My opinion on the starters...
Rowlet: I think its design is pretty great! Very basic and memorable. The thousand-mile stare and weird-looking beak creep me out but I can understand why it's the most popular starter thus far. I imagine it'll have a really imposing-looking 3rd evo.
Litten: I honestly don't have much to say about this design. The red-on-black stripes feel a bit tacky but the rest of the design is pretty great. I remember hearing somewhere that it spits flammable hairballs to fight. Neat! Let's hope the 3rd evo finds a way to differentiate itself from Pyroar.
Popplio: Good grief, this is the most doofy starter I've ever seen. When I saw the first
image of it I thought it was a camera issue or something. Nope! It actually has eyes on the opposite sides of its head. Nope nope nope! Mammals and derpy fish eyes do not mix. Not at all. Let's hope the 3rd evo takes a different direction and gives us something awesome like Samurott.
Also, on the subject of Rowlet's typing...From what I understand, this is the first starter Pokemon that's initially a dual-type? Four advantages and five weaknesses...one of which is a quadruple-weakness to ice. As someone who has a lot of experience with Dragon/Flying and Dragon/Ground Pokemon, that's pretty terrible.
Though, given the tropical setting I guess we're not going to see a lot of ice-type moves.
Edited by DragonDePlatino, 10 May 2016 - 04:04 PM.