Starter Discussion and Speculation

Just be patient. It's only been 3 days. We'll see the evos in probably 8-10 months.

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Originally Posted by Fennekindle

Dear Fennekin:

I don't care what your typing is as long as it's not Fire/Fighting.

Love,
me

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I'm not gonna be Fire/Fighting! In the trailer, I was obviously using a Psychic attack.

Didn't we get to see BW starters within the same month as the games' release? I at least remember that DP's starter evolutions weren't revealed until the games actually came out.

In that case, it'll probably be the same here.

Fire/Fighting is repetitive, but it is better than a terrible typing like Fire/Flying at least.

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Originally Posted by FreyaChobit

because they could be Faint Attack [...] Low Sweep or Rolling Kick.

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That attack look more like Aerial Ace or even Night Slash than Faint Attack.

Also, are these two last moves your bets for the move Froakie used in the video?

Check this out guys

just kidding :P

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Originally Posted by Gotpika

Check this out guys

just kidding :P

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It looks good to me. Haters gonna hate.

Split between Froakie and Chespin, I'll probably decide after their evolutions are revealed

I like all three. But I adore grass types, so currently Chespin wins my favor.

I almost never care for the grass types much at all, but I am really liking Chespin. I'll be picking it first this October probably.

Fennekin is pretty good too. I still don't really like Froakie much. It's only gone from Bad to Meh for me.

With everybody complaining that Fennekin better not become Fire/Fighting, I'm kinda starting to root for this typing to happen. :-)

I'm starting to think that Chespin, Fennekin and Frokie will be Grass/Dark, Fire/Psychic and Water/Fighting respectively which would make each of their STAB attacks normal on the other. I really like this idea.

I realize there may be many objections to this, but I just had an interesting idea. I was thinking about Eevee and I liked how it had many evolutions and I thought more Pokemon should e like this. So why not the starters? I don't know if I even totally want this, but starters could have two evolution paths. This could be good because if Gamefreak wanted another Fire/fighting then they could but you could choose it to be another type. This could also help if you wanted a grass type with high defense, for example. But the water type had highest defense, you could pick the grass, but instead of a speedy Pokemon, you could have a bulky one. Please feel free to discuss.

I would like it if the fire type evolved into a fire/psychic type that looks something like (and forgive me pokefans but...) this! I want this!
http://quizilla.teennick.com/user_images/V/VI/VIX/vixie13/1153107491_sKyuubimon.jpg :bounce:

The grass type looked to me like it might turn out to be a Grass/Dark type. (could have sworn i saw it use faint attack) I think he would look something like a spikey grass hedgehog(like werehog Sonic) or a grass version of Bertic really.:thumbup:

As for the water type I took him to be something like sismitoad in it's last evolution and be a water/fighting type which is okay with me as long as it's not the fire type.
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Originally Posted by epicparker

I realize there may be many objections to this, but I just had an interesting idea. I was thinking about Eevee and I liked how it had many evolutions and I thought more Pokemon should e like this. So why not the starters? I don't know if I even totally want this, but starters could have two evolution paths. This could be good because if Gamefreak wanted another Fire/fighting then they could but you could choose it to be another type. This could also help if you wanted a grass type with high defense, for example. But the water type had highest defense, you could pick the grass, but instead of a speedy Pokemon, you could have a bulky one. Please feel free to discuss.

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I think that would be interesting. If the starters were designed that way you could very well design your starter whenever you see fit to complement you team in a way which best benefits you. It would also be interesting to see what other trainers would have chosen to evolve their starter into. But then part of me feels it's unnecessary because you have such a wide spread of pokemon who's stats and strengths vary that you could put a pretty decent team together with or without your starter. So it would be a pretty nifty thing for the trainer but in the end the trainer still might not end up using the starter at all.

I remember seeing a couple of middle evolutions on a BW anime character scale sheet that got posted in early summer. The full Unova starter evolution lines were leaked shortly after, but people were skeptical until they were confirmed much closer to the Japanese release date.

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Originally Posted by Chiplet

Didn't we get to see BW starters within the same month as the games' release? I at least remember that DP's starter evolutions weren't revealed until the games actually came out.

In that case, it'll probably be the same here.

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If I remember correctly, the final evolutions were revealed in the last Corocoro issue before the games were released. However, we knew about the starters ahead of Corocoro because someone had leaked them.

I don't care to see the final evolutions of the starters and would rather find it while playing the game. I would like to see brand new Pokemon though.

Do you guys think it'll be too soon to reveal more new Pokemon next month?

I'd be happy if Corocoro reveals 2 new Pokemon each month leading up to the release of the games.