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I don't much care about the Johto starters honestly, for all the nostalgia. I like the Hoenn equivalents much better.
Fair enough. Johto are my favorite starters but to each their own.
 
My personal favorite starters are the classic three, used in the original Blue, Red and Green and then again in the GBSP remake Fire Red and Leaf Green. Though, that's mostly because Charmander/Charmeleon/Charizard is my absolute fave pokemon.
 

AoMythology

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My personal favorite starters are the classic three, used in the original Blue, Red and Green and then again in the GBSP remake Fire Red and Leaf Green. Though, that's mostly because Charmander/Charmeleon/Charizard is my absolute fave pokemon.
Haha, I do like the Charmander line to a point, but I mostly find them overrated. :p Well, as MoB said, to each their own. :)
 
I don't actually have the same nostalgic connection to the R/B/G starters most people seem to have, because I never played those games. My first game was Yellow, so the starters weren't integral to my team.

Was always disappointed Charizard went back to Charmander's orange, rather than keeping Charmeleon's Red when he evolved though.
 
I don't know of a lot of people who prefer the classic starters, so I'm pretty sure I'm an oddity. Especially since the few people who do like them, mostly go for Squirtle.
 
I used to really like all three of the RGB starter lines. These days, I find that nostalgia doesn't save either the Charmander or Squirtle lines from seeming uncreative and dull. The Bulbasaur line was the true ace of those three in my opinion.

To me the best starter set was in DPP; I like all three lines. Every starter set since DPP has had at least one I overall dislike, if not all three.
 
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To be honest, I struggle to remember who the starters were after R/S/E. Can't remember any of D/P/P's, I vaguely recall the fire starter from B+W, but only because people complained about its typing. Can't remember X+Y's, and the only reason I remember S+M's is because I played it last year.
 

AoMythology

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Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle
Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile
Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip
Turtwig, Chimchar, (Empoleon's first form) Piplup
?, (Emboar's previous form)
, Fennekin(?), Froakie(?)
?????

Yeah, I struggle to remember them from 4th Gen on.
 

da_fox2279

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Totodile and Cyndaquil were my faves.
 
BW/2: Snivy, Tepig, Oshawott
XY: Chespin, Fennekin, Froakie
SM/USM: Rowlet, Litten, Popplio
SwSh: Grookey, Scorbunny, Sobble

That's gens 5-8
 

Shirotsume

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Charmander is definitely the best starter.
 

da_fox2279

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Shirotsume

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If you're not using butterfree with confusion on the first two gyms, what game are you even playing?
 

Jimbobob5536

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I mean, in Yellow I was suuuuper dumb.

My first play-through I set Pikachu aside and instead used a Pidgey as my starter.

Lemme tell you the difficulties of beating Brock with nothing but a Pidgey.
 

seitora

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Ha. In Yellow, you could've picked up Mankey on whatever route it is that goes up to Victory Road, learn Low Kick, and sweep through Brock and his one hanger-on trainer.
 

seitora

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The Orlando theme park that will include Super Nintendo World is delayed to 2025, though the Universal Japan's theme park is due to open in 10 days! (On the 18th)
 

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seitora

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Yeah. Last year, even though it was 3 years old already at that time, the system was selling out like nuts. I was seeing it go for $200 (CAD) premiums on eBay, too. Not quite that bad, now.
 

seitora

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Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the Mega Man Battle Network series in Japan (March 21, 2001 for the first game).

Fuck me I'm old. I enjoyed the first few games playing up. Maybe Capcpom will announce something for it.
 

seitora

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And it turns out it's official. I'm a little disappointed. Do they not run on the same infrastructure as the PS4 store?
 
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