3rd Gen Did Any of You...

Did any of you ditch your starter pokemon and make a team without it?

EDIT: Also if you did, why, and did you replace it with a pokemon of the same type?

In R/S/E? No, though I wouldn't have minded doing so.

FR/LG? Nah... I think in Leaf Green I have all the starters, actually.

Im asking because i want to train my vaporeon and i just want to have one of each element but i cant leave my squirtle behind =[ lol but yea, i grow really attached to my starter.

Duuuarte said:

Did any of you ditch your starter pokemon and make a team without it?

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I always do it :P I just dislike using starters, that's all.

Can a team be just as good if not better without it? Doesnt your starter grow faster than any other pokemon you catch?

Duuuarte said:

Can a team be just as good if not better without it? Doesnt your starter grow faster than any other pokemon you catch?

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Team's strenght isn't relying on starter. Obviously, it's possible to make a good team without starter, but keeping starter in team isn't affecting it negatively. About growing, I think growth rates were added in R/S. Check on site like veekun or serebii for it. From what I recall, starters got medium growth rate.

DeadDuck said:

About growing, I think growth rates were added in R/S.

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Actually, growth rates have always been around. (Someone even cracked them as early as back when Red and Blue were the only games in the franchise.)

Otherwise, yeah, I agree with you. You can have a perfectly good team without starters. In fact, many people who play competitively don't use starters on their teams. It's really just a matter of preference.

For an in-game (against the trainers within the game, such as the Gym Leaders) team, it's not that difficult to simply leave out your starter and go for another Pokemon, as any Pokemon with a powerful set of moves can take down pretty much any trainer's team in the game.

Additionally, starters don't necessarily grow faster than other Pokemon you can catch. For example, Treecko actually grows at the same rate as a Lotad.

I ditched my Swampert when I first played Ruby. Because of two stupid reasons.
1)It doesn't learn Hydro Pump
2)It's ugly
Replaced it with Walrein though, and Walrein was great.

I think starters are good pokemon to have in a party, They have good stats + attacks..

I only ignore or skip my starter pokemon in red/blue/yellow versions...

I kept Treecko because it was the only Pokemon I had that could learn CUT.I could then know what it was like behind the trees!

I always get rid of my starter as soon as i caught something of the same type i get rid of my starter.

Sometimes. Not usually, though.

Nope and never will my starter pokemon be alone. It can't even stand a chance against the E4. A good 5 pokemon including my starter are enough.

not until AFTER the end... in other words, I almost ALWAYS have AT LEAST ONE of my starters with me

I've never ditched my starters, they grow to be really good if you train them.

I kept swampert all the way through because it's one of the best pokes available early on and you get its prevolution automatically. Pretty sweet deal IMO

I sometimes ditch my starters but not very often cause I tend to pick them for a reason...

Ditch my trochic in Emerald