>>55922060It seems safe to assume they will either just use the Kalos starters or not use any of them and have them available in the wild, like PLA did. It would make sense for them to just use the Kalos starters, since in PLA the setting is that you're part of a group of settlers from other lands and the Sinnoh starters are rare native Pokémon they wouldn't have readily available for you to take, but let's assume they follow PLA's lead and give you three starters from other regions.
>Gen 1They were already shilled in XY and already have Megas. It might make some sense to reuse them but it would be really fucking boring.
>Gen 2Cyndaquil was already picked for PLA, so they might want to avoid another Johto mon.
>Gen 3They already have Megas. Pokémon can have more than one Mega form, but that would be pretty stupid. It's also seems unlikely that they would pick from starters that already have Megas when only the Kanto and Hoenn starters have them.
>Gen 4We just did Sinnoh, so they might want to avoid these.
>Gen 5Oshawott was in PLA.
>Gen 7Rowlett was in PLA.
>Gen 9It would be kind of weird to shill a starter from the most recent Gen.
Gen 8 seems to be the only group with no reasonable objection to them. And it would probably be Cinderace, since it's the most "European" and I don't think there's any other obvious candidate from the Fire starters, unlike Water and Grass.
It's pretty hard to argue against Empoleon as the Water starter. We did just do Sinnoh games but I don't think that means much. It's literally named after Napoleon. The only strong alternative to me would be Primarina, since it's a beautiful European mermaid fitting Kalos's aesthetic and also the first and only Fairy-type starter.
Serperior likewise feels like a strong candidate for Grass. It's very explicitly European and regal. They did pick an Unovan last time, but we might also be entering an Unova-shilling era with Indigo Disk and possibility of Gen V remakes in the near future.
