4th Gen Best Starter Pokemon

[Oblivion Wing]

Infernape. But i don't keep him in my team, good att, and special att, but terrible special def.

 

[DrawerWorthy]

I always pick water-types as they are my favourite type along with fighting-types, so yes I would say Piplup. :)

 

[pockeyfox]

As much as I love Empoleon, my favorite of the starters in this gen, I think I'm going for Turtwig in my next play through.

I like all three so it's hard to choose one sometimes as the best.

 

[Phantoon14]

I find Turtwig the best, feels more balanced.
But if I am playing competitively, definitely Infernape.

 

[Pika-power]

The Piplup line is best cause it's great all-around, while the turtwig line has no speed, and the chimchar line has no defense.

 

[Roughsponge]

I'd say Piplup and its evolutions :) The whole water/steel combination is pretty unique and I just overall like their designs.

 

[hackerofdarkness]

Chimchar,why because who doesn't like a hot flaming monkey as a friend

 

[インフェルノの津波]

Whoops. Turtwig, cause the other two weren't good enough for me.

 

[HinaBaby]

Piplup, never used the other two.

 

[SonicTH]

Older starters were better for me, but in this poll I will choose Piplup.

 

[Koi]

Chimchar, because Infernape can help you lot on both in-game and competitive battles.

 

[spiratomb]

i reckon turtwig because his last evolution, torterra can cover all of its weakness:
earthquake covers fire, and poison.
and rock slide covers flying and ice and bug.
and then i just add on other moves like dig and stone edge.
so torterra is 78% chance the best.

 

[Sabrewulf238]

Piplup, it was the first starter I picked and was just the better and stronger starter for me. I picked Turtwig/Torterra in Platinum but it just didn't seem as good or as able to battle as Piplup/Empoleon. I really don't like Chimchars line at all. Easily my least favourite fire starter and least favourite starter pokemon overall.

 

[TheGoddessOfDiscord]

Torterra.
I think it's the best because of secondary Ground-typing, which gives it propably the best offensive STAB of all Grass-types and has immunity to Thunder Wave and is one of the few Pokemon that resist Ground/Rock attacking combination. It's also very slow which is quite advantaging in a way: Trick Room. Being the slowest starter (so far) it becames the fastest when Trick Room is in effect.

Plus I like him the most :)

 

[Jonrawwr]

Well i've started it again and picked all the starters by simply trading but I think Turtwig

 

[Manectric-Fan]

Piplup, the water starters is always stronger than the others, if not they've had a very good trainer! :)

 

[chaos56]

+1 to that. Infernape is awesome with Mach Punch. Takes down Empoleon with ease, as well as Torterra.

 

[Akihara]

It's hard to choose from Turtwig amd Chimchar. I loved having them both (Turtwig in Diamond, Chimchar in Platinum). Once Torterra learns Earthquake it's very hard to defeat. Infernape's attacks are amazing too.

 

[SinisterOne]

Infernape because of it's typing. It has attacks that can take out both Empoleon and Torterra with ease. It also has a very good move pool

 

[FlamingThunder]

Piplup, because it's just awesome!