Forget the grass/fire/water standard for a sec. Forget type triangles. Forget any attempt at stat balance. You're a poke prof. and you get three --and just three-- pokemon that you get to throw at 10 year olds that come to you to start their pokemon adventure. Which three pokemon are they?
Also pick a tree and maybe some kind of gimmick or encounter scenario if it helps add some flavor or logic to your selection.
also assume your starters evolve by level up at semi-regular intervals if they don't already. one kid isn't going to get stuck having to trade theirs away, while another grind to level 50, while another throws a rock at theirs and evolves it at level 10.
>>31384005
I like watching kids sufferalso I forgot Wynaut existed and I don't want to edit the image now
Why did we let Gamefreak get away with making Profs into cool guys? They should have continued to be the equivalent of middle-aged insect collectors.
but let's say the mime line is mono psychic again
>>31384065
Wynaut
PyukumukuCosmog
>>31384106
Elm and Birch don't look old imo
Birch is just a dad while Elm is your average nerd
Also what the fuck are you talking about? Rowan was the coolest professor
>still only one female starter prof
shit gf, get it together
>>31384137
The first four all look like they could actually be a lepidopterist, all schlubby or balding or old. Then we let girls in to the club, and it all went to hell.
>>31384150
We're gonna get an old lady next, calling it.
>>31384112
is the professor a clown?
>>31384222
I mean we has an actual fucking wrestler as a professor so why the fuck not
>>31384364
>>31384222
I'd actually kind of dig there being the professor running around the region with you in a clown disguise spying on you and your progress
>>31384484
That's kinda creepy
Gonna have to call the police on them
>>31384215
i'd love a jane goodall type living in the wilderness with pokemon for years, maybe mix in some of the existing obscure dragon village lore already built into the pokemon world
>>31384005
Give the kids what they want, which is probably Froakie, Charmander and Treecko. But if they're going to be little shits like some usually are, I'd go with Carbink, Ekans and Wurmple.
>>31384505
With that in mind, wouldn't surprise me if they connected this idea to Zinnia and the Draconids.
>Turns out to be Zinnia's mom
I wouldn't. Much in the same way I wouldn't give a child of about 10 a dog or cat unsupervised, I'm not giving them a gladitorial pet and loosing them on the world.
Nidoran, Ledian and Flygon are me bros. No kid gets them just so they can forget to feed them berries or gets bored and let's it whither away in its pokeball.
>>31384613
Autism.
>>31384577
>zinnia was raised in the wild with a bunch of dragons, tarzan style
this would work
Vanillite
Litwick
Klink
objectmons for the good kids, my tree name is Bristlecone.
I'd be a treasure hunter with a team of object pokemon with encounters in ruins or abandoned buildings
>>31384641
Logic = Autism
Today, on /vp/ doesn't know it's own memes...
Elekid/Magby/Happinyyou get a cookie if you can guess the correlation.
Gastly, Abra, Machop.
You want the final form? Go make a friend, loser.
>>31384613
For one, the question is not a "would you or would you not". You are the professor and you will give three choices to the kids, whether you like it or not.
Two.
>I'm not giving them a gladitorial pet and loosing them on the world
And let them get attacked by wild Pokemon? Oh you are such a kind person.
Also.
>>31384673
>Logic
Yeah, it's not like this shit has happened for seven generations straight, right?
>>31384737
This. And then the next region has these for starters
>>31384005
Caterpie
Weedle
Wurmple
Three Weedles all equipped with Choice Specs.
>>31384716
all 3 stage gen 1 mon that had both babies and evos added in later gens, each separately?
Autism
>>31384784
you got it, though I don't think you need to specify that they're gen 1.
>>31384762
>Weedle when Mega Beedrill exists
Shiggy Diggy. Put Wormadam or whatever the first evo is in there instead.
>>31384773
This is good.
>>31384737
>after the story climax, you trade starters with your rival
>>31384886
Gamefreak get on this
am a cool prof. have a Rotom-dex, 6 pokeballs, and one pf these mons with super special awesome items equiped.
>>31384913
>>31384773
This makes me wonder if they are ever going to start you with a hold item.
>>31384937
In G/S the starters where holding Berry.
>>31384978
Held items weren't a thing until gen 6, try again
>>31384005
Joltik - Spinarak - Surskit
>>31385006
i dont understand this meme
>>31384673
No, applying logic to a fictional Vietnamese color picture is autism. Also:
>it's own
>>31384005
Mantyke
Elekid
Smoochum
>>31385013
>surskit
not dewpider?
>>31384643
>Zinnia comes back as the super-boss of this region
>In a dragon temple with permanent draconian terrain
>Makes her immune to fairy moves.
>>31384005
professor is team boss, tries to recruit you over the course of the game
why can't we have a game were you start off with a fossil mon? you can choose any but aerodactyl and you actually have a group of people (sort of like xy but with less shit friends) and everyone gets one. you could also choose one guy to be your BESTY and he would do doubles with you frequently against your other pals
>>31385444
Trips of Trouble.
>>31385194
Dewpider is amazing and an all around A+ addition to the spidermon family but I still have a soft spot for the original water/bug
Zubat, Geodude, Magikarp
>>31384005
>Aron
>Totodile
>Munchlax
We'll see how this ends.
>Abra
>Hoppip
>Magikarp
wish there was a better 3rd option over magikarp for useless first stage. Anything I'm not thinking of here?
>>31385656
cosmog
Litwick, Honedge, (Wash?) Rotom.
Professor's obsessed with ghosts and the various spooky myths surrounding them, wanders around in the shittiest ghost costume known to man as part of his research.
>>31385444
>All part dark starters
I actually really like this idea
>>31385656
feebas
Starters I'd give depending on the region I worked in
Didn't have sprites of alolamons but I guess it'd be cutiefly, mudbray, crabrawler
Professor "Nintendo HARD" Ironwood
Starters.
>Abra
>Magikarp
>Cricketot
>>31384005
Go have fun, kids.