Well it does work nicely, but I doubt anyone will disagree on this.
Actually Its not that the other 2 copied Blaziken, its just that it was fitting to their concept as well.
Fire/Fighting may have been a fitting concept for Infernape and Emboar, but nevertheless they did copy Blaziken's typing. Nothing says they couldn't have Fire/Fighting Pokemon that weren't starters that still fit the concepts that Infernape and Emboar were supposed to display.
How about you do some research and find out what Emboar is based on and you will find out why he's a Fire/Fighting.
They didn't have to make Emboar a starter Pokemon. They could've made a Fire starter that didn't have Fighting as a secondary type.
Yeah no Fire/fighting is much stronger that pure fire.
Just because a type combination is often more competitively viable and stronger doesn't necessarily mean it's better. Try another excuse.
Furthermore if don't like the fact that Emboar is another fire/fighting starter then just don't use him and replace it with another fire type pokémon.
The problem isn't in the fact that they don't like the Tepig line. It's in the fact that the player has been given a choice between a Grass starter, a Water starter, and a Fire starter that evolves into a Fire/Fighting type for three generations, which is why people say it gets really old.
You also mention that they should replace Emboar with another Fire-type Pokemon. In that case, why didn't they make Emboar not a starter and put another Fire-type Pokemon as a starter in the first place so that people wouldn't have to do such a thing?
You do know that Monferno existed for a reason to counter that gym as well right?
The reason Monferno existed in gen 4 wasn't to counter Roark's gym. It was coincidentally the second stage in a line of three Fire-type Pokemon that just so happened to be based off of Sun Wu Kong.
Again I don't hear you say that for the Pidove line or for the Rufflet line since we have another flying/normal combo, futhermore as I have said before you don't have to use Tepig so your complaint is unneeded.
Again, the problem doesn't lie in whether or not a person likes Tepig. It lies in the fact that there have been three Fire-type starters whose final forms were all Fire/Fighting for three generations. Pidgey, Hoothoot, and Rufflet are different because there are
purposefully counterparts to Pidgey in each generation.
Starters are different, because Game Freak never intended for them to be counterparts of each other in terms of typing. However, the fact that they went with fully-evolved Fire/Fighting starter Pokemon for three generations now warrants such a complaint.
You clearly don't understand why the Rock gym was the first gym in Kanto, Hoenn and Sinnoh.
Rock is the best type to teach newcomers of the Pokémon series about typing and how they matter in battle.
Pokémon Black and White make this pretty clear when the first Gym Leader would have a clear type advantage over your starter but a clear type disadvantage over your monkey, should have you chosen to pick it up and use it.
Rock is clearly
not the best type to teach newcomers of the Pokemon series about typing and how they matter in battle, and you say the answer yourself.
If they wanted to teach newcomers of the Pokemon series about typing and how they mattered in battle, why didn't they go with what they did with Striaton City in the generations where they had Rock-type gyms as the first gym to handle? (Or at least in gen 3 and 4, since gen 1 probably didn't have processing power advanced enough for it.)
All Fire starters are based on the chinese zodiac.
Weve had
Dragon, Rat, Rooster, Monkey, Boar.
Whats left:
Ox, Snake, Tiger, Rabbit, Horse, Ram, Dog
I think snake would be too soon after Serperior (but /Poison please! omg)
The rest all seem like casual candidates. Plenty of pure Fire material and I don't see what esle they could possibly want Fighting on, so Im confident this is done.
I think it's purely coincidental. After all, between Grass and Water and Fire, the one type that correlates with the most zodiac animals is the Fire type.
Of course, they didn't have to all be Fire/Fighting, which just goes to show that all the complaints that have been posted in this thread apply.
Not really. They would be running out of ideas if they used something exotic everytime and have nothing new left.
Its more that they stuck to /Fighting because it fit the concepts they chose for the Fire starters, not the other way around.
Again, they could've stuck with Fire/Fighting to suit their concepts but not have made them starters so that these complaints wouldn't have risen in the first place.
And with everybody saying that Game Freak isn't running out of ideas anytime soon, they could've just made another Fire-type to fit in that starter slot.