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A water/bug crab/shrimp/lobster starter would be awesome, as the water type would remove the weakness to fire and rock from the bug type, and the bug type would remove the weakness to grass from the water type
Because they are arthropods like bugs. Not every bug type has to be a bug. They could have given clauncher and clawitzer the bug type with that excuse. Especially since crabs, shrimp and lobsters are more closely related to bugs than centipedes, milipedes, and arachnids (and that didn't stop them from giving centiscorch, scolipede, ariados, araquanid, galvantula and other non-bug pokémon the bug type).
I think fennekin have going from the lowest bst in its base form to one of the highest in its final form could be related to the trope of mages starting out weak and becoming strong in the later game
I think Nanu was just offering the Meowths because he's a bit uninterested in his role, and had a surplus of Meowths to offer. The other Kahunas should have a different selection I won't tolerate Delphox slander, Delphox is my favorite pokemon ever!
i thought i remembered that being the joke with him, yeah. he's just 100% checked out on kahuna duties and wants these kids out of his face so he can go hang with his three-dozen cats. nanu is the most relatable character in this franchise
it might also just be another example of gen vii’s dry troll humor because the point is the kid cant decide between 3 of the same thing like how every player takes at least an hour to choose a starter
If we got Snivy, Piplup, and Scorbunny as the Legends Z-A Starters, and they became Grass/Rock, Water/Ice, and Fire/Electric WITH Mega-Evolutions that would be amazing.
I get the logic behind the Rowlett theory, but I also don't think it's the case. While an archer can be related to long-ranger attackers in RPG's, Delphox is a long range attacker also. On top of that Decidueye can fit both the RPG and performance themes, unlike Chesnaught and Delphox who can only fit the RPG theme. Also speaking of, Incineroar can fit both themes also since it is based on a professional wrestler, so this is not exclusive just to Decidueye. And on a side note, I would really like to see a Starter getting the Electric-Type as a secondary one, I really like this Type.
I like the idea of each island in Alola having their own starter Pokemon. It would be cool if we got Pokemon Sun 2 and Moon 2 as sequels to Pokemon Sun and Moon where you start off as a new trainer on a different island in Alola and you start with a different starter than the normal Alola starters.
It is ASTOUNDING we haven't gotten a water/Ice starter final evolution. Normal simply would not be good. Fire/Electric I was hoping for Cinderace, and would LOVE to see another, and Grass/Rock would work too. Normal and Bug can step back for now.
electric's been my dream starter type for over a decade now! but i'd love to see any of the missing types get used, or even ones that have only been used once like steel or poison. anything but fighting or dark, really, they're played out and i never wanna see em used on a starter again
I always assumed that you’re just offered the starters you are simply because that’s what professor has when you’re starting out. It seems like there’s no rule and literally any pokemon can be your starter, because rarely do you run into another trainer with the same pokemon and even kids who are least likely to have all new pokemon already. We just start the game lucky to get a rare pokemon.
My own fakemon region starts, the water starter mizu ends up as a water ice type. I also have the grass starter vegalef who ends up as a griffin grass flying, I've designed these when gen 3 was the newest gen XD Been updating the list as years passed but my starters have remained. With regional I plan to make one of each to a point, with ot I got a water chimchar and electric starters😂
I like to come up with ideas for mainstream Pokemon games for fun (all words, no pictures or codes) and one idea for a starter I came up with is one that gets an electric type when it evolves. He would’ve been themed around/inspired by the hammer of Thor (hard to spell that name) and would’ve been the Grass type starter! My most recent project, instead of making new starters, gives the Legends Arceus treatment to 6 preexisting starters with the most mind blowing one being Charizard becoming an actual Dragon type!
I would like to see a starter trio whose final evolutions are Fire/Electric, Water/Bug, and Grass/Ground. That creates a "balanced" trio where each starter's secondary type is super effective against the primary type of the starter that it would normally be weak against based on their primary types, so all 3 have options to take out the other 2. The gen 9 starters did something similar where their secondary types instead formed a reverse type triangle without interacting with the primary types. Same idea, but different execution. Yes, the Fire starter in this case would have a 4x weakness to Ground so it's not perfectly balanced, but if we went with Grass/Rock rather than Grass/Ground, then the Fire starter couldn't hit the Grass starter with super effective STAB damage at all, which would be even more unbalanced.
