That’s a weird looking Charmander
Everyone knows that Charmander was the starter of the bullies.
Look, if you don’t wanna get flamethrowered, stop being so flammable.
Charmander was the flammable one!
But was he inflammable
I'll never forget the look on my brother's face after he was talking all kinds of shit about his level 100 venusor that he maxed out with duped rare candies when I one shotted it with my level 50ish Charizard
Charmander: bully
Squirtle: likeable funny guy
Bulbasaur: bookish/nerdy type
And yes, bulbasaur is the best
Bulbasaur is also the most interesting aesthetically (the whole evolution line)
And also the most likely to allow you to effortlessly curb stomp everyone in the first two gyms, and be resistant to the hat worn by everyone in the third. By then you're likely to have diversified your team significantly.
As a bullied kid that back then just wanted a cool dragon, I protest that insinuation!
He said "cool" dragon. Which is gyarados
Oof. No wings or limbs, evolved from magikarp. I think you need to reassess cool dragons.
They are a cool fish monster tho.
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I am aware and mostly shitposting but I want to thank you for your effort to educate me. People like you are good for the internet. Now back to shit posting.
So Gyro taste like sushi?
Evolving from Magikarp makes him objectively the coolest dragon. Started from the bottom now we're here.
The lack of actual Dragon typing does sting, though.
They'd have been so good as water/dragon Q_Q
Fun fact: When choosing my starter for the first time, all I knew about Pokémon was: "It's a game I saw someone play at school once and it kind of looked like an RPG and I love those!" I genuinely just went with what looked cool to me and had no idea there were "actual" dragon Pokémon.
Also +1 on dom@lemmy.ca noting, that Gyarados is the cool dragon in Gen1
show me on the doll where the dragon rage hurt you.
Enjoy making pidgey spam sand attack against Brock.
He’s the number one in the Pokédex and in my heart.
That bad boy never left my team.
Squirtle isn't as good as Squirtle Squad, which would be peak. But it's not an option.
And Charmander is just the basic pick. Picked by people who are 100% distracted by fire.
And Charmander is just the basic pick. Picked by people who are 100% distracted by fire.
I cannot lie, this attack against me was super effective
Hehe, I just left my starter pokemon at the front of my line up for the whole game. He ended up hitting max level, and none of the pokemon behind him ever really got to fight. He was one-shotting with "not very effective" moves. I also didn't keep any of the buffs or debuffs, just attack moves. Since I was basically only using one Pokémon, he had to have a bunch of attacks cuz they would run out of uses. I wasn't as young as you would hope for a "tactic" like that to be my solution to the game. But to be fair, it kept working... so was it really wrong?
I assume it was pokemon blue, mainly cuz I picked blastoise. My level of creativity as a kid means I very likely wouldn't have picked blastoise if I was playing pokemon red.
The last time I played gen 1, this was my strategy up until I caught an Abra. After that, once I got.some.levels on Abra and he got a psychic attack, my starter only came out when Abra ran out of moves. By the time you hit the Elite 4, you can just one shot pretty much everything with a well-leveled psychic Pokémon.
I picked Bulbasaur because I was already a hipster at age 8 I guess. Everyone else picked Charmander (fire dragon!) or Squirtle (Blastoise has GUNS!!!), so I just had to pick the one nobody chose.
Jokes on them though, Bulbasaur is probably the strongest pick. Or at least the one that makes the game the smoothest and easiest.
Never really played Pokemon, but I thought Charmander is the meta pick because the low level stuff is all mostly weak to fire?
The first couple of gyms in Gen 1 are actually really good for Bulbasaur, and getting a strong early game is typically what you want from a starter as mid to late game you'll have access to a bunch of other 'mons to cover what types you need.
The first gym is rock, the second is water, the third is electric. Charmander has a really hard time in those first two matchups and only hits neutral in the third. At this stage of the game, it's really difficult to fill out your types because the wild Pokémon are largely birds, bugs, and rats.
If you're really lucky, you'll hit the extremely low encounter rate for Pikachu in Viridian Forest, and if you're even luckier, you'll catch one. But that only helps you against Misty.
In contrast, Bulbasaur is super effective against the first two gyms, and is merely neutral against Lt. Surge and his electric mice.
And by that point you've fed two whole gyms full of trainers and gym leaders into your Bulbasaur (by virtue of not having to constantly rotate through your back line just to survive).
Which means it can both take a beating and lay a smackdown in what is on its face a "neutral matchup".
After that point the game opens up dramatically and that initial advantage fades.
In contrast, bulbasaur is weak to all the birds and bugs that are so common in the early game.
To make it more difficult, Bulbasaur is the only one of the three starters to not learn a STAB move as their first move after the debuff at 5.
Squirtle gets bubble, ember for Charmander. Leech seed for Bulbasaur. And while leech seed has uses late game when you're tanky, it is mostly useless against wild pokémon.
That is to say, both Charmander and Bulbasaur have a lot of trouble early game until you get a diverse team. But Squirtle will just stomp through it all (especially in original Gen1 when Special was imba, combined with its natural high defence state).
Starters were secretly difficulty setting. Bulb easy, squirt medium, char hard
Yeap. I picked the grass turtle to cheese Brock and Misty fights. He can also learn cut.
Then caught the lowest level magicarp I could find to slot 1. Gyarados with surf.
Had maxed Gyarados for the Gary Chameleon.
More of a Squirtle guy myself, but no hate for the bulb.
The bulb sends you his thanks.
Same.
Your game must be glitched cause that's not Squirtle. Or your title of the post got misspelled.
Good post op!! My first Pokemon game was FireRed and bulbasaur was my first choice too - one day I want to restart my save and soft reset for a shiny one!
Only pokemon game I ever played
It's really fun to go back and emulate it with a randomizer. Basically all the Pokemon spawns are now random, even the starters if you want. I got rekt by a level 2 Mewtwo one time lol
Zelda Link To The Past is also good with a randomizer
So are the Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger randomizers.
😳 You just made my weekend.
Yup no question.
Yep, absolutely. Best starter for the first set of gyms.
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