Correction: 10. I knew this would end up being a thread filled with people who are absolutely clueless. /facepalm
Yes yes, we know nothing. We just talk to the extent of our knowledge. Go find people who are dedicated to Pokemon to talk about your crazy technical stuff.
I haven't gone into a single theory or concept involving calculations...I hardly see how this is technical. All I ask is that you look stuff up before posting. You have the internet at your fingertips and yet you still just conjecture without any factual information. It doesn't take much to look up base statistics and Christ, there's places like smogon and serebii that tell you flat out what are the best pokemon for their roles. It isn't just base statistics, but how the pokemon is played, movesets, and most importantly how well they fare against other threats in their bracket. Did I actually know that Venusaur could learn Swords Dance in R/B/Y before this thread? No. I looked that up on Smogon and it's a damn impressive setup that looks very similar to the Swords Dance setup today. I was also curious enough to see where exactly you'd find the TM for Swords Dance and that would be at Silph Co. Too bad it wasn't any sooner than roughly the 6th gym. With this new information, you might not have as much trouble against the 6th and 7th gyms if played right despite the disadvantage. Since Sabrina uses Psywave which is not type-dependent, you have a chance. Against Blaine, I'd suspect some good prediction or timing to set up and Body Slam will do the trick...or like most sensible people, just send in a different type. It's still off regardless.
Really, I don't think the person who posted the thread cares about blissey, skarmory, or any of those, as they aren't starters. Back to what was said originally, IN MY EXPERIENCE, I find it easiest to go with the fire type overall, though it will be a little more difficult early on. The water type has few issues and overall is pretty powerful, but as stated before, is pretty neutral in a lot of the gyms. The grass type is only good if you are dedicated to making a solid move set. If you play Pokemon like I do, you really won't care about support moves and will just go for moves that end the battle quickly. Also, no matter what you say, the fire starter has always been strangely overpowered compared to the other starters. The fire starter is the only one that I can ever run through pretty much the entire game with alone. Provided, there would be HM slaves, but they're worthless anyways. I've never been able to do this with the grass or water starters. When I hit a brick wall for them in terms of weaknesses, it's a damn solid wall.
How about this, For the newer games, Get a second DS, trade the other two starters over. I did that once. :
It just takes so long though. I mean, I did it once too, but for my Sapphire version. It wasn't worth the time, as overall, the starters don't get as powerful as some other Pokemon of their type.
Obviously, their starter Pokemon. I don't really see a good team comprising of any one Starter Pokemon.
Or all three for that matter. For getting through the game though, it really isn't that bad. For battling other people, I would never use them unless they somehow became a staple of your team.
Which I wonder how it would be possible. I usually keep them until my playthrough is done, then dump it aside and get a real good team for stuff like battle frontier,
I usually lose momentum by the battle frontier and such. If my current team can't beat them, I'm not going to fight the Elite 4 around 150 times to get a team good enough to fight there.
