>Red: Was not only conceived with Bulbasaur since the beginning but that's also his canon starter in the most recent Kanto game.
>Chase: Who's the franchise mascot? Who's the mandatory starter in Yellow? Not Eevee clearly.
>Ethan: Almost universally represented with Cyndaquil.
>Brendan: May is almost universally represented with Torchic, which means he gets Treecko.
>Lucas: Dawn is almost universally represented with Piplup, which means he gets Turwig, also the only way Barry gets a starter that fits his personality
>Nate: Was shown picking Tepig in his game's animated trailer.
>Elio: Picking Rowlet is the only way Kukui the wrestler can have Incineroar the heel pokemon.
>Victor: Picking Sobble is the only way Hop can have the pokemon always jumping and aiming to be a football star, Scorbunny, and that way Leon can train Grookey to cheer for his football star performance.
>Florian: Picking Fuecoco is the only way Clavel can have the pompadour he loves in Quaxly, Nemona's hair also fits Sprigatito and curiously enough that makes it so both of your rivals use dark cat starters
What did Hilbert, Calem, Rei and Paxton pick?
>inb4 fembois who use the female MC
Your option will never be canon.
>>57940828 (OP)>Arven and Penny have dogs, Nemona and Kieran have catsdamn how I never noticed?
>>57940842This. I've noticed anyone who cares about """"""canon"""""" protagonist names are massively fucking autistic.
>>57940891You're in 4chan's pokémon board, everyone here is autistic af anon.
>>57940828 (OP)What fuck are you on about?
>>57940891You were so busy replying to yourself you didn't even notice nobody ever said shit about canon names
>>57940828 (OP)PokeMas says Rosa, Serena and Gloria are canon
>B-but muh maleLiterally the rest of them are canon so if you're afraid of women, then male is still the default hero. Juliana is Scarlet and Florian is Violet
>>57940828 (OP)They don't need to be all male. There's 2 versions of most games, which are parallel universes of each other. So both male and female are canon. There's probably also infinite alternate universes.
Rosa is canon!
Another loss for Hilda
>>57940828 (OP)Hilbert with Oshawott
Calem with Froakie
Rei with Rowlet
It's a toss up for Paxton right now, but I'd go with Totodile
>>57940828 (OP)Oh cool, an autism thread. I wonder what kind of-
>canonlol. lmao even.
>>57941484>genuine redditspacingYou tried but you have to go back
>>57940828 (OP)Rowlet is much more strongly associated with Chicken than Elio. What you’re arguing here is that because of The knock-down effects on Kukui, Chicken is the canon one
>>57941520I'm sorry you have yet to accept your waifu is a character that canonically doesn't exist
>>57940828 (OP)Chase has Eevee because of yellow
>>57942218You know Chase is the protagonist right?
>>57941679Have another, this thread doesn't deserve image limit
>>57940828 (OP)Chase? Ethan? Elio? Who are all these faggots? I didn't meet any of them when I played through the franchise.
>>57943998Yeah the professor's assistant gets the starter strong against yours in Hoenn, but in Sinnoh they get the weak one, retardo
>>57944072mb, never played past gen3 so i just assumed
>>57944076He literally replaced shitboar with lucario and arcanine lmao
>>57940828 (OP)>Your option will never be canon.Literally who gives a fuck
>>57941552How so? I'm genuinely curious, what would be your argument beyond "well I am a male and I am the one playing the games". What possible piece of official info could you interpret as opinting to the protag being the guy each time?
>>57940993> "universal representations" are a basis for canon> an oficial one is not because it's in a dumb mobile game I don't likeThat said, I'm not a fan of some of their choices. The Sinnoh characters really do only make sense if Barry gets the monke
>>57944221I think it would be very funny for Barry to get the slow ass turtle.
>>57944302Conclusion: empoleon is the worst choice for Barry. Monke is fitting, turtel is funny, but they gave him the penguin I guess because he has it in ashnime.
>>57944384Empoleon is always the worst choice because it's ugly
>>57940828 (OP)>Ethan: Almost universally represented with Cyndaquil.Sugi had never depicted Gold/Ethan with Cyndaquil in the games. He’s always with Totodile and/or Chikorita in both the GSC and HGSS promo art.
>>57945098And as everyone knows Sugimori isn't only the only artist to ever work in the franchise but also the guy who personally decides which starters go for each character. Trust me, my uncle is Nintendo
>>57945403As canon as Whitney and him checking the Ruins of Alph with both Chikorita and Totodile, which isn't even a possibility in the games
>>57945407>as canon as- Nope. By default it’s more canon, seeing as it was actually drawn for the games themselves.
>>57945411Yeah so canon it's something confirmed to be 100% impossible to happen in the game lmao
