Do you use your starter?

Started by Fritz November 28th, 2018 12:11 AM
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Fritz

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Or do you tend to put it in the PC and use other Pokémon instead? I do both sometimes, although more often than not I do use my starter for the whole game.

I sometimes don't use them so that I can try playing through a game using a Pokémon that I have never really used previously, rather than going for the same ones over and over again.

Percy

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i've never put away my starter, never. since they, almost always, will be one of the stars of the team. and starters are really special they shouldn't be left alone
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I too have done both, but usually I do keep my starter.

It's been a long time since I've done a no-starter run, might actually consider it when Gen 8 gets here, depending on the number of new Pokemon and how good the new starters are.

Edit: I wonder if anyone didn't use their starter on Let's Go xD. Or if that's even possible?

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Usually, yes... but my current game I'm not using it. I don't really know why. :c

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Yes! Most of the time in regular playthroughs. I generally do not use them in challenges, though.

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I kinda feel like an asshole if I box my starter early so I use it throughout the whole game and I only box them if it's for a post-game team I'm planning.

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For the first playthrough, yes! Only time I didn't was in Ultra Sun, though I don't count that too much since it's very identical to its predecessors and I used Popplio throughout the entire story haha. Just feels like the right thing to do, and each time there is at least one starter I like plenty enough to use. (b' ')b

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Like some, I keep them during my first playthrough. But afterwards I either store them away or trade them with siblings.

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Yes, for the most part.

In R/B/Y and G/S/C, I hold on to them until the very end, since Natures didn't exist back then. I'm playing the Virtual Console releases, so that I can transfer them to Gen VII by using an EXP trick that gives them certain natures once transferred.

From Gen III onwards, if the Starter's Nature is bad or detrimental and there are good Water/Fire/Grass-type alternatives, they will be boxed until I have the motivation to breed them once I beat the main story. In the meanwhile, I find an equally as good, if not, better Water/Fire/Grass Pokémon. I would be able to acquire a Pokémon with the Synchronize Ability to get ideal Natures, so that I can raise my favourites and when transferred to/already used in Gen VII, I will then buff their IVs with Hyper Training once they reach Level 100.

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I did for the old games, but since Black & White, I haven't at all
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I almost always use my starter Pokemon from the beginning right through until the Elite Four, though generally it's just in a supporting role, and never the ace of my team. Decidueye kind of broke that trend for me in Sun, and Eevee's been my best Pokemon so far in LGE, but I think the last time my starter was my best Pokemon was back in my first playthrough of Platinum with Empoleon.

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I almost always use my starter. I used to avoid boxing it at all (and in Red, I used to insist that it always had to be in either the first or second slot in my party, which led to some convoluted party rearrangements). Since the introduction of the newer Exp Share, I tend to find myself overpowered, so I sometimes have to box it just to keep it from out leveling everything else by a huge margin. Either way, my starter is pretty much always part of my "team," even if that team frequently consists of more than six Pokemon these days.
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Unless I both get a pokemon of the same type as my starter and somehow start using it more over my starter, then yeah, it stays in my group and usually gets used quite a bit.

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depends on the game. i almost always use my starter in gen 1, 2, 3, and 7. not so much the case for the others, especially gen 4 and 5. for as many times as i've played each gen 5 game, i think i've only played using a starter only three times, one for each starter.
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I always keep using my starter, they have been with me since the first battle after all :)
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I kinda feel like an asshole if I box my starter early so I use it throughout the whole game and I only box them if it's for a post-game team I'm planning.
^^^ This.

While I plan my main game team with my starter only Charizard and Empoleon have ever survived being on my teams in the post game content!

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I almost always use a starter during my first run of a generation. The only time i didn't was BW when there was a Pokemon of each type that i really wanted to use instead. Then for replays it depends on if my doing a casual run or challenge run. Not as often during challenge runs but moreso during casual runs.