Non-Starter Pokemon as your highest level

[zakalak]

I want to know if any of you have done this before? I am asking because I am looking at my little brother's game right now and he has a completely different Pokemon as his highest level Pokemon right now.

 

[AtomicRebirth]

In my White version, my dreamworld Luxray is my highest level and my starter is my second highest.

Edit: Also, I'm not even using my starters in Diamond and SoulSilver.

 

[zakalak]

I just looked in my bro's PC and apparently he let his starter go. He doesn't even have 30 pokemon

 

[Oryx]

My highest level is my Volcarona. Level 100 :3

 

[Simipour]

In Black most of my pokemon are in the 80s range. But my Milotic is level 100. They gain experience really fast.

 

[2Cool4Mewtwo]

I have whole bunch of lv100s. Mewtwo takes the spotlight in every team though :D

 

[PlatinumDude]

Currently, in Black, the Kyurem I caught in Giant Chasm is the strongest non-starter I have (and yes, I didn't use it).

 

[TY]

mine is Mewtwo. he´s lvl 95, then volcarona, then Kyurem

Emboar is lvl 54

 

[mondays suck]

But of course. Even a starter in the box is nothing unusual at all for me. The game forces you to get one of the starters, but it can't force you to use them permanently.

 

[~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~]

Of course my starter is at level 100 but he wasn't the first one at level 100; my Cofagrigus hit level 100 first, then my stater Pokemon did.


:t354:TG

 

[DowntownDumpling]

In my current file on Emerald, my Sceptile is level 68, but my Rayquaza is level 75. I don't think that counts, though, seeing as Rayquaza gets a 65-level head-start over your starter.

In Yellow, though, my Butterfree is level 95. I should get it to 100 one of these days. I beat pretty much the whole game with it, just like many players seem to do for the first gym or so, because Pikachu sucks in that regard. I just said, "Screw it," and left Pikachu in the box. To this day, my Pikachu is only at level 20. I've never even tried to evolve it, even before I found out online that it can't be evolved.

 

[Atomic Pirate]

I do this all the time. In my current Ruby playthrough, I stopped using my starter, a Marshtomp. Being overemotional and always using your starter doesn't often get you anywhere. I don't care if I sound like Gary, but what matters in the end is strength. I forgot to look at my Mudkip's nature before keeping him, then after Flannery, I found out it was Adamant (A no-good-awful nature for a Swampert), and promptly ditched it.

I calculate stat values
I breed my way to perfection
I care about natures
Haters of my ways gonna hate
I don't care in the least

 

[Charmageddon]

In White, my highest-level Pokemon is my Krookodile. It wasn't intentional - I usually always obsessively keep ever one of my Pokemon at the same level, but by chance I'd caught a Sandile with extremely high IVs in the right stats, so anytime I needed to get out of a tight spot, Krookodile was called upon to kick the opponent's arse. Because of this, and the fact that his typing gave him a great advantage over at least half of the Elite Four, he was ahead of the rest of my team by about 6 levels by the time I beat Ghetsis, despite my every effort to avert it.

 

[Yoshikko]

Hmmm I have a lvl 81 Rotom, but I didn't train that myself, I traded it. I actually try to avoid using the starters I get as much as possible, I don't really like them for my team, same goes for fossils and legendaries.

 

[7Mufasa7]

atm my togekiss is my highest at lv 72.
then dragonite at 71
then typhlosion at 70 in my SS.

atm my togekiss is my highest at lv 72.
then dragonite at 71
then typhlosion at 70 in my SS.

 

[champagnepapi]

In my Nuzlocke of Diamond, Porygon-Z ended up being my highest leveled Pokemon, albeit it was because my starter died, same goes for my Machamp in my Sapphire Nuzlocke. It's not a bad thing, really, your brother can still excel if his starter isn't his strongest mon.

 

[Game Over1375]

On my Red game file, my highest leveled Pokemon is a Rhydon. It's at level 100 at the moment. Blastoise and Charizard are at levels 87 and 82...

Hey, stuff happens. Rhydon just so happened to be my strongest Pokemon when I took on the Elite Four.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

Sometimes it happens to me depending on who I'm training at the time. For example, in R/S/E because of all the blasted water routes, it wasn't uncommon for my Electrode to be several higher levels than my Blaziken going into Victory Road.

Usually I do like to keep all my team around the same level, which does mean that quite often one of my other Pokemon will hit, say, level 46 before I get around to getting the starter to 46.

 

[Maple Leaf]

In Diamond, my Chatot was the first to reach Level 100.

Don't ask why I used it that often.

 

[Chiar]

I always do that since DPPt because I don't like to use my starter.
Before Gen IV, I did it just twice, with Nidoqueen having a bigger level than Pikachu and Seadra having a bigger level than Swampert.