3rd Gen Starter Pokémon

Started by Hiatus September 28th, 2014 5:34 PM
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Hiatus

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When you first arrive in Littleroot Town, you get taken into your home to talk with your mother and set your clock up, After a few other small events, you finally get to visit a route, and as soon as you do, you see Professor Birch being chased by either a Zigzgoon or Poocheyna (depending on whatever game you happen to be playing). Once you do, Birch calls you to check his bag and select from a range of three Poké Balls, so that you would be able to fight the Pokémon off and rescue him. These Poké Balls contain the starter Pokémon if Hoenn, which would be Treecko, Mudkip, and Torchic. First one grass, second is water, and as for third it's fire.

Anyway, which one did you wind up selecting, and why? Did you ever wind up nicknaming? If so, what name did you give?

Hikamaru

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I went for Mudkip, due to my tendency to get the Water starter, and it was cool how on my very first playthrough I got a female on the first try, even before I knew of female starters being rare. It's also the cutest one imo.
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I actually chose Torchic the first time around because I had a great impression of fire types after Charizard from RBY. While Blaziken was by no means bad, it was actually quite the beast, I tend to gravitate towards Mudkip because while I detest Marshtomp's design with a passion, Swampert does look pretty cool, and apart from that 4x grass weakness, it does have decent stats and quite the movepool. I remember muddy water, it was my most spmmable move in double battles, and my saving grace on more than a few occasions.





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First time around I chose Torchic. I was always big on the Fire starters as a kid and Torchic was no exception. Blaziken is my second favorite Fire-type, so I can say I went wrong.

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Although ive always used mudkip or torchic in Ora's i plan on using sceptile one to mix it up and he gets a dual type!
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Hiatus

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As for myself, I wound up selecting Torchic first time around. Back then, I've always thought fire-type to be the strongest, so it was my immediate pick from get-go. Plus, it was also a pretty cute Pokémon in general, which just put icing on the cake.

In my second run, I wanted to try something different and chose Mudkip. I wound up not liking it so much at first, but the Pokémon eventually grew on me, and when it had finally evolved into Swampert, I was super-impressed by its overall strength and whatnot. It was able to endure a ton of hits, and hit back even harder. It also had access to quite a few moves that it's able to take nice advantage of, which made me like it even more.

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As per my tradition of starting with the Water type, I went with Mudkip. Since the theme for my team was Sith Lords, I nicknamed it Revan.
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I picked Treecko! It was because I thought while water beats fire, grass was just there and wasn't weak or strong against both fire or water. Although I was wrong I certainly didn't regret choosing him! I was so amazed when he evolved into Grovyle and eventually Sceptile, they had awesome designs. Not to mention Leaf Blade is the best grass move yet ;P

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Tetra

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Oh yay! A starter thread! I love answering these ^_^~*

I think the first time I ever played like 3rd Gen, I chose Mudkip! A friend always used to tell me Water-Type starters, were uh- the best, so I went along with it back then. xD As of now, I mostly choose Torchic. I don't really have a least picked starter! I promise, I'm not lying! I like all of them, but I guess I really like Blaziken's signature move Blaze Kick. Idk but Muddy Water's accuracy was just a no for me ^^;

Oh, and Talli that's actually a really funny and cool name, lol. I might just name my Torchic that the next time I restart my Sapphire, hehe >:3~
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The first time I played Sapphire I had picked Mudkip because I had always gravitated towards water starters. I feel like water starters always helped most with the first few gyms. Mud kips evolutions were pretty cool, and I loved that it was both water and ground making it immune to electric attacks. I'm currently replaying Emerald and picked Torchic this time because I feel like its hard to find good fire pokemon in any game... Or at least when you do it's mid-late game. I'm super happy with my fire choice ^_^

Tsutarja

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I definitely remember choosing Mudkip when I first played through Sapphire, although I couldn't remember what I chose when I played through Ruby and Emerald (despite the fact that I can still check on the latter and look :P)

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In my very first R/S/E playthrough I went with a Mudkip. I didn't train anything else except my starter and he really did kick butt! Afterwards I started choosing Treecko more because I loved Sceptile and spamming its Leaf Blade, heh.