I was thinking about Grass/rock Fire/electric Water/ice Creating starter with never seen before type combos while also checking the missing starter types but also creating a triangle where each mon has a super effective stab type against its usual weakness grass/ROCK->Fire fire/ELECTRIC->Water water/ICE->grass
@@ricard0mil0s80 But like I said, that would mean the Fire starter couldn't hit the Grass starter for super effective STAB damage at all because Rock would cancel Grass's weakness to Fire. Both the Water and Grass starters would be able to hit both of its counterparts for super effective damage (I had to double-check if Rock resisted Ice but it doesn't) but the Fire one wouldn't have that luxury. That ruins the idea of a "balanced" trio by having one clearly weaker
Keep in mind Hapu is chosen as a kahuna late in the story. Its said that prior to her being chosen, Nanu handled the kahuna duties for both his island and Poni, because there wasnt an official kahuna after hapus predecessor died. So poni residents wouldve likely gotten meowths as well. Hapu will have to choose her own set to give out but she hadnt been kahuna long enough to give anything out during the story (Tho i suppose that does leave the question of what mons did the previous kahuna give out) Also nanu giving out meowths is meant to be a very disappointing experience. Like they're supposed to have different personalities but the kid picking cant even really tell the difference between em. He doesnt seem like he wants any of them. I think its a case of nanu just being lazy cuz that's his main character trait. Olivia isnt like Nanu. She would likely have a better set of choices then 3 rockruffs. Tho i can see rockruff still being one of the choices
Nearly all of the arguments for Rowlet being from Kalos make far more sense for being from Galar, especially Robin Hood. The only that remotely makes sense for Kalos is Decidueye being an archer RPG class, but Archer usually falls into the Fighter or Rogue Big Three Classes already represented by the existing starters.
If Pokemon Legends ZA going to received: Chikorita, Scorbunny, and Piplup for regional form to add the secondary. They will becoming Grass/Psychic, Fire/Electric, and Water/Ice that will be so awesome and Mega Evolution such amazing idea.
Nah, for Chikorita, Grass/Fairy or literally any other combo but Grass/Psychic, we already have Grass/Psychic types and it ain't fun getting obliterated by a single bug type attack, if it's supposed to be a rework of an old pokemon, a better type (not a worse one) should be step one
It's pretty much hinted at in the games at least that the three starter Pokemon aren't the basic starters for everyone. Every person has their own unique starter and only we the player, and our rivals gets the three starters we do.
a normal pokemon like Eevee works for a starter. You learn the basics of the pokemon with the normalness, then your choice of Type (element) comes from when you get branched evolutions. Everyone gets the same start but its which branches you take from there. Could also argue something like Rockruff has something similar (though rock type) would make an interesting starter but has different forms or lycanroc when it evolves. That would be an interesting gimmick
A couple observations Missing animals: Domidoodle actually made videos on the "missing starter animals" as two pairs of starters. Depending on who you ask it could be organized as following * How traditionally see it: We're missing a Grass mustelid (Cyndaquil or at least Typhlosion is a badger and Oshawott is an otter), Grass crocodilian, Fire turtle/tortoise, Fire frog/toad, Water primate and Water feline. I have some concepts for this, such as a Fire/Rock glass frog based on glassblowing and glasswork (it'd be part of an art-themed trio) or an adaptation of the fishing cat species * If Charmander is being counted as a salamander: That could leave a Grass salamander portion to fill (Mudkip is an axolotl), and open up a new Fire lizard (Grass has Treecko and Water has Sobble). For the former, I could think of a mushroom tongue salamander that is also a literal mushroom * If you want to make even more birds you could separate the flight-capable (Rowlet and Quaxley) and flight-less (Torchic and Piplup) birds. Grass type kiwi for a New Zealand region starter? Missing types: Personally I could include Dragon in types not covered by the fact that Mega Evolution is a limited mechanic. For all intents and purposes, in a lot of games they appear Gen 6 and beyond no starter has part Dragon. If they do it might necessitate the starter they're normally weak to to have a secondary type to get around it (even in Gen 4 Empoleon still loses to Torterra's Ground typing). So the first permanent Dragon type starter I can see introducing is Grass/Dragon, so Fire can choose Ice, Fairy, Poison, Flying and Bug. My idea for that is another ancient reptile...a scutosaurus that's also pineapple themed, perhaps? * Normal type: Probably the other tricky type combination. The point of Normal is they're mundane, and well normal. I think the reason Normal has the most missing combos (four, and six if we're ignoring regional variants and only counting Pokemon made from the ground up) is because normal mixed with anything other than Flying (which is very common among birds) feels like a bit of an oxymoron. Maybe it could be like Pyroar where its more low-key? Or since sound is lumped with Normal because normal's the default and sound isn't a type, a sound-themed starter could be part Normal * Others: A Bug starter would likely have to start as part Bug. A Water/Bug crustacean makes sense, given we already have a Bug type hermit crab. Ice would probably end up with Water first (I could easily see a Primarina regional variant that's part Ice), though I would love to see what a Fire/Ice starter looks like (maybe Ice could be representing a desert animal regulating heat? Like a Fire/Ice Delphox given how fennec foxes live). I already discussed my Rock type concept but you could also do a nod to fossil Pokemon by using a prehistoric animal and giving it the Rock type. The others could probably be anything
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You know what would be really cool in Alola if we could choose the starting island and the other islands. which would impact the starter choices, the order of the z crystal and the Pokemon you can get, boss battle and maybe the story. It sounds really cool but I could see this idea buckle under the weight. And the coding would probably be too much for Game Freak and the 3ds. But it would have been really cool if they could do it
12:56 they approved them because they liked them Art is subjective is it not maybe if u let them grow on u u would like them more I think they’re unique
I've actually made fakemon starters where the final evolutions were Fire/Electric, Water/Bug, and Grass/Rock giving each starter a second type that covers the starter type it's weak to.
