Sirfetch'd (Pokémon)

Sirfetch'd is an avian Pokémon that resembles a white duck, standing no taller than its pre-evolved form Farfetch'd and retaining its yellow beak, legs, webbed feet, brown eyes, black eyebrow-like marking, and its stubby tail. It has a crest on its head, consisting of three feathers standing upright. Its wings serve as humanoid hands, with the feathers at the end resembling fingers. It carries a massive leek in two parts, wielding the long, sharpened stalk as a lance and using the hard leaves as a shield.

It is said that Sirfetch'd's evolution was attained by Farfetch'd who have experienced and survived many battles. Sirfetch'd is known to be calm and collected, preferring to fight fairly. Due to its noble nature, Sirfetch'd is often chosen as a motif for paintings; one famous painting in the Galar region shows a Sirfetch'd dueling with an Escavalier. The leek it carries is its most prized possession; it is used as both weapon and food, and maintained for many years. Once the leek finally withers, Sirfetch'd will retire from battle for good.^[1]

Sirfetch'd and its pre-evolved form are the only known Pokémon capable of using the Leek item.

Sirfetch'd is the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move Meteor Assault.

Evolution

Sirfetch'd evolves from Galarian Farfetch'd.

Unevolved Farfetch'd Galarian Form  Fighting

→

First Evolution Sirfetch'd  Fighting

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

In events

Stats

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/TR

Generation VIII Other generations: IX

TM   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  TM12 TM12 Solar Blade Grass Physical 125125 100}}100% 10 TM21 TM21 Rest Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM24 TM24 Snore Normal Special 05050 100}}100% 15 TM25 TM25 Protect Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM30 TM30 Steel Wing Steel Physical 07070 090}}90% 25 TM31 TM31 Attract Normal Status 0000— 100}}100% 15 TM34 TM34 Sunny Day Fire Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM39 TM39 Facade Normal Physical 07070 100}}100% 20 TM41 TM41 Helping Hand Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM42 TM42 Revenge Fighting Physical 06060 100}}100% 10 TM43 TM43 Brick Break Fighting Physical 07575 100}}100% 15 TM58 TM58 Assurance Dark Physical 06060 100}}100% 10 TM76 TM76 Round Normal Special 06060 100}}100% 15 TM79 TM79 Retaliate Normal Physical 07070 100}}100% 5 TM97 TM97 Brutal Swing Dark Physical 06060 100}}100% 20 TR00 TR00 Swords Dance Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TR01 TR01 Body Slam Normal Physical 08585 100}}100% 15 TR13 TR13 Focus Energy Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 30 TR20 TR20 Substitute Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR26 TR26 Endure Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR27 TR27 Sleep Talk Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR39 TR39 Superpower Fighting Physical 120120 100}}100% 5 TR46 TR46 Iron Defense Steel Status 0000— 00—}}—% 15 TR50 TR50 Leaf Blade Grass Physical 09090 100}}100% 15 TR53 TR53 Close Combat Fighting Physical 120120 100}}100% 5 TR57 TR57 Poison Jab Poison Physical 08080 100}}100% 20 TR66 TR66 Brave Bird Flying Physical 120120 100}}100% 15 TR85 TR85 Work Up Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 30 TR95 TR95 Throat Chop Dark Physical 08080 100}}100% 15

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Sirfetch'd Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Sirfetch'd

By breeding

Generation VIII Other generations: IX

Parent   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  Counter Fighting Physical — 100% 20 Covet Normal Physical 60 100% 25 Curse Ghost Status — —% 10 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100% 15 Feint Normal Physical 30 100% 10 Flail Normal Physical — 100% 15 Night Slash Dark Physical 70 100% 15 Quick Attack Normal Physical 40 100% 30 Quick Guard Fighting Status — —% 15 Simple Beam Normal Status — 100% 15 Sky Attack Flying Physical 140 90% 5

Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Sirfetch'd in Generation VIII Moves marked with a double dagger (��) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation. Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Sirfetch'd in that game. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Sirfetch'd Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Sirfetch'd

By tutoring

By a prior Evolution

Galarian Farfetch'd transferred from Pokémon GO to Pokémon HOME from November 11 to November 16, 2020 erroneously use the level-up learnset of their Kantonian counterpart from Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!. Galarian Farfetch'd or Sirfetch'd in Pokémon HOME, Sword, or Shield with illegal moves had their moves replaced with moves from their level-up movepool on November 16, 2020; opening Pokémon HOME at any point after that date will cause HOME to search all Sword and Shield savefiles on the console and correct the illegal movesets.

Players who transferred a Galarian Farfetch'd with any of these illegal moves cannot trade or battle online with it unless that move is deleted. These erroneous Galarian Farfetch'd otherwise function like other Galarian Farfetch'd, with Galarian Farfetch'd from GO being able to evolve into a Sirfetch'd with an illegal moveset.

