The starters are the most important thing in any Pokemon game. While I gained a newfound freedom in completely ditching my starter in Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, for most Pokemon playthroughs the starter you pick is the single most definitive choice you can make. Every starter, even the stinkers like Chespin and Oshawott, have their fans - if that's you, apologies for your poor taste and I hope you enjoyed the new Imagine Dragons album. In Scarlet & Violet though, all three starters seem to be winners, and I have no idea which one I'm going to choose. Hopefully the dual-typing decides that for me. Hopefully it even exists.
Starters matter more than just being the cuties who sell copies. Off the back of your starter choice, you begin to build your team - in choosing Cinderace for Sword & Shield, I had to leave behind Rolycoly once it turned to Carkoal and picked up the Fire-typing. In order to soak up the new gen, I typically play every region with an all-native team. To add another layer of challenge, I try to make every Pokemon dual-type and have no duplicates, meaning all new Pokemon with 12 different types covered. It can be a challenge, and Sword & Shield made it impossible.
In SwSh, none of the starters were dual-type, meaning they all stayed as either Fire, Grass, or Water. That's not just bad news for my admittedly niche team-building plan, it also limits the inventiveness of the designs (all three final stage evolutions were far too humanoid) and prevents interesting new combinations from being introduced. Plainly put, it's boring.
I might not even stick to my plan this time around. I've complained, loudly and excessively, that Tsareena was cut from New Pokemon Snap and Legends: Arceus, even making a kink-based team in the latter to compensate. Since my mangosteen queen has been confirmed for Scarlet & Violet, perhaps I'll give her a chance this time around. She's not native to whatever region SV is set in, and is pure Grass, so throws this plan completely off track anyway. Even if I do decide to include Tsareena, and therefore avoid Grass starter Sprigatito, I still want dual-type starters this time around.
You can have great starters that are pure typings, but it's rare. In Gen 1, Bulbasaur is Grass/Poison right from the start, Charmander gains Flying (rather than the obvious pick of Dragon) once it becomes Charizard, and Squirtle stays Water all the way through - although had Steel been a thing back then, Water/Steel might have made sense. Having all three be pure last gen meant if you didn't like it, as the majority don't, you were stuck.
Quaxly, as a duck, seems like its set for Water/Flying, although in fairness it didn't work out that way for Rowlett, who gained the Ghost typing alongside Grass. As for Sprigatito, I couldn't even begin to guess. It looks cute and fluffy, which leads to Fairy or Psychic being viable guesses, but it may well shed that cutesiness in its final form for something bulkier, or sexier, and could become any type out there. Sexy Rock type? Thuggish Electric type? Guesses on a postcard.
The most curious one is Fuecoco, the Fire type. It's a crocodile, and we've previously had a crocodile starter (Totodile) as the more expected Water type. It's unlikely that a starter would go Fire/Water, especially after Volcarona gave us Fire/Water - unless they all do that. Fuecoco is Fire/Water, Sprigatito is Grass/Fire, and Quaxly is Water/Grass. It would be the best follow-up to the single type trio of Galar, and would be the most interesting starter trio since Gen 4's double strength balance (Empoleon not withstanding). It might even be the most ambitious combination ever.
The starters have, um, started Gen 9 on the right foot, but that momentum needs to continue. If Fuecoco just turns into a Fire-type crocodile man, we're all going to be disappointed.
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