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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 January 6th, 2011 (2:26 PM).
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Turtwig. Torterra's movesets are amazing, if you play it right you can have a pokemon with a pretty much unbeatable moveset. I beat all but the fire-type dude with Torterra alone. +It can learn Earthquake. So yeah, Go with the leafy turtle.
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Old January 6th, 2011 (2:44 PM).
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I will post until this thread closes that Inferanpe is by far the best. With any items you want, any movest(legal) you want on ANY of the starters in this poll, my Focus Sashed Infernape would murder them
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Old January 6th, 2011 (2:48 PM).
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Old January 6th, 2011 (2:52 PM).
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I used my infernape for my game run and he devestated everyone except in the ghost gym that one i had trounle but ya he murderd lucario in the fighting gym and Cynthias lucario
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Old January 6th, 2011 (9:51 PM).
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Everyone knows what I would pick HINT!: LUVDISC

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Old January 7th, 2011 (1:18 AM).
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I've ALWAYS loved Piplup. She, the beautiful, penguin Pokemon. She was my first Diamond starter, and I loved her.

We went through a lot together.
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Old January 11th, 2011 (3:15 AM).
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lol What are these "starters" you speak of?
I didn't consider the game started until I got Casey.
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Old January 11th, 2011 (5:44 PM).
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In playing through the game I like piplup, when competitive play I like chimchar.
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Old January 11th, 2011 (10:05 PM).
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Chimchar for me but Piplup's pretty cool too.
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Old January 11th, 2011 (10:11 PM).
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I really like penguins so Ill go with Piplup :)
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Old January 14th, 2011 (9:35 PM).
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I chose piplup because I always get the water type but I'd have to say infernape is the best. Absoute beast of a mixed sweeper!
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Old January 15th, 2011 (2:19 AM).
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Turtwig. 'cos, y'know, it's a turtle with a leaf on its head.
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Old January 15th, 2011 (6:57 PM).
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I personally think Empoleon, which was my starter, was the best among the rest. Basically, it's stats and skills outraged the gym leaders when I used it. :)
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Old January 15th, 2011 (7:31 PM). Edited January 16th, 2011 by Melinda.
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I think they're all great, but I have a slight preference for Chimchar. I've beaten the game with all of them though.
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Ranked from favorite to least favorite:

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Old January 25th, 2011 (11:03 AM).
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I chose Piplup as my starter in Pearl because it was soooo cute to my eyes. Stat wise Empoleon is more of a Special Attacker then anything else, while Torterra is more of an attacker. Infernape being the fastest of the three starters. My Empoleon still managed to sweep all of the gyms, except for Volkner.
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Old January 25th, 2011 (11:08 AM).
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first i picked piplup at first it wasnt that good caz he didnt have alot of good moves then when he evolved to empoleon he had good movset but horrible speed and i realy hate slow pokemons so ill go with infernape caz he has good moveset goos status and he is fire type
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Piplup. It has a great moveset, and the fact that it is water, steel, and has bird moves is a great help.
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Turtwig, both in design and practicality.
His main weaknesses that he has to worry about are fire, and ice? Most ice-types are Water as well and weak to grass, and he gets Earthquake if he evolves at level 32 to deal with Fires.

Also, Earthquake kills both other starters.

And Infernape is infinitely ugly.
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Old January 26th, 2011 (2:29 PM).
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Chimchar. Totally. Infernape is a beast! It can practically ko anything.
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Old January 26th, 2011 (2:54 PM).
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Turtwig, both in design and practicality.
His main weaknesses that he has to worry about are fire, and ice? Most ice-types are Water as well and weak to grass, and he gets Earthquake if he evolves at level 32 to deal with Fires.

Also, Earthquake kills both other starters.
^That

I also think that Turtwig and evolutions just look awesome. It has actually become my favourite starter, taking the title from Bulbasaur which I never thought would happen.
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I love my Torterra:D(killing fire Water Elec Ground Poison Stone Steal and Iceand flying(If it learnd that stone attack with 100 dmg)Psy with biteing moves
(And Chimchar ist the Starter I hate more than ANYTHING else... it faked Torchiks type(and oh yeah the new to lucky i choosed the cool waterthing) Movesets ,I don´t like and stupid looking does it to...
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Old January 28th, 2011 (8:21 AM).
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I have to go with the Water/Steel Empoleon because I think that typing is epic. I'm OK with the Turtwig family but not too fond of the Chimchar family.
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I'd say Turtwig. Whenever I battle friends, out of all the starters, it's always Torterra that trips me up the most. It also looks the most useful when rushing through the E4 (I forget why) and my friends tend to swear by it too.

:( Too bad my grass-type slot is forever filled by Cherrim in gen 4 or I'd actually try raising one sometime.
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