Poll: So, Which Starter Will You Choose In Pokémon Winds & Waves?

"If Rowlet is so good, why haven't they made Rowlet 2?"
Rowlet 2:

so yeah, that one

They all are adorable but I am partial to Geckua. Such a cute lil guy

They were just announced today so I haven't decided yet, but I usually go with fire or water (Bulbasaur in LeafGreen today being an exception), so I'll probably go with... well... fire or water again.

Browt looks fun!

Historically I've gone mostly grass- this time fire I think but it's close between the chicken & the dog.

Gecqua for me!! 😍😍😍😍

Water type is my default. I'll be choosing Sobble.

I wanna see the evolutions first, not basing my decision on the starters alone

Were I to choose, it’d be Pombon for sure! Winds & Waves seems so Okinawa-inspired to me, and Pombon has got to be a pokefied version of Okinawa’s shisa lion dog guardians.

That Geko is too shifty, I do appreciate the owl is very much done with us already

Browt is my guy, but I like all three. They look as clean as possible while also being clearly recognizable, which is the trademark of a good design.

I dunno, the latest gen starters always just seem to be "random cute animal + element". Nothing as iconic or interesting as Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle. (Ok, admittedly Squirtle is also cute animal + element but he does get some ridiculously huge cannons in the evolutions.)

I love Rowlet, to see Browt go in the same direction is pretty cool! It is Browt for me.

Gen 1 - Bulbasaur
Gen 2 - Chikorita
Gen 3 - Treecko
Gen 4 - Piplup (Penguins are my fave)
Gen 5 - Snivy
Gen 6 - Chespin
Gen 7 - Rowlet
Gen 8 - Grookey
Gen 9 - Fuecoco
Gen 10 - Browt

I just love me the Grass starters

Is there a way to turn off the World of Warcraft promotional skin on the main page of the site? I suuuuper don't like it. IGN has changed this site and I always knew it would.

@wollywoo

Bulbasaur is just a toad with a plant on its back.

Charmander is just a salamander whose tail is on fire

Squirtle is just a turtle with a funny tail

Im not saying the originals aren't great, but they too are just real animals with a slight type twist. I'd argue the Gen 2 starters are much less like real animals and more individual.

It all depends on what the third evolutions look like. I'm not choosing my starter based on what they look like for the first 1 hour of a 100 hour game.

I'll decide on launch day. Browt is a real one for sure. The others will grow on me, and make the choice agonizing in 2027. As it should be!

I'm starting with Browt, no question! I've already named him Cheeps.

I’d be fine with Browt if it didn’t look so similar to a certain grass owl we’ve already had. The other two could be nice, I’d just have to see how their final forms look. Pombon looks like a baby Arcanine.

Missile! I mean Pombon. Though my final decision rests on how the evolutions progress.

Points to Browt if its final evo ends up with a luscious beard or 'stache lol.

Immediately doggie!!!

Gecqua! Maybe it’s the eyes, the squishy eyelashes, or both? I hope it doesn’t just become another Inteleon, and Browt’s final evolution may or may not impress me, but Gecqua’s only been growing on me today.

I also tend to alternate between the grass or water starter in Pokemon games. Since I would’ve chosen Sprigatito in Violet, I’d choose Gecqua in Waves.

I've always liked the water-type starters the best, but it doesn't really matter to me because I've long had a system for easily getting all three starters early on in a Pokémon without glitching or hacking:

1) Start the game and choose one of the starters.
2) Continue playing until you reach the point where you can trade with another player.
3) Trade the starter over to a different save file using another game, and store that starter in that file's PC.
4) Repeat steps 1 - 3 for the other two starters.
5) Trade all the starters from the second save file back to the first file.

Now you have all three starters early in one save file! 😉

The dog is the best. No debate!

Hey, I'm a dog person but nothing comes close to Growlithe as being the top Pup. This Pombon puppy is too "look at me" vibes and I hate it. With that said Gecqua is the choice even though those eye lashes need to be trimmed.

took a few hours, but I'm warming up to Browt.

...which means I've picked the grass starter for every new game sine Legends Arceus. I might be a spiritual Grass-type Trainer-

@Kiz3000 Well yeah. But that's my point, these guys don't have anything as eyecatching as the fire on Charmamder's tail or the bulb on Bulbasaur. The og starters are just weirder and not as cutesy. Also I prefer the hand-drawn art over the smooth, plastic looking 3D models.

Always fire, for me. Their character design and naming constructions are almost always on point.
Oh, but those are definitely lashes on Gecqua. There's even an "eyelash gecko" or more correctly, a crested gecko. They are found on an island in the south Pacific. Could that be the locale inspiration? Though the pom doesn't seem to work there.

Pombon, naturally. Fire is the best type and Pom is the cutest.

Unless it’s gonna be a good and polished game this time, I don’t care 🌝

Pombon is totally the type I could go for.

If I do get these games, Pombon for me, all the way! I usually like getting the Fire-type starters, anyway. But I especially love the design for Pombon, especially since it looks like a Pomeranian, one of my favorite dog breeds. It's so cute, a far cry from Feucoco, which looks too much like an apple for my tastes. I never did get Scarlet & Violet, but if I did, it would have been the first time that I went with a Pokémon that wasn't the Fire-type starter; I would have likely gone with the Grass-type starter, Sprigatito.

But I am curious as to what its evolutions will look like. I'm personally hoping that its final evolution will look like a wolf. So instead of it being a Direwolf, it will be a Firewolf! It would also be interesting to see it be a quadrupedal evolution instead of a bipedal one, something that a VTuber that I follow by the name of Jorunna van de Zee echoed in her reaction to the stream. She went into quite the rant when she mentioned how every Fire-type starter Pokémon is bipedal or humanoid in its final form (with the exception of Skeledirge, the final evolution of Fuecoco). So I would like to see it take on a quadrupedal form, but also make it wolf-like in appearance.

Still need to see their evos, but both pombon and gecqua had me doing the leonardo pointing meme

Per tradition, I always pick a water starter no matter how I personally feel about them. So it's gonna be Gequa by default (and I feel better about them out the gate than I did Sobble).

But if not for my arbitrary rule, it absolutely would've been Pombon.

I don’t see the point in thinking about this question more than a year before the game releases… I’ll check in on this game again in the fall.

Undecided, but i cant choose that for some reason

Gecqua but as ever i need to see their final forms before i make the real choice.

Would need to see the final forms, but probably Grass since I usually go for it or Water and this Water one is really offputting to me.

Let's see... between the angry Bird, the Undertale Dog and the eyelashes(!) gecko, hmm maybe I'll pick the grass starter this time, it's been a long time for me in that respect.