The sky above the Driftveil Drawbridge is noted for its fierce winds, and most Unovan birds will take long detours around it for fear of being knocked into the water. Ducklett, however, are both courageous and semi-aquatic pokemon, so they consider it not a barrier, but a challenge – one which many of them valiantly triumph over. Other Ducklett are not so lucky, however, and passengers over this bridge are often treated to sight of these majestic blue pokemon shedding many of their valuable feathers, which can be sold for a tidy profit. They are also, from time to time, witness to a hapless Ducklett, caught in a breeze it can not escape from, falling out of the sky onto the bridge itself.
The Ducklett of Unova are ferociously proud pokemon, and only this experience of defeat – not at a trainer's hands, but at nature's – can allow one to be tamed. Luckily for aspiring trainers, they also fall so commonly that one or two can be found at every crossing of the bridge. The resistance these pokemon show is token and halfhearted by wild pokemon standards, and many passing trainers actually reject them for that reason, believing this effort is all the Ducklett can give. Others throw poke balls at them immediately, believing them to have been badly injured from the storm; in truth, these Ducklett are at full health, simply disinclined to protest.
A Ducklett's down is remarkably soft and capable of cushioning any blow, and its wings, although too weak to fly over the bridge in these winds, still easily prevent a crash landing. The wound the Ducklett suffer is not to their bodies, but to their pride, and humans are tools they use to heal that wound - through training, and ultimately through victories.