Thread question: what is the best starter for each region in your opinion?

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Today has been great.

At Akale Island, I catch a Mudbray on my way to Paniola Ranch and there I catch a Lillipup and then a Sissy before Brooklet Hill. Grubbin also evolves into Charjabug which makes things amazing.

Then I enter Brooklet Hill to take on the Island trial hosted by Lana and this one was a close call. I face off against the totem pokemon Araquanid who summons Dewpider to assist, I have Charjabug use Charge and then Spark on Araquanid but Bubble from the two water types did alot of damage, luckily enough Araquanid got paralysed which meant it didn't always attack and this gave me plenty of opportunity to heal and attack with Spark while Araquanid was stuck, eventually Charjabug killed Araquanid and then used Charge and Spark one more time to instantly kill Dewpider when it was left alone. I would have had to sacrifice Charjabug if it wasn't for paralys saving the day. After that battle, I caught a Paras before leaving Brooklet Hill.

Any advice for the next totem battle?

>>59148707
Bulbasaur, Cyndaquill, Mudkip, Turtwig, Tepig, Fennekin, Rowlet, Scorbunny and Fuecoco.

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I have decided to TAKE NO PRISONERS. North Dakota has become a glorious Alakazam, and he could walk up to Koga’s face and slime his whole team right now if he wanted to (I did the calcs). Only issue is I don’t want him to be too overleveled compared to the rest. After Koga’s done, I have to go back to Celadon and grab Shadow Ball for North Dakota because he’s also our best shot at Sabrina. Would’ve been cool if Gastly was a Gengar by now too, but oh well

>>59149865
Cyndaquil is shit.
It evolves very late and for most of the game run with mid-power Fire- and Normal-moves, with lol Dig and Rollout being the "coverage" options.
And then in remakes it lost Thunder Punch so you can't even cope about it eventually becoming good.
And it can't even be used for support like Meganium because it's best support move is... Smokescreen, maybe?
Compare it to Totodile fully evolving at level fucking 30 and getting pretty based Water/Ice coverage early in the game both in GSC (Ice Punch) and remakes (Ice Fang) or even just Meganium's fat ass siting behind screens.

>>59149865
Also
>Gen 4
>Turtwig
>When Chimchar rapes half of the game.
>Gen VII
>Rowlet
>The singular fucking case of starter's final evolution being so raped by late-game that running eviolite and not evolving it is best strategy.
>In a game where Bara Cat of healthy meta iexists and late game is full of opponents folding to Fire and Dark types.

Please be trolling...

>>59151084
No it's my opinion.

>>59148707
Chikorita, Chikorita, Chikorita, Chikorita, Chikorita, Fennekin, Popplio, Chikorita
...and there are no pokemon games after SwShit

>>59151030
It takes restraint not to go ham here, i'd probably knock out Koga and Sabrina the grind up everyone else before heading to Cinnabar Blaine, but that's just me.

>>59153112
I think it’s gonna be safer to keep everyone in the same level ballpark than to just slime Koga and Sabrina now and level up the rest later. If something goes wrong, if I get careless and lose Dakota somehow, everyone else would be screwed. Besides, I have to grind the Game Corner anyway for the Shadow Ball TM

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Lost two pokemon tonight.

I caught a Pikipek and then a Larvitar at Digletts Tunnel and then an Alolan Diglett. This is all before I make my way to Wela Volcano Park to take on the next trial hosted by Kiawe.

Against this trial, I would go on to lose two pokemon.

I face off against the totem pokemon Alolan Marowak, I send out Wingull to use the Z move Hydro Vortex but unfortunately Marowak used Detect which I did not expect and Hydro Vortex barely did any damage and to make things worst, Marowak summons Salazzle to assist, Wingull did use Water Pulse on Marowak which did alot of damage but then Salazzle used Poison Gas and then Venoshock which killed Wingull. I send out Mudbray for revenge and use Bulldoze which kills Salazzle instantly but unfortunately Marowak used Detect and saved itself from being killed and then retaliated by using Flame Wheel which killed Mudbray. After killing two of my pokemon, i thought I may be screwed but then I send out my trusty Murkrow and finish off Marowak with Assurance ending the battle but with two casualties. I am so far away from the piss easy Kalos region.

After that trial, I capture a Fletchling before leaving Wela Volcano Park and flying back to Melemele Island to unfortunately catch two unwanted gen 1 pokemon. A Tentacool in Melemele Sea and a Slowpoke in Kala'e Bay. I fly back to Akale Island to continue my journey.

Any advice for the Totem Lurantis fight because this is one of the hardest battles in the game?

>>59153328
True. You would probably get away with that in gen 1, but better to be safe than sorry in any other gen.