Sirfetch'd (Pokémon)

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Sirfetch'd (Japanese: ネギガナイト Negigaknight) is a introduced in Generation VIII.
It evolves from after landing three critical hits in a single .
==Biology==
Sirfetch'd is an avian that resembles a white duck, standing no taller than its pre-evolved form 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 . 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.Sirfetch'd | Official Website | Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield
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 .
===Evolution===
Sirfetch'd evolves from .
==Game data==
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===Stats===
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===Learnset===
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====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. 
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===Evolution data===
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Main series===
====Major appearances====
=====Ash's Sirfetch'd=====
 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 .
====Minor appearances====
Two Sirfetch'd appeared in HZ083.
====Pokédex entries====
===Pokémon: Twilight Wings===
A Sirfetch'd appeared in Sky, under the ownership of Bea.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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A Sirfetch'd nicknamed Lancelot first appeared in Wow!! That's One Big Pokémon, under the ownership of Henry.
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* Sirfetch'd was first teased on 's official website on September 13, 2019, with its appearance, name, , 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 '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 are the only with an apostrophe in their names.
** Due to a bug in , 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 . They are both mono-typed evolutions of regional forms whose original forms do not evolve. In , 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.
* Farfetch'd was released in Pokémon GO on June 17, 2020, shortly after Galarian and . Although the latter two could evolve into and 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 (which serves as the inspiration for the Galar region) are considerably larger than those native to Japan.(November 15, 2019). "「ポケットモンスター ソード・シールド」インタビュー。「最強」をテーマに，子供たちが楽しめるものを目指して." 4Gamer.net.Game Freak explains the 1,000 staff, missing creatures, and leek size of Pokémon Sword and Shield - Polygon In particular, the leek halves are modeled after medieval weapons: a and a Tapsell, Chris (October 24, 2019). "Game Freak's Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori talk inspiration, Sirfetch'd, and pressure from Pokémon fans." Eurogamer. (or a ). As such, Sirfetch'd may be based on a , as well as a .
Like Farfetch'd, Sirfetch'd may be inspired by the Japanese saying 「」, literally translating to "a duck comes bearing ". 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 of , part of the United Kingdom.
Sirfetch'd's appearance may also be based on (literally "Sir Lancelot of the Lake"), one of the members of the . In Arthurian legend, before he revealed his identity to , 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 .
The official Pokémon Sword and Shield website mentions a painting depicting Sirfetch'd battling an . This may be a reference to the motif of , which is sometimes found in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as Escavalier's own references to medieval .
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.
====Name origin====
Sirfetch'd may be a combination of and Farfetch'd.
Negigaknight may be a combination of 葱 negi (), 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).
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* Ash's Sirfetch'd
* Lancelot
* Weaponry in the Pokémon world
==References==
==External links==
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