Best Starter Pokémon if Every Game had ALL of Them

Crazy how Decidueye is insanely good in every region EXCEPT the region that it was originally from.

I think the most impressive part is Swampert and Primarina being the best in their native regions. Especially knowing Mudkip can technically solo it’s own region (not counting the forced double battle).

Props to the Alola starters for being the only trio were each member won at least one time, even with decidueye having two forms

The thing that you left out about Paldea is that Skeledirge has an utterly broken move in Torch Song. This alone allows it to sweep SOOOO many fights.

Fun fact, the Kalos Torchic stuff is actually possible if you got the Torchi promo at the start of the gen. And it had Speed Boost.

Instead of a solo Miltank run, I would love to see Dr. Fuze do a Miltank only fusion run. Because so many of those Miltank fusions are just... cursed!

Decidueye and Infernape doing some heavy lifting outta the starter crew going across the gens. With special shout out to Blaziken not slacking, and Primarina and Swampert maintaining their ownership of their crowns in their own regions.

I was stoked to see how well the Hisuian Decidueye worked out in Sinnoh. Making me want a new Sinnoh game with the Hisui factors mixed in :)

Blaziken being good in Kalos really brings back good memories for me since there was an event Torchic with Blazikenite that was distributed back when the game first came out that I used wayyy more than my Chesnaught. It practically swept every battle for me

In BDSP Chimchar got Power-up Punch too, so if you use that before Miltank comes out, Monferno can out speed with Mach Punch and OHKO before it can even do anything. The whole Chimchar line is epic.

What I'm taking away from this is that Rowlet is REALLY DAMN GOOD in a story playthrough...in everything but the region it spawned in (says the person that picked Litten every time she played through Alola)

I got X & Y right when it came out with the free HA Mega Blaziken as a Mystery Gift. Zard is my favorite Mon, but I loved having the Greninja/Mega Blaziken/Mega Venusaur trio even if they were all handed to me along with Mega Lucario. As a child I just saw a stacked team.

I would love to use Rowlet in every region. Also until Gen 10 releases… we technically can have every starter in S/V with Indigo Disk

Seeing Primarina being crowned the Queen of Alola makes me so happy, it’s my favorite starter and I love seeing it dominating above the likes of starter titans like Greninja, Rillaboom, and Infernape.

I thought "how is Fuecoco the best original Paldea starter?" until you mentioned the Fighting type perks and I understood why I found Quaquaval to be more useful for most of the game.

A quick note on Hisuian Decidueye in Sinoh. Yeah, it stomps most of the gyms, but you've got to watch out for some secondary typings, like Candice's Froslass, which is straight up immune to the fighting type you're relying on here. Still probably the best pick for the region, though.

Meowscarada became my favorite grass starter, (maybe even more than sceptile) due sheerly to its whole moveset of high crit moves with a scope lens. It was super fun to use!

For Maylene, even if you did have alolan decidueye, it's a ghost type, which is immune to Maylene's fighting types, and it will still have flying type coverage moves lake brave bird or pluck

There's a new Johto Rom Hack called Grueiling Good where yes, you can get every starter. In face you even have the option to pick any starter from any reigon. Whitney's evil Miltank has scrappy as its ability and holds leftovers and its move are Body Slam, Milk Drink, Seismic Toss, and Toxic. As long as you outspeed and don't get poisoned or paralyzed you'll be fine

The one thing I would add is that I think Quaquavel is better than Decidueye in Sinnoh While it matches up poorly into Gardenia, checks for Grass types are really common. Beyond that, it matches up better into Roark and Candice, and gives you a favorable match-up for Flint's team More importantly, though, it can boost its speed against Cynthia with Aqua Step, which makes it one of the few starters that can outspeed her Garchomp without needing to run Scarf or a speed-boosting move. Ice Spinner KOs even through a Yache berry, and it can take out Lucario and Roserade pretty effortlessly It's even better if you can get Hidden Abilities, since Aqua Step + Moxie makes just about every fight completely free, but even without HA I think it beats out Decidueye