Did you know that you could get a Pidgeotto in Viridian Forest in Gen I?

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I could only ever trigger this encounter once, but it was pretty mind-blowing when it happened.

It's rare, but it gives you a pretty strong Pokemon before the first gym (and it's also pretty exciting to see after wandering through an endless "sea" of nothing but Pidgeys and the Caterpie family).

Did you know this?

 

[alice776]

I could only ever trigger this encounter once, but it was pretty mind-blowing when it happened.

It's rare, but it gives you a pretty strong Pokemon before the first gym (and it's also pretty exciting to see after wandering through an endless "sea" of nothing but Pidgeys and the Caterpie family).

Did you know this?

it's actually a rare encounter exclusive to yellow version! yellow introduced a bunch of references to the anime, and this is one of them, with ash having caught his own pidgeotto in viridian forest

 

[diet_orange]

I could only ever trigger this encounter once, but it was pretty mind-blowing when it happened.

It's rare, but it gives you a pretty strong Pokemon before the first gym (and it's also pretty exciting to see after wandering through an endless "sea" of nothing but Pidgeys and the Caterpie family).

Did you know this?

My go-to in Blue was hunting around until I could find a Pikachu. Always a really nice early score

 

[Fietto!]

it's actually a rare encounter exclusive to yellow version! yellow introduced a bunch of references to the anime, and this is one of them, with ash having caught his own pidgeotto in viridian forest

The references are pretty cool. Especially when getting the other starters.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

it's actually a rare encounter exclusive to yellow version! yellow introduced a bunch of references to the anime, and this is one of them, with ash having caught his own pidgeotto in viridian forest

Yep.

I forgot to mention that it was only in that version ^^U

Bloody difficult to trigger, too.

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

it's actually a rare encounter exclusive to yellow version! yellow introduced a bunch of references to the anime, and this is one of them, with ash having caught his own pidgeotto in viridian forest

I remember that also have a encountee rate of like 5%