>>589192536 would've worked if Chesnaught and Delphox weren't under-designed garbage. Greninja was the only one that actually succeeded and it took the Megas to fix the problems with the base designs
5 hell fucking no, there's absolutely fucking nothing cohesive about the starter trio outside of the shitty broad themes Masuda was trying to implement in Gen V that didn't help the game out with showcasing Unova's "diversity" at all
>French regal snake>Worse Journey to the West reference than Infernape>Ugly ass samuraiDoesn't help this is probably the least popular Starter trio by far
7 doesn't feel connected either, they're just better designs
>Archer Owl>Tiger Mask reference but a heel>Cure MermaidIf it weren't for the fact they were a Grass/Fire/Water trio, there would be zero relation to these mons. Like why is the pop idol strong against a fucking wrestler? Kanto's generic monsters are completely emblematic of their types, but you can take the Fire out of Incineroar or the Grass out of Decidueye and not lose the theme. It's a failure in cohesion
Let's fucking back the fuck up now and look at all of the starters in the series. Have they actually BOTHERED to justify why they're Grass/Fire/Water outside of "Kanto did it"? These trios have no themes beyond their Jobs, which makes them not unified in the slightest. When they were just monsters in Gens I-IV, it's less egregious that they recycled the types but now we're forcing star pegs into square holes because it's always been that way. That's why none of the starter trios after Hoenn have succeeded in all in actually being iconic. Popular sure, but never iconic
