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Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 02:19:20 No.59002445 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>59002483 >>59002667 >>59003649 >>59003672 >>59003704 >>59003731

Anons who picked Chikorita as your first Johto starter before 2009, how did it go?
Tell us the story of your first Johto journey with that Chikorita.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 02:26:14 No.59002483 Report

Quoted By: >>59002524

>>59002445
Chikorita was my main in Silver, back when I used to largely solo the game with one pokemon. Did Totodile in Crystal, then a bit later Cyndaquil in Gold.

I'm fairly sure Chikorita was also the Johto starter I picked in Emerald after completing the regional dex.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 02:27:48 No.59002490 Report

Quoted By: >>59002524

The whole bit about Chikorita being the weakest starter and struggling against the gyms is a meme. The first two gyms, while they do have a type advantage, are so easy that it literally doesn't matter. Bayleef clowns on Whitney as well. Also, contrary to popular belief, Meganium has an advantage against Pryce, as all his Pokemon are weak to grass and outsped by Meganium.
The only fight that gave me any real trouble as a kid was Lance, and iirc Meganium did help a lot in that fight by inflicting paralysis with Body Slam.
Don't underestimate Meganium. It's damn strong for the campaign.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 02:35:45 No.59002524 Report

Quoted By: >>59002539 >>59002691 >>59003906

>>59002483
>>59002490
Did you commit to the supportmon meme with setting up reflect/light screen/safeguard or did you just spam razor leaf and body slam the whole way through like a sane 8 year old would?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 02:42:18 No.59002539 Report

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>>59002524
>just spam razor leaf and body slam the whole way through

That was the only way I played for the first few gens. Until you can catch a few pokemon that's at a higher level that you can use only as backup when the starter faints. Then whatever legendaries you could grab early for the Elite Four. No reason to think twice that it was "playing wrong".

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 03:20:11 No.59002667 Report

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>>59002445
My first Gold team had Ledyba and Chikorita on it. I never got too far because I was borrowing the game from a friend. I didn't know type matchups beyond the most basic ones, so it didn't go that well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 03:28:12 No.59002691 Report

Quoted By: >>59002976

>>59002524
I didn't even know what those moves did, all I remember that on one of the playthroughs I got so upset I started crying both on bugsy and clair (solo starter like most kids)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 04:50:58 No.59002976 Report

Quoted By: >>59003604

>>59002691
You didn't cry at Whitney?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 08:44:53 No.59003604 Report

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>>59002976
Bayleef is actually good against Whitney because defensive stats and not weak to rollout

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 09:00:57 No.59003649 Report

Quoted By: >>59003689

>>59002445
I'm pretty sure I restarted after evolving to Bayleef after I lost to Quilava in Azalea town because I thought Quilava looked cooler. I must have restarted again at some point because I remember trading a level 86 Feraligatr to my friend for his 90+ Typhlosion. I don't remember much more except for a clutch Lanturn, Ampharos, and an Umbreon with Crunch that I would grind the E4 with over and over. I do distinctly remember teaching Bayleef Cut and thinking it looked cool af.

Great times. GSC will always be peak pokemon to me, wish my old cartridges still worked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 09:10:31 No.59003672 Report

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>>59002445
Hi.
Bye.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 09:14:28 No.59003680 Report

Quoted By: >>59003711

>like 10 or 11 years old
>play Gen 2 way later due to only ever getting hand-me-downs, so by this time Gen 3 had been out
>did my first ever run with Typhlosion, get to Claire and stop because it's fucking boring
>look up "GSC cheats and glitches"
>one of them was something like, "if you want to win, DON'T choose Chikorita"
>take great offense to this for some reason, wanna defend Chikorita from this guy
>wipe my save and go all the way with Chiko
>my only starter for Johto ever since
I don't think I used Reflect, I'm pretty sure as a kid I just used STAB and like, Strength or whatever. It wasn't till HGSS where I figured out how you're supposed to actually use it. And for the record, Whitney is zero issue for Bayleef no matter what.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 09:18:15 No.59003689 Report

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>>59003649
>and an Umbreon with Crunch
Well I looked up old Gen 2 moves after writing this and apparently crunch didn't exist so it must have been faint attack and then I believe also swift.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 09:24:57 No.59003704 Report

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>>59002445
Chikorita was my first pick but I don't remember much, I think I just solo'd the game with it so I didn't face any real challenge by choosing it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 09:26:31 No.59003711 Report

Quoted By: >>59003725

>>59003680
Isn't Morty, Claire, and Lance a bitch to fight with Meganium?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 09:30:53 No.59003725 Report

Quoted By:

>>59003711
Out of those I think only morty was an issue, but even as a kid i always kept a balanced team so it was whatever

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 09:33:47 No.59003731 Report

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>>59002445
I'm a woman now

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Mar 2026 11:12:05 No.59003906 Report

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>>59002524
>just spam the move you get at lv8 the whole game, occasionally earthquake or body slam
how do you not restart and switch starters out of boredom

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