Which Starter Are You Going To Choose?

[FLOOTENKERP]

Yup. Chikorita does make people want to kill themselves for her terrible weakness, which is why I think Gamefreak should give her a level 14/15 Ancientpower or something to help at least a bit (like how the gave Charmander Metal Claw in FR/LG).

Three offensive moves (Tackle, Razor Leaf, Magical Leaf) sure isn't enough.

Totodile got a LOT better, so he's better off choosing for people now. Cyndaquil's okay though, and he evolves very early, but all he gets are a bunch of Fire attacks and some physical attacks which he really can't make much use of X_X

Chikorita may be weak, but it is not all that bad. It has good healing moves, and it is pretty good against water types and ground types.

[wraith89]

Chikorita may be weak, but it is not all that bad. It has good healing moves, and it is pretty good against water types and ground types.

Try running the whole game while maintaining your sanity with just Chikorita.

[AlbinoDrow]

They all have their cute sides. I fell in love with Ferali after receiving a holo card with it half submerged in water.

Spoiler

Chika is now tempting for the challenge, and Cyndaquil again was my original Silver Starter (though I used the reset duplicating trick to get all three, and chose Toto last so my rival could get stuck with Chika xD) and it kicked total butt. Sadly with the plysical special split in moves it might get very rough at times and Hidden Power may be its only hope, which is sad. I have an HP Ice Typh and he is all sorts of pwnage, but maybe I'll soft reset for an HP Dragon since it will be a powerful attack that is only resisted by steel types, which take an ember instead xD

Chika on HG still sounds like I'll be trying to kill myself if I dont have some sort of sweeper. Hopefully the pokewalker will solve that so long as I can transfer a pokemon before the first gym. Walk Chika to level 20 or something for the defence boosts, maybe catch something useful in Pokewalker and transfer them back. I wonder if the wild pokes in pokewalker contain an electric poke like Pikachu to encounter and catch for the gym?

Chikarita:
May just be saved via Pokewalker
Cyndaquil:
Most likely to be saved by Hidden Power
Totodile:
Already enough type coverage, doesnt need to be saved

[FLOOTENKERP]

Try running the whole game while maintaining your sanity with just Chikorita.

I already have. Every gym leader took at least 5 tries to beat, but I managed to do it, and I ended the game with a level 100 Meganium. Those things are tough once you get the hang of them. Chikorita will make you resort to a lot of things to win. That's why Chikorita is a good choice.

[wraith89]

One Pokemon challenge?

[FLOOTENKERP]

Yeah, I always caught Pokemon but never used them. I always focused on training Chikorita. I always used him for the battles, never used another. Until I beat Elite 4 that is.

[PaDdY!]

They all have their cute sides. I fell in love with Ferali after receiving a holo card with it half submerged in water.

Spoiler

Chika is now tempting for the challenge, and Cyndaquil again was my original Silver Starter (though I used the reset duplicating trick to get all three, and chose Toto last so my rival could get stuck with Chika xD) and it kicked total butt. Sadly with the plysical special split in moves it might get very rough at times and Hidden Power may be its only hope, which is sad. I have an HP Ice Typh and he is all sorts of pwnage, but maybe I'll soft reset for an HP Dragon since it will be a powerful attack that is only resisted by steel types, which take an ember instead xD

Chika on HG still sounds like I'll be trying to kill myself if I dont have some sort of sweeper. Hopefully the pokewalker will solve that so long as I can transfer a pokemon before the first gym. Walk Chika to level 20 or something for the defence boosts, maybe catch something useful in Pokewalker and transfer them back. I wonder if the wild pokes in pokewalker contain an electric poke like Pikachu to encounter and catch for the gym?

Chikarita:
May just be saved via Pokewalker
Cyndaquil:
Most likely to be saved by Hidden Power
Totodile:
Already enough type coverage, doesnt need to be saved

ive got that card too!

Im getting both games so im going to trade all the starters to one game

[Delta Blast Burn]

Im getting both games so im going to trade all the starters to one game

Me Too
HGSSFTW

[qwerty15]

Cyndaquil

[Mango]

I'm going to choose the Johto Starters. As in, all three of them at once.

[FLOOTENKERP]

How are you going to get all three? I don't think this game will have any cloning glitch or anything like that. I'm gonna get two, Chikorita in HG and Cyndaquil in SS, but I'll just dump my ROM of SS to get a Totodile. So I guess I'm gonna get all three as well.

[Mango]

How are you going to get all three? I don't think this game will have any cloning glitch or anything like that. I'm gonna get two, Chikorita in HG and Cyndaquil in SS, but I'll just dump my ROM of SS to get a Totodile. So I guess I'm gonna get all three as well.

How am I going to get all three? It's a new feature in Heart Gold and Soul Silver! I hear that it is called "trading".

I can easily restart the game three times and send each starter to one game, or maybe, just maybe, cooperate with my friends and hatch some eggs.

[randomspot555]

How are you going to get all three? I don't think this game will have any cloning glitch or anything like that. I'm gonna get two, Chikorita in HG and Cyndaquil in SS, but I'll just dump my ROM of SS to get a Totodile. So I guess I'm gonna get all three as well.

There's always been the "Disconnect at the precise moment when trading" which has existed in some form or another since Gen I. It's just now there's no link cable to pull off.

And for on topic-ness: I'll play through with Cyndaquil. And on cart #2, I'll SR to get all of them completely untouched. I'll even throw the rival battle so I don't gain any experience.

[FLOOTENKERP]

Why would you want them untouched? Why not clone them and train the clone and keep the original untouched like me? Well I'm going to do things a little different. I'm gonna get my Pokemon, win that fight with Silver, make a clone and trade it to DPPT and clone it with Pokesav, put its experience at UT and I'll have all three of them legal, and legitimate. They don't have a difference so it really doesn't matter.

[ZMaster]

In the orignal Silver version that I had purchases nearly 10 years ago, I ended up choosing Totodile. He was indeed a helpful starter and I swept through the entire game with him single handedly. However, I have decided on choosing Cyndaquil as my starting Pokémon.

I think it'll be a pretty good choice and change in game play, so I'm interested on how it'll turn out. Plus, I've always had a little liking for Cyndaquil before, I just never chose to use it.

As well as the base stats being a bit for favorable for Typhlosion

Feraligatr:
HP 85 / Atk 105 / Def 100 / S.atk 79 / S.def 83 / Spe 78
Typhlosion:
HP 78 / Atk 84 / Def 78 / S.atk 109 / S.def 85 / Spe 100

The makers of Pokémon favor the fire starters too much.

Now let's look at Meganium's monstrous(ly horrible) stats, shall we?
Meganium:
HP 80 / Atk 82 / Def 100 / S.atk 83 / S.def 100 / Spe 80

Amazing, Meganium can totally sweep away every single Pokémon =D

If you highly disagree about Feraligatr and Meganium being inferior to Typhlosion, please show me Feraligatr/Meganium sweeping.