When I first saw the starters, I thought they were all great. Chespin is well designed, and I REALLY like the name. Fennekin is good too. I like the name. While the design is also alright, I only really dislike Fennekin due to him reminding me too much of Nintales....hopefully his final evolution changes that. Froakie's name is practically perfect for him. His design also pleases me. Now, for their evolutions..I don't like them much. I like all their names, its truly their designs that do it for me. Braxien is just awful to me. I mean, they really didn't seem to try with this one. Its like they just made Fennekin stand up and added a random stick coming out of his tail. Quilladin is probably the one I like the most. I don't hate this one at all. I don't truly have any issues with it. Frogadier is like the middle. I have mixed feelings about him. I feel the dark blue on his head is kinda strange looking. The fact his ears are pointed also seems odd to me. I'm also not sure if I'm a fan of the blue hands and feet. But other than that, he looks good to me.
Considering where things are going, I'll take a guess at what I think the final evolutions will be like. Chespin, I'm thinking his final evo will be something like a cross between him, Emboar, and Golem. I kinda like the sound of that. As far as typing goes, I truly can't tell where this one is going. Maybe pure grass. Froakie's final evo is probably going to be his 2nd evo, but with moar dark blue, longer neck thing, and even stranger ears. So basically, a giant cloud frog creature. I honestly wanna see how this one plays out. He might be Water-Flying. Fennekin's evolution could go a couple ways in my view. The fact his 2nd evo is standing on 2 legs could mean that we could get a fighting fire fox, which could be great as far as design goes, but I dread the thought of there being ANOTHER fire-fighting type final evolution. Now, I feel the stick will play a huge role in Fennekin's final evo. Unless he hits people with them, I think it will be used in a Psychic or Fairy type way. Maybe the stick will be some sort of wand or maybe it will be like Alakazam's spoon. I hope they do something like this, or just NOT give us a Fire Fighting type.