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Old March 30th, 2010 (4:53 PM).
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My Cyndaquil never made it to level 8. There are so many more interesting Pokemon. Every trainer and their brother uses the starters. I like to be more original for some reason. :/
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Old March 30th, 2010 (4:55 PM).
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I chose chikorita, so of course.
I think Bayleef is rotting in my PC box at level 26 right now.

This is a shame, since this was the first time I ever used something other than my starter in my team.
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Old March 30th, 2010 (5:01 PM).
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I actually offered up my cyndaquil in the GTS for a scyther, which I did get.
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Old March 30th, 2010 (6:12 PM).
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I always keep my starters unless I'm doing a play-through/challenge where I won't have a starter on my team. I always keep it in my box though because I get attached to my starter pokemon.
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Old March 30th, 2010 (6:12 PM).
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I usually ditch the starter, and get a Ghastly and one other pokemon (depends on what i feel like.). And then i use those until i get mah Ice types! XDD
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Old March 30th, 2010 (6:16 PM).
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I never get rid of my starters, especially since in SS I get my Typhlosion, mah fave Pokemon. D:<

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Old March 30th, 2010 (6:19 PM).
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On soul silver I used my water starter untill the seventh badge, then I just transfered started breeding for a team. I used four pokes up to the Elite four and on, none of them were the starter, I just use it for HM! :(
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Old March 30th, 2010 (6:30 PM).
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Yeah, I usually just have my starter do EVERYTHING.
Now I have three pokemon all at level 14, toadadile, pigey, and ponyta.
They still get whipped by bugsie's syther's quick attack.
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Old March 30th, 2010 (6:31 PM).
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Yeah, I got rid of Meganium just about the time I got to Blackthorn City. Had to make room for another pokemon.
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Old March 30th, 2010 (6:37 PM).
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I usually keep it and train it, but it is never my main Pokemon. Eg:
My current team is this:

Golbat lvl 48
Gyarados lvl 49
Typhlosion lvl 47
Luxray lvl 50

I never use it as my main pokemon, but it is very handy as it has a very good Attack stat.
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Old March 30th, 2010 (7:07 PM).
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You don't let your Golbat evolve? :o
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Old March 30th, 2010 (7:17 PM).
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You don't let your Golbat evolve? :o
I have been trying, but no matter how many items I feed it or milkshakes I make it, it still will not evolve D: I even leveled it about 7 levels holding a sooth bell :(
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Old March 30th, 2010 (7:22 PM).
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I have been trying, but no matter how many items I feed it or milkshakes I make it, it still will not evolve D: I even leveled it about 7 levels holding a sooth bell :(
Give it massages, lemonade / soda pop / fresh water when HP is low, vitamins, use it in big battles, don't let it die... just some ideas.
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Hm. That's weird. My zubat evolved into golbat and only lasted one level as one. It evolved into crobat immediately. :[ I just trained it from level 3 and walked with it constantly. And I used items on it, and saved before battles to make sure it never fainted. And I caught it with a premier ball, but I don't think that has anything to do with it.
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Old March 30th, 2010 (10:37 PM).
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I ditched my starter on Pearl for a Tropius. I'm keeping my starter on Heart Gold though, Quilava is one of my favorite Pokemon, I'm happy to have it with me. :D
Right now my team consists of Quilava, Tropius (the son of the one I used on Pearl) and Hoppip.
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Old March 30th, 2010 (11:25 PM).
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i ditched typhlosion as soon as i got to Kanto.

now i train with my Celebi.

My friends ditched his starter after he got Eevee from bill, but, unfortunately his DS and all his games were stolen today :(
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Old March 31st, 2010 (4:16 AM).
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I don't really like fire, water, or grass types either way. So I have my four pokemon that I've been dutifully raising: Crobat, Pidgeot, Flareon, and Cloyster.
Pssssssst Your Flareon is a Fire-type. :P

I typically keep my starter, especially if I choose Mudkip, but quite often I will choose the Grass-type starter so my rival picks the crappy Fire-type which makes the in-game that much easier.

As for SS, I have kept my starter (Croconaw), but since HGSS starters are so lame I replaced it with Quagsire and now use it as an HM slave. Feraligatr learns 7 of the 8 HMs, so that will come in handy.
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Old March 31st, 2010 (8:50 AM).
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I'm saving my soul silver game until easter holidays when i am at my grandmas and therefore bored, but when I play I will drop my starter as well. For fire I will take Ninetales, for grass I will take Vileplume and for water I will take Lanturn. My level 100 Bulbasaur is the only starter I've ever kept, as it's one of my favourite pokemon.
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Old March 31st, 2010 (9:15 AM).
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Planning to drop my Meganium soon. Doesn't really help much and I'd rather have some other pokemon then it. :/
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Old March 31st, 2010 (9:27 AM).
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The only game I did that on was Diamond
I trained torterra to the point where it learned leaf storm and my roselia good egg learn that and giga drain
Then I trashed it because all the starters were pretty bad other than Empoleon.
This game I'm keeping my typhlosion currently level 63
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Old March 31st, 2010 (9:57 AM).
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I don't really like my Typhlosion but I'll keep at it trainin' him anyway xD
Didn't raise any pokemon very well on this game so far, beat e4 and red but all my pokemon are still under level 70 xD
Gonna trade over some pokemon from platinum soon but won't use 'em just like to have 'em in my pc :P
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Old March 31st, 2010 (10:01 AM).
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I've not yet ditched my starter unless I'm training a new team. Especially this time since I was very happy to get a Modest Chikorita. It's been great, so far. :D
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Old March 31st, 2010 (10:33 AM).
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I traded my cyndaquil to pearl right after I started. I named myself blue and copied his team.
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Old March 31st, 2010 (10:56 AM).
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I've actually only done this once, in emerald or something.
i ditched my mudkip for some reason.
and idk it just seems weird ditching a starter.
its kinda like you HAVE to have it.
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Old March 31st, 2010 (11:00 AM).
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On my next play-through I am going to ditch my starter for a Hoppip, dead serious. It makes the game much more interesting and challenging. I plan to also include Slowking, Gligar and a few others in my team.
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