1st Gen Did you get all the starters in Yellow?

Started by BahamutZero April 23rd, 2015 1:24 PM
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How many starters did you get?!

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Posted August 23rd, 2015
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It's not if anyone missed one, some people may not like the starters and decide to get say, Gyarados instead of Blastoise.

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You can get the starter Pokemon in yellow? O_o

I got Pikachu and Eevee in my yellow playthrough, but I never (or at least, don't remember) getting a Bulbasaur or anything. xD

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I got them all. 8D Would've used them but having so many starters on my team felt boring, or using just one made me feel like something was missing. So I put them all in the box and tried using other things.
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It's not if anyone missed one, some people may not like the starters and decide to get say, Gyarados instead of Blastoise.
I'm not understanding why anyone would actively avoid getting the starters though

the vast majority of playing the game is to get the all the pokemon (at least that was the slogan of gen 1 and 2). Getting the starters is easy, and quick to do. Even when you got a full party, it goes straight to the box.

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Well the last time I played Yellow, which was in 2009, I had all three starters on my team fully evolved. I was able to get Bulbasaur early on since Pikachu was the only thing I had used for a while. It was a playthrough where I couldn't use Poké Balls whatsoever, so there.
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I agree that it seems unlikely that people would potentially avoid picking up the starters because they didn't want to use them on a team. I think the more likely scenario is that a player would pick up an unwanted starter and dump it in the PC. That said, if you dumped Pikachu early on, it would be hard to get Bulbasaur, so I could see how people could miss out on one of the starters in that case. Also, I guess if someone routinely avoids talking to NPCs, he might miss some of the starters.

Like most people here, though, I got all of the starters. I also used all of them on my team. Having access to all of the starters was a big selling point of Yellow for me, and as the starters were some of my favorite gen I Pokemon, I never considered skipping them/avoiding them/dumping them in my PC immediately.
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I only ever had Pikachu, and maybe Eevee in Yellow. I didn't know you could get the other starters in that game! D; I always only picked up Charmander in the other games too, so. n_n
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I didn't get the starters because I didn't know they were there in the first place. I did have all 3 games so I traded with myself to get them XD.
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I didn't get Bulbasaur on my first Yellow playthrough - I guess my Pikachu didn't like me enough. I got Bulbasaur after beating the E4, and I didn't really find it useful anyway.

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I got all 3 every time. Why not get them? I like having them because as a 8, 9, 10 year old, you really want to get those that you just can't have without trading in Red and Blue. Would work really hard with Pikachu, and Pidgey/Pidgeotto. Get both to 20ish and then get Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle. Hit up the SS Anne and have 3 level 20 starters ready to go up against Surge... Man those were the days. lol


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I played Blue first (my starter on that file was a bulbasaur, rather uninventively named "Saur" ... I was six, so.), but I did get all of the starters on Yellow when I had the chance. I believe my final team included this line up:
- Pikachu
- Venasaur
- Charizard
- Blastoise
- Alakazam
- Dragonite

I wish I could check, but the battery died in my original game years ago.

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I most certainly did! Charizard carried my team through the late game. I was so new to the series on my first playthrough that I never even fully evolved my Squirtle and Bulbasaur -- they only made it to Wartortle and Ivysaur.
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