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5016 No.5016
NEW STARTERS.

GET HYPE.

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No.5017
Pig-rabbit! Hydrocephalmew! And thing from Pikmin!

No.5020
You drew an eye

No.5022
>>5020
I lost the original and posted this. :(

No.5023
Assuming they're in the proper order...

The grass-type will be yet another reptile of some sort. The fire-type will start off as something out of the Hundred-Acre Wood and then become a godless killing machine of a bear. That water-type better be a platypus.

No.5026
>>5023
Scratch that middle remark. It'll become a godless killing machine of a boar. I just noticed the springy tail.

No.5031
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5031
God bless the grass starters.

No.5034
>>5031
Thank God I'm not the only one who saw that.

No.5037
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5037

No.5038
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5038

No.5039
>>5031
>>5034
I expected this sooner.

No.5043
>>5031
Well, now I know what I'm naming my Grass starter.

No.5050
>Fire Pig
PLEASE GOD LET THIS HAPPEN
>Grass Pig
Not sure if want

No.5051
>>5038
My mind has been blown!

No.5052
>>5031
Holy shit

No.5056
I'm hoping this time it'll be a different type Starter triangle. However, the only triangle I see working is Dark, Fighting and Psychic.

No.5058
Center one...
Might not want...

No.5061
>>5056
Why do they even need to have a triangle type setup?
When you get them they never know any elemental attacks and by the time you see your rival again, you already have a full team.

No.5062
>>5056
Dark's immunity to psychic fucks it up.

No.5065
what if they finally mixed up the types and we get something like poison/psychic/bug starters?

No.5067
>>5065
Poison isn't super-effective against Bug. And Bug isn't resistant to Psychic, either.

No.5068
>>5067
ground/poison/grass then or rock/steel/fire

No.5070
>>5068
How is any triangle with Steel and Rock in it good for starters? And Ground and Grass are too similar in concept, with Poison becoming an odd man out. Actually, Steel/Rock/Fire has the same problem.

No triangle is as triangle-y in concepts and weaknesses as Fire/Water/Grass. The only way to improve the game and get rid of that triangle, is to change the number of starters you get.

No.5071
>>5070
you take the ore(rock) and smelt(fire) it into steel.
machines(steel + fire) carve out rock.
hit steel against rock to get a spark(fire).

but I guess you're right.

No.5072
>>5070
four starters, each being super effective against one, ineffective against another and normal effective against the last. To lazy to check if this would be possible, but it would be neat.

No.5079
A kiwi bird, a pig, and a sea otter?

No.5085
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5085

No.5089
>>5037
>Fire pig
>Haughty grass thing
>WATER BEAR
I WANT YOU TO BE REAL WHY CAN'T YOU BE REAL

No.5091
I want to say they look dorky and I'll hate them but that's what I said about the Gen 4 starters too and I fucking LOOOOOVE Empoleon now.

No.5092
Bottom right is Grass and it's a beaver. Calling it.

No.5093
Grass starters are always reptilian. That kind of narrows it down.

No.5102
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5102
I would use this grass starter so hard

No.5103
man the designs have really gotten worse...

No.5104
>>5071
When I said Rock and Steel were bad for starters, I meant because it'd be broken.

No.5105
>>5103
That's really impossible to tell from silhouette alone.

No.5106
>>5103
Tell me one thing that wrong with these SHADOWS.

No.5113
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5113
These seem fake to me.

No.5114
>>5113
Hmm. Yeah, they don't match up very well.

No.5115
>>5113
>Fire Scorpion

WHY CAN'T YOU BE REAL

No.5116
Seemingly dupes.
They technically could be other pokemon, but with the coloration of them I think they're probably meant to be dupes of starter pokemon.
Plus, those screenshots on the pages seem to be ones we've already seen.

No.5121
>>5105
>>5106
silhouettes are actually pretty important in terms of design, bro.

