4th Gen Favorite Sinnoh Starter?

I've always chosen Turtwig

When I first played this game (Diamond) I started with Chimchar. It's already 9 years ago so I don't remember much of it. A year ago I started playing Pokémon Platinum which is still my favourite game so far. I started with Turtwig. It was a great team member but around level 40, I wanted another team. I wanted to do something different. Every team of mine was build around my starter. I wanted a team without a starter so I did. Torterra was put off the team at level 40 and I raised a new team. Later I had another Platinum game (first one was on R4DS). I raised a Piplup. I only used this starter the whole game till I could trade the other high leveled Pokémon of the other Platinum game. It came to an Empoleon of level 77. Which is now my favourite starter. I like teams without starters so I have a current full level 100 team and I am still playing to raise some others. My current team is:

Espeon lv. 100
Luxray lv. 100
Garchomp lv. 100
Milotic lv. 100
Charizard lv. 100
Lucario lv. 100

In Diamond/Platinum I preferred Chimchar due to the look of him and my adolescent mind thinking "Oooo, punching stuff is cool". Now looking back I would still have to choose Chimchar however due to Monferno's design and how you can almost sweep the entire region save for Cynthia.

I more prefer Turtwig than Chimcar, even that Torterra's stats is the lowest of all the Sinnoh starters He have good defense and could survive Infernape's Flare Blitz and then kill him with earthquake but Torterra is weak against Team Galactic except Houndour and Stunky's evolution line

Chimchar!

Favorite: Chimchar family and Empoleon.

Turtwig. Been a big help in sinnoh. Final evolution is a tank and my favorite.

Water/Steel is strong asf, and I always love water so Piplup.

I love Chimchar because it's adorable, and becomes super strong. And beating Roark wouldn't be hard since it's easy to get Chimchar to evolve.

Chimchar. Because Infernape is fast and powerful with awesome movepoll, and has the best design out of the three imo.

Turtwig is my main man

In my first run, I started with Turtwig, but ditched it after the first gym for a Bibarel (don't ask me why, I was young and foolish) . After that, I tried Chimchar and I've never looked back. I like Infernape's design, as well as its good speed, attack and wide coverage.

I don't understand why they didn't give Empoleon a typing that could defeat the other two starters. I mean Infernape can use Stab fire moves on Torterra and Stab Ground on Empoleon, Torterra can use Stab Ground moves to destroy Empoleon and Infernape. However, Empoleon can only use Stab super effective water on Infernape. It's water moves are neutral against Torterra which I guess is better than being resisted. It cant use it's Stab steel type moves super effectively against the other types. But I guess that's why Ice Beam is always a viable option to nuke Torterra and Cynthia's Garchomp. Also it's weird that Empoleon cant learn a water recoil damage move. I mean Infernape gets Flare Blitz and Woodhammer for Torterra. And Empoleon cant resist fire type moves as they are neutralized by it's steel typing. Water/Steel is a decent typing but there are so may better steel types like Lucario, Magnezone, Steelix, Bronzong. Plus there are so many better water types as it is the most dominant type in the game.

Anyways, I think Turtwig is my favourite. I love Torterra's move pool and I found it extremely useful during game play. I would never use it in competitive play as it is so slow.

Infernape is probably the best for playing the game as there are limited fire types obtainable in Sinnoh. Thank you Game Freak for giving us three consecutive Fire/Fighting types in a row. It's a good typing but no need for three in a row.

mjb8910 said:

Infernape is probably the best for playing the game as there are limited fire types obtainable in Sinnoh. Thank you Game Freak for giving us three consecutive Fire/Fighting types in a row. It's a good typing but no need for three in a row.

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Emboar in 5th Gen was actually the third Fire/Fighting starter final stage, Infernape was the second of those three.

Hikamaru said:

Emboar in 5th Gen was actually the third Fire/Fighting starter final stage, Infernape was the second of those three.

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I'm aware of that. Should have worded it better. Also, I think Incineroar looks like it should be a Fire/Fighting type as well.

Turtwig is very underrated, powerful attack and def with STAB earthquake (shame about no good physical grass STAB till gen 7 with seed bomb, wood hammer was alright but recoil hurts)

in fact in pokemon reborn (fan game, notoriously hard, pick any starter from gen 1-6 probably 7 in future updates) i picked turtwig and would never have got to the end of the current update without it

Chimchar is my favourite starter, but Torterra is my favourite final evolution.

Infernape is really too similar to Blaziken for me to love it.
I think Pipulp's final evolution looks cool, but its natural moveset is atrocious.
Turtwig has solid moves and a great evolution so it ends up being my favorite just due to utility and decent typing.

Piplup no doubt, easily the best design out of the three

Piplup so far.

I do like the three starters but I use more often Piplup beause he a water type ( which I do like a lot) and penguin are always cute so it a plus!