10 Least Imaginative Pokémon From Generation I

Much like Farfetch'd, Fearow's design doesn't really suggest "this is more than just a cartoonish depiction of a bird".

While not specifically based on any in particular, it does borrow characteristics of many different birds, such as storks, cormorants, and anhingas. Strangely enough, those last two birds are water birds, yet the only Water-type move that Fearow can learn is Rain Dance.

Adding Water-typing to Fearow could have been the solution to its mediocrity. Having spent its entire fictional existence playing second bananas to the much-cooler Pidgeot, Fearow would likely welcome a different type combination to set it apart from its long-feathered rival. Perhaps a Mega Evolution or a Galarian Form is in order for Fearow? After all, Pidgeot got one, so it's only fair.

But until that day, which may never come, Fearow is doomed to live a humdrum life of blandness; a life of neglect in favor of more appealing and more useful Flying-types. It's not easy being boring.