That I did. I was hoping for Fire/Dark, but... *sighs*

Someone made an interesting note about the Fire/Fighting Pig starter; since it was planned to be bulky and it looks like the programmers wanted it to be able to take Super Effective hits on a video... perhaps the Fighting type was slapped on begrudgingly to deal with the Stealth Rock problem. Ground and Steel are the only others that resist it. And unlike the other two combos, Fire/Fighting doesn't give any 4x weaknesses(Water and Ground for the others, respectively). Something interesting to think about, perhaps.

It would have been nice to give nice new types to the Grass and Water starters though, since it's not looking like they have that defensive focus that the Fire starter does. More STAB coverage for them would have been nice.

If they make the bulkiness actually work on the Fire starter though, that would screw over Blaziken again because we already have Infernape for going all out, and with 'Ganonpork' taking on the more bulky/survivable role... yeah.

More released pics! Looks like the mono elemental Gyms might be no more; Dento is one of three Gym Leaders in the first Gym, all with a different type of monkey. The Gym Leader you face seems to depend on your starter...





Getting pretty close to release in Japan now too!

I think he's speaking with some sarcasm and basically saying that the general public view us as perverse monsters nonetheless, even if we know we're not even remotely comparable to bestiality. Which, sadly, is probably true.

Yeah, I had the same issue about the Pig too, on the other hand, there's a lot of black on it, so we could have Ganon on our hands, hopefully.

I do like the Grass one a lot, it fits the snake theme a bit more and is my favourite of the bunch.

I only really have issues with the Water one, it just seems so... like a random odd Water-y Dialga + horn + mustache creation rather than an actual evolution of Mijumaru/DerpDerp. This also seems to be the one that most people have issues with, and is a stronger hint to me that these could be faked. But I could be wrong.

If they're real, Grass for me, because it looks pretty awesome as is.

Edit: Also, this: img39.imageshack.us/img39/3883/fakepl.png

And this: i53.tinypic.com/2dt92bq.jpg

This too: i51.tinypic.com/e97wp0.jpg

Again, going to wait and see for total confirmation either way. Serebii specifically noted that there was a confirmation on the final Water evo, unfortunately- that's the most controversial one and the most disliked, from the looks of things.

Edit:They're all real.

There have been some strong rumours about these released pictures of starter Pokemon evolutions. I know for certain that the second(middle stage) forms of the Grass and Water ones are real(though I can't verify their colours), as I've seen drawings of them before alongside other official new characters like Iris, all the others, nothing is confirmed yet:







Case in point, the bottom point on the tail of the middle Grass evo in the original sketch clearly points up, where this coloured version clearly points down, which shouldn't happen at all... making it look like someone traced the original(along with the middle Water evo) and faked the rest.

i333.photobucket.com/albums/m361/HeroicJay/Fakestarter.png

However, due to the strength of the rumours('verification' by multiple sources) that people here may have seen, I decided to post all up about it anyway, on the chance that they are real, somehow.

Team Rocket will be returning in the cartoon, no surprise there... but they and Giovanni have some new outfits.

It turns out Dento is also the first Gym Leader of the Isshu region that you will encounter(fitting that he replaces Brock then...). He's probably a Grass type user since he has a Yanappu, which is a pure Grass type. He is said to be a Pokémon 'Sommelier', who can see the compatibility between a Pokémon and its Trainer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommelier

Combination attacks are now featured:

She does look terrific, but I agree that those comments are bloody awful.

That would be the 'Uncanny Valley' effect.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley