As of yesterday ALL of the Starter Pokemon final evolutions were leaked by those in the community who had managed to get their hands on Scarlet & Violet early. So today I'm gonna talk about Sprigatito, Fuecoco & Quaxly's confirmed final evolutions.

First, for those of you who DONT wanna be spoiled, I will share what I thought the Starters final evolutions were gonna be.

Then, I will share fan art/fan predictions that are the closest to the final product.

Lastly, I will share the confirmed final evolutions of the Starter Pokemon and how i feel about them.

I will leave a really big warning before I share the official evolutions so feel free to indulge in most of this update before you may or may not back out to prevent spoilers.

1. What I Thought the Starters final evolutions were gonna be.

Sprigatito:

Despite how badly I wanted a swordsman/musketeer Final evolution for Sprigatito, I had a back up idea on the back burner that I've been progressively changing as the leaks for Scarlet & Violet came out. The REALLY big clues/leaks for Sprigatito was that they claimed that Sprigatito's final evolution would be a Masquerade Magician Cat that is Grass-Dark type. Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, I felt that Sprigatito's final evolution most likely would turn out to be surprisingly similar to Joker from Persona 5. Joker is described to be a 'Gentleman Thief' of whom looks surprisingly similar to a Jester and specializes in the Dark or Death Typing. Therefore, I visualized Sprigatito's final evolution to feature lots of black in coloration, wear a Masquerade mask, wear some sort of cape or its design suggests it's wearing a long coat. It's feet will be look like a Jester's shoes and lastly that it'll carry a prop of some sort such as a magician's staff or a throwing knife that you'd find jugglers juggling.
In fact, a fan prediction looks almost exactly how I imagined Sprigatito would wind up as. I featured it above.
Surprisingly, I'm not all too far off!!!

Fuecoco:

Honestly, I wasn't visualizing much when it came to Fuecoco. Based on leaks, Fuecoco's final evolution is quadruped, Fire-Ghost Type, is nicknamed the Singer Pokemon, and has a bird on its nose. How I visualized Fuecoco Based on the leaks was that it'd be Quadruped and have a bird on its nose similar to how in nature, Crocodiles rely on tiny birds to clean their teeth. Birds and crocodiles have a symbiotic relationship. Otherwise, I didn't visualize much besides a Crocodile with a bird on its nose😅
Once again, I wasn't too far off.

Quaxly:

Based on leaks, Quaxly is going to become a Water-Fighting Type, is nicknamed the Dancer Pokemon, and will have a large headpiece. I didn't think of much when it came to Quaxly. Like, at all. I paid no mind to this Pokemon because I just don't care for it. What I DID think of from the leaks is that Quaxly would be the most humanoid of Paldea's Starter Pokemon and probably lean more towards a masculine design (no boobs/feminine figure). Since Quaxly's final evolution is a fighting type, I imagined Quaxly would look similar to Blaziken with long legs and different coloration.
So yeah, it sort of sounds like I imagined a white flamingo😅

2. Fanart that is most similar to the final evolutions:

Sprigatito:

I know I featured this picture above, but I kid you not, this is how I imagined Sprigatito's final evolution would wind up as AND This fan prediction is also the closest literally anyone else had gotten to the final product. From the headpiece/Masquerade mask, the neck piece, and it's freaking cape/coattail back. This fan art was nearly 100% spot on with what Sprigatito's final evolution actually is.

Fuecoco:

Nearly the entire fanbase firmly believed Fuecoco would remain a biped and they're painfully incorrect. In fact, next to no fan predictions came close to the actual final evolution for Fuecoco HOWEVER this picture right here is the closest to the actual end product considering its the only one of very very few to actually depict Fuecoco as a quadruped.

Quaxly:

If you guys remember in my previous update, THIS fan prediction was what I firmly thought would wind up being Quaxly's final Evolution and HOLY COW! This is nearly 100% what Quaxly's final evolution actually is!!! The colors, the headpiece, the cape. The only difference really is the feet.

Alright, spoilers ahead!!!!

Turn back now if you don't want to see the ACTUAL Final Evolutions for Sprigatito, Fuecoco & Quaxly.

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Yup, these are the final evolutions for our starter Pokemon. Honestly, a little disappointed with Sprigatito BUT it's nearly exactly how I imagined it'd become. The face and hands are just a little off putting for me...

Fuecoco, definitely did not expect this outcome. It doesn't look like a Pokémon, it looks more like a Digimon or a Yu Gi Oh Monster instead.

Quaxly, yup. This was expected.

So what about you guys? Did the Final Evolutions meet your expectations? Disappoint you? Are you changing your decision on which Starter you're choosing?

For me, I'm still Team Sprigatito!