Question of the Day, March 16, 2010

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Question of the Day, March 16, 2010



Which of the three Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver starter Pokemon will you be taking on your journey?

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Onyx Oblivion

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Now that they follow you around. I HAD to choose Chikorita.

The other starters are better, but Meganium is still cute.

Feraligatr and Typlosion are just too damn ugly.
 

Plinglebob

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I'm taking Cyndaquil because otherwise it can take ages to get a fire pokemon. Water you can use Garydos(sp?) and for grass moves I always use Butterfree.
 

The Great JT

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I picked Cyndaquil. Why? Well, quasi-long story. Totodile is definately my favorite of the HG/SS starters (if only because Feraligatr is badass), but there are a multitude of great water types around. Chikorita (and by association its evolved forms, Bayleef and Meganium) are nice and all, but their move sets are, well, boring. That and both of them are relatively slow without any real standout attacks. Cyndaquil, and by association Quilava and Typlosion, gets some interesting moves, both standard and TMs and is pretty quick and fire types aren't too easy to come by in the early game.

TL:DR version - Cyndaquil and evolved forms are the best at high levels.
 

DaxStrife

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Am I reading that right? "Cyndaquil?" Cyanide and NyQuil?
...I can't tell if that's sad or awesome.
 

Mr. GameBrain

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In this game? Has to be Totodile.

I remember back when I had silver I pretty much completed the game with him exclusively (with a few more staller pokemon so I could heal him!).
Then I used the clone trick and had dozens of level 100 feraligatrs! XD
 

Zepren

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Sep 2, 2009
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Cyndaquil. I think I took him along for the ride in the original too. I still need to buy my DS like lol. DS lite FTW! Heading down to my local GAME on friday (which just happens to be payday) to pick one up then preorder HeartGold ready for next friday. I should really be saving up for college in september but meh, only live once lol.
 

Jared

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Jul 14, 2009
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Cyndaquile for me...love the flame pokemons.

Plus, I think out of all the beginning one looks the best!
 

Frequen-Z

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Apr 22, 2009
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Chikorita. I always go for Grass, makes those first couple of gyms an absolute cakewalk.
 

Murderlicous

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Totodile. Yesterday my older brother, some friends, and I all picked up copies and I kicked my brother's Cyndaquill's ass! Though that wasn't very hard to do, hes never beaten me.
 

Jedoro

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Cyndaquil

Because the "kill it with fire" rule applies as much as possible.
 

GameGoddess101

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Cyndaquil

It takes forever to actually find fire types, so it makes your life easier considering your first enemies are usually grass and bug type. I usually ditch my starter later, though.

It's funny how the fire starter is usually the one people pick, no matter the pokemon generation. Just an observation.

(Is this just a carry-over from the sheer badassery of Charizard?)
 

Heart of Darkness

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Cyndaquil, because Typhlosion is the most badass Pokemon ever, don't'cha know?

Plus, he's a frikkin' beast. I can always count on him to Flame Wheel me out of any tight corners.