5th Gen Which starter did you pick? Page 17

Started by Ho-Oh February 5th, 2011 7:18 AM
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Which did you pick?

Lavender Town
Seen July 26th, 2012
Posted July 10th, 2011
48 posts
12 Years
I have a Snivy, because I—at some point—decided to switch to a Grass type team because I love the colour green and nature.

Grass Pokémon seem so weak though and I am a lot more about a strong attack, where fire seems to be strong to me.

They're like, opposites. =_=);

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Age 27
He/Him
Philippines
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted February 14th, 2022
3,664 posts
15.2 Years
On my trial run, I chose Oshawott because of the anime...
I guess old habits die hard, since I based on the anime for my starter choice in the first gen, too. :)
The trial run lasted until the second town, and when I saw the Snivy (which had quite a background for a starter Pokemon in the anime) that Ash caught later on, I tried Snivy and went through with it until now.

I feel guilty for not continuing my Oshawott run, though. I'll just use him on my next game, or maybe in Pokemon Grey if I get too attached to Snivy and can't bring myself to restart my game. :P


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Age 33
Male
Chicago, Illinois
Seen May 18th, 2015
Posted March 10th, 2015
43 posts
13 Years
In my Pokemon Black runthrough I totally picked Snivy, but wanted to nickname him Smugleaf. When it didn't let you rename him right away I thought I'd done something wrong and panicked XD...I ended up renaming him Smuglord after he evolved though. For Pokemon White I chose Oshawott and named him Wotter, then traded and am now using a Tepig (now Emboar) named Ganon.

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Age 24
Female
Michigan
Seen June 14th, 2011
Posted May 14th, 2011
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12 Years
Scratch my last post, I'm restarting again (thanks OCD *rolls eyes and laughs*)
I'm now picking Oshawott because Tepig wasn't doin' too well for me. ^^'

Hmmm...I'll name it Isora! It means "Goddess of the sea shore" in Japanese so it works perfectly! I'll just keep resetting until I get a female wott. <3


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Male
Australia
Seen May 3rd, 2012
Posted May 13th, 2011
6 posts
12 Years
I was able to defeat every trainer with just my Oshawott starter.I only had 2 rematch a few gym leaders which my Oshawott was weak to eg the 1st gym leader.Other than that i smoked everyone including Cheren whom my starter is suppose to be weak against.I suppose you could say i used Oshawott too much as he was lvl 70 by the end of the game.Still i did come up against Dragon Grass type trainers and even they werent a challenge 4 my Oshawott xD.
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Seen August 6th, 2014
Posted February 24th, 2012
298 posts
12.7 Years
my first play through on black I chose Snivey, second play through I chose tepig because I wanted an advantage in the normal and bug gyms, on my current playthrough of white I'm trying oshawatt
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Age 31
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16 Years
In Black, I picked Oshawott. In White, I picked Tepig (later dumped..). I have obtained a Snivy through trading but I forgot to vote that. :B
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Lavender Town
Seen February 22nd, 2012
Posted August 15th, 2011
109 posts
12 Years
I took one look at the other two and went,

"Holy mother.
It's gotta be Snivy."
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Seen January 27th, 2020
Posted February 8th, 2017
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12 Years
I always have a tendency to choose the Fire-Type starter in all Pokémon games, so I've chosen Tepig.

I called him RAZORBEAST because there's a Maximal called Razorbeast from Beast Wars Transformers toys that transforms in a wild boar. So when he finally evolved to Emboar, he was enought worthy to be called like that. XD

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14.7 Years
I picked Tepig. Gosh. Never thought Tepig would be the least chosen. Madness I say! Oh well. c:
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Seen December 24th, 2011
Posted May 31st, 2011
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12.2 Years
I picked Oshawott for 3 times now in my 5 Pokémon White restarts.. First is that its simply adorable. Second, when I watched the anime "Best Wishes", it tripled Oshawott's cuteness.
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Seen August 12th, 2011
Posted May 23rd, 2011
1 posts
12 Years
Everytime I was playing my White, I picked Snivy. I was thinking about Oshawott, because I heard bad things about Snivy. It is very weak and every foe was able to beat Snivy. Then I took Snivy, because I wanted to test my Snivy. It was not weak, but it was strong. It was able to beat the first gymleader, without any help. I needed a lot of potions, but that is no problem. I named my Snivy "Champ", because it is strong and the name is cool. ;-)
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Male
Seen June 9th, 2011
Posted June 9th, 2011
4 posts
12.1 Years
I just began on my second runtrough with Tepig/Pignite/Embroar and I am seriously happy now. First I picked Snivy, but I realised grass just aren't any good offensively.. so I picked the strongest pokemon type offensively to begin with FIRE! I also had to think about it because having a water pokemon but most oppeonents have weakness for fire.

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Age 35
Female
A Wonderland of Ice
Seen January 13th, 2017
Posted November 15th, 2016
736 posts
15 Years
Snivy is the Starter I chose in my Japanese run and Oshawott is the one I chose in my English run, when I bought the games when they came out. Though I obtained Tepig via trade, I've never used it, because I'm not fond of the fact that its (the Fire-type's) evolutions are once again Fire/Fighting.

I was kind of hoping for a pure Fire-type Starter, much like Snivy and Oshawott remain as when they evolve, but I guess they thought we hadn't had enough of the same dual-type since Generation III.

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Age 30
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Adelaide, Australia
Seen July 4th, 2020
Posted December 21st, 2019
4,258 posts
14.3 Years
For the two times which I've actually played through the game, I've planned on dumping the starter Pokemon, and decided to go with Oshawott. I chose Oshawott mostly to follow closely to the anime (Ash has an Oshawott which came from Prof. Juniper) and to battle Cilan.

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Oshawott.

Cause it's super cute!

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Age 25
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Hoenn
Seen August 30th, 2014
Posted May 30th, 2014
375 posts
12 Years
I chose Tepig. I like fire Pokemon. For every generation I have chosen the fire starter!
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