3rd Gen torchic/treecko/mudkip

Which start-up pokemon would you guys recommend?

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stewie&rupert said:
the trecko that came out of the egg wont have earthquake nor dragon claw. see u dont understand most of the important detail in egg moves. if trecko(or any other baby pkmn) cant learn the TM earthquake than it wont have it wen it hatched.well not even sceptile learns earthquake.well trecko wont learn dragon claw thru eggs either since it cant learn it thru TM nor egg moves either. torchic wont learn earthquake either. but blaziken can. mudkip wont learn earthquake bcuz it cant learn it thru lv. nor thru TM. every one knows swampert can.
see only baby pokemon like aron and ryhorn can learn it thru egg process bcuz they can learn thru TM or thru lv. but ull have to waste a TM teaching sceptile dragon claw and blaziken earthquake.
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by breeding Treecko with Salamence, you can get crunch and dragon claw, which isn't bad already. However, online battling always have unlimited TMs anyway ;p and why the heck do you want a Treecko with earthquake, splitting your EVs in half anyway?

Swampert's ground type is the only reason why it makes it so good... a STAB earthquake is very powerful, and thunderwave immunity is quite important. And there's like just 4 Pokemon in the world that uses grass attack anyway (Sceptile/Ludicolo/Gengar and Exeggutor)...
 
trecko wont learn dragon claw from an egg it can only learn dragonsbreath. sceptile cant learn earthquake so u dont hev to worry about spliting EVs. grovyle and sceptile r the only ones that can learn dragon claw and thats thru TM.trecko wont learn dragon claw thru egg.
 
Sceptile can learn Earthquake, but Grovyle cannot, and you are right (I think) that Treeco cannot learn Dragon Claw, only Sceptile and Grovyle, so it can't learn it through breeding either.
 
well if im wrong about sceptile not being able to learn earthquake than so is serebii*im starting to lose trust in it*
 
We'll that is what my guide said so I think it is right. Maybe serebii has a mistake or something, or maybe my book does. I would have to test it out...
 
stewie&rupert said:
well if im wrong about sceptile not being able to learn earthquake than so is serebii*im starting to lose trust in it*
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serebii is for anime guides, manga guides, and whatever movie update they got...

Pokemon game? They can um... still work a little harder. But at least PotW got a major improvement now. The earlier sets bring tears to my eyes... at least now they don't suggest focus punch without sub, and is a LOT better.
 
Well i am fairly certian sceptile CAN learn earthqauke; however i have never personally tried just cause of the fact that i usually use special based attacks on the sceptile i used. Then again earthquake could always ward away the fire types, but i normally wouldn't bring him/her in against fire types anyways.


oh yeah out of the Ru/Sa starters i'd have to go with torchic, i've tried swampert but meh.... he is just a touch to slow for my tastes, also i have tried sceptile, he is alright but.... i dunno just didn't like him. and then there is torchic whom i do ok with....... however i'd trade anyone of this starters for a meganium anyday.
 
I usually start out with the one that has the same color as the game.

Red- Charmander -Ash
Blue- Squirtle -Ash
Green- Bulbasaur -Ash
Yellow- Pikachu, the famous First Pok?mon! -Ash
Gold- Cyndaquil -Ash
Silver- Totodile -Ash
Crystal- Chikorita -Ash
Ruby- Torchic -May
Sapphire- Mudkip -Brock
If they had a third R/S game it would've been Treecko -Ash
FireRed- Charmander -Ash
LeafGreen- Bulbasaur -Ash

-Scott-
 
Sceptile CAN use Earthquake

If my dex is wrong that it cant then so is every other Dex on the web

Also, Sceptile can use Dragon Claw...Grovyle can not

frostweaver said:
serebii is for anime guides, manga guides, and whatever movie update they got...

Pokemon game? They can um... still work a little harder. But at least PotW got a major improvement now. The earlier sets bring tears to my eyes... at least now they don't suggest focus punch without sub, and is a LOT better.
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What about all the game news i tend to have first such as the R/s, FR/LG, Colosseum and the upcoming game news? Checkmate

I know I am missing some things but my dex is apparently known as one of the, if not the best
 
Meowth346's Pokedex! ^_^
The 2nd one up must be Netbattle's pokedex.

