Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Fuecoco Shouldn't Become A Fire/Fighting Type
The next Pokémon games, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, have been announced, along with their starters, but Fuecoco, the fire starter, shouldn't turn out to be a Fire/Fighting type. Although it's been some time since the combination was used for a starter, there is a worry that it could happen with the Gen 9 games. There's no telling what the final forms for Scarlet and Violet's starters will be at the moment, but hopefully, it will choose a different type combination.
Three other starters have Fire/Fighting as their final evolution's type combination; Blaziken, Infernape, and Emboar. Considering the fact that the new games will make nine generations of Pokémon, the combination doesn't seem like a big problem. It would seem that all Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's Gen 9 starters are currently only providing hints as to where the game is set and not potential types they could evolve into with their evolutions. The fact that all three of them were released in a row, however, and started in the third generation, was enough to cause concern of Fire/Fighting starters. It's become something of a meme, one made half with humor and half with nervous anticipation.
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There's no telling at the moment what Fuecoco's final type combination could be, but hopefully it's not Fire/Fighting. Other possibilities may come from its inspiration, as well as that of the region itself. More recent type combinations could also offer hints, even to the types of the other starters' final evolutions if Pokémon continues some recent trends that it's set in the past few games. The Pokémon revealed in Scarlet and Violet's trailer offer little insight, but eagle-eyed fans may just glean something that most
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