And for one thing they look pretty awkward for Pokemon shadows. They don't appear organic, just weird and "zany". The "pig's" tail looks retarded. Reminds me of the 4th gen cat Pokemon that was unnecessary.

These newer designs can be judged more and more by their appearance. I mean seeing the sprite of the 4th gen trio is proof enough. They're running out of ideas.

I'll reserve judgment til' they are revealed. Zorark (?) was an ugly start.

No.5124
>>5121
>roar I am angry and quick to judge

Give it some time, anon! I bet it'll be radical.

No.5125
>>5121
That's true.
It's a hallmark of good character design if you can recognize a character immediately from its silhouette.

No.5126
>>5124
Did that really come off as angry? You need to ease up on the poke-circlejerking.

I did say I'll reserve judgment. It just seems like a bad start is all. It's okay if you actually liked the 4th gen.

No.5128
>>5125
But we can't do that yet, because right now all we have are silhouettes.

No.5129
I want bottom right to be some sort of fire-badger. I want it so bad.
So.
Bad.

No.5130
>>5128
>all we have are silhouettes.
Zoroark and his prevolution were revealed. It's most likely that most Pokemon are gonna follow in suit of his design with headbands, patterns and all these do-dads.

It's not like the shadows are blocks. You can tell a lot from them, but not something 100%.

No.5132
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5132
I HAVE CREATED COMEDY

Hal helped.

No.5133
>>5132
you went through all that trouble?

that's... pretty sad.

But at least with this image you can see that they don't look as crazy as the newest batch. That's just my personal preference though.

No.5136
>>5132
This highlights pretty nicely what's wrong with the new ones. Simplicity is key.

No.5137
Keep in mind the original 150 were made to be readable on shitty shitty gameboy screens.

No.5138
>>5062
Well, outside of >>5068's rock/steel/fire combo, this is the only thing that can work. Besides, that would add to the challenge.

No.5139
>>5138
Only if you're the Psychic. It's an imbalanced triangle.

No.5142
>>5139
Evoles into Psychic bug then, or something that resists dark.

No.5144
>>5142
That's still not really a balanced triangle, and final evolution dual types are irrelevant. Still haven't fixed it.

No.5151
>>5144
Flying/Fighting/Ice works
So does Poison/Grass/Ground

No.5154
>>5151
There are no Pure Flying types, so a Normal/Flying wouldn't have the resistance to Fighting that you need, while Ice has a resistance to absolutely NOTHING but itself. That triangle doesn't really work, especially since the three types don't really mesh into a triangle as an image very well.

Poison/Grass/Ground has all three types a bit too similar to each other in concept, for starters anyway. The types do work out in relation to each other, but then those two added types don't interact enough with all the other types in the game (which is really bad if the starter's supposed to be your MAIN MAN.)

No.5157
>>5154
>There are no Pure Flying types
so they make one...

>Poison/Grass/Ground has all three types a bit too similar to each other in concept,
is that really so important?

>for starters anyway. The types do work out in relation to each other, but then those two added types don't interact enough with all the other types in the game (which is really bad if the starter's supposed to be your MAIN MAN.)

maybe their trying to make you focus more on caught Pokemon and less on your main.

still filled with blind hope here.

No.5158
why''s everyone so against fire/water/grass as starters?

No.5159
>>5158
Not against it myself, but a different sett of would still be interesting.

No.5160
>>5157
There can't be a pure Flying-type. "Flying" is more like a characteristic than a type.

No.5161
>>5160
But... But it used to be!

Back in Gen 1!

No.5164
>>5161
Back in my day, pokemon used to mean something!

No.5165
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5165
>>5161
Yeah-huh, and look how well that turned out.

No.5167
>>5157
Yes, it's important. The three starters should be distinct and separate. Poison/Ground/Grass doesn't have an interlinking theme like the elements, but the types of Ground and Grass are still too similar that the starters made by it wouldn't be different enough from each other.

