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[Anonymous No.10259631]

he was the best choice

[Anonymous No.10259681]

Literally no. 001 on pokédex.

[Anonymous No.10259771]

if you're a casual that wants to snooze your way through the game, sure

also he's playing a harmonica and you cannot un-see that now

[Anonymous No.10259789]

wtf is venusaur's back sprite even supposed to be?

[Anonymous No.10259793]

>>10259789
I see a knight wearing a clown nose and wig facing the left.

[Anonymous No.10259827]

>>10259789
The backsprite was made for red and green which is why it doesn't fit the red and blue front sprite.

Forward facing flower
Long trunk
Round ears

[Anonymous No.10259829]

>>10259827
not seeing it

[Anonymous No.10260091]

>>10259631
There was no best choice. The selection was always a subjective one. The smartest kids always traded to have all three starters anyways.

[Anonymous No.10260106]

>>10260091
The smartest kids boxed them and replaced them with better mons.

[Anonymous No.10260113]

>>10260106
That too is subjective. For the story it really didn't matter what your team was. Just level the mons enough and you'll easily get through the game as most kids did. Even then you probably want to just over level maybe 3 at most anyways since that is the better way to do it.

[Anonymous No.10260149]

>>10259829
It's just some leaves and the flower but the flower is facing forward. You can't really see the stem.

[Anonymous No.10260352]

>>10260113
My team was Venuasur, the three legendary birds, Snorlax and Mewtwo. I think this was the case for many.

[Anonymous No.10260373]

>>10260352
You can easily cover all threats in the E4 with just any starter, Articuno and Zapdos, and Dugtrio at llevel 42 for earthquake.

[Anonymous No.10260646]

All kids who chose Bulbasaur grew up to be gay.
All of them.

[Anonymous No.10260726]

>>10260646
Don't tell my wife and kid.....Or my boyfriend..he still thinks I'm straight

[Anonymous No.10260740]

>>10260646
wrong
I chose the fire starter every game and I grew up to be gay

[Anonymous No.10260742]

>>10260646
gay people were playing Digimon, not Pokemon.
Bulbasaur: stoners
Squirtle: nerds
Charmander: neurotypicals OR total schizos

[Anonymous No.10260764]

>>10259631
Like choosing Yoshi in Mario Kart, everyone who picked bowlbasaur turned out to be either gay or trans.

[Anonymous No.10260765]

>>10260726
Just wait till he sees the penis lmao

[Anonymous No.10260776]

>>10260726
If you have a boyfriend and a wife that makes you gay and straight so he’s kinda not wrong

[Anonymous No.10260783]

>>10260740
Flameboyant

[Anonymous No.10260787]

>>10260740
Bulbasaur is the GRASS starter, dude.

[Anonymous No.10260817]

>>10260776
major Squirtle vibes

[Anonymous No.10261589]

>>10260646
I'm unironically gay and always picked the grass starter...

[Anonymous No.10261619]

Which starter did girls tend to pick? Pokemon is generally little girl friendly given the prevalence and marketing of cute Pokémon, but all of the starters become increasingly badass and aggressive looking as they evolve (and they evolve into their second stages relatively quickly).
Some of the later games remedied this by having at least one starter which remained somewhat cute through all of its evolutions, though in R/B all of the starters wind up as gruff monsters which look like they want to kill anything thay moves.

[Anonymous No.10261628]

>>10260742
>gay people were playing Digimon, not Pokemon.
Kek thats not true by any metric. First of all, they'd definitely choose Tomagatchi or Gigapets which were unisex or leaned girly/cute over Digimon which was the boy branded "HARDCORE" digital pet. Digimon pet games were like made of cracked brick designs to show how "tough" they were.

>Bulbasaur: stoners
>Squirtle: nerds
>Charmander: neurotypicals OR total schizos
It's more like
Bulbasaur: girls
Squirtle: cool contrarian guys
Charmander: lame basic guys

When it comes to the digimon anime, the same exact logic flow applies when it comes to favoring the green cactus, the blue wolf, or the orange lizard.

[Anonymous No.10261720]

>>10260352
>>10260373
There are plenty of mons that will steamroll the E4 for you. As said the games really were never all that difficult even for kids. If you over leveled even just one monster while keeping the rest in line maybe with the E4 levels and bring tons of heals and revives with you then you are guaranteed victory. Bring say an overleveled snorlax and give it moves like hyper beam or body slam and thunder wave then yeah you are going to easily get through the game. You'd have to purposefully take a really garbage team with you and make them all either at level or below to lose.

