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Err... Starter Pokemon?

HERLS

LOLOLOL
The multiple professors always mention how they are rare creatures from exotic regions - but why have we never seen these regions? Why can't we catch Squirtle in Shinou? Where the hell is this so called exotic region?


I never understood this. They can only ever be obtained from a professor, or an egg (breeding).


Discuss.
 

~Ero Oyagi~

Well-Known Member
I seem to remember than in RBY quite a few trainers you battled had one of the starters. Not so for the other gens though.

I never really quite understood this. If you can't catch them anywhere in the region (or any region for that matter) then surely they must come from some other exotic place. Ah well, another thing to add to the list of "things I don't get about Pokémon"
 

Polursine

Leave my posts alone
The origins of all starters are unknown, but I assume that each Professor from each generation is given three (multiple of each) for any trainers wishing for one. Where, or who, will remain a mystery.
 

Ho-oh Tamer

Well-Known Member
The starters are native to the region the game is set in (like in the anime) but you can't catch them in the wild in the games because you're only meant to have one without trading.
 

Meowth! That's right!

Cat Pokemon Trainer
Yeah! I mean, if you can't catch them in the wild then where do they come from? There would have to be more where they came from.
 

Francesc

Natsu no Maboroshi
Maybe they're secretly breed by someone, then this person gives them to the Professor for his studying. XD
 

squirtleboy12

christian 4ever
maybe to pokemon ranger region or mistery dungeon..maybe their regions will be revealed and they are native to there because you can catch multiple pokemon thare
 

Vycksta

Well-Known Member
They ask my help and together with my Sneasel army we go over to the region of Fnarg and capture lots of the lovely starters for you all.

[/hahaiwish]
 

Nyarumacat

...................
I agree with Ho-oh Tamer,
and Fnarg, Vycksta? What's Fnarg? Or is it a made up region by yourself?
 

Strawberry.

Strawberry fields.
This issue has never been fully explained in details before. I don't understand it either, and it's not like they're outstandingly good or anything like that.

Just yet another mysterious puzzle from the world of Pokémon. xD
 

pikadon92

Raiden Maximus
These starters could be endagered species so they could be imported by a pokemon zoo or something.
 
It says in the games that, I was once a great pokemon trainer but noew I only have these 3 pokemon left. So I would imagine that they all became extinct but the other trainers inherited the pokemon or bought them.
 

Vent's Theme

Pretty Dolls
Speaking from a strictly game cannon perspective, the fact that you do not meet a Pokemon in the wild does not mean that it doesn't exist in the wild. While playing Pokemon Red, you don't meet wild Persian and Meowth, but, that's not to say that they don't live in those areas [Pokemon Blue proves that they do,] all that this shows is that, in your journeys as a trainer, due to fate or destiny or luck, you have never encountered one of these Pokemon.

The same can be said of the starter Pokemon: [or indeed, any real life animal which you have not encountered] The fact that you passed through their habitat and did not meet any of said species does not prove that said species does not live in the aforementioned environment.

As it stands, the only starter Pokemon you meet in the game happen to belong to other trainers; that's just how your adventure has worked out.

Looking at the situation rationally, it's fairly safe to assume that Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle are all fairly uncommon in Kanto, to extent that numerous trainers may never see one in the wild and that those given out by Professor Oak are obtained through breeding. [hence the portrayal of all starter Pokemon in the anime to be babies.] I can't see a reason as to why this shouldn't apply to every region. [Except for the fact that, speaking once more from a strictly game cannon perspective, we don't know that either Professor Elm or Professor Birch hand out starter Pokemon to newbie trainers; Professor Elm was studying Chikorita, Cyndaquill and Totodile, and gave the Pokemon to your trainer so that he could safely run an errand for him, and it's never implied that Treeko, Torchic and Mudkip aren't just Pokemon that belong to Professor Birch.]

... There, I think that clears things up. ^^

As an aside, where does it say that starter Pokemon come from exotic regions? None of the Professors that I've talked to say that. >.> <.<

Also, and this is specifically aimed at the two posters above, don't just make stuff up, don't try and answer these questions if you don't know what you're talking about.
 

Vycksta

Well-Known Member
^ *cracks up laughing*

Nyarumacat said:
I agree with Ho-oh Tamer,
and Fnarg, Vycksta? What's Fnarg? Or is it a made up region by yourself?
Fnarg is actually a made up word of my friend Crysatl's... probably the best made-up word in existance.

Jalen said:
I think Vycksta's Theory is the best and most likey so far :D
Really? Ha ha, I was just being random. xD
 

oliver sreeves

Well-Known Member
there is no made up region. you just can't catch starters in the wild. if you did, they would be rare, and secondly they are just like version exclusives, you either get one, or you get the other.
 
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