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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 01:48:18 No.43414664 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>43414684 >>43414703 >>43414761 >>43414846 >>43414889 >>43415258 >>43418158 >>43418505 >>43418899 >>43419168

Grass:Hard mode
Fire:Normal mode
Water:Easy mode

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 01:51:10 No.43414684 Report

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>>43414664
But Bulbasaur is objectively the easiest Starter to get when regarding gym typings and placement. The only times Grass was hard mode was Chikorita and Gen 3 Treeko

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 01:53:35 No.43414703 Report

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>>43414664
Bulbasaur and Squirtle are both tanky and can hit hard back. Charmander is a bit on the weak side. Recently I've been playing FRLG and taught my Charmeleon (now Charizard) Mega Kick and it's been able to dish crazy damage but it's other moves before it got Flamethrower were shitty.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 02:02:02 No.43414761 Report

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>>43414664
It wasn't even like that with the starters you pictured. Is this bait?

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 02:06:29 No.43414794 Report

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>>43414684

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 02:13:33 No.43414846 Report

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>>43414664
Incorrect.
Grass = Easy
Water = Normal
Fire = Hard

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 02:22:34 No.43414889 Report

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>>43414664
>>43414846
It really varies too much between games to generalize. In Gen 4 Chimchar is arguably easy mode. Probably Tepig in BW though Oshawott also has its share of advantageous fights. Popplio is definitely easy mode in SM, a bit less so in USUM.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 02:23:41 No.43414896 Report

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>>43414684
Snivy and Rowlet were pretty bad too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 02:25:34 No.43414909 Report

Quoted By: >>43415108

Bulbasaur
Can abuse toxic/leech seed.
Easy early game
Can abuse stat boost glitch with growth
Charmander
Biggest movepool of all 3
Squirtle
Slow as shit, weak movepool

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 03:01:35 No.43415108 Report

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>>43414846
>>43414684
>>43414909
>they say this when every speedrunner choose Squirtle

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 03:24:37 No.43415258 Report

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>>43414664
Too difficult to make a generalization on this from game to game.
>different secondary typings
>different gyms
>different power levels in general
>different commonly encountered wild pokemon and rival team pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 03:42:47 No.43415378 Report

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>>43414896
>>43414794
To be fair, all the Unova starters are shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 06:38:59 No.43416567 Report

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>>43415108
Squirtle gets benched before it evolves though.

It's just that bubble kills Brock, and you get it faster than Bulbasaur gets vine whip. Once you get your Nidoran leveled up and get a moonstone to rock the rest of the game, you don't give a shit about the starter.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 06:56:09 No.43416669 Report

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grass = sheild
water = staff
fire = sword

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 12:58:56 No.43418158 Report

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>>43414664
Charmander's necktie is too tight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 13:01:47 No.43418172 Report

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>>43414896
>Rowlet

Becoming Ghost type sounds cool until you realise that not only is Grass/Ghost absolute ass, but Alola also has the most Dark spam of any region.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 13:50:40 No.43418459 Report

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>>43416567
>Nidoran
We are talking about the 3 starters here and Squirtle makes the games the easiest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 13:56:13 No.43418490 Report

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>>43418459
He brought up speedrunning. the current speedrun strat centers around Nidoking so it's a misleading statement

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 13:59:40 No.43418505 Report

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>>43414664
Chikorita made johto hard mode

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 14:02:25 No.43418526 Report

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>Grass = Easy mode
>Water = Super easy mode
>Fire = Easy-ish mode
Gens 1&2 were the only region where you had issues with the starter, the rest were pretty much balanced out by dual-types. Even in gen 5, Snivy can be very strong with growth and Leaf Tornado, then coil and leaf blade.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 14:31:33 No.43418760 Report

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>>43414684
>MUH GYM TYPES
Grass is shit due to amount of bug, grass, flying and poison types early on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 14:42:21 No.43418839 Report

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>>43418760
Oh yeah those weedles are a real doozy

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 14:44:58 No.43418863 Report

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>>43418760
>bug, grass, poison
bulbasair is part poison

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 14:51:04 No.43418899 Report

Quoted By: >>43419011

>>43414664
>t. doesn't know how to use grass types properly
All starters are easy mode, try harder next time

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 15:07:07 No.43419011 Report

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>>43418899
This.
if you think any starter isn't easy mode, you just suck

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 15:14:57 No.43419055 Report

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>>43419011
ahem chikorita

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 15:16:24 No.43419065 Report

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>>43419055
>NOOOOO THE PIDGEY THAT HAS NO FLYING MOVES IS HARD
>NOOOOO THE ANOTHER LEVEL 9 PIDGEY IS SO HARD
you suck, git gud

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 15:17:09 No.43419071 Report

Quoted By: >>43419075

>>43419065
why are you autistic. everyone know chikorita is horrible just use beldum

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 15:18:08 No.43419075 Report

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>>43419071
starters were designed to be better than most wild pokemon.
Yes, Chikorita has no advantages against the gyms but this is a children game, you can solo the entire game with Chikorita if you know what to do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 15:19:34 No.43419087 Report

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>>43418490
wasn't the squirtle strat virtually the same speed? or have the runs progressed even further

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 15:20:06 No.43419090 Report

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>>43415378
Only Snivy sucked though
>Speedrunners prefer Tepig
>Oshawott as an HM slave can do damage

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 15:20:22 No.43419091 Report

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>>43418490
Dude, the idea is that Squirtle beats the game easier than Bulbasaur, regardless of strat

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 15:28:07 No.43419143 Report

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>>43418490
Before the Nidoking strat was found, Squirtle was the optimal pick because it has better late game match ups.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 15:31:33 No.43419168 Report

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>>43414664
To be honest, Fennekin is pretty easy mode for Gen 6.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 15:58:08 No.43419356 Report

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>>43414703
Char with Mega Kick and Flamethrower is a death machine. Giving it dig makes it almost unstoppable.

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