Regarding earthquake on Sceptile in terms of YOUR pokedex, I really don't know since serebii.net is more of my manga/anime/movie resource more than a game source. However as I said, PotW is majorly improved though, in comparison to the suggestions it made during the earlier times. *is still annoyed by T-tar's PotW...*

Ingame news... Yes Serebii does get that done too... but then I pay no attention to it. Call me a freak o.o;
 
I think the earlier PoW's should be tweaked to fit the better moveset style of the new guy. Just soemthing I like to add, Tyranitar only works well in two types of teams; a sandstorm theme and one that either has a cloud 9 Golduck or another Pokemon who uses a weather move. Sandstream seriously killed him. And look, now I went off topic.

Swampert's animation in col. is particularly well done and flexible.
 
Sandstream is like the reason why you use him to begin with... his stats are in the ranks of dragonite/metagross/salamence, and sandstream makes him really stand out compare to the others

a) kills all leftover abusers
b) weather team destroying... die eggy! [most important]

New PotW can still have some work done in terms of items though ^_^; The new guy LOVES speed a bit too much... even on Slowking o.o; I mean he surely SPAMS timid nature on everything XD

The older PotW can certainly be updated... I mean they didn't even mention that quad weakness of fighting on T-tar... it bugs me.


Back on topic:
-personally, I think that Swampert is strongest, because I can't beat one o.o;
 
Yeah but Sandstream makes it hard for the rest of your team. It's great for a one on one death match. I thought the new guy was Sir Chris, but he seems to be replaced. When I saw Timid nature on Sudowoodo, I was like WTF o_O. I guess Chris had a disagreement with Serebii like everybody else. Sigh.

back on topic... uh... I still like Blaziken the best because it's part Fighting type and has an interesting design.
 
i like the old plain pikachu, its cute, original, nice and best firend of ash xD
 
Torchic is far the best coz Combusken can take down the first gym and Blaziken dont look like any old batty lizard pokemon.
 
I think Torchic and Mudkip are the best starters. Torchic is fast and is strong, especially as it evovles. Mudkip is pretty strong, I'm using it now on my Ruby. It can beat generally everything. It's now a Marshtomp. The only problem I see with Treecko is that it learns not a lot of good attacks. They're really crappy. It doesn't even learn Solarbeam without a TM.

BUT, if I had my choice in every game, I would start out with a Pikachu. I don't feel right starting out with one of the three main starters, it doesn't seem balanced. I like started out with the special element, electricity. Pikachu is so cool, and if it's raised right, it can be really strong, and beat a lot of Pokemon. With Thunder and maybe Iron Tail, gosh...
 
well for ingame purposes of course it's strong... if you're battling with it, you better have a light ball... and even with light ball it's still very weak... Raichu isn't much better either sadly, but at least it got surf back.
 
well pikachu cant REALLY learn surf. it can only learn it one way and one way only....actually 2. pokemon box and by of coarse cheating. :\ and even with pkmn box u wont be able to control its nature. since u save wen u trade to r/s the nature would be saved to. and if u get a sp.atk- pichu than surf and electric atks will be weakened. :dead: thats wat i dont like about the boxes eggs.
 
stewie&rupert said:
well pikachu cant REALLY learn surf. it can only learn it one way and one way only....actually 2. pokemon box and by of coarse cheating. :\ and even with pkmn box u wont be able to control its nature. since u save wen u trade to r/s the nature would be saved to. and if u get a sp.atk- pichu than surf and electric atks will be weakened. :dead: thats wat i dont like about the boxes eggs.
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It's one of those times where you do this:

"Hi <insert name of friend> Can I borrow your Pokemon box for a few days?"
XD

But then... if there is a legal way for Pichu to get surf, then (for me) it's ok to cheat to get a Pichu with surf... as long as it doesn't have any egg moves. As I said before, as long as the result is within legal boundary, I don't mind cheating for Pokemon.
 
My starter Pokemon are
Red-Squirtle
Blue-Charamander
Yellow-Pikachu!!
Silver-Cyndaquil
Gold-Chickorita
Crystal-Tododile
Ruby-Treeko
Saphire- I'm getting it in three days... what starter should I get?
Fire Red-?
Leaf Green-?

I'm probably going to get a Torchick for Saphire.
 
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