Rivals and their canon starters
>>32746619
Fixed
>>32746658
Correct. I don't think I've ever seen an official depiction of the RSE male protag with a blaziken. The manga and ashnime had a swampert. Most of the time it's sceptile.
>canon
OK, where is Giovanni's son's Houndoom? Game Freak posted artwork of him with it back in the day on their website.
>>32746484
How do you start a cannon?
>>32746808
canon != cannon
>>32746793
>Dawn with Infernape
Disgusting
>>32746801
But Kukui and Incineroar being wrestlebros makes so much sense!
>>32746856
either way, the one Kukui makes the least sense with is primarina, which would make the most fitting starter for the MC either rowlet or popplio
>>32746856
You fight professor Kukui, not Battle Royale Kukui
>>32746793
I've always though Infernape fit Barry the most
>>32746791
Brendan has Sceptile, May has Blaziken. Mudkip is basically a free-for-all that either of them might have.
>>32746484
Old smugleaf fits Cheren way too well, what with similar expressions and how Cheren looks down on Bianca before they even get their starters. Bianca has Emboar in the anime and one of two manga, plus Tepig's line is the most derpy of the three and fits her well since it's probably the worst of the three fire-fighting starters. Plus, Samurott is the one of the three that could most conceivably beat the starter it's weak to, both via the Ice Beam TM like other starters and Megahorn in its level up moveset, so it fits the one of the three who would become champion.
>>32747497
Agreed, screw what the ashnime thinks.
>>32746856
I thought Hau and Decidueye is a perfect fit. Hau is trying to become stronger and braver, and Decidueye personalities are they flip out at the slightest thing that shocks them. It'd fit with both of them trying to buck the other up.
>>32746484
red - charizard
blue - blastoise
leaf - venusaur
gold - typhlosion
silver - feraligatr
kris/lyra - meganium
brendan - sceptile
may - blaziken
lucas - torterra
dawn - empoleon
barry - infernape
(this one is maybe controversial? always seemed right to me, I picked Dawn though.)
hilda/hilbert - samurott
cheren - serperior
bianca - emboar
I have no headcanon for gen 6, I guess serena fennekin and calem froakie?
for gen 7 I always thought incineroar fit Hau best.
>Pokemon
>canon
>>32746801
This shitty guy is a rival? Really?
>>32747740
Patrician taste.
>>32749140
A shitty rival gets a shitty mon, Ultra.
>>32747822
Red has venusaur, green has charizard
>>32749904
You'd think it would be the other way around. Red gets the orange fire-type, Green/Blue gets the green/blue grass type...
>>32746798
starters scrub