The water cat starter would fit nicely in a Great Lakes inspired region. It could reference the Mishibijiw and it could be another Water/Dark starter or even an unprecedented Water/Ghost starter.
I just want a dog starter. Don't even care about it's type. Also it's really surprising Game Freak never went for a water/ice starter. Serms like an obvious thing.
if those starter types have never been used i think itd be interesting to introduce and quad weak starter trio with cool types like a grass/bug strarter quad weak to fire, and fire and ice starter quad weak to rock, and a water/rock starter quad weak to grass
mudkip is specifically an axolotl which is why all the evolutions have exterior gills but wooper is just a young salamander which is why it loses the gills when it evolves. still i think its possible for mudkip to have stemmed from that beta design
I have to wonder why it is that every starter has different base stat total. I think it would make better sense for at least all starters of a given generation to have the same base stat total between the same evolutionary stage. Granted, of course, that between generations, there's little way to do that without running into a similar situation like Espeon and Jolteon where some Pokemon have incredibly similar or even nearly identical stat setups. That's hardly avoidable at all, though; there's only so much you can do with only 6 stat categories and a crapton of Pokemon before a lot of Pokemon start feeling rather samey to others outside of types and movesets.
Fire/Electric might be interesting. There would be no immunity like with Swampert's Water/Ground type, but would give a Fire starter a weapon against Water types. And even if the Fire starter Chinese Zodiac theory unfortunately has now been undone by Fuecoco, if it were to continue, I think a cool dog/wolf starter might fit that typing. Or a serpent.
Id like a pokemon game where riolu and zorua are two of the starters... Yes...i love the lucario line alot...and i like the zoroark line too...but think about it,how cool would it be to have a fighting/fighting steel and dark (or ghost type depending on variant for zorua) type as a starter...
I hope to see ice and bug (secondary) types as starters. And as for how they could work with it? Well the ice is rather easy to imagine on some kind of water starter, especially in colder region. but it would be really cool to see it on fire or grass (something like frozen leafs used as cutting weapon or fire pokemon generating steam by combining its fire and ice nature) Bug? lets see we've seen non starters bug pokemon combined with all starters types so... yeah nothing that wasn't already done in that topic but the best bet would be either grass starter based on some kind of insect(or parasite) OR water starter getting a bug type for coverage against grass starter (in that scenario fire starter could actually get electric type for adventage against water and grass could get ground or rock typing for adventage against fire each starter would get coverage against their weaknes) As for animal triangles - Fire turtle? Easy to imagine as some kind of volcano pokemon with its shell gradually spliting open with flames and magma. Water cat? Tigers are great swimmers so (as long as it stays quadrupedal ) it is a easy to imagine option for me. Water monkey could actually be based on japanese makak a monkey that enters hot springs in winter to warm they up, And a grass crocodile is also something imaginable (though I see it as grass/ground crocodile that likes to hide on the edge of swarms but not entering the water too often) I can not imagine a way to make a fire frog unfortunately And I am still hoping for flaming sheep pokemon! if not starter then at the very least a regional variant of mareep... gosh How I wish for fluffy flames on a team
Since we already have two water type bird starters. I am interested what other bird starters the developers would make. If there should be another fire type bird starter like with Torchic, I have an idea for one. For a Greece based region, I would predict a fire type Hippogriff as a starter. This would also let the developers to think outside the box and have it represent the horse from the Chinese zodiac theory for fire starters. If there should be another grass type bird starter to go along with the members of extinct animals theory for grass starters, I’m not sure what the developers would make. I would imagine a grass type starter based on a Kiwi, bird + fruit, and evolve into the extinct elephant bird since they are close relatives.
Another trio would be magic meowscarada has congeration magic, Delphox has evocation magic, so we just need a water starter that has some type of magic
I don’t think we should exclude Pikachu and Eevee as starter Pokemon. I think that was Pokémon’s way to check those boxes and leave the three remaining types (bug, rock, ice) to combine with the main trio starters.
@@terrysyvertson9205 So embarrassing lol. It’s the Mud Fish Pokemon and its Japanese name is literally “Water Mudskipper” 🤦♂️ but hey, it kinda looks like Wooper so that means it’s an axolotl scrapped Gen 2 beta right?!?!
Personally, I think every starter since Unova have at least PARTIALLY based RPG classes, even if it is most obvious with Kalos. I take that into account when thinking about fakemon starters.
