Tag: Unfezant

Hey Bill, I recently moved from Unova to the western part of Kanto, and while the culture shock is big on me, it’s even more influential on my Unfezant. Lately he’s refused to fly out and forage his own food, he can’t be coaxed out by my Honchrow, and when i take him outside and run inside to close the door He just walks around bored and sits under a tree till I come get him. Is there anything I can do to get him more active, he’s starting to lose his tone and weight and I worry for him.

Moving to a new place can be quite stressful for anyone, including and especially pokémon. Pokémon may be intelligent, but they may not always understand why they have to be moved from territory they’ve considered to be their home for quite some time.

This isn’t to say you did anything wrong in moving, of course. Rather, it’s to say that your unfezant’s behavior is rather understandable, and it may be more approachable if you keep in mind that your unfezant likely feels like he had to leave everything he knew behind. In other words, he may be homesick.

There are ways to alleviate his homesickness, however. Giving your unfezant things that remind him of Unova (perhaps an old sports shirt or a souvenir from your home city) and using aromatherapy may help calm and pacify him on the short-term, as will encouraging him to exercise (even if you don’t succeed in getting him to fly). The latter may be the easiest option, as training and exercising him will allow him take his mind off Unova, as well as help him release endorphins that will lift his spirits a bit.

Helping him adjust to Kanto is also important at this stage. Sometimes, that can be as simple as introducing him to a Kanto native. Consider catching a member of the pidgey family, as those are the closest Kantonian cousins to the pidove family and thus the most likely species to get along well with your unfezant. Think of this capture like meeting a new, human friend. Just as making your own friends—particularly one knowledgable in the neighborhood—helps you forge local connections and lay down your roots (so to speak), meeting and befriending a local capture may do the same for your unfezant.

Otherwise, though, simply being as emotionally supportive towards your unfezant will work wonders for his mood. Be sure to include him as much as possible in your daily activities, but don’t push him too hard. Always read his mood and let him know that you are willing to do whatever he needs you to do, even if that’s leaving him alone for a bit with a bowl of fresh millet.

Most importantly, though, remember that some pokémon take longer to adjust to change than others. Although your unfezant may not want to fly or hunt on his own for the moment, give him time and be as supportive as possible, and eventually, his homesickness will subside. In the meantime, have patience and, well, switch him to store-bought pokémon food (until he’s ready to fly) to resolve the weight loss issue.

Best of luck!

The Pidove Line

Pidove
The Tiny Pigeon Pokémon
Type: Normal/Flying
Official Registration #: 519
Entry: A small, pigeon-like pokémon endemic to the urban areas of Unova and Kalos. Notorious for its forgetfulness, pidove have a tendency to wait for their next orders, even if a trainer had already issued one. They also have the tendency to forget that they can fly, that the window they had flown into three seconds earlier exists, that purrloin eat them, and practically anything at all if shown a small chunk of bread.

Tranquill
The Wild Pigeon Pokémon
Type: Normal/Psychic
Official Registration #: 520
Entry: The evolved form of pidove, by battle experience. Tranquill are known for being excellent messengers, largely because they possess the ability to return to their trainers, regardless of how far they have to fly in order to do so. Given the forgetfulness of tranquill’s previous evolution, this has naturally baffled behaviorists for centuries. Less baffling: the fact that tranquill don’t seem to take “it’s amazing that you can remember you have your trainer, given, you know, what you were like as a pidove” as a compliment.

Unfezant
The Proud Pokémon
Type: Normal/Flying
Official Registration #: 521
Entry: The evolved form of tranquill, by battle experience. The sexual dimorphism of this pokémon has been a point of interest to pokémonologists for years. Males possess elaborate, brightly colored plumage, which they show off during mating season by swinging their heads in a display designed to simultaneously attract females and threaten males away from mating candidates. The females, meanwhile, possess duller plumage but stronger wings, the latter of which grant them flying abilities that are practically unrivaled among bird pokémon, their male counterparts included. To be fair, though, it’s perfectly understandable. Whenever certain subsets of the human species display similar behaviors to male unfezant, their potential mating candidates, too, display impressive flight abilities for the sake of evacuating immediately, and the author, to be frank, can hardly blame them.