Which of The Pokémon Starters Should You Choose? Our Picks

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Over the past 25 years, eight generations of three unique Pokémon starters have been created

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Every player is expected to select one of the Pokémon starters from a group of three as their very first Pokémon to bring alongside them on their adventures.

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So whip up a bowl of curry, grab some berries and take a look at 24 Pokémon starters

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24. Chespin/Quilladin/ Chesnaught Any starter Pokémon can be used by trainers capable of identifying their strengths. However, Chespin is a difficult Pokémon to raise effectively and evolves into unpopular Pokémon down the line.

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23. Oshawott/Dewott/ Samurott While none of Generation 5’s starters are very popular, Oshawott is just a bit worse than Tepig or Snivy when it comes to actual usability.

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22. Tepig/Pignite/ Emboar Pignite and Emboar, Tepig’s evolutions, suffer quite a bit from the redundancy of their Fire/Fighting dual typing as far as popularity is concerned

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