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Not a leak, just a deduction. Watch and be amazed by the final evolution of patterntism and nooooticing:
- GameFreak will never repeat any starter on a single console outside of the now-defunct 3rd versions, as it makes the marketing clunky and confusing. So this eliminates the Kanto trio, Sinnoh trio, Galar trio, Paldea trio, Cyndaquil, Oshawott, and Rowlet from the running.
- They’re not gonna nullify any shillable megas from the game, so the Hoenn starters are out
- This leaves Chikorita / Snivy / Chespin, Tepig / Litten / Fennekin, and Totodile / Popplio / Froakie as our only logical pool of options
- If you consider that X&Y has an ancient statue of Unovan Serperior, this pretty much guarantees us an alt trio of:
>Chikorita
>Tepig
>Popplio
If not the Kalos starters. If they’re taking cues from X&Y, we may well get that alt trio with regional variant final evos, while we’re gifted a Kalos starter with a new mega evolution.
Mark my words, anons. It’s Chikorita/Tepig/Popplio, Chespin/Fennekin/Froakie, or both. The patterntism demands it. Your “oh but muh French lore!!1!!” autism does not trump the fact that the marketing department would never allow Piplup to be a starter in two different trios on one console generation.
