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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I feel bad for kids who have these as their first starter ever.

    I can accept them if they were regular goofy shitmons at the end of the dex. But as starters? Good lord.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Those poor Gen Alpha kiddies that picked the watermon and end up with a pokemon that evolved into a literal homosexual will forever have a sour taste on this series.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Times have changed oldgay. What came before has affected what has recently arrived and those yet to come, as well as outside stresses that have shaped the now.
      Funny, in a series that stresses evolution of both character and pokémon, the players can't handle evolution of the series from their childhood to somebody else's.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I feel like this isn't a good argument since the old Pokemon still exist and are marketed to kids. I mean LGPE was just a few years ago.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yes, but they're not "their" starters, they're grandad's and if he's a cool granddad, he'd have told the little ones about them.
          This is "their" game, their new Generation and region to explore. And they get new starters with their new region.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You sound like a pseudo-intellectual douche who doesn't understand that change for the sake of change isn't intrinsically good.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          And you're a seething child who ignores the fact when they first started, the greatest influence on the artists creating the things was Toriyama. Since then, more and more non-oldgay-era artists have emerged, influenced by othr artists beyond the shit the kids in the 70's and 80's were fed. Coupled with the gradual improvement of the hardware (GBA allowing them to display more colours and greater detail in their designs directly led to Rayquaza, Aggron and other /vp/-approved numons) over the years and the shift in art trends and we end up here. It's not "pseduo-intellectualism", it's called "living though the last 40 years and seeing how the world has changed since you became aware of it in the 80's".

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Everyone knows that things change, you condescending donkey. Is it so hard to understand that people have mixed feelings about having to expect an inferior product for the foreseeable future?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >the greatest influence on the artists creating the things was Toriyama
            And that's where things peaked.
            Considering whatever Toriyama draws becomes a mainstream hit even today (Android 21), I'd say they shouldn't have let that mindset go.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, and things have gotten worse.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >What came before has affected what has recently arrived and those yet to come
        no, the old good was abruptly and deliberately smashed with a hammer so that we have the present state of things. just as the israelites are doing with the west, they are doing the same in asia in all areas.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        when i ask my nephews what their favourite is, they tell me charizard. now that this gen has arrived, i am 100% certain their answer will still be 'cool fire dragon' and not 'gay duck'. what children is that appealing to?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The whole Sprig line is good though, and probably the best thing 9th gen has.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You're at least 9 years too late fren, Flowercats are real Pokémon now…

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I wonder what she thinks of GF stealing her ideas

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Did I shutter?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              How should I know?
              Opinions of non-pokefrickers are so worthless to me that I don't even hear them

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Sprigatito is unironically the worst of the evo line, just like Fennekin.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The second stage is great, I'll probably slap an Everstone on mine.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >vegana bones on official art
    cat literally can't stop winning

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The what?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >vegana bones
        Not how women work, virgin.

        fricking newbies

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Oh no, I'm very aware of the maymay. Doesn't excuse it from being moronic.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        [...]
        fricking newbies

        You can leave now

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >vegana bones
        Not how women work, virgin.

        vegana Bones
        Take me Home
        To the place I belong
        vegana Bones
        Mountain Mama

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >vegana bones
      Not how women work, virgin.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >virgin
        How can you be so dumb?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Are you new to life?

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I actually really like the Fire one and it's the first time in all 9 gens that the Fire starter is my favorite.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Best Firemon since Blaziken ez

      I liked incineraor as a smash character though, felt like thats what he was designed for

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the Fakemon trio.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    God I fricking wish we didn't get leaks and this was us first discovering them. We could all play the game tomorrow and discover all the new mons

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You could just not look at the leaks

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Easier said than done

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they REALLY want you to pick the cat, huh

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You're only realising this now, after 10 days of leaks pointing to how it was THE pick of the Gen's starter trio?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        idk, it caught me off guard. they seemed to focus on homoduck in early promos

