Pokemon (Handhelds, not Go)

Wanted to blab about Pokemon but didn't want to clutter up the Go thread with handheld talk.

So who wants to speculate about the typing of the Gen 7 starters?

Gen 1 had Grass/Poison, Fire/Flying at stage 3, and Water.

Gen 2 all three starters were single type.

Gen 3 had Grass, Fire/Fighting at stage 2, and Water/Ground at stage 2.

Gen 4 had Grass/Ground at stage 3, Fire/Fighting at stage 2, and Water/Steel at stage 3.

Gen 5 had Grass, Fire/Fighting at stage 2, and Water.

Gen 6 had Grass/Fighting, Fire/Psychic, and Water/Dark all at stage 3.

Gen 7's Grass starter is Flying at stage 1, and since it's a bird I doubt it changes from Flying.

Gen 7's Fire starter is a black cat, so I could see it turning Fire/Dark at stage 2 or stage 3.

Gen 7's Water starter is a sea lion, so it could really gain any secondary type at all or stay pure water. There was no real indication that Gen 4 or 6's water starters would gain the secondary type they did.


Incidentally, seems like they really have a hard-on for Fire/Fighting starters. 3 generations in a row.

Chris said:

It's worth it, Chimchar evolves into my favorite pokemon Infernape. Flare Blitz/Close Combat (120 power stabs) makes it a glass cannon which usually goes first, Thunder Punch and U-Turn deal with its counters. It destroys Gyrados.

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I hate Infernape. His learned moveset is terrible throughout the early and mid-game, why the hell would you give a priority move (mach punch) to a pokemon with such a high speed? And since it's Gen 4, focus punch is still trash tier which means the only decent fighting move off a TM is brick break. Flame Wheel is decent when you get it but it falls so far behind in the midgame that I had to give him Flamethrower.

I'll take Emboar over Infernape any day of the week and twice on Sunday, although I prefer Samurott in Gen 5 because the native water pokemon in Gen 5 are pretty bad and my typical lineups just roll without a grass type anyway.

Nah. I feel like they balance what pokemon are available before you get to the post-game pretty well, it's always fun getting your all-purpose lineup just right. The only hack I'd like to see is every pokemon that requires trading to evolve to gain their third stage as soon as they hit stage 2. Gen 5 is hurting for fighting types (I prefer not to use Emboar). If you can't evolve Gurdurr into Conkeldurr, you're pretty much just left with Mienshao, except you can't get Mienfoo until you're in your mid/late 30s and Mienfoo is pretty shitty until it evolves into Mienshao at 50.

At least White/Black 2 add Heracross and Lucario to the mix.

List is kinda funny considering how much I enjoyed X and Y and how I've heard so much negativity about Sun and Moon.

The only real complaint I have about X and Y is the goddamn exp share change making it too easy, but not using it at all makes leveling too tedious.