You can keep Fighting in the mix with Dark, Psychic, Fighting too. This one could work, given a chance, although it’s hard to sell this trio as cute. Bulbasaur, the very first starter ever, was a Grass/Poison starter, while Charizard picks up Flying type. The starter trio is a definitive part of Pokemon, but it’s beginning to hold it back.įighting, Rock, Flying is a combo that works if you squint a little, and with the addition of dual typings, could give a spotlight to some of the more neglected types in the game. It’s not until the first gym where this comes into play, and even then, the rest of your party can probably help you out. However, this lesson of super-effective and not very effective doesn’t need to be enforced so rigidly right from the start.
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Having started with Blue, I can sometimes get impatient at the game for not evolving - like a certain Haunter I know - but part of me is glad the series remains open to all. Of course, Game Freak is right - statistically, it’s obvious that any given Pokemon game will be your first. Your starter Pokemon teaches you that, whether your first was Squirtle or Snivy or Scorbunny. Before you get into any other complex ideas of stats and IVs and EVs, you know that every single type has another type it can a) deal a lot of damage to, b) take a lot of damage from, c) deal minimal damage to, and d) take minimal damage from. The starter trio is the best teacher of the game’s core mechanics - super-effective and not very effective. Pokemon is married to the idea that every Pokemon game could be someone’s first - this is why each of them start with a long, drawn out tutorial about catching Pidgey. Likewise, Fire resists Grass and Grass resists Water.
It’s not just that Water is super-effective against Fire it’s also resistant to Fire in return. There is no other triangle in Pokemon that offers the offensive and defensive qualities of Water, Fire, and Grass. The problem is that the trio is too perfect. In fact, Cinderace might be my favourite ever thanks to its football stylings, starring role in Unite, and Pyro Ball, but as a whole it’s clear the formula is waning. All the middle stages are very meh though, and then only Cinderace is worth caring about in the final stage. Grookey and Scorbunny are great, while Sobble is pretty good. It feels like everything has been done with the Water, Fire, and Grass combination, and because all starters need to fit the same tropes - cutie pie, awkward teenager, beast that will take your face off - the designs are starting to suffer. Galar’s trio, the most recent lot, gain no secondary typing at all. Pokemon took the perfect idea and made it perfecter, but now what do they do? Fire/Fighting continues to be a thing, with even Incineroar being modelled off a wrestler when it gained its Dark typing. The three main types have a simple yet effective dance with each other Sinnoh’s trio makes this dance more complex, but the rhythm remains the same. Steel also resists Grass, but is vulnerable to Ground.
Grass beats Water, but Water, for equally baffling reasons, beats Ground. Meanwhile, though Water is strong against Fire, Fire counters it by being strong against Steel. Grass is weak to fire, but thanks to the dual typing of Ground (resistant to Fire), the balance is reset. Related: Far Cry Never Should Have Been Political In The First Place I hesitate to say Fire/Fighting is perfection on top of perfection, because I’m already sick of it, but the balance here is exquisite. Beginning with the classic Water, Fire, and Grass combo, the final Evolutions became Water/Steel, Fire/Fighting, and Grass/Ground. I sometimes write things people disagree with, but it’s never just “here, this thing you like? Well, it’s bad.” The starter trio is perfect, and what’s more, it was perfected further with the Sinnoh trio. That’s why Pokemon needs to get rid of it. While some of Pokemon’s type matchups can get quite complicated, with dual types, STAB, the Physical/Special split, and ability immunities to consider, the starter trio is crystalised, concise perfection. It’s rock paper scissors with fire breathing lizards.
Water beats Fire, Fire beats Grass, and Grass, for reasons that don’t entirely make sense, beats Water. You are presented with three choices - Water, Fire, and Grass. The Pokemon starter trio is amongst the finest game design concepts in history.
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