5th Gen Is anyone ditching their starter? Page 7

Started by Nugg November 3rd, 2012 7:46 AM
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Urugamosu

Happy, and Searching.

Male
Perth, Australia
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted April 26th, 2022
587 posts
14.7 Years
I ditched it for my Golurk which just beasted through till the elite four, which is when I got my azumarill.

Springtime, the sun is back and the breeze to accompany it..

Bounsweet

Fruit Pokémon

Seen September 17th, 2018
Posted October 11th, 2017
2,102 posts
15.6 Years

I've played through White Version with each of the starters, and my favorite is definitely Emboar. Samurott was kinda lackluster, and Serperior was just... awful, to put it nicely. I'm going to restart my White Version soon and play through with Emboar again, sometime before XY comes out.

Shikai

Fight for the name of Pokemon

Age 22
Male
Florida
Seen May 11th, 2013
Posted February 6th, 2013
26 posts
10.3 Years
When I first played I wanted to ditch my oshowatt but It went a far way. I beat the league whit it but I couldn't beat my rival. His pokemon levels were higher than mine. So I restarted and chose snivy which I also beat the league with but I still wasn't satisfied. Now I'm using Tepig and yes coin great




My Steel Pokemon Team

Age 29
Female
Pallet Town
Seen August 22nd, 2016
Posted August 22nd, 2016
76 posts
12.3 Years
I'm not sure since I stopped playing after I got my 3rd badge. I started with Snivy in White 2 (choose Oshawott in Black), I mainly choose Snivy because I prefer Serperior more than Emboar. My first runthrough of the game I always don't think about the important stuff like IVs, EVs, natures, anything. I mainly focus on having fun because the game is easy as it is. I only do competitive battling after completing the main game. It makes the experience more enjoyable for me.

I don't have a team in mind most of the time when I play, but I never like to ditch my starter. The only time I did was in P/D/Plat. I don't like the starters in that game very much...

So, the long awaited answer to this question: Probably not.
Route 49
Seen February 7th, 2016
Posted June 21st, 2015
612 posts
10.5 Years
Well, if I picked Snivy as my starter I'd always ditch it, as he has no redeeming qualities over the two other starters. Tepig's evolutions have the wonderful Fire/Fighting combo, and Oshawott is a great HM Slave (it's final evolution leams 5 different HM moves).
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Nolafus

Aspiring something

Age 27
Male
Lost in thought... again
Seen March 3rd, 2018
Posted March 11th, 2017
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10.9 Years
I've never ditched a starter outside of chalenges and I find them pretty useful. Especially Serperior who I use in competitive play. My Serperior holds its own in battles and I even knocked out an entire team using it (I bet he was surprised!) so yah, I still use my starter, even post-game.
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gimmepie

Age 27
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Australia
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11.1 Years
I didn't in this play through (despite Serperior's cruel learnset) but on my next I definitely will be going for a more original "starter" that I'm yet to try.

Sandile actually could be interesting... XD
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mozartm99

Mars
Seen October 31st, 2014
Posted October 31st, 2014
200 posts
10.4 Years
I never ditch my starter. It isn't always my MVP, but he is often a very strong player in my team.
Demons run when a good man goes to war,
night will fall and drown the sun
when a good man goes to war
Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and dark will rise
when a good man goes to war
Demons run, but count the cost
the battle's won, but the child is lost.

Floodblade1234

Spirit of Azelf

Male
London,England.
Seen February 22nd, 2013
Posted February 13th, 2013
16 posts
10.3 Years
well,I'm in the middle of playing Black 2 at the moment. I'm at the celestial tower and about to take on Skyla at the gym. all I can say is that my starter pokemon Chell (cookie for guessing the reference XD) is under leveled. my highest level pokemon is a Lucario. I am thinking of ditching my starter because we all know how hard it is to train an under leveled water type!

Inferna

hello stranger, i'm a disaster

Age 29
Female
Scotland
Seen July 28th, 2014
Posted March 29th, 2014
99 posts
13.6 Years
I'm doing a challenge on W2 where I can only use Pokemon of certain forms [eg round/bi pedial with a tail]. So I've got to use my starter- which is an Oshawott.
Most times I trade something over if I've replayed the game.

Floodblade1234

Spirit of Azelf

Male
London,England.
Seen February 22nd, 2013
Posted February 13th, 2013
16 posts
10.3 Years
I'm doing a challenge on W2 where I can only use Pokemon of certain forms [eg round/bi pedial with a tail]. So I've got to use my starter- which is an Oshawott.
Most times I trade something over if I've replayed the game.
that sounds interesting! should make it more of a challenge.
Age 27
Male
Seen April 26th, 2013
Posted February 26th, 2013
8 posts
10.3 Years
I was very tempted to ditch my Emboar in White (especially since Darmanitan exists) but I stuck with it. It's a really mediocre pokemon compared to its other fire/fighting starter brethren though (Blaziken forever)
All about Infernape IMO :P

But yea, as mediocre as the starters are, I still kept my Samurott all the way to level 89. She destroys everything.