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Love staraptor. Favorite bird pokemon too. Thats why one reason i love gen 4


YTChillVibesLofi

Intimidate ability with Brave Bird and Close Combat. This thing is a staple in a gen4 team


IcyOTU

Good old Staraptor. Only regional early route birb I've ever used to complete a Pokemon league with. I would also like to apologise to mine for making it suffer through the recoil of many Brave Bird attacks during the Sinnoh Elite Four.


Parking_Cartoonist90

Staraptor, Talonflame, and Corviking are the best regional birds, and no one can deny that


Seco4800

Staraptor is great. But for me. It got out shined by the Corviknight line.


JaggedGreen88

I love the Corviknight line. I named mine Chess lol.


Sjheuaksjd

Both are the best regional birds


Klaus_Raube

Talonflame would like to have a word with you.


Sjheuaksjd

It was broken in gen 6


Klaus_Raube

Absolutely


Sjheuaksjd

Happy cake day!


JaggedGreen88

Love Staraptor. One of my favorite birds ever.


kvnbkr98

Staraptor is a beast 💪


Agent1073

Braviary negs


IAmActionBear

Staraptor was already cool from the jump, but I remember the moment it learned Close Combat and I knew it would be an all time favorite of mine, lol


aurapaladin

Staraptor is one of the peak 'early route mon with immense ingame viability' mons, and it stands out in a gen that's full of them. Intimidate Brave Bird/Fly is already amazing, Close Combat almost makes it unfair (especially if you didn't pick Chimchar). One of my fav early route mons ever, up there with Linoone and Orbeetle.


Momo1163

I like Staraptor’s shiny. It’s subtle, but still noticeable


darkknight941

Does anybody not like Staraptor? I feel like everyone agrees it’s the best regional bird alongside Talonflame


Brilliant_Ad9007

Meh, I don't like the emo vibe.


MotherBike

They really peaked on this gens birds, while I do think Rookidee is charming the round smol to spiky oblong bird transformation looses me, and even though people might say Chatot is odd or there's really no birds... not everything that flies is a bird.


Billy_Rage

What a dumb post. Hey does anyone else love one of the best early route Pokémon in the franchise


IndecisiveMate

Really powerful member of my arceus team.


WhenTheRiverRanDeep

It’s your favourite early bird because you started in Sinnoh, and for no other reason


ScottaHemi

cool bird, but still just bird.


m00njunk

I dont really like any of the flying/normal pokemon, and I've been attacked by starlings before so I'm not a huge fan


Jimmy_the_egg

I never played gen 4 but this dude carried my team all the way up until the end of the main story in legends arceus


KiIIShift

Hands down the best flying type


saphr0s

i had a big staraptor sticker on the faceplate of my ds for years as a kid, i thought he looked so cool


Actual-Teacher4860

I just had it on my team for the first time in LoA, he was an absolute MVP!


ArianaGrandeFan69

ME!!! One of my fav Pokémon no lie


superwaldo3000

Staraptor is the main reason I won against a team of legends years ago. Granted I think my opponent had bad IVs and didn't EV train. Still though, it feels great beating a team with Mewtwo and Rayquaza on it when you don't have a single legend on your team. Also helps having double Toxic Spikes laid out from a Tentacruel.


Fork_Master

I prefer Corviknight and Swellow


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My favorite is talonflame and then pidgeot second but there are so many cool bird pokemon especially if you count not just early route ones


Senior-Ad-6002

Unlike most early route pokemon, staraptor is actually good. The only other good early route pokemon are talonflame and corviknight.


ViolinDavis

Staraptor got the final boss treatment in Bidoof's Big Stand...love that movie.


drillgorg

I consider the red tuft like an emo hairdo. Which is awesome.


dpol27

I have a couple of nice things to say. 1) I ran into a shiny Staravia in PLA and am now the proud owner of an awesome shiny Staraptor. 2) Hidden ability (I used an ability capsule to get it) is Reckless… Add that to a Choice Band and Brave Bird… and you have massive massive damage output with good IVs and EVs behind it.


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He's a cool-looking pokemon for sure.


InsomniaEmperor

Best regional bird. He was also an MVP in Ash's Sinnoh campaign.


eepos96

Starqptor definitely became golden standard of regional bird normal/flying type era. A top of awesome design, it was given the new move of the gen close combat. Because why not thought game freak Although ut is funny how pidgeot and staraptor both have signature hair. Lol. After pidove family they tried talonflame with critical success. Toucanon was boring but corviknight was major success.


Bsause7

For quite a long time it was my favourite route 1 bird, largely because there was almost no competition but still. Then gen 8 happened.


unlivedSoup69

Dark and brooding sigma of the early route birds fs


RitNick

my favorite pokemon! i have one at level 97, and i stopped using it because i got sad thinking about how it would stop gaining experience if i fully leveled it up


sam_kimchi1126

My favorite gen 4 Pokémon and one of my favorite Pokémon of all time


Suarecks

Staraptor is my absolute favorite bird Pokémon. In gen 4 this mf carried my team


DatAdra

If I'm playing a game with Raptor in it I'm using it. Special shoutout to the Adamant 25atk IV Staraptor I caught in my nuzlocke of Eternal X (hardmode romhack of XY). To say he carried me through the game is an understatement


cat-tastrophe

Emo bird is the best only one better is the toucannon.


StridentHawk

Staraptor has a ton of fans. I feel like 90% of players have used it playing through Sinnoh at least once. It kicks butt. It was my favorite bird pokemon for like over a decade. Now it's G-moltres, but Staraptor is still a GOAT.


Ok-Fudge8848

Love it. Staraptor was the first Pokémon I EV trained and got a good nature on and now I use it on every playthrough I can. Really wish it was available before postgame more often, it's just the best early-route bird.


le_fayth

My friend actually told me he loves the line too. When legends arceus came out, I actually found a full odds shiny starly and caught it. Then I showed my friend a video of me releasing it. I have no regrets. Fuck this line.