Pidgeot
Keen Eye
Pokémon's accuracy cannot be lowered.
Tangled Feet
Evasion increases when confused.
Type Tier
Normal / Flying UU
Statistics
Min- Min Max Max+
HP
83
 - 307 370 -
Atk
80
 176 196 259 284
Def
75
 167 186 249 273
SpA
70
 158 176 239 262
SpD
70
 158 176 239 262
Spe
91
 196 218 281 309
Name Item Ability Nature

Choice Band

 Choice Band Tangled Feet Adamant
Moveset EVs
~ Return
~ Brave Bird
~ Steel Wing / U-turn
~ Quick Attack / Pursuit
6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

The first two slots are your main attacks, the third and fourth slots are for coverage and utility. Steel Wing covers Rock-types, but many of them in NU (Magcargo, Corsola) are neutral to Steel, so they'll actually take more damage from Return or Brave Bird. As such, you can go with U-turn to get in a light hit on your counter as you switch. In the last slot, you have Pursuit to hit a fleeing opponent, or Quick Attack to take out a weakened, faster enemy. Thanks to boosts from STAB and Choice Band, Quick Attack shaves a good chunk off the likes of Plusle and Minun (both are 2HKOed).

Name Item Ability Nature

Defensive

 Leftovers Tangled Feet Timid
Moveset EVs
~ Roost
~ Air Slash
~ Hidden Power Ground
~ FeatherDance / Toxic
252 HP / 112 SpA / 144 Spe

If you want to take advantage of Pidgeot's superior defenses with respect to most Normal/Flying-types, this set is a reasonable option. Pidgeot is just about fast enough to get some use from the flinch rate of Air Slash, which provides good type coverage alongside Hidden Power Ground. FeatherDance annoys incoming physical hitters, or you can opt for Toxic as Steels won't offer as much trouble when you have Hidden Power Ground to smack them with.

Other Options

Pidgeot is an "okay" user of Tailwind, but that should be used in 2 v 2 only. Pidgeot gets Double-Edge, but that's illegal with Brave Bird, and you'll have to use Aerial Ace for Flying STAB, so stick to Brave Bird/Return.

EVs

Max out Attack and Speed for the Choice Band set, and use an Adamant nature. For the Defensive set, spread your EVs between HP, Speed, and Special Attack. Timid with 144 Speed EVs outruns Modest versions of Plusle and Minun. Modest is worth considering as Pidgeot's Special Attack is none too impressive, so the slight boost is very welcome.

Opinion

Pidgeot was never really anything special and DP did little to change that. Although he has less Attack and Speed than Fearow, he does have Brave Bird to compensate for this, so he can offer real competition for his fellow UU Normal/Flying-type now.

Counters

For the Choice Band set, Steel and Rock-types can sponge hits easily. Mawile, Corsola, Magcargo, and Bastiodon are all good choices. Watch out for Hidden Power Ground on the Defensive set though, especially in the cases of Magcargo and Bastiodon. Plusle and Minun can get in on a Flying attack and hammer Pidgeot with Thunderbolt.