The Internet Reacts To Pokémon Sword And Shield’s Starters

28 responses to “The Internet Reacts To Pokémon Sword And Shield’s Starters”

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   alexwalker

   February 28, 2019 at 9:14 am

   But where’s Psyduck

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      scree

      February 28, 2019 at 10:05 am

      Pikachu killed him and took his place

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      sir-doctor-b

      February 28, 2019 at 5:22 pm

      I expect an article on how you played through all of Sword and/or Shield with a team of six Psyduck please and thank. That is the sequel we need

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   dire_wolf

   February 28, 2019 at 9:59 am

   I hate Scorbunny’s name. It feels so lazy, like Talonflame.

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      superdeadlyninjabees

      February 28, 2019 at 10:06 am

      And it’ll probably get worse upon evolution.
      Like, it’ll go: Scorbunny > Scorbbit > Fire Crotch

      I think ‘scorbunny’ sounds better when you say it like ‘Albany’.

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      cubits

      February 28, 2019 at 10:06 am

      Scorbunny is just torchic. There’s only so many ways you can roll a cute animal in a fire element, I’d actuslly be way more imoressed if they changed up the starter elements.

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         alexwalker

         February 28, 2019 at 10:43 am

         Psychic / Steel / Dark. I’d be into that.

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            mic

            February 28, 2019 at 1:44 pm

            Except that Steel is resistant to both. Psychic/Dark/Fighting is a trio that would work.

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               sir-doctor-b

               February 28, 2019 at 5:27 pm

               Except it wouldn’t because dark is immune to psychic. Fire/grass/water is the only perfect trio because of the super effective advantage in one direction and resist in the other. The next closest would be fighting/flying/rock, and then psychic/dark/fighting.

               I’d prefer the usual fire/water/grass as it’s the perfect introduction for new players to the type system, but then add an additional one or two starters of unrelated types and who would preferably be at a type disadvantage at the first gym(s).

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               sir-doctor-b

               February 28, 2019 at 5:29 pm

               Also steel hasn’t resisted dark since gen six. Sorry for double reply but editing comments tends to be wonky

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               mic

               March 1, 2019 at 3:41 am

               Huh, I looked up a type chart specifically to double check that my old knowledge was correct. I guess it got changed in Sun/Moon. Never went far in that one.

               Also totally forgot about Dark being immune to psychic.

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            thepoetpyronius

            February 28, 2019 at 9:34 pm

            Psychic Dark Steel was the name of a pornographic superhero movie I once watched. So homoerotic…

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      kritter5x

      February 28, 2019 at 10:14 am

      Squirtle. A literal squirting turtle from the first game. It’s not exactly a new practice to mash together a few words and call it done.

      Scorbunny will still probably be my first pick in this game though.

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         mic

         February 28, 2019 at 1:47 pm

         At least ‘Squirtle’ is a proper mashup. Scorbunny is just putting scorch and bunny tigether and removing the ch. If they did that in gen 1, we’d have Squirturtle.

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            inquisitorfelix

            February 28, 2019 at 3:43 pm

            Squirtles first evolution is literally Wartortle…

            People need to stop thinking Pokemon names have ever been smart haha

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               thepoetpyronius

               February 28, 2019 at 9:37 pm

               Wartortle is still better than Scorbunny.

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               inquisitorfelix

               February 28, 2019 at 10:28 pm

               How? They’re both just silly names. Pokemon is fine, we see this same tired discussion every new generation and they still rock and still sell a billion copies haha.

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               mic

               March 1, 2019 at 3:39 am

               How? They’re both just silly names.

               They changed the ‘u’ to an ‘o’ giving it a rhyme with the first part of the name. War tor. Which is also clever because it both sounds like ‘water’ and ‘war torn’

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      mrtaco

      March 1, 2019 at 2:24 am

      I’da called it Burnyrabbit.

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   superdeadlyninjabees

   February 28, 2019 at 10:03 am

   I was kinda hoping they’d celebrate this new-but-also-exactly-the-same era in Pokemon by giving us the first three starters again, but as regional variants.
   These will do, I guess.

   I only dig Grookey so far, but hate his name. It’s still better than Scorbunny.

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   jbp

   February 28, 2019 at 11:22 am

   Grooking final form; monkey with a big ass crown please Nintendo.

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   tehnoodnub

   February 28, 2019 at 11:25 am

   I feel the designs are names are very bland and lazy to be perfectly honest. I know that previous generation used similar naming conventions but they rolled off the tongue way better. It’s my own fault but I was expecting everything to be amazing with Gen 8 and the move to console but they’ve really given me a poor first impression with the starters. I honestly feel like they’re the worst designs we’ve had.

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      tehnoodnub

      February 28, 2019 at 11:26 am

      …designs *and names

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      JamesJJ

      February 28, 2019 at 12:15 pm

      Don’t buy it then. Problem solved.

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   comment

   February 28, 2019 at 11:58 am

   Better not be another Fire/Fighting, but they’ve already made it seem so sporty. What other type would fit that?
   Wonder if it will evilve to Flarehare or something. Flhare.

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      mic

      February 28, 2019 at 1:48 pm

      Maybe Fire/Fairy?

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         sir-doctor-b

         February 28, 2019 at 5:31 pm

         Have heard and approve of this theory. But am also doubtful because of Primarina in gen 7.

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   butchfish

   February 28, 2019 at 12:13 pm

   I wonder which one is going to have the worst evolution.