4th Gen Do You Keep Your Starter Pokemon??

[PKMN Santa]

The only Starter I ever kept was Piplup. However, I gave him an Everstone so he would stay a cute 'ole Pippy forever!

 

[Seppi]

I've always kept my starter on my team. It seems weird to play the game without them :( The only time I didn't keep my starter was when I tried to do a mono-flying run of gold. I gave up on that when I got owned by a magnemite XD

 

[Pokemaster483]

yeah, I've never gotten rid of my starter during a playthrough. I usually keep it for the entire playthrough, but once I finish it usually sits in the PC.

 

[Version Five]

No, I keep it until I beat the last of the gyms, when its done evolving. I replace it with my other, stronger Pokemon, but my starters are always strong, I train them till level 100. But I prefer other Pokemon, using my starters makes me feel like I overuse them, which I used to do.

But, no, I don't keep my starters with me at all nowadays.

 

[Unknown#]

I normally due, with the only exception being in Diamond where I traded my Tortera for a Salamence. I normally keep them due to them being as rare as most legendaries!

 

[PokemonTrainerGeorge]

I used to just solely train up my starter Pokemon in the earlier Pokemon games, so it was my strongest by about 30-40 levels, but now, I train all 6 Pokemon up at a constant rate :D

 

[JackGamer]

I was going to swap my starter out... until I read this thread :/
Now I've always felt mean putting my starter in a comp, but I tried to brush it off, but I can't fight it anymore. The only gen I've swapped my starter out has been gen 4 (which I didn't particually enjoy as a gen tbh anyway).

 

[Kitrigar]

Whenever I start out a new game, I always keep the starter.
I always found it hard without having the starter.

 

[氏 マイケル]

I always keep my starters in my team, all the way to the end.

 

[Jonī]

I sometimes do but then again the starters are popular and I dislike using popular Pokemon

 

[Toasty Woodman]

I honestly don't like any of the starter pokemon ._. Axed my Tododile as soon as I caught a whooper :D

 

[imevil]

i always do, he started your journey with you, He becomesa a freind

 

[Kevin]

Yes, of course. You can only have them once, so might as well keep them.
Plus they are your first Pokemon, so they're probably your strongest Pokemon you have in your team.

 

[might will fate]

Of course and he makes perfect parthner with my Blaziken.

 

[DREAMZ]

Yes, because its strong and my first partner in the game!

 

[Starchomp]

I dont always like to keep my starter pokemon but since there are few decent pokemon in the beggining i really dont have much of a choice. :P

 

[Morgnarok]

I don't like the gen 2 starters as much as i liked the gen 4 starters so i used my nintendo dsi and my nintendo ds lite and i traded over all 3 sinnoh starts lv1 untouched.Then rare candy them up to level 10.

 

[TheGr8]

I try to keep my starter for as long as I can. I really never abandon it, because I'll go through my stuff and level it.

 

[Dave666]

Yes, I always found them useful.

 

[BBA_Beyblader_321]

I don't know why either, but I never take mine out of my party! Whenever I thought about it, I always wondered... What would Ash's Pikachu do if he sent it back to Oak's lab? And then i'd feel kinda guilty.... :/