Alternate starter types

[Daniel Ferguson]

If you were designing a Pokemon game and wanted to steer clear of the classic Grass/Fire/Water type starters, but still wanted 3 of them and still wanted Rock/Paper/Scissors choice (Grass is weak vs Fire which is weak vs Water which is weak vs Grass)... what type would your starters be?

 

[Auron225]

I think the only other 3-way balance that works is Rock/Flying/Fighting. Psychic/Dark/Fighting is feasible but Dark has an advantage since it is completely immune to Psychic.

I'd kinda like to see Rock/Flying/Fighting starters

 

[JoJo]

The two Auron mentioned are good, other possibilities include:


1) Ground, Fire, Grass

Maybe a tad too similar the classic starter types, but works fine match-up wise.

2) Ground, Electric, Water

Only problem here is that Ground is immune to Electric.

3) Rock, Bug, Grass

Grass doesn't resist Rock, otherwise works perfectly.

4) Ground, Steel, Ice

Somehow this one actually works (who ever knew Ice was weak to Steel?), lesser used types too so that's nice.

5) Psychic, Poison, Bug

I like this one a lot, because it's completely different from the usual starters. Also, I'd love to use a bug-type starter.

6) Fire, Rock, Steel

This one would also be cool.

 

[Soxafloppin]

It would be cool if the starts where Fire/Psychic, Grass/Poison and Water/Bug, meaning that both have an advantage and a disadvantage both ways!