Best Starter Pokemon to Pick in Every Game

I misspoke about Pyro Ball and said it was 100% accurate when I meant to say "more" accurate (bc it is more accurate than Fire Blast). My b. I misspoke a few other times but we caught them in editing. This was a long vid XD

When I first played Pokemon, I just pick my starter using the feels

My thought process when choosing a starter is "Are it's evolutions cool? Yes. Thats good enough for me."

I've traditionally been a fire starter fan, since they were often both fast and hard-hitting compared to the other starters, which made breezing through trainer battles all the less stressful, and they could often continue to pull their weight later in the game, either because their fire-type moves were effective against rarer types like steel and ice, or because they had some viable secondary types like fighting or psychic type. That, and I could often find some viable water and grass type Pokémon in the early game, such as Gyarados for Pokémon Red/Blue.

As pokemon crystal enthusiast, both totodile and cyndaquil have other advantages. In the goldenrod super mart, they sell fire, thunder and ice punch, quitava and typhlosion can learn thunder and fire punch (which is huge against water/flying types for him) and totodile, croconaw and feraligr can all learn learn ice punch which is huge against Claire and lance. He runs through those with surf/ice punch easily.

At least the sponsor wasn't Raid: Shadow Legends

Michael: Decidueye is the WORST Gen 7 starter Everyone: Yeah but... Ghost owl

Fire tends to be great for a starter too because Water and Grass types tend to be more readily available early. It usually takes 2-3 badges before you can catch any Fire types, much less a useful one

I picked… none of those, except, ironically, the one with the smallest probability of being picked: Fenniken and Bulbasaur. Definitely the most important in the first couple games; my Charmander was really at a disadvantage. Also you should pick chitchat in Diamond/Pearl ‘cause if you don’t, good luck using fire moves.

He's joking, right? The best starter is obviously youngster joeys rattata

me who picked bulbasaur before: they called me a madman

Matpat and Austin: Arguing over Charmander vs Squirtle while completely ignoring Bulbasaur Mike: chuckles amusedly "Foolish Amateurs."

Whenever I rewatch this vid I think how they made Chikorita as a filler starter for grass because she just lost to 98% of the game content by default. It doesn't help that the animal group she was in didn't allow her to learn the elemental punches from golden rod, then her not having poison as a secondary meant you couldn't even free farm team rocket without care. I genuinely don't think there's been a worse starter for the game

mudkip: better against the first and third gym treecko: better against the first and second gym torchic: good against the dad fight

Everyone: Chikorita is such a terrible starter! Me: to my Chikorita This is a dangerous game we've entered into, Basil.

You forgot to say this but Cinderace can do really well against Team Yell, Marni, and Piers because of them using Dark Type, Soley for Cinderace's Fighting Coverage

I think you underestimated Rowlet utility. You have to remember that untill he evolves in Decidueye he is also a Flying type and even after keeps the Flying coverage. So going he is neutral in the first trial, strong against the first Kahuna, then strong against Water, weak against Fire, strong against Grass with Flying moves, strong against Olivia, resist the eletric one, strong against Ghost with his stab (also weak but still), weak against Nanu and resisted by Dragon, although he can use the Flying coverage against Kommo-o(and also neutral against Fairy if you play USUM, the Ghost type meaning he doesn't have to much problems agIainst Ribombee ) and then strong against Hapi. Incineroar meanwhile has no advantages in the Mele Mele trials, is weak against the Water trial that is the earliest of the Akala trials, neautral against the Fire one, strong against the Grass one, weak against Olivia, mostly neutral against the Electric one although i will admit is strong against both of the totems, strong against Ghost, neutral against Nanu, resisted by dragon, weak against fairy and Hapi. I can still see you giving the edge to Popplio since being strong against all the Kahunas is a big deal, although i will still argue Rowlet being better in the early game due to him getting stab from the Flying coverage while Popplio doesn't with the Fairy coverage untill he evolve, and being strong against two of the Akala trials while Popplio is only strong against one. Popplio is slightly better against the Normal trial but only if you face Raticate so half of the games. However i strongly diasagree with Rowlet being the worst as you implied, i think is at the very least the second best.

MysticUmbreon: “This will take me 30 videos to explain.” Mikey: “Give me 30 minutes.”

Best part of the Pokemon series is that the “unpopular” starter is usually the best

⚠️SPOILER WARNING⚠️ 2:20 Gen 1, Bulbasaur 6:24 Gen 2, cyndaquil 10:52 Gen 3, Mudkip 14:02 Gen 4, Chimchar 16:58 Gen 5, Tepig 20:49 Gen 6, Fenikin and bulbasaur/froakie and charmander 24:11 Gen 7, poplio 25:58 Gen 8, scorbunny