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Isseubnida February 18th, 2013 1:17 PM

I love Totodile.

Also, what do you mean by 'other'?

SoraTheTruth February 18th, 2013 4:39 PM

The fire starters so

Chimchar (D,P,PL)
Cyndaquil (SS)

Inky February 23rd, 2013 2:32 AM

Over the various games I chose all three Sinnoh starters, but my first was Turtwig.

I chose Cyndaquil in Heart Gold.

I don't really choose them in preference of type - I like picking different starters each time I replay so I can build different teams around them.

IsaacTwentySeven February 23rd, 2013 7:39 PM

In Pearl, I chose Turtwig. Later bred it, and now use a lv. 100 shiny Torterra.
In SS, which I play most now, I chose Totodile. Used it until it was lv. 46, then locked it away in a box.

The Amazing Justin March 4th, 2013 6:26 AM

I chose Chimchar first in Diamond and got Piplup in Platinum. Never owned Pearl.

When HeartGold and SoulSilver came around, I picked Chikorita for the former and Cyndaquil for the latter.

TrainerJacob March 15th, 2013 6:31 PM

I'm playing through HeartGold and I chose Chikorita as my starter, who evolved into Bayleef within two days of playing the game.

Zorogami March 16th, 2013 4:58 AM

Chimchar because he looks cute and i absolutely love Infernape's design. Plus i love the Fire/Fighting combo and i didn't mind them using itr twice (Yes, Tepig was too much...).
Totodile because he is such a hilarious and hyper-active pokemon, plus i love how he is inspired by a crocodile/alligator.

Ace. April 2nd, 2013 11:28 PM

For Platinum I chose Chimchar and for Soulsilver I chose Cyndaquil.

Kikaito plush April 3rd, 2013 1:24 AM

I thought I had answered this before...

Pearl: Turtwig
Platinum: Chimchar
Heartgold: Chikorita
Soulsilver: Totodile

Warship April 4th, 2013 9:32 AM

in my first ever game which was pearl i chose turtwig because my other two friends chose piplup and chimchar and i wanted to be different than them and also turtwig was adorable. also torterra is one of my favorite pokemon. i chose piplup in platinum because i wanted to try something different. in heartgold i chose chikorita because it was very cute and again i wanted to be different. also i already chose cyndaquil in crystal :D

AntimatterAsh April 4th, 2013 9:44 AM

What does it mean by other?

Unless you AR them in...

curiousnathan April 4th, 2013 2:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AntimatterAsh (Post 7608537)
What does it mean by other?

Unless you AR them in...

What it means by 'other' is sometimes people ditch the region's starters altogether and pick their favourite/different pokemon to start the game with.

Tim! April 4th, 2013 3:17 PM

Sinnoh: Chimchar definetely. I must have a fire type pokémon in my team.
Jotho: Totodile. Cause I always catch a Growlithe ^^.
That kinda happens always when I play gen II games.

Although my best gen II game (crystal) was with Cyndaquil as starter.

Japnoo April 6th, 2013 5:40 AM

Totodile for life! i use him in my heart gold game, so, I choose you Totodile!

* typhlosion * April 6th, 2013 1:57 PM

Cyndaquill in HG/SS and Turtwig in Platinum :) But next time I play Platinum I'll choose chimchar. Torterra wasn't bad, but I wanna to make a full IV Gen team and it lacks fire-types pokémon :s

Lugia's Shadow April 9th, 2013 12:19 AM

I chose Chimchar in Diamond (my friend told me to, I was young and didn't understand much about Pokemon, and I thought Chimchar was adorable :3), and then in Platinum I went with Turtwig (back then I followed along with Marilland - I basically made my team EXACTLY like his :/)..then I tried SoulSilver and used Totodile. After that, I replayed Platinum and used Piplup.

T!M April 9th, 2013 1:21 AM

Diamond/Pearl/Platinum
Always Piplup. He makes the game much easier for later Gyms.

HeartGold/SoulSilver
Always Cyndaquil. He makes Steel Pokémon look like chumps. Especially late game.

AtecainCorp. April 10th, 2013 9:37 AM

I allways chose....

