>>36560233YES! This is what I was going to post. We need a Rock-type starter period. Grass is the best type to be associated with Rock; we've had a shitton of Water/Rock Pokemon, so having another is boring, and Fire/Rock ala Magcargo is completely crap. We've had Grass/Rock in Cradily, but it's more of a wall than an attacker. Grass/Rock is a very good offensive type combination; it would be amazing to see one here.
>Fire/FairyFor two generations in a row, Fire is the only of the three starting types to not be paired up with Fairy. So yes, I would love Fire/Fairy starter, especially if it is Fire/Fairy in its other stages as well.
>Water/FightingOh, yes! Water is the only starting type that was never paired up with FIghting for a starter evolutionary family. Grass has Chesnaught; Fire has six representatives across three generations. We need a Water/Fighting starter, pronto. We have two Water/Fighting Pokemon in Keldeo and Poliwrath. Keldeo is a very amazing special attacker, but as a Mythical it can't be used in most competitive formats. And Poliwrath suffers from the Gen I symptom of having mixed stats all-around, which makes it outclassed by Pokemon with more extreme and specialized stat distributions. Since Keldeo already exists as the special water attacker, it'd be nice for us to have a physical one here.
This typing also creates an inverse type chart. The Grass/Rock starter wouldn't be weak to Fire since Rock resists Fire, but its Rock subtype can be SE against the Fire/Fairy starter. The Fire/Fairy starter would have Fairy SE against the Water/Fighting starter, while the Water/Fighting starter would have Water SE against the Fire/Fairy one. And the Water/Fighting starter has Fighting SE against Grass/Rock. So the Water/Fighting and the Grass/Rock starters would be SE against both of the others, but the Fire/Fairy would only be SE against one. To make up for it though, the Fire/Fairy would have a very unique type combination.