>>5160
In Gen I it was also BIRD. But Bones is right, Flying is a characteristic more than a type. There are no Pokemon with Flying as their primary type, at all.

No.5177
>>5136
...Those aren't any more or less complicated.

No.5179
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5179
>>5167
>In Gen I it was also BIRD.

In next gen it should be changed to BURD

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5181
>>5179
Birdkeeper IVAN wants to battle!
Birdkeeper IVAN sent out BURD!

No.5187
>>5177
There's a little bit of a difference in simplicity levels, but above all the complexities in the new ones seem kind of tacked on, you know what I mean? Having seen the old ones before might be a bit of an influence, but someone who hadn't could probably look at their silhouettes and get a basic idea of what's supposed to be going on in there. For the new ones a lot of it seems sort of extraneous. The designs don't really flow at all, save for maybe the first.

I like to hope that against all odds at least one of them will be cool, though. Highest hopes for the one on the left, worried by the seemingly inexplicable lumpiness of the one on the right, and can't really fathom how the middle one could end up looking decent.

No.5188
>can't really fathom how the middle one could end up looking decent.
A Fire Pig, you can't tell me a Fire Pig won't be cool as Bawls. If it's anything else though? Eh, I dunno.

No.5190
Speculation on final evolutions

Fire/Steel - Anteater
Grass/Flying - Another grass/dragon thing
Water/Ice - Polar Bear

No.5191
>>5190
Oki-Dokie, lets do this.

Fire/Steel Warthog
Grass/Flying Crane
Water/Poison Platypus

No.5197
>>5191
Fire/Ground Boar
Grass Crocodile
Water Capybara

No.5206
>>5190
Fro left to right:
Water/??? No idea
Grass/fighting panda/kangaroo
Fire/ground lion/bear

No.5223
>>5206
I hope you're wrong about the kangaroo.

No.5225
Swan-duck grass/flying type
Fire/Rock itty bitty piggy
Water-ice platypus polar bear. The greatest of all mythological beasts.

No.5227
>>5223
I don't. I want a kangaroo buddy so bad!

No.5229
If that pig thing is the fire type you better believe I'm naming it BurnBoar.

No.5280
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5280
Pretentious Dragon is best dragon.

No.5375
>>5229
I'll name it Boarn.

No.5380
>>5280

Man, I'd kill for a grass/dragon.

No.5421
>>5380
Yeah, that'd be awesome. There's no way they'd make a Dragon type starter, though. :/

No.5430
>>5421
Maybe if it didn't go Dragon until its final evolution.

No.5548
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5548
ARE YOU READY

No.5549
>>5548
beat me by a second

No.5550
According to /jp/, they're all Dual-Types.

>3 new starter pokemon: Tsutaaja a Grass/Fighting pokemon of ivy, Pokabu a Fire/Dark pig pokemon and Mijumaru a Water/Psychic pokemon that can roll into a ball.

No.5551
Smug Lizard is my favorite of the 3.

No.5553
...Damn. Grass/Fighting is a good combo. The defensive tanking and healing of grass type and the damage dealing of fighting type.

But come on. Fire. Dark. And that thing is totally gonna evolve into a ninja boar. Pokabu is clearly going to be a bro.

No.5554
>>5550

oh my god.

I wanted them to have dark/fighting/psychic as a combo going in the opposite direction of water/fire/grass...but I didn't think they'd actually DO it.

oh my god!

I am so excited right now.

No.5555
>>5550
My Japanese may not be top notch, but I don't see any mention of dual types.

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5556
>>5553
>>And that thing is totally gonna evolve into a ninja boar.
Not what I was thinking.

No.5557
>>5555
Yeeeaah, I can't get confirmation on that, might have jumped the gun.

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5558

No.5559
>>5548
I want to see the evolutions before I make my final decision, but right now Grass is my favourite. You can just smell the smugness oozing of it.

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5560

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5562

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5563

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5564

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