Pokémon Starlight

[Alpha Six]

Get more original with them while you're at it, don't just change it to something more generic.

Try making starters that are different from the others but not stupid-looking and generic. Experiment with type combinations. If you have to, and sometimes it's easier, make the third evolution of your starter and just progressively downgrade the design to a second form, and then downgrade even further and boom, you have your new starter. It's always better to look ahead when it comes to making starter designs, I'd say. Maybe someone else with more experience could say otherwise, but until then I'd just say try out my idea.