Age 32
Male
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Seen November 4th, 2012
Posted January 9th, 2012
1,722 posts
14.8 Years
I usually keep my starter until I get my ideal team (because it hardly ever involves any of the starters).

Starters are fun because they get decent stats for the game's sake, but in competitive talk, most Pokémon do what the starters do better than they can.

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United Kingdom
Seen October 19th, 2008
Posted August 10th, 2008
20 posts
14.9 Years
I usually kept them with me, but then after getting Wifi and realising my Empoleon sucked, I put it in the box for posterity X)
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Age 31
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Seen January 26th, 2013
Posted April 14th, 2012
1,130 posts
14.8 Years
I have also kept my starters with me. Most of the starters are good Pokemon to use.
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Age 29
Female
United States
Seen August 23rd, 2011
Posted July 28th, 2011
188 posts
14.9 Years
When I started Pearl, that stupid turtle Turtwig went in the box almost instantly. I hate all of the starters in the Fourth Gen. x-x

I consider my Absol my starter, because I friend gave me a level 1 as soon as I started the game. <3

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Age 29
Seen October 14th, 2008
Posted August 8th, 2008
19 posts
15.4 Years
When I started Pearl, that stupid turtle Turtwig went in the box almost instantly. I hate all of the starters in the Fourth Gen. x-x
i hated all the starters too so i just chose piplup because i needed someone for surf. after i was able to migrate my empoleon was sentenced to the PC
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Age 28
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Seen April 3rd, 2010
Posted March 18th, 2009
96 posts
14.9 Years
After the elite four, my starter is only good for pumping out the Pokemon babies.

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Seen April 9th, 2021
Posted February 5th, 2017
6,779 posts
15.5 Years
I usually keep my starters until the elite four, then its off to either the daycare, or PC.
In R/B/G, i kept my starter even after the elite four, but found no reason to keep playing.
In Yellow, i had to keep my pikachu, or else he wouldn't love me.
In G/S/C, i just put my meganium in the box before fighting ash, and that was the only time i deposited him.
in R/S/E, i kept my sceptile forever(that is, until i started a new game).
And in D/P/P, i never left my torterra, got him four hearts, and trained him more than any other starter i got, all the way up to level 93.
Long story short, i keep almost all of my starters in my party.
These kinds of threads make you wonder why people in the anime preach about being nice to pokemon, but catch them against their will and use them for battle and sport.

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Age 31
Female
Arkansas
Seen December 20th, 2020
Posted December 7th, 2020
2,409 posts
15.5 Years
Well...In Sapphire I kept my Blaziken with me at all times, but it was second to my Gardevior. I lost that game, but apparently I mysteriously traded Gardevior to a friend to help her with the Elite 4 so I got it back in Sinnoh. I don't train alot of different pokemon to be fighters, so I do keep my starters (My sister kept restarting the game and trading different starters to me so we could each have all three.) with me, but Gardevior is always in the first slot no matter when I'm doing. (Besides Hatching eggs.)




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Seen September 18th, 2020
Posted February 18th, 2018
7,741 posts
16.6 Years
BTW was your starter a shiny to get that lugia world king's lugia?
Judging from his name and such, he likely has some billion Lugia daycare babies in a different version and traded with himself for it.
That or he has the relevant Gameshark (or other such device) code(s).

I'm only attempting to answer that since I don't think he'll end up seeing your question. :o
Age 32
Male
Ecruteak City, Johto
Seen August 1st, 2010
Posted January 15th, 2010
263 posts
15.3 Years
Well, I don't think I have put my starter away. Yeah, I don't care much about the Fourth generation starters, but I still use them. In my crystal, Feraligatr was always there and for the rest of the other games, starters were always in my party.
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Seen March 30th, 2009
Posted September 21st, 2008
17 posts
14.8 Years
i keep mine around, its usualy one of my strongest on the game so theres no reason to get rid of it
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