Most Balanced Group of Starters (Read First Post)

[Auraninja]

Which generation had the group of starters that were the most equal in terms of likeability in your opinion.

To explain this, let me give you my answer: Generation 7.

Froakie is my favorite starter of all time, but I like Froakie the most, and Fennekin a someone distant second (but still like), and Chespin, I don't like nearly as much.

In generation 7, there was something to like in each of the starters for me.

I liked Litten because I like cats. The same could be said about Rowlet and owls. Popplio was a cool rendition of a marine mammal, which are also cool.

 

[mehmeh1]

I love all gen 3 starters, but my water bias still prevails.

 

[Auraninja]

I love all gen 3 starters, but my water bias still prevails.

Gen three does have a good set of starters, but Sceptile sort of polarizes it for me.
That being said, you can't go wrong with Swampert or Blaziken.

 

[WalesNote]

Gen 4 all the way.
Solid choices no matter your pick.

 

[mehmeh1]

Gen three does have a good set of starters, but Sceptile sort of polarizes it for me.
That being said, you can't go wrong with Swampert or Blaziken.

I really like Sceptile, tho I prefer Grovyle a bit more. Tbh the only one between the 3 lines (megas included) I'm not that big on is Combusken, and even then the anime warmed me up to it.

 

[Tsukuyomi56]

Gen 3 or 4. Don't think some parts of the fandom expressed a notable dislike towards any of them.

 

[Leonhart]

The Gen III and Gen IV Starters were quite balanced in the sense that most of them were dual types. Jukain (Sceptile) was the one exception, and I still think it could've easily been Grass/Dragon.

 

[TwilightBlade]

The generation 4 starters were really balanced because all of them were cute in their base stages. Things changed when they evolved but I still thought they were the most interesting starter set. :]

 

[ChampioN One]

I think that gen III had the most balanced starters. Tbh it was the first generation in which I was confused about which starter to pick, and finally ended up picking mudkip.

 

[RedBlastoise]

The Hoenn starters are the most balanced for me. I like Treecko, Torchic and Mudkip almost equally. The Kanto starters come second because they all have such cool looking evos.

 

[Spider-Phoenix]

Chespin will always be my boy. But I kind of like Froakie and Fennekin.

Still, I vote on Gen 3. That's pratically the one and only gen where I have no idea who I'm going to pick. All 3 of them are VERY good.

 

[CMButch]

For me it's Gen 1. I like all of them equally.

 

[carterfeygo]

Generations 1, 3 and 5! It was so hard for me to pick between those starter Pokemon because I loved all their final evolved forms so much!

 

[TheCharredDragon]

For me, it's Gen 4. While I do have a favorite among them, I easily love the others just as much, all their designs appealing to me, from base to final form. I have actually done a playthrough with each of the starters at least once, if not twice. The other gens usually have one I don't really like too much for my tastes (like Primarina for Gen 8).

 

[Trillion]

gen 3 and 4 are my favorites

gen 8 is balanced too but i wouldn't call them my favorites, they just happen to be equal

the outliers with the other gens are:

-blastoise
-bayleef and meganium
-samurott
-quilladin and chesnaught
-delphox
-popplio

 

[Italianbaptist]

Voted Gen 2, I’ll include Gen 1 though as well mainly because of their simplicity. Generally if you like the base form, you will like its evolutions. There’s a natural progression and by the time we get to the final designs one doesn’t seem to overshadow the others in terms of complexity.

Gen 3 started into designs that were a bit off-putting and didn’t seem like natural progressions of the base form (Combusken, Marshtomp, Swampert). Gen 4 was really where they seemed to feel “over-designed” to me and often one evolution sticks out from the others, namely (in my opinion):

Infernape, Prinplup, Empoleon
Serperior, Emboar
Quilladin, Chesnaught (who I love but I can’t deny he feels overdesigned), Braixen, Delphox
Brionne, Primarina
Cinderace, Inteleon