Thread: Starter Discussion and Speculation

Fennekin is so cute and cool. It's just pretty awesome in general. And because of that there gonna be a lot of creepy fanart of it.

I'm telling you guys right now. Fennekin is gonna stand up on those hind legs of its and it's gonna start throwing punches.

I'm not Japanese, so in the past I've always had a good grasp of what the entire generation of Pokemon would look like by the time it was released where I live. With this simultaneous release, nobody may see what we're getting until launch day, or shortly before it when images from various strategy guides and whatnot are leaked. I imagine that Corocoro will release more info than anything American, European or Australian, but as far as 'reveals' go, it's usually just the starters and legendaries, isn't it?

Fennekin is definitely my favorite and Froakie takes the close second place.

Chespin ... eh, I don't really like it. We'll see if their evos change my opinion.

Pretty sure we didn't even get the DP starter evolutions. It wasn't until the games were out we saw them. BW I don't even remember if they were prerelease, but I'm pretty sure they were by like within the month. If we are going to get them before the games come out, it'll likely be quite a while. The first things to get revealed tend to be first stage pokemon and a handfull of randos à la Wargle and Desukarn and what have you. Since this gen's likely going to have some new evolutions and preevolutions of existing pokemon, they're probably going to muck up the issues rather than all new lines. Chances are we'll have at least until this summer to see them.

Eh, first of all, we don't even know for sure if there will be new eeveelutions this Gen. In case we're actually getting new eeveelutions though, we'll get them in July at the latest, when M16 airs.
I read eeveelutions instead of evolutions lol.

Well, last time the evolutions were leaked sometime in August, iirc, which was pretty close to the release date. But they can always pull a Blaziken on us and show one of the final evolutions in the anime.

I hope they wait as long as possible to reveal them. I would like to know, but I would also like to be surprised when I get the game.

Honestly, with the way things are going, they are picking and choosing what to reveal. With this being such a new strategy for the release, I wouldn't be surprised if we don't find out what the evolutions are until much, much closer to the release date.

Considering they've revealed a lot of information worldwide so quickly, there's a possibility they could reveal the evolutions over the coming month.

I'd personally prefer to see more Gen VI Pokemon. We've only seen 5 so far.

If I remember right, it was pretty close when the games were released in Japan when Gen V's starters evos were shown for the first time. I hope that they wait a while, we just saw the starters not even a week ago and it's 9+ months until the release, there's plenty of time.

At the earliest, I would say March 2013. At the latest, I would say August 2013.

I think we should at least find out the region's name soon enough.

Initially, I loved Fennekin as much as everyone else did, but the other two have grown on me considerably. Froakie was the one I was the most "ehhhhh" over, but now I think he's just as adorable as the other two ;~; It's really going to come down to their final evos and their typings for me to choose who I am going to start with first.

Fennekin would be my first choice as my starter on on Pokemon X; I just have a feeling that it'll be the version I "settle" on and I'll transfer over Froakie and Chespin from Pokemon Y near the beginning, so I'll get to find out who's actually the most useful in battles, like I've done with previous generations.

I also side in a agreement with people who have the opinion that the evolution typing might be Grass/Dark, Fire/Psychic and Water/Fighting because the attacks used by the starters in the promo, do appear to support that theory because they could be Faint Attack, Beat Up* or Payback*, Psywave* or Confusion and Low Sweep or Rolling Kick. The animations could obviously be any number of attacks and not effect the typing but I wanted to pick ones that seemed logical (fitting with the dark-psychic-fighting theme and possible fits for the attack animations shown) and aimed to avoid attacks that were definitely way too powerful for lower level Pokemon.

* = I'm aware these attacks may not have been such appropriate choices, as the power varies. I tried to limit the power to 60 at the maximum.

Originally Posted by Araragi Hakase

Initially, I loved Fennekin as much as everyone else did, but the other two have grown on me considerably. Froakie was the one I was the most "ehhhhh" over, but now I think he's just as adorable as the other two ;~; It's really going to come down to their final evos and their typings for me to choose who I am going to start with first.

For me Froakie seems like something that Turtwig or Tepig fans will enjoy. It'll just take some time to grow on people

Dear Fennekin:

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

Love,
me