These Are the Actual Pokemon Black & White Starters

[Skorpyo]

"Pokemon, what happened to you?"

Cookies for the reference.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Wow, the guess was pretty close.

I don't get what people are complaining about, they look pretty damn cool to me

I wonder if the final evolution for the water one is actually a panda.

 

[scw55]

one thing I'm curious about is why no one's complaining about the trainers, I mean you have Mr. Androgyny and Mrs. "My Hair's from the 80's"

Because when you play pokemon you never look at your character in detail. All you see is a little pixle sprite on your screen. Pokemon however... you spend alot of time staring at their backs in battle or their fronts on the status screen.


Neither starters appeal amazingly at the momement. I suppose the Grass snake is the least stupid looking. But it is down to what they finally look like to me.

Take generation 3. Mudkip, Treeko and Torchic. Mudkip looked odd (but later I found cute), Torchic looked like a chick and uninteresting and Treeko looked ugly. However Torchic evolved into Blaziken (WHO LOOKED AWSOME), Mudkip into Swampert (who didn't look too bad either) and Treeko's middle evolution looked bad-arse. Give Ninja Tree Frog Plodz (shame the final evolution made him look worse , still not bad however). So yeah. Prejudgements is fine. Just don't judge the whole generation intill you seen it all. Who knows, the final evolutions might look bad arse. Come on, how many Pokemon in previous generations looked butt ugly? Skitty? Mime Jr? Meditite etc...

 

[Tomster595]

Eh, They've been going downhill since Diamond and Pearl I guess. The Fire one actually is pretty cool though

 

[Macgyvercas]

*Sigh* And there go my hopes for this Pokemon generation. If everyone will excuse me, I think I'll go play Pokemon Yellow now.

EDIT: Or I might just hang here for a bit. Whatever I decide.

 

[Nouw]

And there isn't any link to Black and White I see.

Have the starters of any generation applied to the game names, apart from Red and Blue? Which 4th Gen starter is Diamond, and which one is Pearl?

No, I'm just stating a fact.

 

[ENKC]

It disturbs me how close the mocked up grass type is to the real thing. And these just reek of 'inspiration well running dry'. Who the hell let that monstrosity of a water type live past the first rough sketches?

 

[Johnson McGee]

Is it just me or does the grass type look like he should be sporting a pimpin wide brim hat and cane? and possibly a monocle?

 

[WaderiAAA]

I'm a little disappointed to be honest.

By the way, I'm not impressed by the guesses in the article. Isn't the starting pokemon always grass, fire and water with the grass type being green, the water type blue and the fire type orange?

 

[Skeleton Jelly]

The piggy looks the best. I can see him evolving into something badass. But it saddens me, because the water type looks so damn retarded. Like an (ugly) plush, doll.

Its not any of this really applies to me anyways. I stopped playing pokemon when it got 3-d.

 

[imaloony]

God these starters look retarded. The Starters looked really simple and cool until 4th Gen reared its ugly head. These starters look awful, just another reason to avoid this game.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Here's a shocker, people - That grass pokemon is ment to be a snake, apparantly.

It's a snake pokemon.
WITH ARMS.!

This is why he is smug.

 

[Skull Kid]

All I can think of right now is the grass type - Tsutaja with a monocle...
EDIT: couldn't find a monocle but this will do.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://go-devil-daisuke.deviantart.com/art/New-Grass-Pokemon-Starter-163799825

 

[NoaNeumann]

Grass one, totally going for that, but in the end like the diamond and pearl versions, hopefully their evolutions (save for chimchars) won't make them look horrible. Maybe the otter is like the ugly duckling? Pretty bad to start out with and then BLAM best one ever.. maybe not sure.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Smugleaf would definitely be the one (if I still cared enough to play Pokemon).

Though I suppose happypig would be reasonable, and may evolve into a decent warpig.

 

[The Stonker]

I want to see them shuffle up the starter pokémon not just green.red and blue if you know what I mean why not a darkness pokémon or a sand? Wouldn't it be a little more fun to have just fire,earth and water? Why not a dragon! Because if they want to shuffle something up then they should step outside the box.

 

[Valgee]

"Pokemon, what happened to you?"

Cookies for the reference.

nerimon.

[The following onions are invalid because they are grown in fields fertilized by bias and fanboyism]

I am extremely excited for these starters, actually.

The snake looks like a more promising version of Treecko.

The pig has what looks like a bandanna. A bandanna. Ten bucks says it becomes a hog. Winknudge

The more I look at the water starter, the more I begin to like it.
I've always been a bit lutraphilic, though.

 

[Ih8pkmn]

Ok, now Nintendo is just recycling ideas. Let's see...

They had a Grass lizard 2 generations ago, followed by a Grass "Snake" With arms in the next set of games. There are like 5 of these little bastards based on pigs, and at least 2 based on otters. Seriously, are they even TRYING over there!?

Then again, i suppose it is pretty hard to have new ideas when you release a magical animal with the powers of GOD.

 

[funksobeefy]

Its one thing to recycle main pokemon like beautifly is to butterfree.
Because you know they're nothing special, they're just random ass pokemon.

whoa whoa whoa! Butterfree is not some "random ass pokemon" Its it the best pokemon ever. Not only is it bug (which means it gets its ass handed to it every time it goes on the battlefield) but its butter and its free.

Starters get replaced asap when a more interesting wild pokemon comes up. I mean every one always wants to keep the started but really, there are so many over looked and hilariously awesome pokemon in the game to ignore them and stick with the starter.