Dugtrio could also steamroll for you, Charizard with flamethrower/Blast/Hyperbeam, bring Alakazam, etc. Its just how the games were made.

[Anonymous No.10261727]

>>10261720
This. I beat the game with a level 81 Pikachu when I first played. I barely used any Pokemon in battles besides that and my Blastoise until after I beat the E4. Finally evolved him into a Raichu at level 100.

[Anonymous No.10261738]

>>10261720
I just liked Dugtrio specifically cause at 42 he can sweep Agatha;s ghosts with super effective earthquake. Thought I was a genius at 11.

[Anonymous No.10261743]

>>10261619
They chose rapidash, vaporeon, tangela, butterfree, dragonair(then got grossed out when it evolved into Dragonite but learned to love it) and pikachu or jigglypuff

[Anonymous No.10261747]

>>10261727
It kind of makes the games a bit flawed imo because of that. I guess its a side effect of how they work being turn based RPG but it really kind of throws the whole team dynamic the games are supposed to be about in the trash lol. Its almost like its contradictory in a sense. Easier to just over train one monster then have a dream team that you train and it also makes the game itself easier as well.
>>10261738
Do the later games ever improve and force more strategy from the player? I always hear its largely the same thing. If you want strategic battling then you go online to face others for that.

[Anonymous No.10261759]

>>10261747
>Do the later games ever improve and force more strategy from the player?
From what I hear, the end game content especially in gen 5 gets interesting. But I tried playing Black/White and I'm just not into it anymore.

[Anonymous No.10262552]

>>10259771
>if you're a casual that wants to snooze your way through the game, sure
>hehe wins against two gymns so easy mode
>looses against every zubat in the fucking cave
>looses against every shitty ass bug in the game
>oh confusion? dead
fuck off

[Anonymous No.10262557]

>>10260646
picked bulba and I'm gay, it's true :(

[Anonymous No.10263007]

Bulbasaur was my fav because he was the coolest in the anime. Charmander was a lil bitch who almost died in the rain and Squirtle abandoned Ash to be with his gang. Bulbasaur was stubborn and strong and always saved Ash, so that's why I always picked him.

[Anonymous No.10263172]

>>10259631
The only reason I chose Bulbasaur was because my first Pokémon game was a copy of Pokémon Blue with only the cartridge and a faded label. For my starter I wanted to chose the one that was closest to what was on the cartridge (Blastoise) and somehow ended up with Bulba. Best mistake I ever made

[Anonymous No.10264498]

>>10262552
How do you have skill issues on easy mode - IN POKEMON?

[Anonymous No.10265256]

>>10259631
squirtle was imo. i did a double playthrough of gen 1 recently. used bulbasaur in red and squirtle in blue. each starter is pretty busted overall but i think squirtle got the best deal. the TMs it has access to allow it to become ultra strong earlier. bulbasaur gets access to razor leaf, which alone is pretty damn busted in the game but by the time mine was able to learn it, the turtle already had access to bubblebeam, dig, and ice beam. now granted it's a baby brain kid's game and you can beat them however you want. but it's just some thoughts i had after i played the games. was gonna do a charmander run but i got bored of the game after the second run. maybe one day in the future.

[Anonymous No.10265564]

>>10259631
Leech seed
sleep powder
flash

combo is insanely OP troll shit. Hidden power fire gen 2 Venusaur wipes the field.

[Anonymous No.10265574]

>>10260764
I picked Bulbasaur as a kid and grew up thinking a lot of gay and trans people are pretty annoying

[Anonymous No.10265587]

>>10261619
Girls didn't care about Pokémon

[Anonymous No.10265736]

>>10264498
how about you do it anon. Go make a new game, get bulbasaur and then just make the good old
>I train mostly my starter
then let's see how it will be for you.

[Anonymous No.10265892]

>>10259631
>the only dual-type starter until Gen6

[Anonymous No.10265931]

It had to be levelled a bit against wild pokémon otherwise you'be entering Mt Moon with low speed and Zubat preventing you from fleeing while draining your health with a 4x effective Leech Life. I learned it the hard way. But don't become a pussy either. GF should make the game balanced.

[Anonymous No.10266034]

>>10265736
>>10262552
>good old
>I train mostly my starter
>just play as shitty as I play, ok?
So you're gonna ignore that zubat is flying and thus weak to electric?
>loses to bug
Holy shit anon, you night be clinically retarded. Among the first mons you capture is a Spearow, which gets peck out if the box. Should I speak slowly and explain how that's a flying attack and advantageous when faced with a bug type opponent?

These are wild pokemon, you're not supposed to have such difficulty where you're always losing the game to them. This is a video game intended for younger school kids after all.

[Anonymous No.10266041]

>>10265574
>bulbasaur puts trannies on the mind
Maybe that's why GF avoided dual types for starters as >>10265892 pointed out.

[Anonymous No.10266170]

>>10264498
>complain about something being le easy mode
>"um the game isn't even difficult at all!"
Well, which is it?

[Anonymous No.10266210]

>>10266170
I didn't complain about it being easy mode. I'm telling a retard that he's a retard for getting filtered by Zubat and bugs, the little babby areas of a game that's piss easy.

[Anonymous No.10266613]

>>10266041
The resident tranny of /vp/ loves Ivysaur though, I tend to posting cuck porn featuring it to make him so mad that he starts posting cartel gore vids and gets immediately banned afterwards
that's what you get for quouting me in order to make a retarded cringe opinion without my permission

[Anonymous No.10266649]

>>10259771
I've also noticed the harmonica. Anyway blastoise is the best because he's blue.

[Anonymous No.10266654]

>>10265587
My first gf did and she also liked dbz. Native american girl, total nerd that was cute in the right clothes.

[Anonymous No.10266658]

>>10263007
Gayyuy. Jk, good points

[Anonymous No.10266725]

Squirtle is probably the best equiped to solo the game. You can get a stead chain of water moves from Bubble-Water Gun-Bubblebeam-Surf/Hydro Pump, Ice Beam from Celadon department store, and Body Slam and need nothing else. If you use him exclusivley, you'll outlevel everything by like 10 levels before Misty and then nothing can stop you.

[Anonymous No.10266784]

>>10259631
You are right because you can do the Brock Through Walls glitch with him very quickly. Once you're done with that you can promptly chuck him into the PC afterwards. Fuck using starters for battles.

[Anonymous No.10266815]

>>10266784
>Fuck using starters for battles.
even when i was a little kid i realized that if you want some challenge you have to drop starters.

[Anonymous No.10266873]

>>10266613
Is Ivysaur doing the cucking, is he getting cucked?

[Anonymous No.10266895]

>>10263007
>showfag

[Anonymous No.10266897]

When I want to discuss pokemon stuff, I go on /vr/ instead of /vp/, the board that is dedicated to pokemon shit.

[Anonymous No.10267005]

>>10266725
also dig because dig is as strong and accurate as earthquake in gen 1

[Anonymous No.10267359]

>not dumping all of your TMs on unevolved pokemon that can all learn metronome

[Anonymous No.10267783]

>>10266873
Ivysaur is built for Feraligatr's permamently-erect crocodile cock

[Anonymous No.10268681]

>>10259789
lettuce

[Anonymous No.10268682]

>>10261727
pikachu... easy on the rare candies...

[Anonymous No.10268692]

>he's even here now

[Anonymous No.10269012]

>>10266897
Yes because we're discussing the game. Contribute or fuck off.

[Anonymous No.10269371]

>>10267005
I was about to correct you, until I checked bulbapedia. I hd no idea Dig was this fucking strong in Gen 1.

[Anonymous No.10269818]

>>10266897
Get woodowed, pseudo.

[Anonymous No.10270423]

>>10260726
It’s ok man I won’t tell your boyfriend you picked Bulbasaur

[Anonymous No.10270975]

>>10259631
>pick Squirtle
>get Weedle
>train it up to Beedrill
>get Twinneedle
>invalidate half the game
>crush rival's Bulbasaur with Bug attacks because "ur mom lyl"

[Anonymous No.10271103]

>>10265736
You can pick Bulbasaur and have it solo the entire game until Diglett cave, then catch five Dugtrio. At that point there's nothing left that can even slow you down until the Elite Four.
Healing items are cheap as dirt and Bulbasaur has Leech Seed on top of that. You shouldn't even need multiple trips to 100% dungeons.
Pokemon is a very easy game made for children.

[Anonymous No.10271113]

>>10262552
there are like 2 viable bug pokemon in all of gen1, the others get demolished by any starter and are pure fodder

[Anonymous No.10271162]

>biggest BST of the starters
>poison powder + leech seed for early game
>hyper beam + solar beam for late game

[Anonymous No.10271804]

>>10259631
King of the ring kino

[Anonymous No.10271824]

>>10270975
>crush rival's Bulbasaur with Bug attacks
Ran it through a damage calculator. Twin Needle KO's venusaur in 5 turns if you're lucky.

