What starter type(s) are the best?

I don't know if this is suggested, but a Grass/Fighting, Fire/Dark, and Water/Psychic triangle might work?
Like you can choose between Slowpoke, Shroomish, and Houndour at the beginning.

It would be quite balanced in my opinion..
Breloom:
Fighting beats Houndoom
Grass beats Slowbro/Slowking

Houndoom:
Fire beats Breloom
Dark beats Slowbro/Slowking

Slowbro/Slowking:
Psychic beats Breloom
Water beats Houndoom

Might that work?

There is one major problem with Psychic/Fighting/Dark. It is NOT a triangle. All starter triangles must be super-effective one way, and resistant the other. Take a look at Fire/Water/Grass: One way: Grass beats Water, Water beats Fire, Fire beats Grass. Now the other way: Fire resists Grass, Grass resists Water, Water resists Fire. Now look at Psy/Fight/Dark: Psychic resists Fighting, Fighting resists Dark, Dark is IMMUNE to Psychic! That breaks the triangle. Now, you could always edit the type chart to make Dark resistent to Psychic, and that is probably what one should do...

I like the traditional, though Flying/Electric/Ground might work

thats a tough one all the types are evenly matched to have at least one weakness so i would have to say there all the same

The best Starter..
Dragon
Ghost
Ice..

JeBsEE said:

The best Starter..
Dragon
Ghost
Ice..

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Wow, that makes perfect sense. Thanks.

Anyway, I like Grass/Fire/Water still the best. One starter instead of three, like in Yellow, is cool too.

I like the idea of uber-weakness.

Magikarp, Metapod, Feebas, or something. Well, maybe not Metapod, but whatever. I'm sure there are plenty of useless pokemon. Maybe one of those baby pokemon who start off with 'Charm' or something.

Five seconds into the game you'd get rid of the starter and catch a new one, and, hey, no more worries about what type you have.

Okay, I know, I'm evil.

You should do; Dark, Fighting, and Psychic.

im trying to do a pokemon sapphire hack, and i did a combination of pokemon red, gold and sapphire starters.
I put charmander, totodile and treecko... i think it's funny cause they're all lizards, mmm they seems to be lizards :P

it really depends what pkmn game ur playing. bc there's newer moves that weren't availible in the older games and that kind of thing.

Tentacruel13 said:

These are some pretty good starters Rock>Fire>Steel
Do something like Larvitar>Magby>Aaron.

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but Aaron is part rock. That kinda ruins the fire.
If you dont want many evolutions, try this:
Nosepass > Growlithe > Skarmory

I cracked out my DS and checked that thingy that tells you damage on certain types
Posion/Dark/Ghost - Some what rounded only Dark does better damage to both types
Fire/Water/Grass - normal grouping (you could just stick with that only change pokemon)
Bug/Grass/Water - Once again one type does to much damage to both
Rock/water/electric - rounded ( W>R - R>E- E>W )
Flying/Rock/Fighting - rounded ( FL>FI - FI>R - R>FL)

THose are all I'm gonna check...

Water, Psychic and Bubasaur?

And You can't make it one starter in Ruby or we'll have ?, PKMN, ? ?=Msngno so?

Dragon and Dark Pokemons are the best for starters

Like
Bagon, Dratini and Larvitar

Fire, Rock, and Steel anybody?

In my opinion Electric/Dark/Psychic

Electric = Powerful, Paralysis, Destroys Water Types
Dark = Powerful, Variety of Moves and Combos
Psychic = Destroys Fighting types, powerful, confusion

Question 1: It depends on the Gym leaders. Just like in F/R/G/FR/LG because you need a Dark Pokémon to defeat Sabrina. So it just depends on the people you have defeat.
Question 2: Same answer.

All the perfect triangles:
fire/grass/water
ground/poison/grass
Rock/Flying/Fighting
Fire/steel/rock
Rock/Flying/grass

I think thats all

Keep in mind Nintendo has choosen Fire/Water/Grass for all 4 generations because its safe.
They could have done other things but then it wouldnt have been original.

I choose a Normal, Psychic and Fighting combo for my hack.
Eevee, Abra and Machop.

That way you can eventually have Normal/Water/Fire/Electric/Psychic/Dark on Eevee to even it out.

In my hack, i found using Ground>Poison>Grass for the starter types was really good.