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Design the next Pokémon game starters

Hades0918
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edited December 2025 in Pokémon Square #1

I want a Grass Bear, Fire Dog, and Water Cat

The Bear final will be Grass/Fighting

High attack and defense, but low speed

The Dog final is Fire/Dark

High speed and attack, but low defense

The Cat is Water/Ice

Its stats are more all-rounded

The Bear is bulky and bipedal and often ignores others, not caring what happens. It only gets aggressive when something bothers it

The Dog is all fours and scrawny and just seems shady, always smirking smugly

The Cat is on all fours and is always glaring, seeming rude and often aggressive

The Bear's unique attack is a charge one. It gets a defense increase on the first turn, the next one it swings itself full force into the opponent. It is a physical Grass type move that does 100 damage, dealing more for every defense increase the Pokémon has.

The Dog's unique attack is a Fire type physical attack that does 90 damage and decreases a random stat from the target.

The Cat's unique attack is ranged Water attack that does 70 damage but double when in hail/snow.

Their abilities are obviously Overgrow (I know that's wrong), Blaze, amd Torrent, but the Hidden Abilities are:

The Bear has Huge Power or Unaware

The Dog has either Defiant or Moody

The Cat has either Snow Warning or Intimidate

As you can see I'm not for sure on any Hidden Ability, but those are what I'm thinking

I look forward to seeing y'all's answers (and opinions on mine)

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  • Hades0918
    Hades0918 Member Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I had a few errors in what I wrote

    I fixed them

  • Thur55555555555
    Thur55555555555 Member Posts: 1,626 ✭✭✭✭
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    @Hades0918 my opinions on those starters are as follows:

    1. We don’t need a second Chesnaught disguised as a bear.
    2. Try picking new type combos incinaroar is already pretty broken in vcg we don’t need a second.
    3. The cat is a great Idea ice isn’t. With the dual types being fighting dark and ice the bears fighting will do super effective damage to all of the others. Most starter trios don’t have dual types or they form a chain eg: Dark>psychic>fighting>dark.

    OK but I love having a dog bear and cat but the dual types could use some work.

  • Hades0918
    Hades0918 Member Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1: I forgot about Chesnaught (I do that often)

    2: While yes it is the same type, I already realized that. I kept it that way because they function differently, making them unique with the same type

    3: I didn't think of how they paired up. The cat was going to be Water/Fairy, but I remembered Primarina and I got a better idea for Ice

    This is still a work in progress, though

    I still haven't determined Hidden Abilities

    I will be updating here

    My second choice for the bear was a Grass/Dark, but then I made the Dog Dark and Fighting matches its bulk

  • Hades0918
    Hades0918 Member Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited December 2025 #5

    Something I thought of, though

    Water/Ice actually makes Fire neutral

    While the Bear has advantage over both, Fire and Ice are super effective on it

    And then, as you already stated, Fighting is strong against both

    In a weird way they do work, just not at well as others

    Plus, who says we need to stick with tradition?

    Why not have fun with the pairings?

  • Thur55555555555
    Thur55555555555 Member Posts: 1,626 ✭✭✭✭
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    @Hades0918 I was thinking that the cat could be psychic and that would round everything out. Dark>Psychic>Fighting>Dark and the usual water fire grass pattern.

  • Hades0918
    Hades0918 Member Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Sorry, @Thur55555555555

    But I think Imma keep it this way

    I like it

  • Catcatmyoop
    Catcatmyoop Member Posts: 159 ✭✭✭
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    I already designed a water cat since there was a Grass one and a Fire one. Its name is Slimeow and its pure water.

  • Hades0918
    Hades0918 Member Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited December 2025 #9

    Nice!

    (I would have replied but it didn't tell me of it)

  • Hades0918
    Hades0918 Member Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This didn't show for me

    I think that's too much like the Kalos trio

    It's not a bad idea, but I want to keep my trio how they are

    Also, this post is for others to share their ideas

    Have any ideas for a trio?

  • Hades0918
    Hades0918 Member Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I will be honest, though, @Thur55555555555

    Grass/Fighting, Fire/Dark, and Water/Psychic has really good balance