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4th Gen Do You Keep Your Starter Pokemon??

Do you keep your starter in your team??

  • Yes

    Votes: 449 83.3%

  • No

    Votes: 90 16.7%
  • Total voters
    539
Yes, I do, I always used to choose Torchic, but in my most recent pokemon emerald, I chose Mupkip.
 
This is my second team so I didn't. The first team I didn't even finish training it. I left them around 80. hahaha
 
Well considering the only competive battling I do is with my friends, I don't worry about IVs and such so I always keep my starter.
 
He's not currently on my team, but Zin (Typhlosion) is going to be EV trained, as soon as I lower all of his EVs to 0. I'm not giving up because he's Timid and Mischievous.
 
I just reset so I can challenge myself with an all-poison team, so no, I won't be keeping my starter.

And yes, all-poison. This is gonna suck.
 
I have some sort of an emotional attachment to my starter for some reason. Except in Diamond. In all of my games, I've kept my starter on my team. Until Diamond where I just got sick of using Empoleon. I found that the most recent starters aren't really that cool. In Heart Gold, I kept my Typhlosion on my team, and I think I'll keep it there for now.
 
Animetor said:
I just reset so I can challenge myself with an all-poison team, so no, I won't be keeping my starter.

And yes, all-poison. This is gonna suck.
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Not really.

Nidoking
Nidoqueen
Gliscor
Seviper
Venusaur
Tentacruel
Gengar
Weezing

You're not overly cramped for choice. You can build a fantastic team from those mentioned above.

Sticking with the topic.. I generally will always keep my starter, but on my current game file, my Meganium just got too crappy for me to keep going. Meganium has a terrible move pool and it didn't stand a chance against Clair.

In all other games though, I almost definitely stick with the starter.
 
I kept Quilava in my group until about 20, but he didn't stand up the any of his opponents like the rest of my team did, so I boxed him. I'm not as fond of the G/S starters as I am R/B and R/S.
 
I kept my starter until I got Eevee and Ditto. Anybody who's challenged the kimono girls would probably agree with me, the Eevee-Loutions are nearly unstoppable.
 
I feel like I should but I think that they're way too overrated so I'm thinking of sticking it in my PC during my next playthrough.

I forgot it in Diamond because I made it my HM Slave =3
 
I prefer to keep my starter until I beat the Elite Four for the first time.
Then I try to look for other Pokemon. But I don't think I'd replace my starter anytime soon
 
Nope, as I'm currently soloing it with my trusty Lanturn.
 
Every game I've played I've done so, until Heart Gold. I haven't been playing with my starter that much.
 
I never have replaced my starter. I think it's a habit I developed on the 1st gen when pikachu followed you all the time so I kept him in from there on I always kept my starter which is usually at least 10 levels higher than any other pokemon in my line-up(except legendaries I caught at a higher level)
 
The only time Fiero has ever left me is when I challenged Whitney, because Pikachu-dance forced me to.

Could have been another 1-hit KOs match, but oh no. Had to use Sandie, Retti, and some of his old Pokemon.
 
I usually keep my starter, the game just seems more natural that way.
 
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