Mudkip is a much better starter then the other hoenn starters and shits all over squirtle and totodile
I had a good laugh from that.
and actually, sceptile is the best starter.
1 leaf blade and swampert is down.
sceptile can also learn aerial ace and earthquake, which is effective against blaziken, who has low defense.
and i bet you that feraligatr is much better than swampert.
it has a lot of physical attacks(which it excels in) as swampert has only 90 defense(compared to feraligatrs 105 base attack).
Swampert, on the other hand, has no moves effective against feraligatr.
but in my case, i would like for there to be a new region.
playing through the best region is fun and all, but no matter how awesome it is, its bound to get boring.