What if every Pokemon game followed Dunbar's Number and had only a 150 Regional Dex? Even Johto had it been a standalone game. None of those Nationals or Transfers from older games.
Idea: potantial unique starter trios. A Fire Turtle starter and since Delphox is a witch fox and Meowscarada is a magician cat, both are magic users, we need a water starter to be a fairy god parent and is also a bunny.
Man, I am so freaking tired of the Delphox slander... like seriously we get it you don't like it. But I swear you have mentioned this fact in like 3 videos running now. It's design is really not that bad. Delphox is a mage. Mages wear robes.... You do not have to like it but you also don't have to spew your dislike from the rooftops. Just imagine if someone had a video series going on and on about how much they dislike your Histrobea designs. Edit: I ate a Snickers. I feel better.
I think it would be cool to have a game without a starter being given to us Legends Arceus introduced the ability to catch Pokemon in the wild areas without battling em akin to the safari zone so it be dope to actually go into the wild without a pokemon and catch our own first pokemon and use it as our "starter"
Nah, I won’t tolerate Delphox slander in here. The only objectively worst looking starters are definitely the Galar one, with Cinderace being outright bad, so I wholeheartedly agree with with how that came about with a whole year. I could’ve designed a better rabbit starter Pokemon, and at the very least have picked a GOOD color scheme (because holy crap was that awful).
Heres ya a Starter Trio: Grass/Electric, Water/Bug, Fire/Ice.... Because i REALLY want to see a Fire/Ice Pokemon, themed after an Aurora or Rainbow, And a Grass/Electric that dosent Suck like that stupid Rotom Mow.
My crackpot theory is that Gen 12 will give us the water monkey starter. Infernape was gen 4, and Rillaboom was gen 8. So the idea of a water monkey should creep into Gamefreaks head when it comes time to think about gen 12.
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A water/bug crab/shrimp/lobster starter would be awesome, as the water type would remove the weakness to fire and rock from the bug type, and the bug type would remove the weakness to grass from the water type
Water/Bug is an awesome type combo, and every day I curse Gamefreak for making Surskit lose its Water typing when evolving into Masquerain.
@calamelli209 it's fine they made wimpod lol
That would be the perfect way to do a bug type starter!
It would be a cool type combo but why a Lobster?- we have clauncher and he's not a bug
Because they are arthropods like bugs. Not every bug type has to be a bug. They could have given clauncher and clawitzer the bug type with that excuse. Especially since crabs, shrimp and lobsters are more closely related to bugs than centipedes, milipedes, and arachnids (and that didn't stop them from giving centiscorch, scolipede, ariados, araquanid, galvantula and other non-bug pokémon the bug type).
I think fennekin have going from the lowest bst in its base form to one of the highest in its final form could be related to the trope of mages starting out weak and becoming strong in the later game
I think Nanu was just offering the Meowths because he's a bit uninterested in his role, and had a surplus of Meowths to offer. The other Kahunas should have a different selection
I won't tolerate Delphox slander, Delphox is my favorite pokemon ever!
i thought i remembered that being the joke with him, yeah. he's just 100% checked out on kahuna duties and wants these kids out of his face so he can go hang with his three-dozen cats. nanu is the most relatable character in this franchise
it might also just be another example of gen vii’s dry troll humor because the point is the kid cant decide between 3 of the same thing like how every player takes at least an hour to choose a starter
If we got Snivy, Piplup, and Scorbunny as the Legends Z-A Starters, and they became Grass/Rock, Water/Ice, and Fire/Electric WITH Mega-Evolutions that would be amazing.
I can also Grass/Dragon fitting well for Serperior.
I get the logic behind the Rowlett theory, but I also don't think it's the case. While an archer can be related to long-ranger attackers in RPG's, Delphox is a long range attacker also. On top of that Decidueye can fit both the RPG and performance themes, unlike Chesnaught and Delphox who can only fit the RPG theme. Also speaking of, Incineroar can fit both themes also since it is based on a professional wrestler, so this is not exclusive just to Decidueye.
And on a side note, I would really like to see a Starter getting the Electric-Type as a secondary one, I really like this Type.
2:18 but, Poipole is a 2 stage line. Going along with the other islands, it would make sense that they’re only given the one option.
I like the idea of each island in Alola having their own starter Pokemon. It would be cool if we got Pokemon Sun 2 and Moon 2 as sequels to Pokemon Sun and Moon where you start off as a new trainer on a different island in Alola and you start with a different starter than the normal Alola starters.
Yeah that would be cool!!
@@HoopsandHipHop Yeah and in Pokemon Sun 2 and Moon 2 you could catch the normal Alola starter Pokemon in the wild.