D/P/PT - Piplup... I very like this cute Peguin
HG/SS - Tododile... Strong and Deadly Crocodile/Aligator/Cayman or something like that XD

White Raven April 10th, 2013 3:19 PM

OMG who wouldn't like a monkey as a friend? a monkey who plays with fire too!
Meganium is my most favourite pokemon, naturally I'll choose it.

Hydro Pumper April 13th, 2013 1:57 AM

Haha, yeh I'm definitely going with either Piplup or (preferably) Totodile to suit a mono-Water themed team. :3 Water-type starters appeal to me a whole more than the others purely because each one so far is distinct and interesting! (though not saying that the other starters are diverse):)

GrayJM9 April 15th, 2013 5:23 PM

Piplup and Chikorita are my favorites from Gen 4.

Rai April 16th, 2013 8:50 PM

For Pearl, the first starter I chose was Chimchar because I like fire types.

For SoulSilver, I picked Chikarita because I had never used it in my original Gold or Silver. When I got HeartGold, I chose Totodile because I choose it in my original Silver but I never beat it because it broke D;

Shadowraze April 16th, 2013 9:02 PM

I picked Chimchar on my first try of Diamond.

And I picked Cyndaquil in Heartgold.

I am fond of fire types. :3

Aslan April 16th, 2013 10:20 PM

On my replaythroughs of the game I decided to try different starters, ones that I don't normally consider. I've overdone water to be honest so I decided to take a break and give the other types a little love. In Platinum I decided to go with Turtwig, mainly because there were other great fire-types I wanted to catch later on in the game such as Houndoom.

In Soulsilver, I had already chosen Totodile in Heartgold and I decided to give Cyndaquil a go since it's design was adorable and apparently it was a ferocious and powerful attacker in it's final evolutions.

voltianqueen April 17th, 2013 10:57 AM

I've always been a fire person, so of course I chose Chimchar in Pearl and Cyndaquil in SS.

Zoegrace1 April 21st, 2013 8:23 PM

I usually just chose the cutest.

Piplup, in Pearl and Diamond because I liked penguins at that time, and Chikorita for HeartGold. I still like Cyndaquil and Chimchar though, I just like Chikorita and Piplup.

Seth Rollins April 22nd, 2013 6:30 AM

Cyndaquil and Chimchar. FIRE TYPES STARTERS FTW.
But I like Cyndaquil way more than Chimchar only to let you know.

Amore May 16th, 2013 7:15 AM

In DP yeah, I went for Piplup. C'mon, it's a penguin, who wouldn't?
And in Platinum, the exact same penguin all over again, just hours after restarting Diamond :/

For SoulSilver it was Cyndaquil, but for HeartGold it was Totodile, and I didn't get to the Elite Four on SS.

Aether★ May 16th, 2013 7:55 AM

I always choose fire types as starters, so Chimchar in Platinum and Cyndaquil in Soul Silver.

lmcde22 May 23rd, 2013 6:37 PM

Piplup evolves into a steel penguin... I don't even have to give you more reasons why it's the best.

.:batto:. May 25th, 2013 8:15 AM

chicoritia (excuse the spelling)
but i prefer grass pokemon because you can really mess with trainers battle plans. poisonpowder, sleep powder. ect. plus giga drain. at high levels grass pokemon become virtually unstoppable

Powerserge May 25th, 2013 8:35 AM

Chimchar and Cyndaquil! Fighting Monkeys and Burning otters; it doesn't get cooler than that.

alolan vulpix May 26th, 2013 7:54 AM

Poor Chikorita and Turtwig! ): I chose both in my first playthroughs of the respectives games. However I'm now going to be using Totodile as I got my shiny one!

MudkipBoy May 27th, 2013 3:57 AM

I chose turtwig for my first runthrough of Diamond, and currently have a bayleef (so chickorita) in SoulSilver

Virgilin June 14th, 2013 1:29 PM

Chimchar has never failed me in D/P/Platinum. Though I absolutely love Piplup!
For HGSS, Cyndaquil is great but Chikorita is awesome too. In fact, it happens to be my favorite grass-type starter.

Aurora June 14th, 2013 4:46 PM

I've used all starters at least once in D/P, but the starter I spent the longest time on / with was Piplup. It's one of the only Pokemon I've ever had with which I managed to hit Level 100.

As for HG/SS, I've used both Cyndaquil and Totodile, but by far my favourite out of those is Cyndaquil, because it's an early Fire-type and I can't easily obtain Growlithe in SoulSilver.

