I haven't seen anyone criticize Rowlet yet.
Not even one person.
I guess the hype train is a fickle mistress; most people in forums are bashing Popplio for god-only-knows-why and adore Rowlet. I like both of them so I'll just wait to see how the final stage evo's turn out.
The thing is the first starter still matters alot. Greninja was cool and all, but most of its love came from Froakie, and many people liked it from the start. I picked chespin in Y because that was the coolest one for me
Honestly, I think that the times of making starters equal is over. Game Freak just seemed to give up on that and instead decided "lets force people to pick one starter by hyping it up a ton." You can see that in Ash-Greninja and how Greninja and Froakie were hyped while Chespin and Fennekin sat dejectedly in a corner.
I know Game Freak is probably avoiding the Grass-Types for Ash thing and gave Greninja instead, and this is because, until gen 5, the grass types really were hated, and the only way to get them to be picked was giving them to Ash.
Then we got contrary Serperior
Op Mega Sceptile
Chesnaught and now Rowlet.
Now since the grass starters are actually popular, game-freak can hype another pokemon. Given how good Rowlet's design is, You would think that it is the "chosen one" of this region, but I have a feeling that it is going to be Litten because the main avatar chose it in both trailers
Another possibility is Popplio, because of all the reference art in the website, and it is definitely the one that needs the most help to be liked, but I think this is one of the games where Ash gets all three.
Something else that needs to be noted are the similarities between Sun/Moon and BWB2W2
Both were the only generations to be featured on the same console as the last one
- Both were released at a time when their console needed some economical help
- Both brought a revolution in pokemon graphics(B/W brought perm. moving sprites, S/M brought the removal of the battle circles, and better 3d graphics
Now, we can make some predictions based on this, and the fact that nintendo loves tradition
- The new handheld will come next year(coincedentally the year of release of NX, is it a combo as rumored, or just the new handheld)
- The "third version" or sequel will come in two years, for the 3DS, to try to sell a little bit more of a dying console
- There will be an easier way to get your 3DS pokemon from XYORASSM to the next gen(gen8 on gen9 consoles) than pokebank
Sorry for double posting, but this belong seperate from all those theories.
Not an excuse - CRoll
Y'all are a little weird in the sense that you are so biased towards a type that thats the one you always pick, but that seems a little hard, not giving the others a chance
I had actually picked 2 of each type in the last 6 regions(I'd say gens, but I started with Emerald, then Platinum)
Charizard,
Meganium,
Blaziken,
Empoleon,
Samurott
Chesnaught
unless something drastic happens, I'l pick rowlet, but starters usually don't turn uncool in their later forms(I'm looking at you, Infernape and Emboar)
For that matter... excluding (For obvious reasons) Gen I, all odd generations included a high amount of Pokemon while mostly ignoring (Or outright excluding) past-gen ones until the post-game.
I hope they follow that 'formula'.
gen 2 had all of the kanto pokemon in the regional pokedex, gen 4 had about a third of its pokemon as previous gen ones, and gen 6 was almost 3/4 old pokemon.
Not to mention gen 5 had no old pokemon in its pokedex, so that doesn't fit with your pattern either. I hope that this region is mostly new pokemon, with only 79 pokemon in XY. I'd like very few old pokemon, but mostly Hoenn and Kanto ones, since those are the ones that fit best with the tropical theme, and kanto was the original region(for the 20th anniversary y'know). I can also seeing some of the less "cold-based" sinnoh pokemon in it since DP was the 10t aniverssery
