4th Gen Do You Keep Your Starter Pokemon??

[TOL8]

Oh yes, my starter always stays with me in every version. Except the first time I played Yellow when I went the whole way through with a Mankey that eventually evolved into a Primeape.

 

[Team Sweeper]

I always keep my starters but if i want another i wait till i get to the daycare.

 

[Haonn]

Myeah. I usually always keep my starter. I don't really know why, tho...

 

[elroid]

I kept my typlosion to the very end of my gameplay, or at least until i defeated Red. It is one of the 2 pkmn i used in running through the game because i didnt bother to lv the others. For now, it was kept to breed some cyndaquils if some people wants it.

 

[nm legend]

yea im the same way i cant replace my typlosion unless im doing battle frontier or competitive battling....when i was young i used to beleive my starters were very special and i still do somewhat....im not a the lil nerd that i was lol

 

[Ankoku Flare]

I always tend to keep it for in-game use only. My meganium will most likely see the light of competitive battling.

 

[xSunlightx]

I put yes but in a way I'm cheating and a way I'm not. Sometimes I'll keep my starter pokemon out of sheer laziness to replace it (and maybe there's some attachment too). But I don't actually like many starter pokemon (kind of sorta, I love all the first evos of them! buuut after they evolve it's 50/50 whether I like them).

What I've been doing lately is starting with like an 'unofficial' start Pokemon. Trading say a level 5 oddish or whatever to use as my starter pokemon and putting X starter in my PC.

 

[Mr. X]

I usually keep feraligater in my team. He's full of epicness.

That said i usually shelf typhlosion for Entei first chance i get.

Meganium is creepy... Meganium takes 'flower power' one step to far. So i shelf that one first chance i get as well. Choices before migration for grass types are kinda limited so i usually end up with a victrebel as my grass type or i just not include one.

 

[KillerX]

Yes, my starter is always on my team.

 

[Clark]

I usually go out of my way to use and plan teams of Pokemon I've never used before. And I've already trained most of the starters several times, so... yeah, sometimes I'll stuff it in the PC early in the game. I get bored of training the same Pokemon over and over again.

 

[Guy]

I've always kept my starter in SoulSilver. I just never thought up a good enough reason not to have it travel with me. It's the first Pokémon I get in the game, so why not use it right? Plus, I really fancy each of the Johto starters, so I never mind using them. The only thing I do differently is try and train new Pokémon that I catch, so it doesn't seem like an exact repeat of what I did before or it doesn't get boring as fast.

 

[rndm.]

I usually go out of my way to use and plan teams of Pokemon I've never used before. And I've already trained most of the starters several times, so... yeah, sometimes I'll stuff it in the PC early in the game. I get bored of training the same Pokemon over and over again.

Agreed with this.
In HG, I used Croconaw as a HM slave 'til I got to Blackthorn. There I threw it to a box and used Lickilicky instead.

 

[Usagirainbow]

I feel really guilty if I don't use my starter (the only time I didn't was with Piplup) so I usually do, although now i'm thinking of having a ghost only party D:

 

[Gardenia101]

My Torterra Turti ripped through Diamond, Platinum, SoulSilver and HeartGold in a solo run.
So he's not leaving.

 

[Shuckle>You]

Nah, I personally don't like starters or legendaries. I tend to keep them for the first few gyms, then trade them.

 

[BringYourOwnKites]

Yes, I keep my starter Pokemon. I feel kind of obligated to. Even though my party Pokemon are lvls 70+ and my starter is at lvl 56...

 

[alphabetsoup102062]

I keep my starter but normally as a strong HM slave, so I use them but their main purpose is to learn the HM's etc.

 

[Red1530]

I keep my starter Pokémon in my team.

 

[Noctunoir]

As soon as I reached Goldenrod city, I claimed Chikorita and Cyndaquil from the GTS, which allowed me to play the whole game with the three starters. =D

 

[Weavile05]

I tend to keep my starters.