Need some feedback.
Let me explain. If you've played the demo, you'll know that students get to pick two out of the 18 known Pokemon types.
We'd like to know if it makes more sense for these characters to pick types that match their signature Pokemon. Or if it makes more sense for these characters to pick types that match their personalities.
Example 1: May is often associated with the Torchic evolutionary line. Blaziken is Fire/Fighting so those are the two types May selects. If the character doesn't have a dual-type signature Pokemon, then it's a little more arbitrary.
Example 2: Misty can have a pretty harsh personality. Her signature type is obviously Water. But based on her personality, we can use Ice as her second type as a nod to her personality.
The issue with this is that virtually all the player characters will be associated with either Grass, Fire or Water, thereby overpopulating those three types. Fighting is a very popular gym leader type (e.g. Brawly, Maylene, Korrina, etc.). This leaves other types like Bug, Ghost, Dark, Fairy, etc. rather sparse.
But if we go with personality, we can easily distribute characters across all 18 Pokemon types. But then it might seem awkward for some characters, let's say Silver, to be thrown into Dragon/Dark when he is often seen with a Feraligatr in media.
What do you think? Let's talk about it. Or just use the poll I'm setting up.