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TrilbyMenetti April 25th, 2010 12:55 PM

What did you do with your Kanto/Hoenn Starters?
 
As most of you will probably know, once you defeat Red, you get to choose one Kanto starter and one Hoenn starter from Professor Oak and Steven Stone in Pallet Town and Saffron City respectively. I chose Bulbasaur and Mudkip, as I started off with them back in my old Red and Sapphire games years ago, but that's not the point.

What did you do with those starters once you received them? Did you dump them in the PC? Did you try to raise them in the game or did you trade them to another game (whether it's Diamond/Pearl/Platinum or an unused HeartGold/SoulSilver cartridge) to raise them through yet another playthrough of the games?

I'm personally leaning towards trading them to another game at some point (as in if I can find a cheap DS anywhere :D) to raise them in a more interesting way, instead of power-levelling them up in my mainly complete HeartGold file.

So what did you do with them?

Conor April 25th, 2010 1:02 PM

I've never used my bulbasaur in-game and he's level 29 haha, he's the one i put in my pokewalker everytime I use it ;D
Released treacko :(

Zebeedoo April 25th, 2010 1:10 PM

I chose Squirtle as my Kanto starter. Who is on my main team. Torchic my Hoenn starter is used for breeding purposes. (:

Robin Hood April 25th, 2010 1:35 PM

SR-ed for a Shiny Charmander and leveled that up since it's my favorite pokemon :) And the mudkip spent the rest of it's day rotting in my Pc.

Xyrin April 25th, 2010 1:47 PM

I'm playing through HG and SS. Haven't beat Red on either. I'll get a Squirtle and Treeko on HG. And a Bulbasaur and Torchic on SS. Because I already have all the Kanto starters (Besides Squirtle) and a mudkip. I'll trade them to HG and train them for my Pokedex.

Emilio~ April 25th, 2010 1:49 PM

I'm going to evolve Charmander and Torchic just to get their pokedex entry. ^^ I'll probably breed them to get better natures, and raise them after I complete the pokedex.

Eeohnex April 25th, 2010 2:13 PM

I haven't even beat the Elite Four but I'm planning on getting Charmander as my Kanto starter, and Torchic as my Hoenn starter. :)

Pazuru April 25th, 2010 2:20 PM

I got Mudkip as my Hoenn starter, and Bulbasaur as my Kanto Starter.

For my Mudkip, I'll probably just train it normally (no EV training) for it's Pokedex entry.

As for my Bulbasaur, I soft-resetted until I got a shiny (took me 704 tries). It's going to stay as a Bulbasaur, and for the lulz I'l going to EV train it. xD

Erin April 25th, 2010 2:24 PM

I chose Charmander for my Kanto starter && Mudkip for my Hoenn starter.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TrilbyMenetti (Post 5750569)
I'm personally leaning towards trading them to another game at some point (as in if I can find a cheap DS anywhere :D) to raise them in a more interesting way, instead of power-levelling them up in my mainly complete HeartGold file.

I wanna do the same thing as well.

Timbjerr April 25th, 2010 3:44 PM

Not got there yet, but I'll most likely dump the Squirtle I plan to get in the PC to never see the light of day again (unless I need to do some breeding), and the Treecko will be EV trained to be the your standard special sweeping Sceptile and may see some use in the Frontier or wifi. :D

Celest8 April 25th, 2010 3:46 PM

I had no idea you could do that, since I'm just now starting on the Kanto portion of the game, but that's awesome! I'll probably train them for Wi-Fi battles, since that's what I'll most likely be doing after I finish as much of the game as I can. For me, it'll be Bulbasaur and Mudkip. =)

loliwin April 25th, 2010 3:47 PM

I used my Treecko as a death machine and it is now a level 97 Sceptile with nice sweeping capabilities. xD

The Original Darkwiz787 April 25th, 2010 3:54 PM

I'm breeding them most likely.

CoffeeWolf April 25th, 2010 4:34 PM

I leveled them up in my Pokewalker, mostly. :) Not my bulbasaur yet, but I probably will.
Hey.. we both have Togekisses named Hardboiled XD That's the name of my Togekiss in my Platinum version!

tomatta April 25th, 2010 4:46 PM

I haven't gotten that far yet, but don't know who to choose between Charmander and Squirtile.

Brandon17 April 25th, 2010 4:49 PM

I chose Charmander for my Kanto starter, but I gave it away because I already had a Chariozard.

I chose Treecko for my Hoenn starter, and I just dumped it in my PC since I don't need it.

Blaziquaza April 25th, 2010 6:15 PM

LOL. My Torchic and Charmander will become my main attackers.

joshk_bra April 25th, 2010 8:16 PM

mudkip is where its at =]

loliwin April 25th, 2010 8:18 PM

^ Crap, I shouldve got a Mudkip than a Treecko. :(

EJ April 26th, 2010 9:13 AM

I'm picking bulbasaur and either Mudkip or torchic.

I'll try to use Bulbasaur for a while and see how I like him, as for the Hoenn starter...well idk yet.

560cool. April 26th, 2010 9:43 AM

I got Mudkip and Squirtle (only ones I miss from the starters except for Piplup !) ! :)
In my box for now . I'll later train them in my alternate teams . God bless Pokemon for its replayability ! :D

Kauai April 26th, 2010 9:55 AM

I'm probably going to SR for a shiny Charmander so I can eventually get a shiny Charizard. :)

alphabetsoup102062 April 26th, 2010 9:59 AM

I'm probably going to get bulbasaur and torchic, as then I'll have one type of each. I'll train them up (hopefully), but I wish that you could get them as soon as you get into Kanto, as then you could train them up throughout the gyms in Kanto, rather than after the game story has really ended.

Porygon Z April 26th, 2010 11:39 AM

I got Charmander & Treecko.
Charizard is actually the powerhouse of my Team, Sceptile will stay in the PC for long time.

NatureKeeper April 26th, 2010 11:42 AM

I got Squirtle and Torchic. I do not have any plans to train them ATM. I'll stick to Gym Leader Rematches to train them, maybe. Squirtle is lv.5, UT and Torchic has up to two unknown EVs. Bah.

Circuit April 26th, 2010 11:52 AM

I picked Torchic and Charmander (an all fire starter game) on HG but on SS, I'll probably choose Squirtle and Treeko, because they are the last two I'll need to have every starter.

Eric. April 26th, 2010 12:03 PM

Charmander and Mudkip.

Got the Charizard to 52 and Mudkip is still in the box, plan on training Mudkip later after I get my other Pokemon to lv 100

Mongo April 26th, 2010 12:38 PM

I plan on choosing Charmander and Treeko in HeartGold.

I plan on using both on my main team.

Spiron April 26th, 2010 1:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eric. (Post 5753462)
Charmander and Mudkip.

Thumbs up, dude. When I get to that stage of the game, I won't have it any other way. Charmander because he was my first Pokemon... ever, when I first played Red. Mudkip needs no explanation. =]


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