#why yes i can carry petty video game related resentment for over two decades why do you ask

[romance-of-three-memes]

You guys don't even know what I'd do for a Dynasty Warriors version of Pokemon Conquest... The possibilities. Half of me thinks it would be fun to assign each kingdom a type based on their associated color, so Wu gets fire types, Shu gets grass types, Wei gets water types, Jin gets ice types, and people with 'other' affiliations can have different types, both because of the usual water-grass-fire starter pokemon trifecta, and because it would contrast nicely with the Samurai Warriors characters in Pokemon Conquest since they tend to vary a lot in color schemes and pokemon types since it fits the relative disunity of the politics of the time.

But that'd feel really restrictive and leave a lot of potentially interesting pair-ups out in the cold, and not every pokemon of a certain type is the same color as the color most commonly associated with that type. Also water types are the most common type at least as of this writing, so they'd offer the biggest variety. Grass types are third most common, but there are considerably fewer fire types. Ice is one of the least common types but Jin also has the fewest amount of people categorized as being affiliated with it by far, so that's not as big of a deal. But I'm ambivalent about the whole concept of kingdom-assigned types because of all of that.

*cough* Also I have to admit fire types are overall my least favorite of the starter types, despite uh. My favorite pokemon, chandelure, being a fire type. It's partially because I just coincidentally tend to like fire starters the least out of their regional trios, but also because of how annoying and entitled charizard stans were back in the day and how they'd always feel the need to trash talk bulbasaur in particular, plus how the pokemon devs show blatant favoritism towards charizard. And Wu of course is my favorite kingdom while Shu is my least favorite. So I *may* be a lil bit biased here. Still.