Sword/Shield Mystery Pokemon Revealed!

It's Me Or Do I Noticed That The Forme Colour Is The Colour Of The Leek?

Anyways, This Is Actually Probably The Best Design For Non-Legendary By Far.

Farfetch'd First Hold A Leek And Now, A Sword... He Had Grown, Man!

 

This really does work for Farfetch'd, not gonna lie.

Plus, people finally got the evolution to Farfetch'd that they've been wishing for since Gen 1. An epic play by Game Freak, which should hopefully cool down the angry Pokémon fans, at least a tiny bit.

Though, seriously, Game Freak, give us our Kecleon and Dunsparce evolutions already. You gave us Sirfetch'd, that means you can do this for us, too!

 

Farfetch'd was one of my favorite bird Pokémon back in the day, simply because of its concept (using a leek as a weapon). But I sadly was never able to properly use one in a team due to other bird Pokémon having much better stats.

And then this guy comes in; Sirfetch'd. A pure fighting-type bird with a blade so big he may as well be on a horse and start jousting with it. It's a shame I'm going to be playing through Shield version first, but once I start going through Sword version as a challenge run, this guy's going on my team for sure, no doubt. I freaking love it.

 

I got spoiled earlier today about Sirfetch’d and I’m a little salty about that. While I appreciate that it’s a new evolution for an old Pokémon, I’m not the biggest fan of him. And since I’m getting Shield, I won’t be using one on my team.

 

I'm not sure it looks different enough from Farfetch'd, I wish there was a little more of a difference between Farfetch'd and Sirfetch'd. It is pretty cool though, although I don't think Sirfetch'd allone would be what makes or breaks the decision to get one game over the other.

Also I like that the leek has sprouted into an onion, that's pretty funny.

I had actually theorized about this on the Discord server when we were talking about whether the teaser was an image of Sirfetch'd or something else. Someone mentioned it would be weird for Farfetch'd to have an evolution that wasn't at least part flying type, so I did some googling. There's a type of duck native to a British territory called the Falkland Steamer Duck, which is flightless and is known to be weirdly aggressive and combative for water fowl, which are generally pretty docile. It fits the region and it's typing pretty well.

 

Well this makes me happy. Farfetch'd was in my eyes the first "gimmick" sort of Pokémon, where it seems to be meant to teach patience; someone who trained a Spearow in Gen 1 would find themselves with a much better Pokémon than one who traded it for a Farfetch'd expecting instant results. It hasn't really had a prominent role in anything since thanks to bad stats, but this breathes the life into it that fans have wanted for it for as long as I can remember. This Pokémon has completely blown up the internet (or at least it has with Twitter) and it's easy for me to see why.

A lot of people have been theorizing what a possible Shield-only counterpart could be, and I think the Pokémon that shares the most parallels with it is Delibird, so I could easily see Delibird getting an evolution like this. I kinda hope it's Dunsparce because I've always loved it and it kinda sucks, but I still think Delibird is the best candidate.

 

I quite like it. The Galarian forms plus this in relation to Farfetch'd are a really nice touch and improvement off the Alolan forms from Sun & Moon.

I'm actually looking forward to what other ones there are.

 

Sirfetch'd looks kinda fun. If it really is a Sword exclusive Pokémon, my sister, who has fallen in love with this Pokémon already, will probably begin to make an argument for getting Sword instead of Shield.

 

After showing off several waifus Game Freak gave us a white knight in the form of Sirfetch'd. *tips leak* M'trainer.

 

I really like this design, it might even be my favorite Pokémon so far. Its relatively simplistic, but something like farfetch'd really needed something new, and I think this is great! It also fits sword and shield well, which I really love! Sad its a exclusive though.