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Aaaa, I did not compose this with color schemes in mind... I was never good at that kind of thing and being away from the stylus for years at a time is doing me no favors.

I've never drawn any of these Pokémon before. Well, okay, I drew a gijinka Meganium once, but that doesn't count. I probably would have given up on this picture entirely if I tried to draw them all Sugimori-style like I usually do when I draw Pokémon, so we have them here in a style closer to my own. The new guys were kinda fun to draw here, actually.

Nonnie's Brain: What time is it? Late o' Clock? Perfect time to post something topical!

Just tossing my eighth-generation Pokémon starter fanart into the barrel here. We still don't know what those three are going to evolve into yet as of this writing, but I'm pretty sure that a mono-Grass Grookey and a mono-Water Sobble will be welcomed with open arms. Not so for a Fire/Fighting Scorbunny, despite all three having been seen thrice already.

*** RANT FOLLOWS ***

Why all the hate for Fire/Fighting type starters? There have been just as many mono-Grass and mono-Water starters as there have been Fire/Fighting ever since Diamond and Pearl, yet no one complains about the Grass-types and the Water-types not getting secondary types. Why do the Fire-type starters suffer such intense scrutiny?

I believe the main cause for this type combination getting all the hate it does is that it showed up in three consecutive generations, but there's probably something deeper than that.

When Ruby and Sapphire came out, did anyone say "Mudkip had better get a second type when it evolves"? When Diamond and Pearl came out, did anyone say that about Turtwig? Why did we all give a collective groan when we saw that Emboar gained the Fighting type, but no one made a peep when Serperior and Samurott in the very same generation never developed a second type?

Is it because of a bias toward secondary types?

Did we put Blaziken on so high a pedestal that all Fire-type starters are getting compared to it?

Maybe it's nothing to do with that. Maybe it's because the Fire/Fighting hat trick cut so deeply that the wounds still haven't healed. I could understand it in X/Y, when Fennekin had the potential to make it four in a row. I suppose Incineroar hit a little too close to home with its wrestler design, despite being Dark-type. But Emboar, the last Fire/Fighting starter, was three generations ago now. Can't we move on?

I will confess to a bit of a knee-jerk reaction regarding Fire/Fighting type starters, myself, but that's just it. A reflex. (Though the irrational dislike I've always had for the Fighting type in general isn't helping.) Yes, three generations in a row can burn someone out. But please, don't think less of Scorbunny's evolution, whatever it may be, just because it may be Fighting-type. It wouldn't be fair to Grookey or Sobble -- all three have the potential to make their type combination comprise exactly half of all starters of their base type.

(Useless related information: I was going to list the runners-up in the main-series games, but it's a thirteen-way tie for second at one appearance each! Only mono-Grass, Fire/Fighting, and mono-Water have ever appeared on multiple fully-evolved starters! (And before anyone brings it up... Greninja with the Protean ability doesn't count.))

Description
Aaaa, I did not compose this with color schemes in mind... I was never good at that kind of thing and being away from the stylus for years at a time is doing me no favors.

I've never drawn any of these Pokémon before. Well, okay, I drew a gijinka Meganium once, but that doesn't count. I probably would have given up on this picture entirely if I tried to draw them all Sugimori-style like I usually do when I draw Pokémon, so we have them here in a style closer to my own. The new guys were kinda fun to draw here, actually.

Nonnie's Brain: What time is it? Late o' Clock? Perfect time to post something topical!

Just tossing my eighth-generation Pokémon starter fanart into the barrel here. We still don't know what those three are going to evolve into yet as of this writing, but I'm pretty sure that a mono-Grass Grookey and a mono-Water Sobble will be welcomed with open arms. Not so for a Fire/Fighting Scorbunny, despite all three having been seen thrice already.

*** RANT FOLLOWS ***

Why all the hate for Fire/Fighting type starters? There have been just as many mono-Grass and mono-Water starters as there have been Fire/Fighting ever since Diamond and Pearl, yet no one complains about the Grass-types and the Water-types not getting secondary types. Why do the Fire-type starters suffer such intense scrutiny?

I believe the main cause for this type combination getting all the hate it does is that it showed up in three consecutive generations, but there's probably something deeper than that.

When Ruby and Sapphire came out, did anyone say "Mudkip had better get a second type when it evolves"? When Diamond and Pearl came out, did anyone say that about Turtwig? Why did we all give a collective groan when we saw that Emboar gained the Fighting type, but no one made a peep when Serperior and Samurott in the very same generation never developed a second type?

Is it because of a bias toward secondary types?

Did we put Blaziken on so high a pedestal that all Fire-type starters are getting compared to it?

Maybe it's nothing to do with that. Maybe it's because the Fire/Fighting hat trick cut so deeply that the wounds still haven't healed. I could understand it in X/Y, when Fennekin had the potential to make it four in a row. I suppose Incineroar hit a little too close to home with its wrestler design, despite being Dark-type. But Emboar, the last Fire/Fighting starter, was three generations ago now. Can't we move on?

I will confess to a bit of a knee-jerk reaction regarding Fire/Fighting type starters, myself, but that's just it. A reflex. (Though the irrational dislike I've always had for the Fighting type in general isn't helping.) Yes, three generations in a row can burn someone out. But please, don't think less of Scorbunny's evolution, whatever it may be, just because it may be Fighting-type. It wouldn't be fair to Grookey or Sobble -- all three have the potential to make their type combination comprise exactly half of all starters of their base type.

(Useless related information: I was going to list the runners-up in the main-series games, but it's a thirteen-way tie for second at one appearance each! Only mono-Grass, Fire/Fighting, and mono-Water have ever appeared on multiple fully-evolved starters! (And before anyone brings it up... Greninja with the Protean ability doesn't count.))