[Anonymous No.10272042]

>>10271824
"No"

[Anonymous No.10272057]

>>10271824
Meanwhile my venasaur hits you with that toxic leech seed combo and by turn five venasaur still has full health and your pest has been fumigated. Get wrecked, peedrill

[Anonymous No.10272309]

>>10259631
If you were a little girl yes. Boys picked the other two.

[Anonymous No.10272312]

>>10260646
Can confirm this. The three kids I grew up around who picked him either came out or cross dress now.

[Anonymous No.10272475]

>>10259631
Bulbasaur sucks dick, though. Squirtel and Charmander always result in more fun playthroughs.

[Anonymous No.10272492]

>>10260740
He didn’t say Charmander wasn’t gay, he just said that Bulbasaur used gay and it was 100% effective.

[Anonymous No.10272497]

>>10261727
You can't evolve your starter Pikachi into Raichu in Pokemon Yellow.

[Anonymous No.10272693]

>>10260646
this lines up with me too. now I wonder why is this a thing.

[Anonymous No.10273904]

>>10260646
us grass chads are straighter than an arrow actually
game freak knew this and decided to make one of the later grass starters pure sex, as a treat

[Anonymous No.10274047]

>>10259631
Ive always been form over function for pokemon, they always had to look cool. None of them looked cool to start, but Blastoise had those cool water cannons so you always picked squirtle, and Lowe's and behold, your first gym was all rock type, once again proving squirtle was the only choice unless you liked dinosaurs so much that you actually enjoyed Jurassic Park 5,6,7,8,9 and 10, then you picked charmander. Gen 2 it reverses and you skip the water type and go to fire because you get typholsion and even the tiny typhlosion was sort of cool even though he was made of 3 triangles in his first form on GBC.

Of course none of this matters now because the game is designed to take 120hrs to play whats really a 20hr game at 6x speed. How anyone plays this at 100% speed I dont get, I could be stuck in an autoshop waiting room and get bored trying to play pokemon now, go right back to pretending to watch the daytime tv show on mute. 90's entertainment was slowmotion as shit how did I ever put up with it aside from just not knowing any alternatives?

[Anonymous No.10274085]

>>10260646
I picked Bulba and I fucked women you wouldn't even dream of ever having

[Anonymous No.10275058]

>>10271824
>Ran it through a damage calculator
Not a gen 1 one I assume because Twineedle hits like a truck against Grass/Poison types.
Like a 300 base power truck AND if it crits, it crits twice. Venusaur is FUCKED and that's putting it lightly.

[Anonymous No.10275218]

>>10271824
>>10272057
Bug was super effective against poison in gen I zoomie

[Anonymous No.10275672]

>>10259631
You can get water and grass Pokemon really easily, and really early on. Gyarados, Oddish/Bellsprout,and Paras/Butterfree are all before Misty, if you can't Mega Punch your way through her. The only good starter choice for gen 1 is Charmander, Embering your way through Brock doesn't even require healing.

[Anonymous No.10275695]

>>10259631
You mean fucking Charmander
It's literally pokemon RED

[Anonymous No.10275697]

>>10262552
>wins against Brock
Only technically, you have to over-level to 13, to get Vine Whip. Bubble/Ember's STAB will get you through it faster, than Leech Seed+Tackle will.

[Anonymous No.10275698]

>>10260646
Same with Yoshi players in Mario Cart 64

[Anonymous No.10275703]

>>10273904
nice try vorenigger

[Anonymous No.10275708]

>>10272057
>Toxic + Leech Seed
>on Beedrill
>Bug/Poison type
How are you going to use Toxic on a Poison type?

[Anonymous No.10275838]

>>10275672
Charmander and Squirtle are basically easy mode. Real gamers picked Bulba for this reason.

[Anonymous No.10275862]

>>10275218
The other way around

[Anonymous No.10275881]

>>10275698
maybe its the color green?

[Anonymous No.10275884]

>>10275862
It's actually both ways but that's not relevant here.

[Anonymous No.10275909]

>>10260646
Might be the color green, since it applies to Yoshi in Mario Kart as well.

[Anonymous No.10275915]

>>10259631
which version?

[Anonymous No.10276965]

>>10259631
nobody picks him
>>10260646
except the gays I guess

[Anonymous No.10277120]

>>10259631
Blastoise can learn earthquake, blizzard, surf and body slam. It could sweep both Venusaur and Charizard in a fight easily.

[Anonymous No.10277123]

>>10271804
Gay. At least give it body slam.

[Anonymous No.10277182]

The true Gen 1 starter coming through

[Anonymous No.10277190]

>>10277182
OMG IS THAT ELVIS

[Anonymous No.10277656]

>>10275915
grayscale