It is ASTOUNDING we haven't gotten a water/Ice starter final evolution. Normal simply would not be good. Fire/Electric I was hoping for Cinderace, and would LOVE to see another, and Grass/Rock would work too. Normal and Bug can step back for now.
electric's been my dream starter type for over a decade now! but i'd love to see any of the missing types get used, or even ones that have only been used once like steel or poison. anything but fighting or dark, really, they're played out and i never wanna see em used on a starter again
I always assumed that you’re just offered the starters you are simply because that’s what professor has when you’re starting out. It seems like there’s no rule and literally any pokemon can be your starter, because rarely do you run into another trainer with the same pokemon and even kids who are least likely to have all new pokemon already. We just start the game lucky to get a rare pokemon.
I'd love to see a bug, ice, and normal type starters
I would like to see a Electric type the most on starter Pokemon.I would like to see a Water Cat the most in the future.
My own fakemon region starts, the water starter mizu ends up as a water ice type.
I also have the grass starter vegalef who ends up as a griffin grass flying, I've designed these when gen 3 was the newest gen XD
Been updating the list as years passed but my starters have remained.
With regional I plan to make one of each to a point, with ot I got a water chimchar and electric starters😂
I’d most like to see a grass Croc/alligator since it’s my fav animal.
Not to self promote but I tried creating those “missing” starters on my channel! Would love to see your take on the same idea some time
This is warranted self promotion imo, I’ll check it out after this!
Not to self promote - then continues to self promote 😂
Electric is my favorite, so I'd like to see that, then bug is one of my other favorites so that one as well.
A Fire and Electric type… it would HAVE to be based around the concept of plasma!
Good point dude.
I still feel that Cinderace would have been perfect for a fire/electric
I like to come up with ideas for mainstream Pokemon games for fun (all words, no pictures or codes) and one idea for a starter I came up with is one that gets an electric type when it evolves. He would’ve been themed around/inspired by the hammer of Thor (hard to spell that name) and would’ve been the Grass type starter! My most recent project, instead of making new starters, gives the Legends Arceus treatment to 6 preexisting starters with the most mind blowing one being Charizard becoming an actual Dragon type!
Baked typing with grass typing will be a cool combination of a some sort of bug having a flower on it or something like that
Baked?
not allowed ever, it's illegal in an e rated game, and the rating will remain e forever
@@terrysyvertson9205 ?
@@terrysyvertson9205 WTF
I would like to see a starter trio whose final evolutions are Fire/Electric, Water/Bug, and Grass/Ground. That creates a "balanced" trio where each starter's secondary type is super effective against the primary type of the starter that it would normally be weak against based on their primary types, so all 3 have options to take out the other 2. The gen 9 starters did something similar where their secondary types instead formed a reverse type triangle without interacting with the primary types. Same idea, but different execution.
Yes, the Fire starter in this case would have a 4x weakness to Ground so it's not perfectly balanced, but if we went with Grass/Rock rather than Grass/Ground, then the Fire starter couldn't hit the Grass starter with super effective STAB damage at all, which would be even more unbalanced.
I was thinking about
Grass/rock
Fire/electric
Water/ice
Creating starter with never seen before type combos while also checking the missing starter types but also creating a triangle where each mon has a super effective stab type against its usual weakness
grass/ROCK->Fire
fire/ELECTRIC->Water
water/ICE->grass
@@ricard0mil0s80 But like I said, that would mean the Fire starter couldn't hit the Grass starter for super effective STAB damage at all because Rock would cancel Grass's weakness to Fire. Both the Water and Grass starters would be able to hit both of its counterparts for super effective damage (I had to double-check if Rock resisted Ice but it doesn't) but the Fire one wouldn't have that luxury. That ruins the idea of a "balanced" trio by having one clearly weaker
@@calamelli209 I overlooked the whole rock fire situation god dammit
Keep in mind Hapu is chosen as a kahuna late in the story. Its said that prior to her being chosen, Nanu handled the kahuna duties for both his island and Poni, because there wasnt an official kahuna after hapus predecessor died. So poni residents wouldve likely gotten meowths as well. Hapu will have to choose her own set to give out but she hadnt been kahuna long enough to give anything out during the story
(Tho i suppose that does leave the question of what mons did the previous kahuna give out)
Also nanu giving out meowths is meant to be a very disappointing experience. Like they're supposed to have different personalities but the kid picking cant even really tell the difference between em. He doesnt seem like he wants any of them. I think its a case of nanu just being lazy cuz that's his main character trait.
Olivia isnt like Nanu. She would likely have a better set of choices then 3 rockruffs. Tho i can see rockruff still being one of the choices
Nearly all of the arguments for Rowlet being from Kalos make far more sense for being from Galar, especially Robin Hood. The only that remotely makes sense for Kalos is Decidueye being an archer RPG class, but Archer usually falls into the Fighter or Rogue Big Three Classes already represented by the existing starters.
If Pokemon Legends ZA going to received: Chikorita, Scorbunny, and Piplup for regional form to add the secondary. They will becoming Grass/Psychic, Fire/Electric, and Water/Ice that will be so awesome and Mega Evolution such amazing idea.
