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Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 20:48:22 No.43528135 View View Reply Original Report

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About to do a playthrough of Pokemon Gold, which starter is the best? Is Chikorita truly as bad as they say?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 20:51:10 No.43528159 Report

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go wild and use chikorita
it isnt that bad
sunflora is worse

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 20:51:23 No.43528161 Report

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Chikorita isn't terrible, it's just way inferior to the other two. Totodile is probably the best. Cyndaquil has a really strong early and late game but falters hard in the middle. But it's still nearly as good as Totodile.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 20:52:06 No.43528167 Report

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>>43528135
Totodile is the best without a doubt.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 20:54:40 No.43528188 Report

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>>43528135
if you've never used chikorita i'd try it, while typhlosion and feraligatr are much better offensively, meganium's bulk has its uses too

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 20:56:38 No.43528207 Report

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>>43528188
>bulk
>when half the dex is poison, ice and flying
Anyways...yeah chikorita is underrated, but I would use it mostly for setting dual screens. It is ace at that, not many pokemon can do it.
It can help a lot against lance and other gym leaders.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 20:59:44 No.43528229 Report

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chikorita is based so go that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBc7dz21grY

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 20:59:47 No.43528231 Report

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>>43528135
>Which starter is the best
Just use the design you like the most, none of them make the game hard, maybe not totodile if there are other water types you want to use instead, like quagsire, lanturn or gyarados

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 21:00:27 No.43528235 Report

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Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 21:05:20 No.43528266 Report

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>>43528135
Meganium line is actually quite good, doesn't drag you down or anything, especially not in game for gen 2. The other 2 are stronger tho, and obviously grass doesn't have many advantages in johto

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 22:13:23 No.43528804 Report

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>>43528135
Even worse, but you'll at least get a good challenge.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 22:14:36 No.43528814 Report

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>>43528135
Chikorita is the cutest so it's the best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 22:29:51 No.43528923 Report

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>>43528135
The game is like anti-Chikorita
>First dungeon is Bellsprout, Hoothoot, and Gastly, which all resist Chikorita
>First Gym is Flying
>Second Gym is Bug
>Fourth is "Ghost" but they're Poison so they resist, and Curse does %damage to get past bulk
>get walled by Steel Gym, in danger from Ice Gym, then Dragon Gym
>E4 has Poison, while the "Dark" E4 has Houndoom/Gengar/Vileplume
>Champ is another Dragon
>Rival team and Team Rocket also type resist Grass a lot, and the legendary birds wreck Grass

Cyndaquil has a good early game for Bellsprout and Bugsy as well as decent midgame, Feraligatr is good for midgame and has Ice coverage for late-game. Chikorita prsctically never has the advantage

I still pick Chikorita though because Silver sprite Typhlosion is super fitting for the rival, and GSC has a low level curve anyway

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 22:35:39 No.43528972 Report

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>choosing charmander is like a hard mode since half the gyms are good against it. omg charizard is so badass

>why would anyone choose Chikorita its no weak and the game is geared against it omg chikorita is so bad

explain

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Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 22:43:18 No.43529033 Report

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>>43528135
Pick Chikorita. Johto has a shit ton of water types and Ampharos can do the same thing as Typlosion by teaching it Fire and Thunder Punch.
>>43528972
Hard mode was always some dumb argument by Zardfags. Charizard is the weakest because it is the least tanky but that's it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 22:46:09 No.43529053 Report

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>>43528135
cyndaquil to match the inferior version if gen 2

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 22:47:06 No.43529056 Report

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>>43528923
We all know now that the rival's ace is ho oh anyways
Basically Soul Silver is the "canon" version.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 22:57:33 No.43529150 Report

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>>43528135
Never used Chiko, so I can't comment. Always went with Cynda or Toto myself

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:04:05 No.43529204 Report

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>>43529056
Well it was always obvious that the Silver versions were the main versions. The last place is Mt. Silver, not Mt. Gold

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:09:05 No.43529243 Report

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I'm replying HGSS and Totodile learned Ice Fang mid-battle against Bugsy allowing it to fuck Scyther kek
>>43528161
This. As long as you don't fill out your team with 6 shitmon immediately who just eat up EXP, you'll be fine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:10:36 No.43529255 Report

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>>43528135
why the fuck is the rat more popular that the alligator?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:12:19 No.43529272 Report

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>>43529255
Because muh fire.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:13:34 No.43529281 Report

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>>43529272
I bet you if totodile was colored red and called a fire type it would have been the most popular gen 2 starter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:16:45 No.43529299 Report

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>>43529204
It is still kinda weird, I mean ]I guess they tried to spin it up for people that choose the "canon" version, as red, gold, ruby, etc

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:19:08 No.43529318 Report

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>>43528135
Only normies say that Chikorita is bad. They just can't handle the first few gyms with a grass type.

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Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:24:16 No.43529342 Report

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>>43528135
Play crystal

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:24:42 No.43529349 Report

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>>43529281
I feel like it would be more popular than even charizard in that case

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:25:22 No.43529352 Report

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>>43528135
Why not be a Chad and have all three? It's how I do my playthroughs of older games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:28:34 No.43529383 Report

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>>43529318
>first few gyms
No, if you use Chikorita as your ace it's an uphill struggle all the way to Kanto. Whitney is a break but immediately after you get a Ghost/Poison gym so none of your attacks will be worthwhile. Then you get a mild break with Chuck. Then Jasmine is a bit of a challenge. Then Pryce and Claire both fuck you over. Then two out of five of the League members fuck you over.

Chikorita is a fucking struggle, as these weaknesses are further exacerbated by poor offenses and shit coverage.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 09 May 2020 23:47:56 No.43529522 Report

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>>43529281
Here's your fire croc, bro

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 May 2020 03:31:03 No.43530955 Report

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>>43529522
It doesn't make sense that an aquatic reptilian is fire, but whatever

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 May 2020 03:40:47 No.43531010 Report

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>>43528135
Cyndaquil since this is Gen 2 and Totodile can't get decent STAB. It has ice moves at least but Typhlosion has electric coverage as well and a way to use it with its stats

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 May 2020 03:43:43 No.43531029 Report

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>>43528972
Charmander starts off having a rough time but it gets better matchups over time.
Chikorita is always at a disadvantage in some way. I can't think of another starter that's so hopeless on its own. The snake from gen 5 is the only one that comes close, but even then gen 5 isn't tailored against grass types nearly as hard as gen 2.

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Anonymous Sun 10 May 2020 03:47:47 No.43531052 Report

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>>43530955
>
also reptilian is an adjective, reptile is the noun you wanted

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 May 2020 04:09:28 No.43531171 Report

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>>43531052
Again that doesn't make sense. Shit freak has never cared about that though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 May 2020 04:11:49 No.43531192 Report

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>>43530955
there are tons of examples of that in pokemon like sandile, turtonator. Maybe this fire totodile lives in magma rather than rivers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 May 2020 04:38:48 No.43531348 Report

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>>43531171
It doesn't make sense that any reptile would be on fire. Or be able to shoot beams of sun energy out of its back. Or ice beams.
Do you know what a pokemon is?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 May 2020 04:46:30 No.43531397 Report

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>>43530955
you're right, they should only make fire types out of those many animals that live in fucking volcanoes

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 May 2020 05:09:23 No.43531529 Report

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>>43531397
deserts* ftfy, and cope

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