Generation VIII Other generations:  - IX

Stage   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  † Mirror MoveSwSh* Flying Status — —% 20 † Razor LeafSwSh Grass Physical 55 95% 25 † CutSwSh Normal Physical 50 95% 30 † Fury AttackSwSh Normal Physical 15 85% 20 † AgilitySwSh Psychic Status — —% 30 † SlashSwSh Normal Physical 70 100% 20 † Air SlashSwSh Flying Special 75 95% 15

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Sirfetch'd Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Sirfetch'd

Side game data

Pokémon GO Base HP: 158 Base Attack: 248 Base Defense: 176 Egg Distance: N/A Buddy Distance: 3 km Evolution Requirement: N/A Fast Attacks: Counter, Fury Cutter Charged Attacks: Close Combat, Brave Bird, Leaf Blade, Night Slash

Evolution data

Unevolved Farfetch'd Galarian Form  Fighting

Land three critical hits in one battle →

First Evolution Sirfetch'd  Fighting

Sprites

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation VIII.
Generation VIII Sword Shield
This Pokémon is unavailable in Generation IX.
Cross-Generation HOME

For other sprites and images, please see Sirfetch'd images on the Bulbagarden Archives.

Main series

Major appearances

Ash's Sirfetch'd

Ash has a Sirfetch'd that debuted in Beyond Chivalry… Aiming to be a Leek Master! upon evolving from his Galarian Farfetch'd in a battle with Rinto and his Gallade.

Minor appearances

Two Sirfetch'd appeared in HZ083.

Pokédex entries

Pokémon: Twilight Wings

A Sirfetch'd appeared in Sky, under the ownership of Bea.

Pokémon Adventures

Sword & Shield arc

Main article: Lancelot

A Sirfetch'd nicknamed Lancelot first appeared in Wow!! That's One Big Pokémon, under the ownership of Henry.

Main article: Sirfetch'd (TCG)

• Sirfetch'd was first teased on Pokémon Sword and Shield's official website on September 13, 2019, with its appearance, name, category, and height heavily pixelated — the image was also rotated 90° left, and then horizontally inverted. On the Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese official websites, its name was partially revealed. The link to the page played a Rotom's cry when clicked, implicating it as the cause of the data corruption.
  • The revealed parts of the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese were ナイト naito (Japanese), 나이트 naiteu (Korean), and 兵 bīng (Chinese).
• Sirfetch'd and Farfetch'd are the only Pokémon with an apostrophe in their names.
  • Due to a bug in Pokémon HOME, an unnicknamed Sirfetch'd or Farfetch'd with an English, Spanish, or Italian language of origin that is transferred into HOME will be treated as a nicknamed Pokémon, due to HOME assigning a different character for the apostrophe in the species names ("Farfetch’d" and "Sirfetch’d").
• Despite "Sir" being a male honorific, Sirfetch'd are equally likely to be female.
• Sirfetch'd can be seen as a parallel to Cursola. They are both mono-typed evolutions of regional forms whose original forms do not evolve. In Pokémon Sword and Shield, at the Stow-on-Side Stadium and during the Champion Cup Finals, Bea in Pokémon Sword uses Sirfetch'd in her team, while Allister in Pokémon Shield uses Cursola in his team.
• Galarian Farfetch'd was released in Pokémon GO on June 17, 2020, shortly after Galarian Meowth and Zigzagoon. Although the latter two could evolve into Perrserker and Obstagoon upon release, respectively, Galarian Farfetch'd couldn't evolve into Sirfetch'd at the time. Sirfetch'd was later added to coincide with the release of The Crown Tundra for the Pokémon Sword and Shield Expansion Pass on October 22, 2020.

Origin

The idea for Sirfetch'd and the giant leek it carries originated from the fact that leeks native to the United Kingdom (which serves as the inspiration for the Galar region) are considerably larger than those native to Japan.^[2][3] In particular, the leek halves are modeled after medieval weapons: a shield and a sword^[4] (or a lance). As such, Sirfetch'd may be based on a knight, as well as a Pekin duck.

Like Farfetch'd, Sirfetch'd may be inspired by the Japanese saying 「鴨が葱を背負って来る」, literally translating to "a duck comes bearing spring onions". As a saying, it means "easy target" or "golden opportunity". Sirfetch'd carrying a leek may also be inspired by the fact that the leek is one of the national symbols of Wales, part of the United Kingdom.

Sirfetch'd's appearance may also be based on Sir Lancelot du Lac (literally "Sir Lancelot of the Lake"), one of the members of the Knights of the Round Table. In Arthurian legend, before he revealed his identity to King Arthur, he was known as the "White Knight" for his white armor. The Lancelot leek, which is a wild onion variant named after him, may also be referenced. Sirfetch'd's overall personality may be based on the code of chivalry.

The official Pokémon Sword and Shield website mentions a painting depicting Sirfetch'd battling an Escavalier.^[1] This may be a reference to the motif of knights fighting snails, which is sometimes found in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as Escavalier's own references to medieval jousting.

In an interview with Eurogamer, Shigeru Ohmori stated that Sirfetch'd's design is not inspired by Farfetch'd's scrapped evolution from the Pokémon Gold and Silver Spaceworld '97 demo, but is instead a new one fitting for a region based on the United Kingdom.^[4]

Name origin

Sirfetch'd may be a combination of Sir and Farfetch'd.

Negigaknight may be a combination of 葱 negi (spring onion), the prefix giga-, and knight. It may also be a pun on 葱がないと negi ga nai to (must have a spring onion).

• Ash's Sirfetch'd
• Lancelot
• Weaponry in the Pokémon world