Nah, for Chikorita, Grass/Fairy or literally any other combo but Grass/Psychic, we already have Grass/Psychic types and it ain't fun getting obliterated by a single bug type attack, if it's supposed to be a rework of an old pokemon, a better type (not a worse one) should be step one
It's pretty much hinted at in the games at least that the three starter Pokemon aren't the basic starters for everyone. Every person has their own unique starter and only we the player, and our rivals gets the three starters we do.
Oh yeah, and a water cat starter should be partially based on a catfish. Looking forward to it.
a normal pokemon like Eevee works for a starter. You learn the basics of the pokemon with the normalness, then your choice of Type (element) comes from when you get branched evolutions. Everyone gets the same start but its which branches you take from there.
Could also argue something like Rockruff has something similar (though rock type) would make an interesting starter but has different forms or lycanroc when it evolves. That would be an interesting gimmick
A couple observations
Missing animals: Domidoodle actually made videos on the "missing starter animals" as two pairs of starters. Depending on who you ask it could be organized as following
* How traditionally see it: We're missing a Grass mustelid (Cyndaquil or at least Typhlosion is a badger and Oshawott is an otter), Grass crocodilian, Fire turtle/tortoise, Fire frog/toad, Water primate and Water feline. I have some concepts for this, such as a Fire/Rock glass frog based on glassblowing and glasswork (it'd be part of an art-themed trio) or an adaptation of the fishing cat species
* If Charmander is being counted as a salamander: That could leave a Grass salamander portion to fill (Mudkip is an axolotl), and open up a new Fire lizard (Grass has Treecko and Water has Sobble). For the former, I could think of a mushroom tongue salamander that is also a literal mushroom
* If you want to make even more birds you could separate the flight-capable (Rowlet and Quaxley) and flight-less (Torchic and Piplup) birds. Grass type kiwi for a New Zealand region starter?
Missing types: Personally I could include Dragon in types not covered by the fact that Mega Evolution is a limited mechanic. For all intents and purposes, in a lot of games they appear Gen 6 and beyond no starter has part Dragon. If they do it might necessitate the starter they're normally weak to to have a secondary type to get around it (even in Gen 4 Empoleon still loses to Torterra's Ground typing). So the first permanent Dragon type starter I can see introducing is Grass/Dragon, so Fire can choose Ice, Fairy, Poison, Flying and Bug. My idea for that is another ancient reptile...a scutosaurus that's also pineapple themed, perhaps?
* Normal type: Probably the other tricky type combination. The point of Normal is they're mundane, and well normal. I think the reason Normal has the most missing combos (four, and six if we're ignoring regional variants and only counting Pokemon made from the ground up) is because normal mixed with anything other than Flying (which is very common among birds) feels like a bit of an oxymoron. Maybe it could be like Pyroar where its more low-key? Or since sound is lumped with Normal because normal's the default and sound isn't a type, a sound-themed starter could be part Normal
* Others: A Bug starter would likely have to start as part Bug. A Water/Bug crustacean makes sense, given we already have a Bug type hermit crab. Ice would probably end up with Water first (I could easily see a Primarina regional variant that's part Ice), though I would love to see what a Fire/Ice starter looks like (maybe Ice could be representing a desert animal regulating heat? Like a Fire/Ice Delphox given how fennec foxes live). I already discussed my Rock type concept but you could also do a nod to fossil Pokemon by using a prehistoric animal and giving it the Rock type. The others could probably be anything
Delphox doesn't bother me but Cinderace looks like a mascot costume
Nancy Kovack Voices The Base Stages All The Starter Pokémon From Generation 1 To 9; While Jim Cummings Voices The Starter Pokémon Evolutions From Generation 4 To 9, Replacing The Late Mel Blanc Who Use The Starter Pokémon Evolutions For The First Three Generations.
What.
Mel Blanc voiced Pokemon??
That's pretty cool
@@bigjalapeno7061that's a false fact
@@vibingonvibes8630he didn't voice Pokémon
5:13 Robin Hood is from Nottingham in the UK so Galar would've suited the Rowlet line, not Kalos
You know what would be really cool in Alola if we could choose the starting island and the other islands. which would impact the starter choices, the order of the z crystal and the Pokemon you can get, boss battle and maybe the story. It sounds really cool but I could see this idea buckle under the weight. And the coding would probably be too much for Game Freak and the 3ds. But it would have been really cool if they could do it
Yeah that would be a super cool idea!! That would be cool to see in a future Alola game!
Maybe that can be done in a Legends game
12:56 they approved them because they liked them
Art is subjective is it not maybe if u let them grow on u u would like them more I think they’re unique
I've actually made fakemon starters where the final evolutions were Fire/Electric, Water/Bug, and Grass/Rock giving each starter a second type that covers the starter type it's weak to.
I always thought the Mudkip line were based on the Mudskipper 😅
It is, primarily, actually, an axolotl is actually a pretty minor part of Mudkip/Marshstomp/Swampert's designs
It's always lovely to hear the retro name "starter Pokemon" even though these days they are "first partner Pokemon".
