Without even meaning to do it, Pidgeot became a key member of my team for most of my playthroughs, sometimes right to the end. It was crazy fast (thanks partially to the stat boosters I kept feeding it) and back in the early days not many fliers could outclass it. Was a pretty well balanced mon, though sometimes I needed to use Fly a lot to keep it out of harms way (and then there were those awkward moments when I used Fly the same time the other guy used Dig).