Age 28
Male
Cincinnati
Seen June 30th, 2014
Posted June 30th, 2014
673 posts
11.9 Years
In my current file on Emerald, my Sceptile is level 68, but my Rayquaza is level 75. I don't think that counts, though, seeing as Rayquaza gets a 65-level head-start over your starter.

In Yellow, though, my Butterfree is level 95. I should get it to 100 one of these days. I beat pretty much the whole game with it, just like many players seem to do for the first gym or so, because Pikachu sucks in that regard. I just said, "Screw it," and left Pikachu in the box. To this day, my Pikachu is only at level 20. I've never even tried to evolve it, even before I found out online that it can't be evolved.
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Atomic Pirate

I always win.

Male
Somewhere.
Seen September 22nd, 2014
Posted July 10th, 2014
930 posts
12 Years
I do this all the time. In my current Ruby playthrough, I stopped using my starter, a Marshtomp. Being overemotional and always using your starter doesn't often get you anywhere. I don't care if I sound like Gary, but what matters in the end is strength. I forgot to look at my Mudkip's nature before keeping him, then after Flannery, I found out it was Adamant (A no-good-awful nature for a Swampert), and promptly ditched it.

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Charmageddon

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Seen April 25th, 2016
Posted June 3rd, 2012
859 posts
14.4 Years
In White, my highest-level Pokemon is my Krookodile. It wasn't intentional - I usually always obsessively keep ever one of my Pokemon at the same level, but by chance I'd caught a Sandile with extremely high IVs in the right stats, so anytime I needed to get out of a tight spot, Krookodile was called upon to kick the opponent's arse. Because of this, and the fact that his typing gave him a great advantage over at least half of the Elite Four, he was ahead of the rest of my team by about 6 levels by the time I beat Ghetsis, despite my every effort to avert it.
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Yoshikko

the princess has awoken while the prince sleeps on

Female
Seen April 27th, 2020
Posted February 6th, 2020
3,065 posts
11.8 Years
Hmmm I have a lvl 81 Rotom, but I didn't train that myself, I traded it. I actually try to avoid using the starters I get as much as possible, I don't really like them for my team, same goes for fossils and legendaries.

champagnepapi

exile

Male
new england
Seen September 4th, 2016
Posted June 25th, 2016
1,795 posts
12.5 Years
In my Nuzlocke of Diamond, Porygon-Z ended up being my highest leveled Pokemon, albeit it was because my starter died, same goes for my Machamp in my Sapphire Nuzlocke. It's not a bad thing, really, your brother can still excel if his starter isn't his strongest mon.

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Age 31
Male
?????
Seen January 26th, 2013
Posted April 14th, 2012
1,130 posts
14.8 Years
On my Red game file, my highest leveled Pokemon is a Rhydon. It's at level 100 at the moment. Blastoise and Charizard are at levels 87 and 82...

Hey, stuff happens. Rhydon just so happened to be my strongest Pokemon when I took on the Elite Four.
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Elite Overlord LeSabre™

On that 'Non stop road'

Age 97
Shimoda City
Seen 3 Days Ago
Posted January 25th, 2022
9,705 posts
15.5 Years
Sometimes it happens to me depending on who I'm training at the time. For example, in R/S/E because of all the blasted water routes, it wasn't uncommon for my Electrode to be several higher levels than my Blaziken going into Victory Road.

Usually I do like to keep all my team around the same level, which does mean that quite often one of my other Pokemon will hit, say, level 46 before I get around to getting the starter to 46.

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