRoute 37Lv.13-15GrassRate 55%DayRoute 29Lv.2-3GrassRate 50%Morning/dayRoute 2Lv.3-5GrassRate 50%DayRoute 1Lv.2-4GrassRate 45%Morning/dayRoute 30Lv.3-4GrassRate 40%DayRoute 31Lv.4-5GrassRate 40%DayRoute 36Lv.4-6GrassRate 40%MorningRoute 25Lv.10GrassRate 30%Morning/dayRoute 5Lv.13GrassRate 30%Morning/dayRoute 35Lv.14GrassRate 30%Morning/dayRoute 2Lv.5GrassRate 20%MorningRoute 34Lv.12GrassRate 20%Morning/dayRoute 37Lv.15GrassRate 20%MorningRoute 30Lv.4GrassRate 10%MorningRoute 31Lv.5GrassRate 10%MorningNational ParkLv.13FloorRate 10%Morning/dayIlex ForestLv.7GrassRate 5%Morning/dayRoute 32Lv.7GrassRate 5%Morning/dayRoute 35Lv.14GrassRate 5%Morning/daythe Yanma swarm that Bug Catcher Arnie reports by
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into PidgeottoRoute 25Lv.12GrassRate 20%Morning/dayRoute 5Lv.15GrassRate 20%Morning/dayRoute 2Lv.7GrassRate 5%DayRoute 37Lv.15GrassRate 5%Morning/dayor evolve from Pidgey (Step 1)
- Step 3Evolve into PidgeotBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Pidgey egg.
Not landing the catch? Calculate Pidgey catch rates for Crystal by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Pidgey in Crystal
Pidgey packs the early routes, spawning through the morning and day on Route 29 through Route 31 near New Bark Town; it is one of the fastest encounter chains in the game. Compare Shiny Pidgey odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Pidgey Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breed w/ Shiny Parent: Eggs inherit stats from a shiny parent, so about 1 in 64 hatch shiny. A shiny Ditto helps every egg, and any other shiny parent (the red Gyarados works) helps only eggs of the opposite gender.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 7-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 19-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 45-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 147-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Crystal with Pidgey preloaded.
Pidgey Weakness
Pidgey is weak to Electric, Ice, and Rock. On the flip side, it's immune to Ground and Ghost-type moves entirely.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Ice, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Bug |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground, Ghost |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
- Special stat split into Sp.Atk and Sp.Def
What is Pidgey Weak Against
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Pidgey Evolutions
Three stages ahead. Pidgey grows into Pidgeotto, then pushes on to Pidgeot. Check the evolution methods below. For breeding, quick to hatch with a decent partner pool via one egg group. Evolving adds up to 228 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Pidgey easily with 19 breeding partners from the Flying egg group. Pass egg moves like Feint Attack, Foresight, Pursuit to offspring.
C Pidgey Best Moveset
Route 1 Normal/Flying with nothing competitive. Doduo handles the same physical flying role from a much stronger starting point. Skip entirely.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Agility
- Fly
- Curse
- Swift
Moves List
Breeding opens up real options for Pidgey. Feint Attack and Foresight come exclusively from egg moves, and they're worth the effort. The rest of the kit covers basics through Fly and Wing Attack and Ground and Steel coverage.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
15 of 20 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It rapidly flaps its wings in the grass, stirring up a dust cloud that drives insect prey out into the open.
Pidgey Crystal Guide
For Crystal, you can run Pidgey through the first few routes without issues. 251 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Pidgeotto as fast as you can.
Game Availability
One of the original 151, Pidgey has appeared in 19 games: most mainline games. From Red & Blue through the latest titles, it's rarely been left out of a regional Pokedex.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
Winds & Waves
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