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Do you ever play without your starter?

I have never done that, because, to me, it's kind of impossible to complete any Pokémon game without the starters. Once the game is completed, though, I usually deposit them so that I could focus on training other Pokémon that are on my team.
 
I never played a game without my starter. Even if I don't particularly like it, like in DPP, where I kept my Infernape until the end, even though I don't like this Pokémon. I mean, I have nothing against it but it's nothing for me compared to a Blastoise or a Feraligator. I first put it in the PC, but... Something missed in my team. So I couldn't prevent myself from taking it back. Starters are indispensable to my team.
 
I've tried out as many starter Pokémon that I could off of all of my games, & the ones that I did like were the ones that I kept on my team.

However, generations 2 & 5 have horrible starters, so I ditched them for a better option if I have one.
 
Usually in DPPt or BW, I ditch my starter. I think they're the worst batch of starters and dislike using them. Though I rarely even like playing DPPt anymore, but I'm usually alright with keeping an Empoleon or Infernape. But gen V starters are definitely my least favorite, and I almost always ditch them.
 
V generation made me do this for the first time.
And I guess it somehow broke a barrier that blocked me from doing it and now I'm doing it pretty often if I find better fire type.
But on the other hand it's not that easy... still BWB2W2 (because of Volcarona) are games where I'm most likely scrapping my starter.
 
I didn't use my Treecko much in either Sapphire or Emerald. In Sapphire it was because I decided to do a Linoone-only run, and I can't remember why I did it in Emerald.
 
I have never deposited my starter before....

However I feel like I want to try doing it when Pokemon Black & White 2 comes out.
 
I do all the time now - there's usually a substitute I prefer in every game so I just use that instead. My problem is there are way too many pokémon that I love lol :)

I think the only starter I consistently use now is Sceptile :)
 
I never have and never will. I feel like I'm slapping them in the face by just boxing them. They were my first ally and they'll stay with me to the end.
 
Since I've played like every game five times (except White), I usually deposit the starter after I catch a Pokemon that can hold its own ground, which usually ends up being after the Rock-type gym leader lol.
 
Ya, fairly often, especially in gen5, but not exclusively. I like to mix things up, as well as cinda act as an individual. I don't like being the "Ash" character, but rather the dude with random pokemon
 
I always play sans starter. They only stay on-team, infrequently used, until it's filled out with other monsters.
As sentimentality goes, I warm much better to the common bird or small mammal encountered on early routes since they don't start out special and yet by the end of the story will become a force unto themselves as much as any starter would.
 
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I mostly play with my starter, for challenges I normally don't but in normal game play every time I have used my starter except for two separate occasions. One time I was sick of the Sinnoh starters, and the other time I just felt like not using my starter, for a bit of variety.
 
More than likely I will use my starter throughout an entire main game and post game but I have gone a few times where I dump my starter off in the PC as soon as possible and it never sees the light of day again.
 
For the most part I keep my starter cuz I've had it the whole game so why get rid of it? But when I need to I will.
 
I onlt let them go for challenges butnot for normal plays
 
Unless it's Turtwig, yep. Ever since B/W I started ditching my starters, because I feel most of the time they're way too good early in-game, easy to train, boring and everybody uses them. It's not that I hate using popular Pokemon (I still use Gyarados, but only if I train Magikarp myself), but I like variety, and generally not a lot of starters really appeal to me. It's the same with the early bird Pokemon. (Fearow >>>>> Pidgeot. Always.)

Torterra is a Grass/Ground Tortoise and Ankylosaur hybrid so it's different.
 
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