Eh. We needed a new physical water move since Aqua Jet was pretty much getting tacked onto everyone.

And the decision to not make R/S remakes in Gen V is obvious. The 3DS was released. Black and White were released in Japan months before the 3DS's launch.
Pokemon has pretty much established itself to be the franchise that sells hand helds. Why churn out 2 remakes for the old hand held when Nintendo is desperately trying to get sales for the 3DS?
It's just in better interest to them to adjust a R/S remake for their newest hand held.

Razor Shell seems like a good move, too bad only the Samurott-line and Shellder can learn it. For all other Water Pokémon I usually use Waterfall as my physical Water move.

well hey they might make it so some other water types can use it

I've never liked Sceptile much personally. In fact I'd go as far as saying its the one starter Pokemon I really didn't enjoy having on my team (Infernape and Emboar notwithstanding, as I've never trained either).

Anyway here's how I'd personally rank the final form starters.

Grass: Torterra > Serperior > Venusau > Meganium > Sceptile
Fire: Charizard > Typhlosion > Blaziken > Infernape > Emboar
Water: Feraligatr > Empoleon > Swampert > Blastoise > Samurott

Choosing between the water types was extremely hard as I have a soft spot for nearly all of them. It looks pretty different ordered by basic forms too :lol

Poor Unowns :lol
http://24.media.tumblr.com/5783680d4...b3hho1_400.png

Those sad little Unown :(

Hm...I see

I have honestly never understood why the Water starters were so popular, having only ever trained Feraligatr (Hey guis, have I mentioned how much I love Feraligatr yet? :p) on a first play through (When replaying games or playing the 3rd game in a series, I'll pick other starters, like picking Empoleon in Platinum or Samurott in Black 2).

See if you can guess my least favourite generation...

Grass: Torterra > Meganium > Venusaur> Sceptile> Serperior
Fire: Typhlosion > Charizard > Emboar > Infernape > Blaziken
Water: Blastoise > Samurott > Feraligatr > Empoleon > Swampert

Hey guys, would you recommend Black and White 2? I enjoyed Black and White, but not as much as previous gens and I still remain unenthused about Black and White 2. I feel like playing because the only other games I've ever missed are Fire Red and Leaf Green.

Gen III! I win?