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Anon, it's a cat. The vast majority of pet owners are more likely to own a cat than a duck or bird (Granted, there's a few rockets DO have pet 'gators, but they're an exception to the rule of "don't keep anything fricktarded as a pet" as rule of badass shades its stupidity quotient).
          There was only going to be one winner.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, but they also gave it a horrible type combination so it feels more like a trap.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >a horrible type combination
        it has protean and is one of the fastest pokemon available in the game.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ehhh they're better than galar's at least
    still fricking awful granted

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I’m liking them less and less as time goes on, and I started out liking Skeledirge and thinking Quaquaval was okay.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Quaxwell a d Floragato are incredible.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    no

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    strong themes and design. very good trio.

    a million times more memorable than Sword/Shit's starters.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    cacus :DDD

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      yeah, just a happy cactus, believe me officer Jenny

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Peyote cat

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No wonder it's high.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        So that's just what the flower looks like in bloomed form then, I guess. Weird that it appears more like a leaf when not being used to attack though.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can we just stop doing 3rd stages now? It's like they bash their head on the wall before designing those. Those 2nd stages are actually good. We got 3 Delphoxs.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why did they draw the pet cat animal with sexy v-lines?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because they're based.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Which Digimon is that?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The one who helped the middle-aged GF staffers grow up way back when.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why's Meowscarada's flower look different here? Did the emulators fail to render it properly or something?

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Skeledirge looks like it belongs in some godawful gen 3 romhack.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It looks really disconnected from the other 2

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        because grass and water are both bipedal and have some flamboyance to them.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I mean it looks disconnected from Fuecoco and Crocalor.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Eh, we have worse cases in Pokemon.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah, I guess.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      unironically should have been a circus strongman to complete the trio

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I’ll honestly take these over Galar’s starters.

    Skeledirge is the worst but it’s still better than all of Galar’s starters.

    We truly owe Alola’s starters an apology.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      incineroar is still the worst starter
      at least with gen 8 and 9 they don't tease you into thinking the final evo is gonna be cool

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Quaquaval looks better in artwork than ingame

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What the frick is that flower on Meowscarada? why does the one in game look so shit in comparison?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe it's the emulator not rendering it right?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Plenty of people have played the game already, surely someone would have a screenshot if it was any different. Does it appear in the Pokedex image?

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This is actually heinous. Anyone who approved these designs need to be let off.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I agree.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If the duck was literally just water Blaziken he could have been based. He's like, a small tweak away from being an actual good design. Why did they have to make him such a homosexual? Even just looking at the image in the OP if he was just a regular fighting bird mon be could have been based.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This
      >remove the huge ass
      >straighten the spine
      >change the feet
      Boom it’s fine, you can keep the peawiener feathers and have it use them for attacks like it does now, as some sorta monk martial art type shit.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nice, this means we'll get clear art of Meowscarada soon. Maybe people will start drawing her fricking tail now

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't have the game but I'm still split between croc and cat.
    In one hand, I think the cat is a good baseline design, kinda like a new Roserade but with more stylish proportions.
    In the other hand, I feel like the more time passes the more I like the final croc.

    It's like the cat is attacking me with Closed Combat, while the croc is attacking me with Rollout...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cute metaphor anon.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What's wrong with Skeledirge's eyes?
    How did Crocalor make Pignite and Quilladin look better by comparison?
    Why is Quaxwell all sorts of wrong and even more awkward than all the other middle-stage bird starters before it?
    Stop making me pick grass. I just want a good complete fire starter line again.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What's wrong with Lewdburn's eye?

