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What are your thoughts on starter Pokémon?

Re: What are your thoughts on starter Pokémon?

Jack_the_PumpkinKing said:
Four options, of which Fire-Water-Grass is the only intuitive one to new players and therefore the only one the Pokemon Company will ever use. The other three might be interesting for legendary trios, though.
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...Why did you quote me? That's pretty much what I was saying...
 
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Zephyrous Castform said:
...Why did you quote me? That's pretty much what I was saying...
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Eh, both of you were talking about the subject so I quoted both of you. I wasn't responding to either of you so much as just adding my two cents about the subject in general.
 
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A friend of mine made a rather humorous point about Poke-puberty in starters. Specifically the Squirtle line. Squirtle: super-cute and adorable. Blastoise: Awesome cannons and such. WHERE DOES WARTORTLE FIT INTO THE MIX?

My take is with the Snivy line. as with the middle stages as always, it's kind of a "WTF Game Freak were you thinking?!?"

It's the middle stages. always the middle stages. even with non-starters.
 
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I like middle-stage pokemon :3
Usually. Wartortle is cool because he has awesome ears and a fluffy tail!
 
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Would y'all rather have me input my words, or should I leave you guys in peace?
 
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In order: Squirtle (if it wasn't obvious), Cyndaquil (even though I've never played those games), Mudkip (Water types are my specialty), Piplup (my first Pokemon ever) and Oshawott (it's so cute!).
 
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Favorites would be Bulbasaur, Cyndaquil, and Snivy.

I don't like the fourth gen starters. :\
 
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The best starter is obvs Pikachu :3

But I also really love Totodile. I also like Chikorita, Mudkip and all the Gen I Pokemon. I'm not especially fond of any of the Gen III starters, and I'm not familiar enough with Gen IV to really say, but I do quite like them. I plan on starting with Oshawott :)
 
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Dannichu, that is a cute signature!(I said it to my mom and she was like,"What the heck is THAT?" Anyway. Obviously, I've never played Yellow. I have played Platinum, and HG/SS and PMD Sky. Gen III...isn't that where Mudkip comes in?
 
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Fire-Water-Grass is the only intuitive one to new players
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Eh... not really. Fighting/Flying/Rock works pretty well there too--everyone knows the saying "killing two birds one with stone," and everyone's seen those karate guys who break stone blocks with their fists. Maybe not quite as obvious as Fire/Water/Grass, but still obvious enough to use as a basic type triangle.

Of course, they still probably wouldn't use that one because Rock resists Normal and the generic low-level normal attacks (Tackle, Scratch, etc.) are usually the only thing you have for the first fight against your rival that every Pokémon game has... which would make it ridiculously hard to win if you happened to pick the Flying-type starter.
 
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FnrrfYgmSchnish said:
Eh... not really. Fighting/Flying/Rock works pretty well there too--everyone knows the saying "killing two birds one with stone," and everyone's seen those karate guys who break stone blocks with their fists. Maybe not quite as obvious as Fire/Water/Grass, but still obvious enough to use as a basic type triangle.
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But why would a new player think to apply "two birds with one stone" to Pokemon? I concede on the karate thing, but Rock -> Flying and Flying -> Fighting are, I think, not intuitive enough.

Or maybe that's just because I forcefully memorized most of the type chart (all the useful relationships, anyway) instead of coming up with silly mneumonics. I remember Rock is good against Flying because Rock is good against Flying, not because of a mneumonic. I got it down so well as a small child that I have no reasoning for any of it any more except "that's how it is". It's also why I'm still not very clear on Dark and Steel, since Gen 2 came out after I memorized the chart.
 
Re: What are your thoughts on starter Pokémon?

FnrrfYgmSchnish said:
Eh... not really. Fighting/Flying/Rock works pretty well there too--everyone knows the saying "killing two birds one with stone," and everyone's seen those karate guys who break stone blocks with their fists. Maybe not quite as obvious as Fire/Water/Grass, but still obvious enough to use as a basic type triangle.

Of course, they still probably wouldn't use that one because Rock resists Normal and the generic low-level normal attacks (Tackle, Scratch, etc.) are usually the only thing you have for the first fight against your rival that every Pokémon game has... which would make it ridiculously hard to win if you happened to pick the Flying-type starter.
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Not to mention the fact that the flying starter wouldn't be a pure flying type. If it were normal/flying, that would cancel out its resistance to fighting.
 
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My favorite starter would have to be Squirtle. It has to do with the time I went into a library and saw a Squirtle plushie sitting on a bookshelf. I later made up this story about how this Squirtle challenged me to an epic battle, complete with dramatic music.

Charmander's a close second. Pikachu's okay too. And yes, Pikachu is a starter, even though it doesn't fit into the traditional type triangle.

For other generations - Totodile (due to fond childhood memories), Torchic, and Chimchar. No opinion on the Unova starters yet.
 
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Yup, Pikachu is the starter of Yellow. And that is Pikachu's best sprite ever. I guess they wanted to enforce, "Yo kids! Pikachu is our mascot!" Joking, joking. So, you like Volkner, huh? He was my favorite Gym leader. 2nd was Sabrina. But that's another thread. I think I've been kicked out of this one, I don't have anything to say that would relate to the new, technical views of this. D:
 
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My favorite starters are Cyndaquil and Chikorita. Snivy is cool too, so is the other 5th gen starters... Tepig is adorable, and though I didn't like Oshawott at first it has just... grown on me and now it's not too bad.

As for the Kanto starters, I've always liked Charmander. Hoenn has Mudkip(which I also liked before the meme), and Sinnoh has... um, don't really like any of them. But I picked Turtwig.
 
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Haha. Like I admitted, the only reason I like the Sinnoh starters is that being 9, Platinum was my first Pokemon game. But I would love to get Sapphire, just to get a feel of what the old games were like. Or at least a ROM.
 
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Lols, my first Pokemon game was Yellow so I always had Pikachu as my Starter (a pain in the butt considering your first gym was BROCK'S).

Alright well....my favorite Staters aside are probably:

Charmander: Evolves into Charizard, baby, of whom I have good memories in my olden days of playing on Gameboy Color.

Cyndaquil: I have one in SoulSilver right now and I looooove him

Teecko: I almost forgot this guy was a starter to begin with. o.o

Chimchar: ........INFERNAPE BABY

....anyone seeing a trend here?
I'm not obsessed with fire or anything.
 
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Mewtini said:
Haha. Like I admitted, the only reason I like the Sinnoh starters is that being 9, Platinum was my first Pokemon game. But I would love to get Sapphire, just to get a feel of what the old games were like. Or at least a ROM.
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Er hem, the old games? Sapphire? Kid the old games are Red, Blue, Green, Yellow... Those are old school. I remember getting my first Blue version in like second grade.. Goood times.


I always go with the fire starter, no matter what.
 
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Well, not ultra old...I don't have a Gameboy. I would so love to get Yellow though...DS Lites only accept GBA and DS cards... I badly want a really old game like R/B/Y though. I don't have the system to do so...D:
 
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