History Characters / PokemonGenerationVIChespinToHawlucha

* BishounenLine: All three starters become more humanoid as they evolve, but Delphox probably fits this trope best for its more feminine features.

%%* CuteLittleFangs: Fennekin has these.

* DiscardAndDraw: Delphox gets the Psychic-Type added to it. Negating Fire's resistence to Bug and standing up strong to Fighting- and Psychic-Type moves. Ghost And Dark get added to its list of weaknesses.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Fennekins like to eat sticks.
* FantasticFoxes: Fennec Fox flavored. Like [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIBulbasaurToParasect Ninetales and]] [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVVictiniToZoroark Zoroark's line]], they are also based on tales about foxes with magical abilities; however, they appear to draw more inspiration from the fabled [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynard Reynard]] from European folklore instead of the Japanese Kitsune.
* FighterMageThief: The "Mage" of the starters. Delphox is based on several kinds of mystical/magical archetypes, such as wizards, oracles, and mages, and is Psychic-typed. The other two top-level starter evolutions are similarly themed with respect to their respective subtypes -- Greninja is ninja-themed, being Dark-typed, and Chesnaught is knight-themed, being Fighting-typed.

* MagicalGirl: Braixen's effeminate appearance, particularly its frilly shoulder fur, skirt-like abdomen, and black legs that resemble stockings makes it seem like it's wearing an outfit typical of magical girls.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive guy to Charizard's (the other Fire-type starter available in ''X and Y'' onwards) manly man; Delphoxes is a feminine-looking magician fox that uses its fire and psychic powers to act as {{Seers}}. Charizard is a BloodKnight who searches the land for worthy opponents. That said, they're both tilted towards being speedy Special Attackers.
* StarterMon: The Fire Starter of Kalos. It's effective against opponents that it has a clear advantage over, but its surprisingly shallow movepool holds it back.

* FighterMageThief: The "Thief" of the starters; Greninja is ninja-themed, and, having Dark as its subtype, uses a lot of sneaky tactics as a result. The other two top-level starter evolutions are similarly themed with respect to their respective subtypes -- Chesnaught is knight-themed, being Fighting-typed, while Delphox is magician-themed, being Psychic-typed.

* InformedAbility: Downplayed, but it is explicitly said that Ash-Greninja's legs become so strong after transforming that its speed makes it impossible for your eyes to keep up. While it does become a bit faster, the actual speed boost is rather insignificant in comparison to its offensive boosts.

%% LadyLooksLikeADude: The line looks highly masculine, but has a 50-50 gender ratio. (Misplaced Trope Notice: This trope requires an in-universe character to mistake the females as males. If this condition is not met, the species is not an example of this trope.)

* RecurringElement: This gen's small bird following the line of Pidgey and the rest.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Fletchinder (Talonflame would be overleveled) is extremely well-suited for the Grass Trial in the Alola games. Its Fire/Flying dual-typing gives it a double resistance to Lurantis's Solar Blade, Lurantis's own use of Sunny Day powers up Fletchinder's Fire-type STAB attacks, and its high speed and the Sunny Day boost make it easy for Fletchinder to take out Lurantis's backup before they can use their [[AchillesHeel Rock-type attacks]].
* UselessUsefulSpell: A frail Pokémon like Fletchling isn't going to get any mileage out of a defense-based ability like Big Pecks after the early-game (where [=NPCs=] tend to spam Defense-lowering moves). It's downplayed for Fletchinder and Talonflame -- they also have low defensive stats for their ability Flame Body to kick in without taking lethal damage, but Flame Body can activate on a lethal blow (making it a potential last-breath "screw you") and their availability early on in the game and their ability to fly make them great for hatching eggs quickly.

** ''Pokemon GO'' has similar functionality using postcards; players can exchange postcards from real-life locations, and then use them to summon Scatterbugs that will evolve with the patterns corresponding to those locations.

* GlassCannon: Vivillon has low defenses as expected of a mon of its type, but surprisingly good speed and Special Attack for an early bug. Keep one with Compound Eyes around long enough, and it'll learn Hurricane, which has 110 Power with ''91%'' (normally a scant 70%) accuracy. It's no Volcarona, but it's not entirely bad either.

** Then there's shiny Vivillon. While the regular ones are obtainable via GTS, this one generally isn't because people ask for Mythical Pokémon.

* PowerUpLetdown: Their Hidden Ability is Friend Guard. Not only does Vivillon benefit massively from Compound Eyes increasing the accuracy of Sleep Powder and Hurricane, Friend Guard lacks any effect whatsoever on Single battles.

* PantheraAwesome: Pyroar, whether male or female, is a fully-grown lion with a high special attack stat.

%%* BlushSticker: Flabébé has them.

** Florges is 3'07 in height, huge compared to their earlier stages but tiny compared to other fully-evolved Pokémon. That being said, their special defense is the same as ''Ho-Oh and Lugia'', and still packs noticeable special attack.
** Eternal Flower Floette is the same size as a regular Floette, but her special attack is comparable to Hydreigon's, and Light of Ruin is even stronger than said Hydreigon's Draco Meteor. Its base stat total is just a single point lower then Florges's.

* SkillGateCharacter: King's Shield's secondary effect makes it easy to abuse against the [=AI=] and less skilled human opponents, but being predictable with it can backfire against smarter adversaries since it doesn't block StatusEffects and can potentially let a GlassCannon come in for free and threaten Aegislash back. However, Aegislash can still be extremely deadly in the hands of a skilled player if they don't just mindlessly spam King's Shield.