Pokemon Other variations for starters???

[Los_t_Life]

The starter pokemon for the main series seems to be always fire grass and water type pokemon, why dont they have another type beside those like:
Ice, Ground, and steel type pokemon
Ice>Ground>Steel>Ice
Yeah that might be good..

 

[StarlightSearcher]

I don't think so. Pokemon Yellow was the only different game, and was based off the anime. Having a Fire, Water and Grass starter is just apart of the fabric of the games. It's something that people expect.

 

[Cinesra]

dark/fighting/psychic is another example. having the same starter types is keeping up with recurring themes, pokemon without fire/water/grass starters is like pokemon without an evil team.

 

[Zenith]

Dark/Fighting/Psychic doesn't work because Dark is immune to Psychic, not resistant.

 

[Metalizard]

^lol, its not a matter of resisting, its a matter of being super-effective... Dark is super effective against Psychic, so it counts...

 

[dmaster]

How can you say that? Grass-Fire-Water is perfect because each one is x2 Super Effective to one and Not Effective to the other one. If it's not that way, it can't replace the original trio.

dmaster out.

 

[Rotom479]

The only possible combos for starters (Type x is super effective on type y and type y is not very effective on type x) are:

-Fire/Water/Grass,
-Fire/Rock/Steel,
-Grass/Poison/Ground, and
-Fighting/Flying/Rock.

They won't change the original combo because it simply works. It's part of Game Freak's formula.

 

[zekrom52]

I think one of the reasons thy don't is because itskinda like the 3 elements or somthing

 

[graberjr]

The reason they do Fire/Water/Grass is because these are the simplest types for any starting trainer to learn from.

 

[frostwind]

Why fix what isnt broken.
psychic/dark/fighting dark is overly powerful and it would not be fair.
fire/rock/steel cant have fire without water and grass. Itd be uneven. Plus, they all need to be un immune to other types, and cant resist normal. etc etc.
Fire/water/grass is perfectly fine.
Dont upset the balance! Zekrom and reshiram will get you.

 

[Pikachu6319]

I think the only way this will 'change' is if we get starters that have those second types in their second or final form. Other than that, I seriously doubt this will change.