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Worst Starter

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Trainer10913

The Ninja
Everyone's talking about the best starters to choose in the games. But what I want to know is what is the Worst Starter. The one that has the most weaknesses. The one that has a bad move set.

That way we're all informed about which Pokemon to be wary of.
 
Piplup is a pain in the early DPPt
Bubble is the water-Type move it learns. Even Pound is stronger than that!
And it learns Bubblebeam at level 19 or something.
 
Chikorita, it just sucks.
 
I've said it once, I'll say it again. I REALLY hate Snivy.
 
Worst: Tepig Line. Even though I'm a Fire-Type Lover, that thing's just a mess.
Second Worst: Squirtle Line. Turtles with cannons might sound epic to you, but not to me.
Third Worst: Bulbasaur Line. Just plain hideous.

...Oh, stat-wise? I dunno, really. I'll have a check. But yes, Piplup is a pain in early DPPt, and isn't that good against any of the Gyms, either, until it evolves into Empoleon. The Snivy Line would've been great if it didn't have such a bad movepool, either.
 
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MugoUrth said:
I've said it once, I'll say it again. I REALLY hate Snivy.
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I agree. Normal and Grass moves don't get you far. The only salvation will be if it gets Draco Meteor along with Contrary in DW. Hell, even Dragon Pulse.


If you make a badass starter, give it the moves. You know how to, GF.

Infernape
Sceptile
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Worst: Tepig Line. Even though I'm a Fire-Type Lover, that thing's just a mess.
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That's mean. It has niche in NU... and a diverse moveset. *coughsnivycough*
 
Sadly, even though it looks the best, I think Snivy ends up with some of the worst moves, it barely learns anything but grass.

Even so, I still chose it as my starter because I love Snivy the most. ^^
 
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I gotta say Chikorita.
Somehow, Treeko bothers me.
 
snivys move pool! grass/normal/hidden power. yeah....
 
Piplup and chikorita. hands down
 
stop dissing piplup, empoleon is the best start apart from blaziken and infernape!
 
Snivy, Tepig, and Turtwig lines. Just terrible in my opininon. I like Torterra and Serperior looks wise, but Torterra is weak to ice 4x which is way too common in the standard metagame. And well Serperior just sucks.
 
Everyone seems content with the Grass Type Starters here. ;p I have to say I love all of 'em though if I had to choose...

Charmander.
 
My Serperior is actually pretty amazing in-game. Its small movepool doesn't hinder it much; here's its moveset:

- Growth
- Leaf Storm
- Leaf Blade
- Return

Growth powers up all its moves. Leaf Storm is for pure power when appropriate. Leaf Blade is a powerful STAB and isn't affected by Leaf Storm's stat drop. Return is for neutral coverage and is relatively powerful. This set works to great effect in game.

I think Game Freak intended for all starters to be useable in-game so people don't have a particular reason to choose one over the other in the case of difficulty. First gen was an exception to this, since Charmander is hard to use in the first two gyms, but they were just starting out with the series back then and they've fixed that problem in later gens.

That being said, I don't think any of the starters are necessarily bad. In terms of design, though, Chimchar never really appealed to me.
 
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