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Why has there never been a fish starter?

Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 04:34:00 No.49635524 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>49635595 >>49635698 >>49635750

No, mudkip doesn’t count; despite its name, it’s actually based on a salamander, not a mudskipper.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 04:37:29 No.49635550 Report

Quoted By: >>49635595 >>49635678

Because the anime needs to be able to portray it alongside the humans at any stage, which can't happen if one of them's a fish.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 04:39:09 No.49635563 Report

Quoted By: >>49635678

Fish are probably harder to make charismatic than other animals, and they've increasingly focused on more familiar and charismatic animal families in the past few gens. There may have been a chance of it back in the days when starters were more often simple dinosaur-like monsters, but it's probably long gone.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 04:44:02 No.49635595 Report

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>>49635524
this >>49635550 plus there's already tons of fish pokemon so how would a fish starter set iself apart to actually feel like a starter

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Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 04:58:32 No.49635678 Report

Quoted By: >>49635710 >>49635716 >>49635988

>>49635550
Fish can be on land indefinitely in the world of pokemon.
>>49635563
They might have to choose a meme fish like the blobfish or megalodon in that case.
>>49635595
There were already a few snakemon prior to serperior, so it can work to revisit a used concept.
They could base its first form an embryo or a fry, its second form a smolt, and its third form the full adult.
If they wanted to be really, really out there, they could make fish starter NOT the water starter—that’ll blow some minds.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 05:02:10 No.49635698 Report

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>>49635524
because the fish starter that exists you say doesnt count
water starters are always amphibian even when they're not actual amphibians

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Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 05:04:49 No.49635710 Report

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>>49635678
>Fish can be on land indefinitely in the world of pokemon.
They always try to avoid portraying fish on land, stadium just did the "they float and do swimming animations" and that just kind of stuck for the games but the show isn't gonna do that.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 05:05:38 No.49635716 Report

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>>49635678
So why did shudo have misty only use staryu or psyduck on land, when she also owned a goldeen?
Because he didn't play fish as being able to do anything but flop on land, hazards of being a boomer fuck given a video game to adapt to a tv show. Wasn't fucked learning the ins and outs of the game, thus couldn't comprehend anything but a "realistic" portrayal of the creatures. That extended to fish only being able to swim, so there has to be a body of water if they want to be shown off in the anime. And those that followed kept to that, as it wasn't a big deal, by that stage GF were working with the anime in mind, thus weren't going to make a fish starter.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 05:09:10 No.49635734 Report

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Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 05:11:30 No.49635750 Report

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>>49635524
>it’s actually based on a salamander, not a mudskipper.
Bullshit

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Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 05:23:01 No.49635794 Report

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>>49635710
>>49635716
Why do they have to still follow anime rules from 20+ years ago?
>>49635734
>pic
>>49635750
How? Mudkip and its evolutions have way more to do with salamanders and axolotls than they do actual mudskippers.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 06:13:00 No.49635988 Report

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>>49635678
>If they wanted to be really, really out there, they could make fish starter NOT the water starter—that’ll blow some minds.
that's even dumber.
different for the sake of being different =/= good

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Feb 2022 06:15:44 No.49635998 Report

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>>49635794
Because a fish floating on land looks fucking retarded. That's why all Water starters are amphibious.

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