Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Fuecoco Could Have a Unique Evolutionary Trait

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Pokemon Scarlet andViolet are coming this November for Nintendo Switch, but very little is officially known about Generation 9 games. The Pokemon Company's silence about Pokemon Scarlet andViolet could be a new marketing strategy to make the games a hot topic within the community, or it might be a consequence of the excessive amount of details shared aboutPokemon Sun and Moon in 2016. Still, there are several alleged leaks and rumors online about what Generation 9 is all about, with some of them being more reliable than others, and an interesting bit is that many of them hint at Fuecoco evolving into a quadrupedal creature.

If Pokemon Scarlet andViolet's Fuecoco truly evolves into a crocodile-like Pokemon that stands on four legs, it would be the very first Fire-type starter evolution to have this feature. Normally, Fire-type starters either start out as quadrupedal Pokemon and evolve to be bipedal, or they are bipedal all along. Actually, this is the case for almost all Pokemon species in existence, as becoming bipedal or being born with that characteristic is typically one of the traits that define evolution the most, as real-life animals tend to develop physical attributes that allow them to survive more easily.

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There are no quadrupedal Fire starter Pokemon in the franchise, considering that Quilava doesn't really count because it's either depicted as standing on two legs or four, only to then evolve into Typhlosion, a bipedal Pokemon. Furthermore, only five Pokemon species see their bipedal form evolve into a quadrupedal creature, and one of them is also not exactly quadrupedal — Darmanitan. Its basic form, Darumaka, stands on two legs,