>>32764640There's no question for me that the Gen 5 and Gen 7 starters are the worst starter trios. I hate Gen 7 more, though.
Gen 5's starters are bland, boring, and shitty. They have no personality and there really isn't anything going for any of them.
However, Gen 7's, I find to be actively offensive. Why do they all wear clothes? Why do they look like people in mascot costumes? I can't mentally register them as animals like I do with most Pokemon. Instead they seem like three characters from three completely different cartoons.
You know what I think it is? I think its that all three of them have distinctly modern human professions. They had professions in Gen 6 too, but I didn't mind it then since the "jobs" the starters had were all historic or mythical. The Gen 7 starters literally just have mundane modern era jobs. Wrestler? Singer? Goofy early 20th century sniper? I can't wait until Gen 8 when the starters will be a whale firefighter in a little coat, a bear lumberjack with a flannel shirt and an axe, and an armadillo astronaut in a space suit or some shit.
