3rd Gen Best Starter

Started by Damion666 December 4th, 2008 9:29 PM
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Age 51
Utah
Seen July 27th, 2010
Posted July 26th, 2010
2,811 posts
17.3 Years
No contest whatsoever. Mudkip is the best starter the Pokemon has ever produced. It has one of the best typing in the game, learns Ice Beam to cover its lone weakness, and has a terrific movepool that makes it a staple in competitive battling. Not only is it the best starter in the game, but also one of the best ever.
Age 33
Male
Perth, Scotland
Seen June 7th, 2015
Posted June 7th, 2015
211 posts
14.8 Years
Mudkip.

Unlike the other two, when it evolves into it's second stage, it can take care of the first four Gym Leaders without a problem.

...And as someone previously stated, it being a Water/Ground allows it to 'avoid' the annoying Electric type attacks. And even though it has a 4x weakness to Grass, this can easily be covered with Ice Beam ^_^/

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New York, United States
Seen February 2nd, 2009
Posted December 18th, 2008
76 posts
14.5 Years
torchic, becuase torchic although is weak against the first gym leader, against the other gym leader torchic can help u beat them, if you evolve it to blaziken.
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Age 33
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Seen February 6th, 2019
Posted May 30th, 2010
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15.2 Years
Mudkip (or rather, Swampert) is the best competitively, but my favourite of all of the starters is Torchic. Not sure why.
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Seen December 23rd, 2009
Posted June 11th, 2009
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14.9 Years
Treecko. Yeah, Mudkip is well rounded and all but look at all the water types available in Hoenn. There aren't as many fire and grass starters. Torchic is okay but...I've found it to be a major liablility against Team Aqua. Yeah the same could be said for Treecko with Team Magma but you can at least find a good water type to fix that problem.

As for the Kanto starters...it's harder to choose. I almost always choose Charmander but...



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Seen December 17th, 2009
Posted December 17th, 2009
467 posts
14.9 Years
For competitive: Mudkip. (water-ground typing +ice beam = GG)
My personal favorites: Charmander and Bulbasaur
Charmander because somehow ive always managed to use charizard, and cuz he looks like a dragon ;P. Somehow i just like bulbasaur


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Seen November 16th, 2022
Posted January 2nd, 2019
149 posts
14.5 Years
What if swampert fights ludicolo? So long ice beam. =/

Torchic all the way. Having a blaziken is really useful against Team Aqua. Blaze kick for zubat family, double kick/sky uppercut for dark Pokémon. Pwned.

A level 30 combusken has no trouble against Brendan. I also defeated all of Norman's trainers with double kick and I didn't lose a single HP.
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