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.

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.

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 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).

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.

"Bigger monkey, smaller problem" got me cackling dude wtf

I’m gonna be honest with you, I never understood the people who don’t like the taste of water, cold water just hits different

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!

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

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.

"You shouldn't have a fully evolved starter by this gym..." Bold of you to assume I don't overlevel my starter.

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 :)

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!

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

This is why I want monotype pokemon to have higher STAB than dual type ones (you know, how terastalize helps more if you're already that type?), since they're more focused. Because right now dual-type pokemon have the big advantage of getting 2x as much STAB bonus options as mono ones. Based off the various side games, I'm inclined to lower dual type STAB to 1.25x for each of their two move types, and leave monotypes with 1.5x for their one move type.

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.

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

12:30 Also, you can keep your Flying type moves, and become a Ghost type, which is immune to Fighting.

By naming the Fire/Fighting starters a lot you actually proof why I love that type combo for Fire starters. It's an amazing typing. Not to mention Infernape and Emboar are my 2 most favorite starters ever. Never choosing a different starter in their regions.