>>28771131Nope, sorry, that title belong to kantor and hoenn
I'm not saying infernape isn't good, hell in fact it's the best fire starter in terms of stats and competitiveness. But the rest kinda drag him down as you stated the starters SET. Kantor starters right now are the strongest due to their megas being so damn good, otherwise they're OK at best, while hoenn is overall the best as all three dominated all of gen 3's competitive era and most of gen 4, then shit went down hill for swampert faster than Paul Walker that one time, while sceptile stayed relevant enough and blaziken got a fucking god send. Then gen 6 and blaziken gets even more pampering even before the others, sceptile got a massive improvement plus a goddamn immunity, then swampert got fucked one more time with swift swim in his mega... although I can't complain too much cuz base swampert is strong as is and got a damn good mega, just can wish they gave him more respect. Anyways they stayed relevant the longest out of all the starters in almost every aspect possible. Does that answer your question?