5:25 “A GAME THEORY!”
7:23 I wanna see a water cat and monkey because I like those animals
The water cat starter would fit nicely in a Great Lakes inspired region. It could reference the Mishibijiw and it could be another Water/Dark starter or even an unprecedented Water/Ghost starter.
A water cat starter would cool. You already have a real life inspiration in the fishing cat and they can work from there
I like the idea of a fire frog starter! Or how about a hybrid of a frog and turtle, then it would fit in both of those trios?
I just want a dog starter. Don't even care about it's type. Also it's really surprising Game Freak never went for a water/ice starter. Serms like an obvious thing.
"like this or this..."
competetive: you may not like it but its totally broken in OU.
Mudkip isn’t just a Axolotl it’s also based on the Mudskipper.
if those starter types have never been used i think itd be interesting to introduce and quad weak starter trio with cool types like a grass/bug strarter quad weak to fire, and fire and ice starter quad weak to rock, and a water/rock starter quad weak to grass
mudkip is specifically an axolotl which is why all the evolutions have exterior gills but wooper is just a young salamander which is why it loses the gills when it evolves. still i think its possible for mudkip to have stemmed from that beta design
Starters on other islands in Alola? Now that's something to talk about
7:26 I would definitely want the water monkey as the water cat would obviously be a Jaguar.
I have to wonder why it is that every starter has different base stat total. I think it would make better sense for at least all starters of a given generation to have the same base stat total between the same evolutionary stage. Granted, of course, that between generations, there's little way to do that without running into a similar situation like Espeon and Jolteon where some Pokemon have incredibly similar or even nearly identical stat setups. That's hardly avoidable at all, though; there's only so much you can do with only 6 stat categories and a crapton of Pokemon before a lot of Pokemon start feeling rather samey to others outside of types and movesets.
Cinderace is fine, it's not such a big deal. Same with Delphox.
Fire/Electric might be interesting. There would be no immunity like with Swampert's Water/Ground type, but would give a Fire starter a weapon against Water types. And even if the Fire starter Chinese Zodiac theory unfortunately has now been undone by Fuecoco, if it were to continue, I think a cool dog/wolf starter might fit that typing. Or a serpent.
Id like a pokemon game where riolu and zorua are two of the starters...
Yes...i love the lucario line alot...and i like the zoroark line too...but think about it,how cool would it be to have a fighting/fighting steel and dark (or ghost type depending on variant for zorua) type as a starter...
Hopefully they'd get new forms for that, and in Zorua's case, a new ability (and yes, I know Zorua has a Hisuian form, I have a shiny one)
I hope to see ice and bug (secondary) types as starters. And as for how they could work with it?
Well the ice is rather easy to imagine on some kind of water starter, especially in colder region. but it would be really cool to see it on fire or grass (something like frozen leafs used as cutting weapon or fire pokemon generating steam by combining its fire and ice nature)
Bug? lets see we've seen non starters bug pokemon combined with all starters types so... yeah nothing that wasn't already done in that topic but the best bet would be either grass starter based on some kind of insect(or parasite) OR water starter getting a bug type for coverage against grass starter (in that scenario fire starter could actually get electric type for adventage against water and grass could get ground or rock typing for adventage against fire each starter would get coverage against their weaknes)
As for animal triangles - Fire turtle? Easy to imagine as some kind of volcano pokemon with its shell gradually spliting open with flames and magma.
Water cat? Tigers are great swimmers so (as long as it stays quadrupedal ) it is a easy to imagine option for me.
Water monkey could actually be based on japanese makak a monkey that enters hot springs in winter to warm they up,
And a grass crocodile is also something imaginable (though I see it as grass/ground crocodile that likes to hide on the edge of swarms but not entering the water too often)
I can not imagine a way to make a fire frog unfortunately
And I am still hoping for flaming sheep pokemon! if not starter then at the very least a regional variant of mareep... gosh How I wish for fluffy flames on a team
9:35 Likewise, the Popliio line resembles the original Johto Water-type starter line.
Since we already have two water type bird starters. I am interested what other bird starters the developers would make.
If there should be another fire type bird starter like with Torchic, I have an idea for one. For a Greece based region, I would predict a fire type Hippogriff as a starter. This would also let the developers to think outside the box and have it represent the horse from the Chinese zodiac theory for fire starters.
If there should be another grass type bird starter to go along with the members of extinct animals theory for grass starters, I’m not sure what the developers would make. I would imagine a grass type starter based on a Kiwi, bird + fruit, and evolve into the extinct elephant bird since they are close relatives.
Another trio would be magic meowscarada has congeration magic, Delphox has evocation magic, so we just need a water starter that has some type of magic
Bug. Bugs all the way. I love Bug Types.
I would really love to see an ice Starter. If first or last evo phase, I don't care.
