Pokémon fans divided over Gen 10 starters

Pokémon fans are theorising what the next mainline game could be like, not Pokémon Legends: Z-A, the game beyond.

As far as we’re all aware, the next Pokémon game will be Pokémon Legends: Z-A which will presumably be a launch title for the Nintendo Switch 2 sometime in 2025.

Check out the brief teaser trailer for Pokémon Legends: Z-A below

However, that's technically a spin-off series, and while fans are excited for a new Legends game they’re looking ahead to the next true Pokémon game, Generation 10.

The recent Pokémon Company leaks haven’t mentioned Gen 10, probably because there isn’t anything to talk about yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t speculate on what the next game might be like.

Fans have taken this idea and ran with it, pitching what themes and locations they’d like to see explored in the Pokémon world and more importantly what starter Pokémon they’d like to see.

In a Reddit thread predicting everything about Gen 10, one fan said they’d love to see a game based in the Pokémon equivalent of Canada, with “lots of fossils, good new ice type, starters are a fire beaver, a grass goose, and a water grizzly cub.”

Another theorised the next game could be Australian-themed, with starters like “a grass type kangaroo, whose final evo can play Australian rules football, a fire type koala whose mid stage evo gets the poison type and a water type platypus.”

FInally one would like to see some returning starter Pokémons, with a “regional form & mega for the final evos of each of the starters in Legends, which I’m hoping are Piplup, Chikorita, and Tepig.”

Of course there’s no guarantee any of this will happen for the next mainline Pokémon game, but given the pattern of the last few titles they’re at least possibilities, and good ones at that.