I actually kinda like the traditional rodents/birds. Most of em are pretty neet looking. And really i'm up for any type combo GF comes up with as long as they dont nerf the starters' potential with bad stats or movepool
Yeah, they always like to include a traditional early-route rodent and bird like Rattata/Sentret/Zigzagoon/Bidoof/Patrat and Pidgey/Hoothoot/Taillow/Starly/Pidove before it.
Also, I'd love the 6th Gen starters even more if they get awesome stats and wide movepools. While the 5th Gen starters may
look awesome, they were sadly nerfed with bad stats or movepools. *cough* Serperior *cough*.
Could be a late tradition. Most annoying thing about Fire/Fighting, all the needless complaints. No one complains when other type comboes are done. Like Normal/Flying which is one of the most used. Only reason it gets so much flack is because its on a starter Pokemon. But then again we've had a bunch of pures who are only complained about when compared to the others.
I'm kinda hopin for Fire/Fighting mostly cause I don't want Fennekin to be Fire/Psychic, doesn't help that I'm expecting Fennekin to be a forbidden love child of Snivy and Flareon. Making it Fire/Psychic, possibility of Gamefreak trolling and making it Physical based Pokemon with hardly any worth while physical attacks, and completely ruining its stat/move lists making it look good only for pre-release and suck horribly upon use.
Another reason I hope Fire/Fighting...cause I really want Froakie to be Water/Flying.
I guess the reason people got sick of Fire/Fighting starters was they thought Blaziken was awesome, Infernape was alright, but then when Emboar came, they thought the typing lost its luster and they thought Game Freak was favoring that combination for the Fire Starters' typing too much. Probably cos the Fighting-type cuts down the Stealth Rock weakness. But if they give Fennekin's evolutions part-Psychic it would have even more weaknesses than Charizard, but unlike Charizard it wouldn't have any nasty 4x weaknesses.
People were often expecting Snivy's line to be Grass/Dragon when Black & White information was still being revealed, they also wanted Tepig's line to be Fire/Dark and Oshawott's to be Water/Fighting. But sadly they got disappointed at the 5th Gen starters getting nerfed with terrible stats and movepools, and the fact that Snivy and Oshawott's line were given pure Grass and Water. This is probably why I see most people hating 5th Gen's starters more than other generations.
And making Fennekin's evos Physical-based Fire/Psychic would be a bit silly, it looks like it will be Special-based given the attacks Fennekin was using in the trailer. I'd probably imagine Chespin being Physical-based, Fennekin being Special and Froakie being mixed.