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    as it is, i don't hate them. even gay peawiener man is better to me than incineroar; i'm completely neutral towards fire. grass just feels incomplete, i don't know how to put it. looks like a middle stage i guess

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I actually like all three of them and legitimately don't know which one to choose

    Now compare that to SwSh where I didn't know which one to choose because they all SUCKED

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the cat was a huge disappointment
    the croc was a good surprise
    I did not care for the duck

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    sprig is cute
    mid evo is good
    the rest are shit
    better than swsh

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The duck is straight up ridiculous.
    So disgusting.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      haha look at him go

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's brazillian samba/carnaval, which is already obvious from the design.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's so painfully and boldly GAY that it's almost admirable.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nope I didn't like the last Gen starters either so I won't use one on my team

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    wow first time since gen 4 that i like all of the starters, lets go

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Galar’s were so godawful that these actually look passable. Their festive motif is pretty neat

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Now its ghost type makes sense

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Oh, so the theme is festies:
      The Italian Masquerade, the Mexican Dia de los muertos, and the Brazilian Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Oh, so the theme is festies:
      The Italian Masquerade, the Mexican Dia de los muertos, and the Brazilian Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro

      spain has so less culture that they use three others lmao what a shitty generation and misplaced region.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >has no culture
        amerifat or angloid detected

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      None of these are even Spanish, the frick? Now I have zero hope they'll design the Elite Four based off of the Sagrada Familia. They'll probably make some Aztec pyramid because they don't know shit

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Skeledirge is awful. It looks like a DP beta sprite, it’s design is all over the place and none of it works.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's still somehow miles ahead of the other two

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    don't care much for the starters but since we have official sugi-arts of the starter evos, hopefully we get sugi-style arts for all of gen 9's pokemon pretty soon

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they're pretty good. the design motifs are very strong this time. really highlights how bad Gen 8's starters were

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    wait why doesnt in game meowscarada have that flower with her? it's a shitty looking leaf thing instead. WHY?! that looks so much better. why even draw the offical artwork that way if it's not like that at all in game? i feel like im losing my mind

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I liked 2/3rds of them immediately and felt bad for the water one (I can see the idea but the design could have been better).

    The official art makes all three look better. Fire is great,1st quadruped in ages. Grass is great but I'm not sure I'd rank it over Decidueye or Chesnaught when compared to other grass starter humanoid jobmons. The water one is silly but it makes you sort of like it for what it is. Overall, MUCH BETTER THAN GALAR. Galar starters sucked.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Same, I've been a watergay since the start, but I was forced to switch this time. Not an issue though, even if the duck was great, I doubt it would've been better than Meowscarada

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm still going to say the croc looks like a fricking clown with white face paint, a round nose add on, and funky hair. But I don't really care for the others so I'll probably still pick it

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm actually ok with the starters this time around, at least not offended by them as with Gen 7 and especially 8.
    The duck is a little too goofy but the cat and croc are more than alright.

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    So is the bird a reference to how crocodiles have ones feed on the stuff stuck between their teeth? Seems odd it is on the outside if that is the case.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It goes in the mouth and does that for its idle animation.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >mfw the moronic zodiacgays say "B-but it's was the reference to Muh Basilisk!!!" when it's actually not

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        ???
        Actually
        ???
        How is Skeledirge anything like that? It isn't even a king, much less having fatal powers for such a small creature. Plus it only has four legs.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's a basilisk

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My opinions of the starters completely inverted when I saw their final stages.
    At first I was team Quaxly all the way, thought Sprigatito was alright, and didn't like Fuecoco.
    But I love Skeledirge, can take Meowscarada or leave it, and Quaxaval looks fricking stupid.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Don't forget Sugimori green lighted this

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      and?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Baba mad Sugi didn't consider him and her tastes when approving them.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They're better than gen 8's, but that isn't saying much.

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Which one is Ash getting

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This

      >El Coco

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Rasielmon
    Leviamon

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Leviamon would be a water-type.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You forgot FrosVelgrmon

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    All but Quaquaval. The preevo also looks kinda meh, but not as insulting to the senses.

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Skeledirge grew on me hard on my playthrough. I love its cry.

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I like sugar skull flaming alligator, it's a genuinely cool theme. the other two are questionable though.

