Oy Yveltal...I know it's been a WHILE but can you do me a solid and give us a rundown of what I missed?
Are we talking about tiers or something?
In recent history, we were talking about the origins of Team Flare's design and went a little more in-depth on Pangoro and Malamar and what tiers we hope they would fall into. After Cobra's comment on how discussing tiers for individuals is silly, I think the next step would be to consider instead what tiers the known Gen VI Pokemon would fit compared to each other to keep talking at a mildly competitive level, but eh. We also discussed the prevalence and commonness of Poison types both in general and the Kalos region, which led to a discussion about what kinds of Pokemon we're likely to meet before fighting the Santalune City gym and where the starter Pokemon's strengths and flaws should be met by early route starters for the first couple of gym challenges. The conversation on Orotto has simmered down, as it got hard to talk about without knowing anything besides "it's an ent/treant of some sort".
And yes, for the twentieth time, starter types are being re-discussed.
And I'm 99% sure Chespin used Night Slash.. (purple animation and what looks to be a back and forth slashing motion). Dark type.
I don't think that the basic Pokemon will retain these types though, I believe they'll all be mono-element typed to start with.
You know I love you and I'll look to support your hypotheses the best I can, but we got a problem, sweetie.
Chespin's slashing attack has been discussed several times, and the best point that was made (which I vehemently backed because I didn't want people going without information) was that it is instead Aerial Ace.
Chespin's attack's animation:
Matches the attack animation used by Talonflame on Haunter:
And the BW animation of Aerial Ace...:
...instead of Night Slash, which doesn't look enough like what we think it should resemble to confuse the two:
-Second, the starters were all confirmed to be monotypes, but this is all old
(Out of all the XY thread, this topic makes me the saddest, bar the...umm...the cause of the first thread lockdown.......)