Honestly, I don't see what's so bad about these starters. I like them all, the fire one is the one I find least original or most common but I still like it. I saw many comment saying that the otter looks neutral, like if it's appearance says nothing of him. Well, don't we all like a little curiosity? It's like a cliff-hanger (what's he REALLY feeling?) LOL. I've always used the water starters (except in Ruby and Sapphire where I really couldn't even get near to Mudkip, I'm sorry but that's just a whole lotta ugly and it's by far my least favorite version, even though it has one of my top favorite grass pokemon: Treecko for those who are wondering). As of right now, I'm looking forward to them. On type speculation, I'd say:
- Fire/Ground over Fire/Dark, I think Fire/Dark has been a little abused but it would still be okay since it'll give him more defenses so to speak (I mean Fire and Ground is x4 weakness to Water)
- Water should just be pure water...Ice wouldn't be bad but I'm not exactly looking forward to it.
- Grass/Psychic would be better than Grass/Flying or Grass/Fighting. Grass/Fighting was done with Breloom and that wasn't that good, it was kind of weak even though the idea wasn't that bad with the Breelom sprite. I just don't see anything near to Grass/Fighting from the uber cool grass snake.
I know this is too long for a first post but I just wanted to comment on almost anything said LOL.