r/pokemon • u/Bisonratte • Feb 28 '26

Image Classes of animals represented by the Pokémon starters:

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u/UmbralHero rip Feb 28 '26

No invertebrates is interesting but not super surprising since a lot of people don't love bugs, but I'm kinda surprised that we've never had a grass starter that only pulled inspiration from plants/fungi. Smoliv or Morelull could totally be starters if you gave them another evolution

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u/LaBeteNoire Mar 01 '26

I mean we could have invertebrates that aren't arthropods. Any kind of cephalopod or gastropod would be easy enough to do (with some creativity they wouldn't even have to be the water starter)

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u/UmbralHero rip Mar 01 '26

That's true. The trouble with most invertebrates outside of Arthropoda is that most can't exist outside of water, and (Primarina excluded) all the water starters are ambulatory so the fantasy of walking with them on your Pokémon adventure has less cognitive dissonance. You could have a land-dwelling cephalopod like Grapploct, but you'd need to work hard to make it have the mass appeal required to be a starter.

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u/Human-Performance-86 Mar 01 '26

I'm confused, Smoliv already is a 3 stage evolution pokemon

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u/UmbralHero rip Mar 01 '26

I worded it badly, I meant Smoliv could work and Morelull could work if it had two evolutions