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Which starter for Fire red?
I was thinking Charmander, but then i changed my mind. Inbetween Squirtle and Bulbasaur now, I dont know what Charmander evolves into so please tell me which one you would pick because I'm having alot of trouble! Thanks in advance!!
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Wh-wh-what!??
You don't know what Charmander evolves into? Only the best Fire, Flying type out there. Definently pick Charmander it evolves into Charizard. |
Well I'll tell you this, don't bother with bulbasaur. It only helps with 2 gym leaders, and will be a drag when fighting team rocket since poison beats grass. I would go with squirtle, there aren't many other good water pokemon out there in the beginning to help.
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Blastoise is the weakest of the 3 Kanto Starters. It's well-rounded stats make it's downfall.
I'd pick Venusaur, as you can have this: Venusaur Adamant Sleep Powder Swords Dance Sludge Bomb Earthquake Moltres ia a far more superior as Fire/Flying Type. IMO, you made the right choice at not wanting Charmander. The only Gym Leaders you'll have problems with are Sabrina and Blaine. Brock: Super-Effective Grass Attacks Misty: Super-Effective Grass Attacks Lt. Surge: Grass resists Electric Erika: Resists Grass x4. May have problems Dealing Damage, unless you use Normal-Type Moves Koga: Watch out for random Psychic Attacks from Venonat/moth, and strike with Normal. Sabrina: NO Blaine: NO Giovanni: Super-Effective Grass Attacks |
Ye, Dunsparce is right. If you can use Venusaur's speed against the pitiful team rocket, you can OHKO all of their pokemon wiht almost any move. Bulbasaur is the best choice.
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I think squirtle would be a best starter.
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Personally even tho I am a bulbasaur fan I would pick charamander because there aren't alot of good fire types in the game I don't think and there is loads of good water and grass types around so go for charamander just make sure you caught a mankey at the start of the game so you can take out brock and make sure you caught either a pikachu or an oddish or a paras before misty and u will be alright.
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But Dunsparce, you neglected any of Bulbasaur's STAB moves, like razor leaf. Be sure to leave at least 1 STAB move in his attack list. A better combo would be sunny day and solarbeam, and earthquake and sludgebomb, which is a good choice as bulbasaur is half poison.
And against Giovanni, there is still the issue of Nido queen and king. |
whatever you do, don't get squirtle. Blastoise isn't half as good as either Venusaur or Charizard. I personally like Venusaur over Charizard, especially in FireRed, cuz you can get Arcanine as a good replacement for Charizard, not to mention Moltres late in the game. FireRed actually doesn't have any really good replacements for Venusaur, Vileplume is horrible, that leaves Weezing or maybe Muk. Blastoise has several better replacements (Vaporeon, Starmie, Slowbro, Gyrados, Lapras, Dewgong and Omastar) as well as a few that are just as good (Poliwrath, Cloyster).
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Well, thanks for all of your suggestions. I'm going to go with Bulbasaur!
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Why care if your just going through the game? Unless its a female and you can breed it, its pretty much useless because evs are everywhere. If you want a pokemon just to get through the game, pick bulbasaur, however, if you want to breed and get a good ev trained with a right nature, get blastoise/charizard. (squirtle/charmander). I don't see why this thread needs to be made.
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That said, I'd really only play any GBA Pokémon game in order to transfer Pokémon into Diamond, Pearl, or Platinum when it comes out through Pal Park. Also, consider yourself fortunate if you get a female starter. That way you can breed it early without having to worry about Ditto. |
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It can't learn any Decent Grass attacks in Advacnce. Sunny Day and Solarbeam on a Grass type without an abiliy to use the sun in a n00bish strategy. *Competitive Battler* Also, The Nido's are weak against EQ. Eartqhuake/Sludge Bomb/Swords Dance/Sleep Powder is a common 3rd Gen Strategy. Make the Opponent fall asleep, Swords Dance up, and Sweep with it's two Physical Moves. |
Thanks. And Dunsparce, you just gave me an idea about what m future moveset will be. Or not, depending on if I get it over to Diamond sooner or later when completing the Diamond game, then I'll probobly teach it Grass Knot or some other cool new TM.
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Physcial: Sleep Powder Swords Dance Seed Bomb Earthquake Special: Sleep Powder Growth/HP Fire, Ice Sludge Bomb Energy ball/Grass Knot/Leaf Storm Physical 'saur looses Sludge Bomb but gains Seed Bomb in 4th Gen. Level up a Bublasaur to level 37 before Evolving it to get it. |
Thanks! Oh, I'm going to start it maybe.. Saturday becuase I NEED to do some thing on Diamond.
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wtf I always start with charmander on kanto.. why so many problems just choose the one you like more when u train a pokemon it will always be a good one ( almost always ) just need to train
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I chose a Squirtle and has forever since been on my team, He'd wreck all your Venusaurs and Charizards >_>
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I said, I'm going with Bulbasaur but if any of you want to change my mind I haven't restarted yet ;O
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I found the game easy, it doesn't really matter which starter you choose, I had the best time using Charmander though, best starter in my opinion (just go catch a Mankey and level him enough to learn a fighting move to slaughter the first gym since Charmander is not much use there, also Metal claw Charmander learns at level 9 or so is super effective to rock as well which will be good if you never acquired a Mankey.
if you want, spend some time leveling before fighting the gym in pewter, I think I had 3 level 16's by the time I got to him. The fact is there are enough pokemon out there who can help with gyms, and Charmander evolved just makes the game that much easier, If you can beat misty (gym 2 "water") with Charmelion then your doing alright haha. |
Charmander is nice. If you have D/P, you can make it to a Bellyzard or whatever along the road. He's pretty bad at the first two gyms, but as for the rest, he sweeps them.
Bulbasaur is a good choice as well. Sleep Powder is amazing. So is Poisonpowder, etc. But, really, Venasaur lacks RAW power and STAB moves. Squirtle is my least favorable choice. He has lots of STAB moves and raw power, but faints easily. Also has trouble with like, 5 gyms. Charmander is my vote. |
well bulbasaur is a good pokemon. since it is your game chose the starter well.
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I'm probobly going to go with Charmander now! Yep, im going with Charmander..
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ok. try to train charmander well.
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Good choice, I hope you enjoy your red dragon like monster of mass fiery destruction err I mean Charmander, incase you don't know Charizard is the final form of charmander and he is quite the looker "i'd tap that" Said the female Dragonite.
I suggest you capture a Mankey east of Viridian City to pummel pewter city gym (Make sure it has learned a fighting move though) |
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