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[Former PokéPOTW] Favorite and Least-Favorite Starters
With all the talk of the Kalos starters, I thought it'd be cool to revisit previous generations and discuss which starter Pokémon are our favorites, and which ones are our least favorites.
I'll start first. Favorites: Its a tie between Typhlosion and Samurott, with Infernape as a close second favorite
Least Favorites: Venusaur and Emboar
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my favorites are charmander,squirtle,the jhoto starters and my least faveorites are the 4th and 5th gen ones really. i think mainly for 1st and 2nd gen starters were really good with good evolutionary line and i think they were good in the anime too. tepig and oshowot for me are not that great in terms of looks and in the anime find them annoying.i completly agree with your view on Venasaur although i still find it better than emboar.i think cyndaquil is really good too. i think as the generations have gone on they have gradually got worse in my opinion.as im still not sold on the x and y starters.i have warmed to them and accepted them but froakie and chespin i think are very basic designs,lets draw a frog now add white bubbles round its neck increase the eye size there done and chespin lets just add a green hat on to indicate it is a grass type.
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Anything that isn't Charizard or Gen 5 starter crap is fine by me. My favourite would be the gen 3 starters due to how useful they are in battle.
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My favorite starters are a tie between Oshawott (and it's evolutions) and Mudkip (and it's evolutions). It's their design that most captures my attention. Both can learn my favorite attacks, which happen to be water type attacks.
My 2 least favorite are also a tie between Chikorita's evolution and Torchic's evolutions, when I saw them they didn't seem to catch my attention (design wise). |
I'm going to move this over to Pokemon Voting Polls, since it isn't really a discussion thread so much as looking for people's quick opinions.
My favorite starters would have to be the Sceptile family and the Empoleon family. Pokemon Sapphire was one of the first Pokemon games that I completely invested myself into (even though I'd played previous ones), and Sceptile was such a huge presence in my party. It was one of the few times I actually enjoyed using a Grass type Pokemon, and I still have that Sceptile on my HeartGold. As for Empoleon, I wasn't a big fan of any of the Sinnoh starters, but I hadn't used a Water one in a while, so I decided to pick Piplup. To be honest, I had no idea it would evolve into a part-Steel type, which seemingly made Empoleon indestructable, and the key component to my Platinum team. As for my least favorites, I'd go with the Johto starters, the Torterra line and the Emboar line. These are more design based than anything, but still enough to make me not want to use them. That's why any time I play a Johto game, I usually ditch my starter as early as I can, even if they're my best Pokemon for a while. MOVED. |
Definitely Typhlosion. Cyndaquil was my first ever starter in my first ever Pokemon game (Crystal) and because of that Typhlosion is just like more awesome to me compared to other starters.
Other favourites include Serperior (totally great design) and Sceptile (again great design and found his Leaf Blade totally badass hack in Emerald). Least favourite starter? I don't have one. I love all of them :p |
Most Favorite to Least Favorite:
Serperior, Meganium, Venusaur, Samurott, Blazekin, Torterra, Charizard, Infernape, Typhlosion, Feraligtr, Sceptile, Blastoise, Emboar, Empoleon, Swampert, I only go by aesthetics for favorites. |
Squirtle is my favorite starter Pokémon. It was the first Pokémon that I've ever had, and it looks simply astonishing when it finally evolves into a Blastoise. The canons on its back are amazing, and I love the way how it's able to take them in and out of its shell so quickly. Battling-wise, this Pokémon isn't so bad. It may not be used too often, but it has decent defensive stats and it's a great user of Rapid Spin. If it had a few recovery moves in its arsenal, maybe people would have used it more. Charizard is my favorite as well. I'm a big fan of its design. (:
My least favorite starter Pokémon would have to beeee... Sceptile. xD" It does have good Attack, Special Attack, and Speed stats, and some people are able to utilize this Pokémon quite nicely, but I'm certainly not one of those people. |
Samurott, Blaziken and Torterra are my three favorite Starter Pokemon according to type. A kicking chicken that can launch fire-type moves is such a cool idea. Torterra's unusual typing (Although not a great typing competitively) inspires me to vote for him. Samurott's general all around excellence, wonderful looks and unpredictability captures my vote.
As for a least favorite I'd be thinking Meganium and Emboar. Meganium looks uninspiring and boring, and really should be a Grass/Dragon for its design. Emboar is a cool name, but the horrible design, and the fact that it's the third consecutive Fire-Fighting starter explains why. |
My most fave starter line of all time is obviously Oshawott and its evolution line due to that awesome samurai theme they have, and not to mention my fave of the starter types, Water! None of the Water-types have ever disappointed me, maybe Froakie did when it was first revealed but its design grew on me. 6th Gen's starters all look pretty awesome in general so I'm hoping they get awesome evolutions, especially Froakie due to my preference for Water.
Least fave, definitely Charmander's line. The reason? Charizard is soooooo overrated and also didn't like the way he was handled in the anime, especially the disobeying Ash part. The others aren't too bad though, I don't even mind Emboar or Meganium but they didn't live up to my expectations, at least I loved most starter designs. |
Favourite: Cyndaquil. Cyndaquil and its evolutions really captures my attention in terms of battle potential and its incomparable adorableness in its Cyndaquil stage and awesomeness in its fully evolved stage. :3
Least-favourite: Treecko. I just don't really have a lot of sentimental connections with the Treecko family I guess, that's why it's not on the top of my list. I do like Grovyle though! I think it looks the best amongst the three of them. Also, thanks to PMD for that. :P |
Well my most favorite is Oshawott while least favorite is well........ Treecko.
