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Well there's been talk about Psychic Fighting Dark as a Starter trio since at least Gen II, I can remember it going that far back, but I think it might finally be time for it to happen - I have a few reasons why too:
1) The Physical/Special split introduced in GenIV means this could be implemented without it being stupid. In GenIII and before, this never would've worked but now I think it COULD.
2) Themed colours - I suspect there's a chance that the starters may end up being the version mascots for these games. I'm not saying they WILL but I'm saying there's a chance. In that case the Black Pokemon could be the Dark type and the White Pokemon could be either Fighting or Psychic.
3) Originality - In DPPt, Game Freak started to exercise a certain level of originality - for example, the Professor's lab wasn't in the starting town and small things like that, I think after four generations of the same type trio they might just make a change to make the games a bit more original. Each generation the starter trio have been a bit less inspired than the one before it, particularly GenIV, the final evolved forms of the GenIV starters are hideous.
Of course, there is counter-evidence too, here are my ideas of why this WOULDN'T happen:
1) Total immunity - Dark being IMMUNE to Psychic makes things a bit unfair for the Psychic starter. I think if this starting trio were implemented then it'd have to be changed to Dark is resistant to Psychic rather than immune and I'm not sure I can see Game Freak making that kind of change.
2) Tried and tested - Water/Fire/Grass seem to work, even if they are getting a bit old, Game Freak could go by the logic of 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'
I'd also like to see a bit of originality in how the starters are obtained. It's getting a bit old that every bloody region has its own Professor... Four Professors handing out standardised Pokemon is getting a bit silly imo, I'd like to see a different way of obtaining your starter, even if it is just someone else giving it to you. I'd like it if your rival had three and gave you one then someone else one and kept one for his/herself or possibly if you caught your starter in the Safari Zone.
Anyway, what are general opinions on this matter? I'd love to hear some ideas.
1) The Physical/Special split introduced in GenIV means this could be implemented without it being stupid. In GenIII and before, this never would've worked but now I think it COULD.
2) Themed colours - I suspect there's a chance that the starters may end up being the version mascots for these games. I'm not saying they WILL but I'm saying there's a chance. In that case the Black Pokemon could be the Dark type and the White Pokemon could be either Fighting or Psychic.
3) Originality - In DPPt, Game Freak started to exercise a certain level of originality - for example, the Professor's lab wasn't in the starting town and small things like that, I think after four generations of the same type trio they might just make a change to make the games a bit more original. Each generation the starter trio have been a bit less inspired than the one before it, particularly GenIV, the final evolved forms of the GenIV starters are hideous.
Of course, there is counter-evidence too, here are my ideas of why this WOULDN'T happen:
1) Total immunity - Dark being IMMUNE to Psychic makes things a bit unfair for the Psychic starter. I think if this starting trio were implemented then it'd have to be changed to Dark is resistant to Psychic rather than immune and I'm not sure I can see Game Freak making that kind of change.
2) Tried and tested - Water/Fire/Grass seem to work, even if they are getting a bit old, Game Freak could go by the logic of 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'
I'd also like to see a bit of originality in how the starters are obtained. It's getting a bit old that every bloody region has its own Professor... Four Professors handing out standardised Pokemon is getting a bit silly imo, I'd like to see a different way of obtaining your starter, even if it is just someone else giving it to you. I'd like it if your rival had three and gave you one then someone else one and kept one for his/herself or possibly if you caught your starter in the Safari Zone.
Anyway, what are general opinions on this matter? I'd love to hear some ideas.
).Also she will inform us that we need to capture more pokemon and give us our mom/dad's new invention of pokedex. (we can probably assume she is our dad's assistant or some such)So now we have a goal to get strong defeat every gym leader learn thier secrets and save our parent as a result. maybe to make things more of a challenge we can defeat the leader (that is rival of course we dont know that and in fact neither does s/he) after e4 after a suggestion from the 1st gym leader. This scenario gives more interaction with gym leaders although it sounds more of a C class movie script. 