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >El Coco

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why is he so angry?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He knows what he's going to evolve into el pato aborrecible

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Quaxwel hates Ice-types

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >unironically really like Quaquaval's design
      >but the constantly-dancing animations and aggressive homosexuality ruin it
      I don't even have an issue with it being gay, but goddamn they went overboard with it

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I can only hope its porn will convince me it works as a female.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Why is he so angry?
      Because he is a homosexual and he wants everyone to know it, badly.

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine the disappointment of those kids who choose the duck

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Where is the first everstone in the game, or the replacement for an everstone?

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hell no.
    >The cat is a fur-bait shillmon, complete with Protean
    >The alligator is overdesigned, but at least it's an overdesigned quadruped
    >The duck is quite possibly the gayest 'mon I've ever seen
    The kindest thing I can say about any of them is that the duck is so fricking gay that it's endearing. It's really embarrassing that fans completely salvaged its design with a few simple changes before the games even released.

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cat and duck look nice.
    Croc still looks like a Roblox model.

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Gator is fricking cool.

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Skeledirge is very cool. Really cool theme and good design. My only gripe is that the fire doesn't look dynamic, but otherwise it's amazing. How can you not love a badass fire breathing crocodile with a fire spirit bird as a sidekick?

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Only Skeledirge

  59. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cat and Crocodile I guess. Duck is completely irredeemable.

  60. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Floragato is so cute, I wish Meowscarada kept the knight/medieval swordsman vibe instead of turning into that thing.
    Granted, it's still the starter I'm picking because I really dislike the other two ... But it could've been so much cooler if it stuck to Floragato's theme instead of taking the weird sexy magician turn.

  61. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah

  62. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just can't stand the fire looking like balding hair.
    It's not flowers either kek

  63. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They're not ideal, but the starters haven't looked remotely this good since gen 5.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      huh? gen 5’s starters are the worst ones in the series and it’s not even close.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Whoops wrong gen, oh well we all make mistakes

  64. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nah

  65. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Way better than the last ones

  66. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No. this is the first time I've ever boxed my starter(croc).

  67. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ugly garbage especially the grass starter

  68. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes I love my smug cat

  69. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    These are legit disgusting. But at least they’re nowhere near as bad as the godawful Gen 5 starters.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They're both less repulsive than the Gen 8 starters.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Delusional.

  70. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I do like the fire one, best final evo. The other ones were alright with their first evo, but the final ones are just bad.

  71. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I would rather say that they are less worse than the starters from the 2 previous gens

  72. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    artworks made grass and fire best looking, duck is unironically boring as check

  73. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Did they just copy the box sprites for the official art, or vice versa? That’s lame, if not surprising.

  74. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Qval grew on me as soon as I named mine Bon Clay. Still tired of 3 gens in a row of gay water starters though. Give me back my sea monsters.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Starter Pokemon have to breathe air.

  75. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    GOOD
    GOOD
    HOLY FRICK SO BAD GET IT AWAY FROM ME

  76. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The fire type is by far the only good design. I actually like it a lot. I usually go water but god damn that duck is moronic

  77. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >The fire still looks like shitty confetti
    It's over

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Comparing it to Crocalor's there, its weird blockiness is definitely supposed to come from that nest, so Skeledirge's is intended to look like both bundles of nest twigs and actual flames. The problem is that in execution, it doesn't really look like either.

  78. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >three gens in a row now where the water starter turns into an effeminate homosexual

  79. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Giving Quaxly the everstone immediately
    Simple as

  80. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    floragato is easily top 5 middle starter evos, it being bipedal somehow works
    meowscarada is worse but its still alright
    croc is solid for the most part, skeledirge could be better
    quaxly was ruined

  81. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Crocalor is terrible. Just bad. I'm usually very kind to designs but fricking hell.

  82. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Luv her
    Simple as

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Literally best final evo in years.

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