So, Corocoro leaked today, no new Sun/Moon information, just information on a Volcanion distribution event, which I don't care about at all. Unsurprising since March usually is a dry spell for main series game announcements, usually focusing more on information for whatever upcoming movie there is. Since I stopped watching the Pokemon anime and movies a long time ago, this serves no importance to me. It didn't help that a fake leak that came out the same day gained far more attention in the fandom than the actual leaks did, for obvious reasons. So instead, since we didn't get the starters for Gen 7 today, I am instead going to say what I speculate the Gen 7 starters will be and my hopes for them.
In general, I would especially love a bird starter that ISN'T a flightless bird and can actually fly in it's final stage, since we haven't had a flying starter since Charizard all the way back in Gen 1, and that was a dragon. Although it's unlikely we will ever have any starters that aren't animal based.
I don't want any reptilian Grass starter like we had for 5 generations in a row, give us a mammal for the Grass starter like Chespin was. If the Grass starter is a mammal, I'd prefer it be a badger or a pine marten, since I've always wanted a mustelid-based grass starter. Better yet, the Grass starter should be a bird of some sort because there have yet to be any bird-based Grass starters, just as long as it's a bird that can actually fly and isn't something flightless like an ostrich or kiwi bird, I prefer something like a peafowl (which actually CAN fly). Also, I don't want another bulky "tank" Grass starter final stage because the final stage of each Grass starter (except Serperior and to a lesser extent Sceptile and Meganium) is always a bulky tank Pokemon, so I would like something different for the final stage. If they go the pine marten route that I mentioned earlier, the final stage should totally be a speedy Kamaitachi that's part Flying or Fairy, and if that is the case then I will totally choose it for my starter.
For Fire starters, I wouldn't mind a reptilian fire starter since fire starters are almost always mammals except for Charmander and Torchic, just not another mammalian Fire starter for once, which is getting as bad as each Grass starter being a reptile. I mean, I'd be fine with a Fire/Fighting starter (unlike most people), just not another mammal for once, like make it a gila lizard or komodo dragon or something interesting. If anything it should evolve to be a tank Pokemon, since the only tank Fire starter we really have is Emboar, which is Fire/Fighting.
As for the Water starter, hands down it should be a platypus, I've wanted a platypus Water starter for a VERY long time, and if they make the water starter a platypus, I will be so happy. The final stage should be Water/Poison because the Poison type is so underutilized in the later generations (when back in Gen 1, they were everywhere), especially since real-life platypi have poisonous spurs on the back of their feet.
I know I'm probably going to be far off as to how things will actually be, but it would be really cool if this is very close.
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