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4th Gen Best Starter Pokemon

Which Starter is the best?

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Infernape. But i don't keep him in my team, good att, and special att, but terrible special def.
 
As much as I love Empoleon, my favorite of the starters in this gen, I think I'm going for Turtwig in my next play through.

I like all three so it's hard to choose one sometimes as the best.
 
I find Turtwig the best, feels more balanced.
But if I am playing competitively, definitely Infernape.
 
The Piplup line is best cause it's great all-around, while the turtwig line has no speed, and the chimchar line has no defense.
 
Piplup, never used the other two.
 
Older starters were better for me, but in this poll I will choose Piplup.
 
Chimchar, because Infernape can help you lot on both in-game and competitive battles.
 
i reckon turtwig because his last evolution, torterra can cover all of its weakness:
earthquake covers fire, and poison.
and rock slide covers flying and ice and bug.
and then i just add on other moves like dig and stone edge.
so torterra is 78% chance the best.
 
Piplup, it was the first starter I picked and was just the better and stronger starter for me. I picked Turtwig/Torterra in Platinum but it just didn't seem as good or as able to battle as Piplup/Empoleon. I really don't like Chimchars line at all. Easily my least favourite fire starter and least favourite starter pokemon overall.
 
Torterra.
I think it's the best because of secondary Ground-typing, which gives it propably the best offensive STAB of all Grass-types and has immunity to Thunder Wave and is one of the few Pokemon that resist Ground/Rock attacking combination. It's also very slow which is quite advantaging in a way: Trick Room. Being the slowest starter (so far) it becames the fastest when Trick Room is in effect.

Plus I like him the most :)
 
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Well i've started it again and picked all the starters by simply trading but I think Turtwig
 
Piplup, the water starters is always stronger than the others, if not they've had a very good trainer! :)
 
It's hard to choose from Turtwig amd Chimchar. I loved having them both (Turtwig in Diamond, Chimchar in Platinum). Once Torterra learns Earthquake it's very hard to defeat. Infernape's attacks are amazing too.
 
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