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2nd Gen The Evolution of Johto's Starters

The Evolution of Johto’s Starters

The Evolution of Johto’s Starters

The three Starter lines for Pokémon Gold and Silver changed greatly during development – two were completely different and then scrapped! We explore what we know about their development.

bobandbill

one more time
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I still am super intrigued by the former middle stage of Chikorita's line. Such a weird and interesting idea!
 
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I actually like all the ideas they had for the Johto starters during development, I prefer what they ended up with at release, but reckon they could have stood up as good starter Pokemon in their own right. All apart from, that weird alien Bayleef...
 

Ivysaur

Grass dinosaur extraordinaire
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Teddiursa was born as a recolour of a scrapped starter. Now that's something that really I did not see coming.
 

bobandbill

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What were meganium and the whole tododile line???
A dinosaur with some weird spy/parasite/??? motif used prior to it but after Chikorita. As for the line replaced by totodile... something vaguely loch-ness-esque?
I actually like all the ideas they had for the Johto starters during development, I prefer what they ended up with at release, but reckon they could have stood up as good starter Pokemon in their own right. All apart from, that weird alien Bayleef...
I wouldn't mind seeing the alien bayleef sort of concept, just... not as a Starter.
Teddiursa was born as a recolour of a scrapped starter. Now that's something that really I did not see coming.
Yeah, surprised me too. It sure looked a bit awkward at first too.
 
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