Why are the starters starters?
I know, dumb, but hear me out.
They're exceptionally strong pokemon for early game and you don't find them in the wild.
So how did the Professors come across them? Why do they offer such a rare breed to a total noob time and time again?
>Why are the starters starters?
Because they are the predetermined set of Pokemon given to new trainers.
>So how did the Professors come across them?
Breeding, for example. For the first time? Who knows, though if we rationalized it further by comparing it to our world, there are quite a few pet breeds that are only found in captivity.
>Why do they offer such a rare breed to a total noob time and time again?
Because it's precisely because they are new trainers that they're given solid Pokemon at the start of their journeys so that they can set off and progressively make their way up instead of getting abused by Rattatas and the Poke-wilderness in general right from the start.
>>26334479
Thanks for taking the time to answer in a serious manner. I appreciate it.
>>26334479
>Breeding, for example.
Do you think there are mass Bulbasaur breeding farms where the females are locked in rows of cages, continuously impregnated by hordes of horny male Bulbasaur to produce egg after egg all the while being force feed experimental food to boost the productivity of egg development?
>>26334189
>you don't find them in the wild[...] So how did the Professors come across them?
I'll go with the Valley of the Charizards from the anime for reference (if I'm not misremembering), starter pokemon live in very rare/exotic places, ones not densely populated by humans. They're probably encountered by skilled trainers and then bred for starters (and hopefully not poached from their mothers/fathers in the wild).
>Why do they offer such a rare breed to a total noob time and time again?
Because you're privileged enough to get your first Pokemon from a regional professor. Do you think fucking Youngster Joey was given a Totodile? Nah, he found a fucking rat in his basement and decided it must be Top Percentage.
>>26335294
Might explain why there's an offset in the genders of starters leaning toward male.
I know you're being weird and all.
>>26337172
My headcanon was always that the professors had access to some special area that contained the starters. Usually they only catch males in order keep the starter population high for future trainers, since one male can fertilize many eggs.
>>26335294
Why wouldn't they just use Ditto?
Well I mean look at the friend safari. You can find second stage starters there and they would just quite obviously and then give the babies to the trainer, though this really only explains it for Kalos I guess
>>26334189
>controlled reserve populations allow for repeated handaway of the starter species
>because perhaps those said species are relatively easy to raise in terms of attitude and behavior, eating and sleeping; also probably if you get Burmy as a starter, you're fucked
>>26335294
God i hope so
>>26334189
There are starter specific moves.
The professors simply test out those tutor moves on every Pokemon in their region.
>>26334189
They are pedophiles that want to fuck you in the ass
