and by "insect Pokémon" I mean the butterflies/moths/bees, sorry I couldn't be more clear Bird: Staraptor. Swellow is pretty cool too Rodent: None of the rodents are particularly useful in battle, so I'd have to say Bibarel due to the sheer amount of HMs it can learn. Runner-up is Linoone Insect: Probably Butterfree or Vivillon. I want to like Dustox but its stats are so horrible that I can't