I don’t think we should exclude Pikachu and Eevee as starter Pokemon. I think that was Pokémon’s way to check those boxes and leave the three remaining types (bug, rock, ice) to combine with the main trio starters.
Dragon Fairy Steel could be a good starter triangle
I'd like to see a Grass/Bug, a Fire/Rock, and a Water/Ice.
Mudkip isn’t an Axolotl, it’s a Mudskipper. Hence the name Mudkip, and its lore.
wrong, it's an axolotl, mudkip is only it's English name, you dingus
@@terrysyvertson9205 So embarrassing lol. It’s the Mud Fish Pokemon and its Japanese name is literally “Water Mudskipper” 🤦♂️ but hey, it kinda looks like Wooper so that means it’s an axolotl scrapped Gen 2 beta right?!?!
I would love to get an ice type Starter. And HoopsandHipHop you should design the missing pokemon the triangle Cat turtle crocodile in a video
I would love to see a Water/Bug starter based on a diving beetle 🪲
Not showing panpour when talking about a water monkey. The disrespect is real.
Mudkip is not an axolotl. It is a mudskipper.
I always thought the alola starters were barbarian/ranger/bard as their “class” types like kalos
Personally, I think every starter since Unova have at least PARTIALLY based RPG classes, even if it is most obvious with Kalos. I take that into account when thinking about fakemon starters.
What if every Pokemon game followed Dunbar's Number and had only a 150 Regional Dex? Even Johto had it been a standalone game. None of those Nationals or Transfers from older games.
Idea: potantial unique starter trios.
A Fire Turtle starter
and since Delphox is a witch fox and Meowscarada is a magician cat, both are magic users, we need a water starter to be a fairy god parent and is also a bunny.
We were really close to greatness in Galar, but Scorbunny didn't evolve into a Fire/Electric type pkmn.
by the strictest definition ground/poison/grass isn't perfect, ground doesn't resist itself
Excuse me, it is FIRST PARTNER POKÉMON... In GAME FREAK's FREAKING DREAMS 😂😂
I will never use that phrase lol, Starter Pokemon is infinitely better 😤
Man, I am so freaking tired of the Delphox slander... like seriously we get it you don't like it. But I swear you have mentioned this fact in like 3 videos running now. It's design is really not that bad. Delphox is a mage. Mages wear robes.... You do not have to like it but you also don't have to spew your dislike from the rooftops. Just imagine if someone had a video series going on and on about how much they dislike your Histrobea designs.
Edit: I ate a Snickers. I feel better.
I think it would be cool to have a game without a starter being given to us Legends Arceus introduced the ability to catch Pokemon in the wild areas without battling em akin to the safari zone so it be dope to actually go into the wild without a pokemon and catch our own first pokemon and use it as our "starter"
rowlet reminds me of the main assassin from assassin's creed 2 and 3
As a pokemon starter type I would love to see ice or fairy type.
Nah, I won’t tolerate Delphox slander in here. The only objectively worst looking starters are definitely the Galar one, with Cinderace being outright bad, so I wholeheartedly agree with with how that came about with a whole year. I could’ve designed a better rabbit starter Pokemon, and at the very least have picked a GOOD color scheme (because holy crap was that awful).
I think Scorbunny's line should have been part normal type
I would love a fire/ice starter type
I honestly don't see why you're so hung up on Cinderace. It's really not THAT bad.
Exactly.
Is there a dragon type start I’m forgetting about? Or are we including mega Charizard X?
There's also never been a dragon type starter (not counting megas ofc)
Fire/electric
Water/bug
Grass/normal
Fire/ice
That's what I wanna see for the upcoming starters and regional variant starters also 🫡
fennekin >>>>>>>>>>> every starter from gens 1-5🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂ and cinderace >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your favorite last stage starter
Heres ya a Starter Trio:
Grass/Electric, Water/Bug, Fire/Ice....
Because i REALLY want to see a Fire/Ice Pokemon, themed after an Aurora or Rainbow, And a Grass/Electric that dosent Suck like that stupid Rotom Mow.
Pikachu has been a starter twice. Does it not count towards the electric type?
I think they might do a grass 🐊 for a starter
My crackpot theory is that Gen 12 will give us the water monkey starter. Infernape was gen 4, and Rillaboom was gen 8. So the idea of a water monkey should creep into Gamefreaks head when it comes time to think about gen 12.
6:10 I would like to see a rock starter
Great video but Delphox isn't even that bad though...
Alolan Stater secret: Rowlet was not the only starter.
6:05 Pikachu and Eevee are starters
Simipour:
Am I a joke to you?
i love delphox
Or poison ice and electric in ultra space
There isn't a dragon starter eather
hey dont shit on delphox her design is dope
Bulbasaur is not a frog 😑 I refuse to hear otherwise 🙈 🙉 🤣
:( Delphox is my fav starter :( dont do them dirty like that :(