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Pokémon Winds and Waves starters: Browt, Pombon, and Gecqua

The three partner Pokémon are confirmed, along with their categories, types, abilities, and measurements. Everything else about them, including evolutions, is unannounced.

By Rulevio Editorial · Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves

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Short answer

The three partners are Browt, the Grass-type Bean Chick Pokémon with Overgrow; Pombon, the Fire-type Puppy Pokémon with Blaze; and Gecqua, the Water-type Water Gecko Pokémon with Torrent. You pick one at the start, and no evolutions or stats have been announced.

Before you start

  • Platform: Nintendo Switch 2
  • Both games are unreleased, with a worldwide release stated for 2027. Nothing here comes from hands-on play.

What you need

  • Browt — Grass (Bean Chick Pokémon. Ability Overgrow. About 1 ft tall, 7.7 lbs. Described as energetic and a little clumsy, photosynthesising through the leaves above its eyes.)
  • Pombon — Fire (Puppy Pokémon. Ability Blaze. About 1 ft 4 in tall, 14.8 lbs. A heat-producing organ in its lungs makes the area under its throat glow faintly; described as friendly and open.)
  • Gecqua — Water (Water Gecko Pokémon. Ability Torrent. About 1 ft tall, 9.5 lbs. Fires springy balls of water from its tail and is described as clever and calculating.)

If your situation is different

You usually pick by type coverage
The abilities follow the series pattern exactly, so Overgrow, Blaze and Torrent each boost moves of the partner's own type at low health. Nothing about movesets or evolution types has been published, so type coverage cannot be planned yet.
You want the version-exclusive answer
There is none. The starter trio is the same in both versions; the only confirmed difference between them is your character's outfit.

Winds and Waves version differences

Details

The answer is above. The rest is a short, honest summary of what the announcement actually shows, because the partner reveal is currently the most complete part of it.

What the reveal covers

Each partner gets a category name, a single type, an ability, a height, a weight and a two-line temperament description. That is the entire official data set, and the three abilities are the familiar Overgrow, Blaze and Torrent.

What is still unknown

Base stats, learnsets, evolution lines, signature moves, and whether the region’s ecosystems change how any of them behave. The site talks about island ecosystems and weather that blocks your path, but it does not connect those ideas to the partners.

When this page changes

We re-check the official site on a schedule and will add evolutions, stats or movesets only once they appear there. If you want the wider picture first, the announcement summary lists everything else that is confirmed.

Questions readers ask

Have the evolutions been revealed?
No. The official site shows the three first-stage partners with their categories, types, abilities, heights and weights, and nothing about later stages.
Does the starter choice differ between Winds and Waves?
No. The announcement presents the same three partners for both versions.
Is there a best starter?
There is no way to answer that yet. Without movesets, evolutions or stats, any ranking would be invented.

Sources

  • The Pokémon Company Official statement
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    Official announcement site: both games release exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 in a simultaneous worldwide release in 2027, the region is an open world of windswept islands and open ocean, the player's outfit differs between the two versions, and the three partner Pokémon are Browt (Bean Chick, Grass, Overgrow), Pombon (Puppy, Fire, Blaze) and Gecqua (Water Gecko, Water, Torrent), each with a listed height and weight. A new look for Pikachu is teased without details.

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