What are the Odds of Male vs Female Starting Pokemon in Scarlet and Violet?

Everyone love’s having their perfect starter Pokemon for their journey. They are of course the bread and butter of Pokemon and what many look forward to the most. Sometimes, that also means, you just have to have the right gender type given to us. Male or Female, sometimes you have the perfect name for your starter and it just has to fit either the boy or girl starter you choose. For others, it’s just about aesthetics if you really think about it.

Most of the time to choose the right sex of your starter you just have to start over if you didn’t get the one you wanted. It doesn’t take that long and for you, it might be worth it. What are the odds for male or female though you might ask? The answer might not be what you expect. Here are the odds for male or female type starters in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

The Odds for Male or Female

You’d think, as in real life, you’d have a 50/50 chance. Sadly, for whatever reason, that does not seem to be the case. Pokemon is most subject to data-mining for their games super early. Gamers also work out probability statistics themselves. So we have reliable stats for your Pokemon’s gender probability.

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It’s strange to say that it is not a 50/50 chance for male or female starters. It is actually more of a roughly 87% chance your starter will be male. Meaning only a 13% chance of getting female. That’s right, only 1 out of 8 possibilities of getting a female starter.

How to Get a Female Starter in Scarlet and Violet

Let’s be honest those numbers seem particularly unfair and not very reasonable. Not sure what has brought about this reasoning. Also, it makes you wonder what the probability of previous games were to be sure. Maybe it has always been this way?

However, to look at a silver lining, in this day and age many gamers ignore what restrictions being labeled male or female lead to. If there’s any proof in that debate for Pokemon just remember past controversies with such Pokemon as Gardevoir. If you really do want your chance in having a female starter though, all we can really say is don’t give up and maybe it won’t take you 8 times to get there.

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