Pokémon Winds and Waves Starters
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About
The Pokémon Winds and Waves Starters refer to the three Pokémon Gecqua, Pombon and Browt, water, fire, and grass type Pokémon. respectively, which make up the three 10th-gen starter choices in the upcoming 2027 Nintendo Switch 2 video games Pokémon: Winds and Pokémon: Waves. The starters were revealed on February 27th, 2026, and inspired reactions, memes and fan content online, particularly surrounding the character Browt.
Origin
On February 27th, 2026, the announcement trailer for Pokemon: Waves and Pokemon: Winds was released, including on the Gamespot YouTube[1] channel, garnering over 262,000 views in under a day. The trailer introduces the three new starter Pokémon: the grass type Browt, fire type Pombon and water type Gecqua.
That day, the official @Pokemon X[2] account shared original artwork of the three starters in a post that gained over 150,000 likes and 8.8 million views in under a day.
Spread
The Gen10 Pokemon starters inspired numerous memes, fan content and reactions across social media after appearing in late February 2026.
On February 27th, 2026, Redditor MarikaSymphony posted a meme to the /r/Pokemon[3] subreddit imagining each of the starters' final evolutions as having the same muscular body, which comes from the Pokémon Incineroar, garnering over 5,700 upvotes in under a day.
Shortly after, X[4] account @Poo_Crave posted an image of Pombon, writing, "🚨: The Pokemon Wind & Waves fire starter is a gay little dog," garnering over 35,000 likes in about four hours.
Two minutes later, X[5] user @tonyhawktruther posted, "The 10th generation Pokémon starters have been revealed: – Caleb – Patrick – Cameron," gaining over 1,100 likes in four hours.
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Browt
Browt is a grass-type Pokémon and one of the three available starters from Pokemon Winds and Waves. Browt, who resembles a bird, was revealed on February 27th, 2026 with the release of the first trailer for the games. It became the subject of memes over the following days, including fan art, concept art imagining its evolutions and more. Some memes refer to Browt as a chud, claiming that he resembles the Chudjak meme.
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