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View Poll Results: Which Starter is the best?
Turtwig, Grotle, Torterra 40 27%
Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape 50 34%
Piplup, Prinplup, Empoleon 59 40%
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Old October 8th, 2010 (11:32 PM).
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For me its gotta be the Turtwig family, So cool!
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Old October 9th, 2010 (4:27 AM).
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I'd say the Piplup line. Water starters always turn out to be favorites, and Piplup was no exception. I kind of grinded him to the point where he was about level 40 at Maylene's gym, so I kind of owned everybody with him.
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I like Turtwig's evolvution Chain the most.
I like Piplup's, but Torterra is the king of awesome. You can tell just by looking, it's a giant turtle. Thos things are awesome. About the only thing that make a turtle cooler is if it were to carry and island on its back, and Oh, look! There is it! And you look at that face. That's the face of "I'm so awesome, I don't even care what you think. You aren't even worth my time, haters!" and that... Is just awesome.

Forget the fact that his physical attacks and defense are great for tanking ingeneral, but even his lower special defense is still high enough where it's easy to redeem. And while I'm at it, look at that HP! That's 95 base HP, and that's terrible. Terribly AWESOME. You and Torterra with his almighty back-mountains can easily rampage the enitre Sinnoh Reigion, leaving nothing but a barrage of KO'd Pokemon in your wake! And that. Would. Be. AWESOME.

PS. I don't like Monkeys other than the DK/Diddy combo, sorry Chimchar.
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Old October 9th, 2010 (7:50 AM).
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Chimchar for me=) He learns Ember on level 7 like charmander=)) It is easier to raise it in the beginning=)
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Old October 9th, 2010 (8:39 AM).
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Chimchar evo line for the win! :D
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Old October 9th, 2010 (10:52 AM).
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I Chose Infernape just for the fact that he is Fighting aswell.
I Always Find myself without a Fighting Pokemon in my Team, so its nice to have Infernape with the fighting moves for me. ^_^

Right now I'm using Empoleon for now, To see if I Can even get to like it.
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Old October 11th, 2010 (4:32 PM).
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Piplup and company for me. I'm a Steel type fan and was amped to get one as an evolved starter.
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Old October 12th, 2010 (2:01 PM).
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I like piplup/other forms the best. although hes pretty slow, his attacks are great,and its just a cool pokemon. hes also a water type! water type rocks! :rambo:
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Old October 12th, 2010 (4:46 PM).
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there not that great but if i have to decide it's torterra.
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Old October 13th, 2010 (8:18 AM).
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Infernape makes a pretty good sweeper in many cases.
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Old October 13th, 2010 (2:16 PM).
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I have to go with piplup. First, I always pick the water type, because in my experience the water types usually have an easier time throughout the game, and also water > fire+grass so yeah. Plus He becomes part steel, water+steel = legendary combo. I never liked grass starters, except for treeko and fire is alright but water is just better. If you are just getting the game choose piplup.
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basically it would be turtwig, it's skills and stats are stupendous. :s
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Old October 25th, 2010 (8:35 AM).
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None of the above! If you're going to have a starting pokemon, you should be able to choose what you want from that gigantic list of pokemon. I personally believe in thinking outside the box so in platinum I chose my starter to be Shinx =D
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Old October 25th, 2010 (9:59 AM).
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I think it would be Turtwig's line because it's the best in game
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Old October 28th, 2010 (5:59 AM).
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I chose Chimchar over all, because it has awesome evolutions, Turtwig seemed, and turned out to be very slow, and I just didn't want Piplup xD.
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In my eyes the Chimchar line total quality ;D
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Old October 28th, 2010 (6:26 AM).
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Chimchar I love fire pokemon!!!!!!!
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Old October 28th, 2010 (2:17 PM).
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i just got this game ill try with chimchar than (playing pearl) thanks for the thread to use
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Old October 28th, 2010 (2:39 PM).
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Piplup for sure.
I used him my first playthrough and He did great against everything.
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Old October 28th, 2010 (3:07 PM).
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On my first playthrough, Empoleon really kicked some.

It's unique typing helps it for a decent stab move in-game.

But, Torterra is pretty beastly with a Big Root and Leech Seed.
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Old October 28th, 2010 (3:58 PM).
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Personally, I think the generation 4 starters are the worst of all the starter Pokemon... Dx But if I were to choose, I say Chimchar. I actually used to pick Piplup all the time, but once Platinum came out and I chose Chimchar, I started to like it a bit. :3
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I don't really like any so much, but Chimchar.
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Old October 30th, 2010 (7:21 PM).
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If voting was still open, I'd vote Chimchar all the way. He's actually my personal favorite starter of all of them. I guess I've just got a soft spot for monkeys.
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If voting was still open, I'd vote Chimchar all the way. He's actually my personal favorite starter of all of them. I guess I've just got a soft spot for monkeys.
I agree with all of this! I like Chimchar because hes soo cute and he is a fire type. Fire types are my favourite types.
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