PyroDragneer June 23rd, 2013 3:13 AM

In Pokemon Platinum, I choose either Chimchar or Turtwig as they are both my favourite pokemon in the sinnoh region (and they are really powerful) and in HG & SS my starters were either totodile or cyndaquil

Eruption June 24th, 2013 10:29 AM

In Diamond it was a tough choice between Chimchar and Piplup as I liked them both quite a lot and their evolutions, but ultimately I chose Chimchar because I like fire types. I would later pick Piplup on Platinum to make up for that previous decision.

On Heart Gold and Soul Silver I picked Cyndaquil which is the easiest choice in the world for me because my favourite pokémon is Typhlosion. I'm glad to see Cyndaquil is quite a popular choice amongst other members too.

Seraphimon-sama June 24th, 2013 11:00 AM

I always chose Chimchar and Cyndaquil, unless doing a challenge where I needed to use one of the others.

Sirfetch’d June 25th, 2013 11:59 AM

I chose Chimchar on my first Pearl playthrough, however I quickly started over due to a bad nature and decided to pick Turtwig instead.

On Soulsilver I chose Totodile because I found it the most useful in Silver.

Direbolt June 25th, 2013 12:49 PM

I'm definitely a fire type person. So Cyndaquil.

Though Chimchar is awesome, I prefer pure fire types to fire/fighting, though I will admit it can be useful, I just prefer straight up fire. :3

Elaitenstile June 26th, 2013 4:24 AM

I chose Turtwig for my playthrough, before having an incomplete game with my Piplup which I ditched (still feel sorry...). Because he looks nice and of course I am in love with Torterra's ability to beat both starters!
And of course, as per my Water type tradition I took Totodile after having a nice breezing playthrough with it in Gold.

XeroNos June 26th, 2013 11:30 PM

Chimchar for me currently coz I started playing PLatinum i-e First 4th gen game 3 days ago

Xenkia June 29th, 2013 9:52 PM

Grass types all the way. I chose Chikorita in SoulSilver but ended up replacing him with Dragonite later on in the game. I chose Turtwig in Pearl and kept him the whole way through, mainly to use ground type moves after he evolved in to Torterra.

SoraTheTruth June 29th, 2013 10:36 PM

I always pick the fire starter.

Rizardon June 29th, 2013 11:20 PM

I didn't know Piplup was that popular among fans but yea I did pick Piplup as my starter.
For HG/SS it was Cyndaquil still.

Janp July 1st, 2013 5:47 AM

Chimchar in Platinum and Chikorita in SoulSilver.

Altair July 2nd, 2013 12:32 AM

Didn't have to think about it much since I was going to use all three Sinnoh starters, I picked Piplup in Diamond, Turtwig in pearl and Chimchar in Platinum. Chimchar however is my preferred out of the three.

In HG/SS I picked Totodile and Cyndaquil, never liked using Chikorita...

Nakala Pri July 9th, 2013 12:19 AM

I chose Chimchar. After seeing Piplupe's motionless body when my sister had her file, I decided I prefer monkey butt to motionless penguins. :x

Knor July 9th, 2013 2:03 AM

I chose Cyndaquil in HGSS, but that's because I always choose fire types. :]

Lowstah July 9th, 2013 2:35 AM

I loved torterra in diamond. Earthquake and leaf storm made it virtually unstoppable!

I didn't use a starter in diamond, and i have no regrets.

moon July 9th, 2013 2:55 AM

I tend to always choose the fire starters, except for in Hoenn. So here it's Cyndaquil and Chimchar. I just feel comfortable having a fire starter. I always keep my starter on my team and Fire is a good type to keep. Especially Fire/Fighting; even though I agree that three such starters in a row was a bit over the top, I still enjoy the typing.

Golden Warrior July 13th, 2013 11:21 AM

I usually choose fire types, but in Diamond I didn't like Chimchar that much so Piplup was my choice!

As for HG/SS: Cyndaquil, because fire. :D

Sheep July 13th, 2013 11:58 AM

Piplup in D/P/Pt and Chikorita in HG/SS. Piplup was the cutest of the bunch in Sinnoh so I didn't have a hard time choosing, and the Chikorita line were always my favorite grass types~


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