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Charmander and Bulbasaur and Chikorita might be my first choices for non-evolved starters, just because I feel like it. Middle line, I like most of the starters actually, and fully evolved it's probably Blaziken or Infernape.
In general, I prefer fire starters and like grass starters the least. But then there's Chikorita and Bulbasaur, so there is no fully functional rule in me for that. I also like bipedal starters more than four legged, so Samurott and most grass pokémon fall behind on that account. |
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Favorite: Sceptile. He looks so cool and I like the "king of the forest" idea, and he's pretty good too.
Least favorite: Definitely Charizard because he's overrated(3% raw usage in OU!!!!!) and sucks horribly competitively thanks to its weakness to Stealth Rock, common weaknesses, Solar Power making it even more sensible in the sun, and Politoed and Tyranitar. I'm pretty sure Mega forms are going to be banned in OU so Charizard is still gonna be horrible. |
In order from favourite to least favorite:
Feraligatr, Blaziken, Blastoise, Swampert, Sceptile, Torterra, Typhlosion, Serperior, Emboar, Infernape, Charizard, Venusaur, Empoleon, Meganium, Samurott |
Favourite first stages: All Water starters (sans for Oshawott), Bulbasaur, Treecko, Snivy, Charmander, Torchic, Chimchar, and Fennekin.
Least favourite first stages: Tepig and Chespin. I don't really like their designs. Favourite second stages: All gen 1 ones, all gen 3 ones, Croconaw, Servine, Dewott, Braixen, and Frogadier. Least favourite second stages: Probably Quilladin. In my opinion, it's design was kind of a downgrade to Chespin's. Favourite final stages: All gen 1 ones, all gen 3 ones, Feraligatr, Infernape, Delphox, and Greninja. Least favourite final stages: Emboar. I don't like it that it's the third Fire/Fighting starter in a row. EDIT: The Kalos starter lines are now known, so I decided to add them. Also, Charizard is once again one of my favourites. |
My favorite starter is obviously Serperior, although, other favorites are Empoleon, Samurott, Sceptile, Venusaur, and Swampert.
My least favorite is Emboar as I don't really like its design all that much. |
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Maybe we could add the Kalos starters to this talk too now? Since they have one evo each for now which gives us a little more feeling for what they are meant to turn out to be. |
My favourite first stage starters are Piplup and Tepig because they're both so ridiculously cute and they're both Pokémon which you can tell will evolve to reach their full potential, and my least favourite first stage starters are Totodile and Oshawott because I find them both to be really ugly haha. My favourite fully evolved starter is Infernape because it's a badass and a lot of fun to use (plus I'm not hugely fond of any of the others) and my least favourite is Feraligatr - that family is my least favourite in the whole of the Pokémon world and I deeply wish they'd never been made.
As for including X&Y, Chespin's my new favourite base form! It's way too cute omg. |
In order from favorite to least favorite:
Empoleon, Blaziken, Swampert, Samurott, Charizard, Feraligatr, Sceptile, Infernape, Torterra, Typhlosion, Blastoise, Serperior, Meganium, Venusaur, Emboar As you can see, I'm not a fan of Grass-types. Oh, and out of the X/Y starters, Fennekin, Froakie, Chespin No hard feelings, Chespin. |
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Squirtal, Wartortle, and Blastiose Charmander, Charmeleon, and Charizard Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur GenII Totodile, Croconaw, and Feraligatr Cyndaquil, Quilava, and Typholsion Chikorita, Bayleef, and Meganium GenIII Treecko, Grovyle, and Sceptile Mudkip, Marshtomp, and Swampert Torchic, Combuskeen, and Blaziken GenIV Chimchar, Monferno, and Infernape Piplup, Priplup, and Empoleon Turtwig, Grotle, and Torterra GenV Snivy, Servine, and Serperior Tepig, Pignite, and Emboar Oshawott, Dewatt, and Samurott favorite to least favorite: Infernape, Blastoise, Charizard, Feraligatr, Typhlosion, Empoleon, Sceptile, Serperior, Venusaur, Meganium, Swampert, Emboar, Samurott, Torterra, and Blaziken Imho Infernape is the best of the fire/fighting starter combo with good stats and movepool. And I hate Blaziken because its stats and movepool. The reason for Venusaur for where he/she positioned is because it's to slow for my tastes and it's evolutions don't change enough. I've never liked the design of Chikorita, nor Bayleef. Torterra is to slow for my tastes and even with ev training I could never get him fast enough to keep him. As far as genVI Braixen and Fennekin, then Chespin and Quilladin, and finally Froakie and Frogadier. I just like the way Braixen and Fennekin look. Froakie would have been in second place if not for the way Frogadier looked. My biggest complaint with Frogadier is its hands. But I think these are the best three looking starters since genI. In every other gen with the exception of this gen and genI have had one or two of the starter that look a little wankie or just down right terrible. |
Favourite: Sceptile, I love it's design, and it's signature moved (which other Pokemon copied), Leaf Blade. Samurott, Blastoise, Feraligatr and Serperior are pretty cool too.
Least Favourite: Emboar, obviously. While not as bad as Dratini to Dragonite, he looks nothing like his 1st form in any way except in colour scheme. Then there's the fact he's the third Fire/Fighting type in a row! Masuda said that they put most of their effort into the starters but Emboar (and Infernape, and Quilladin...) is evidence of their laziness. I always thought Venusaur and Meganium were a bit plain as well. |
My favorite starter is Mudkip because it's the first Pokemon I ever started with. Swampert is also pretty good, even though it took a hit in usefulness in Gen V. Chikorita is my least favorite because of how hard it is to use in its respective games.
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