Best Starter to choose in Reborn?

[yooorick 2]

Bulk up + Speed Boost Blaziken clears a TON of gyms/battles solo.

[SilverJakler 0]

I feel like Chespin would be a good pick too because of Bulletproof. But Torchich is overall the strongest choice.

[ShinyMewGirl_YT 0]

Who said one is the best? Atleast i know charmander is one of the worst D: srs i chose it and am still stuck on the 2nd gym and hes a lvl 37 charmeleon at this point D:

[mar_mar 64]

Well..since I've replayed the game many times..don't choose snivy, you'll have a problem with it in the second and third gym (Florinia and Corey respectively), I used to have a shiny torchic, adamant nature with really good ivs (I think it had speed boost but I really don't remember now) but I had a huge problem in corey's gym..um I chose fennekin now and it's a good choice, charmander can be good too. Idk about froakie though, you'll have a little problem with florinia for sure, but it's a versatile pokemon. I hope I helped a bit.

[Login 8]

Lel charmander worst? You do realize spaming Dragon Fire (or whatever its called) is dealing 40 dmg every try? So its sonic boom twice in once.... First and second gym easy as fck.... if u are talking about reborn lel

Didnt pick blaziken yet but one of the best mons for me are Swampert (yea little disadvantage with 4x grass ) Charizard , Fenneking

[WaruAthena 1]

Protean Froakie is spectacular because of the wide variety of moves it has access to. It even learns Smack Down naturally, which I still keep.

It's also very fast. Water Pulse and Water Shuriken basically allowed it to solo someone specific on Apohyll.

It has good Atk/SpA stats too, so you can work with both physical and special moves.

[team rocket pr guy 1]

i like mudkips <3 i chose mudkip both times i've played ( had to restart in the middle of my first run cus of a problem) and he has rarely disapointed me.

[doombotmecha 174]

my two faves are chespin and torchic, both for their broken hidden abilities

sboost has been discussed. come in on the right mon, boost, and bruce lee everyone

bproof iirc makes you immune to acid spray and flo's field boosts pin missle, letting you gain a nice advantage there, along with resisting Sand Tomb and being immune to brelloom's Spore

and of course a bulky grass is excellent vs. julia, esp. with rollout.

however, you pay for it in the next 2 gyms, (poison and bug), but by then you have a wide range of choices

[Razkar 4]

Infernape is great!

If you are patient enough you can breed one with thunder punch and fire punch after 5th gym, with iron fist it is very powerfull !
He is quite fast and has a boosted priority move (mach punch), well used he is a monster

[Anthony810 5]

I usually went with Fennekin but then Froakie came and well with Protean I found it to be VERY handy when it came to a type disadvantage.

[y8eurwvjskdbnwlkqd 1]

infernape is the bei

[NickCrash 250]

Alright alright alright.

Easy Mode

Speed boost Blaziken is easy mode. It learns Bulk Up and will help an inexperienced player for his first playthrough

Greninja is awesome and very versatile. Sure can turn a battle upside down thanks to its insanely high Speed.

Next is Swampert. Good bulk, nice moves, a bit hard to find STAB that is actually useful (at some point you get Brine but meh), and defeats gyms gg ez

Empoleon is another cool mon, since it has an awfully easy time against most leaders. You'll need to pass the first two before that.

Infernape is another Blaziken without the speed boosts. Fast on its own, hard hitter with Iron Fist, gets the job done.

Normal mode:

Venusaur

Charizard

Feraligatr

Typhlosion

Sceptile

Torterra

Emboar

Serperior

Delphox

Chesnaught

Hard mode:

Blastoise

Meganium

Samurott

[Tartar 103]

Just a thing to note.. While Speed Up + Bulk Up Torchic/Blaziken are in fact amazing, and can sweep many gyms, the main problem lies in the fact that Blaziken is otherwise kinda weak, with a decent speed and frankly, terrible defensive and offensive stats.

And therefore against anything it can't set-up against its useless. Be wary of this, when Blaziken shines, it's amazing, but in many situations it can also be very useless.

Otherwise, remember to be open minded with trying new strategies, look for Pokémon in unexpected places, remember that after you've gotten your 3rd badge you can face some trainers in the Main Hall whom you can rebattle. And finally, Ampharos is our god and savior, and you should get one and use it.

[Guest]

I'm doing a little experimenting myself and I've found Fennekin to be more useful than Cyndaquil. I'm gonna try a Fighting type run and use Speed Boost Blaziken myself.

[drevance 0]

Mudkip is always a good choice. Damp + the ground typing is pretty useful early game. Iirc it gets rock slide around Shelly which is useful. Swampert is just a monster, especially after it gets Earthquake.

Although I found Charmander to be better overall than mudkip from running through the game. Flying/Fire is a pretty good typing, with access to dragon rage which makes early game easy and serves a good purpose for pushing red health mons to faint has been super useful.

I'm really liking Bulbasaur. Leech Seed + Big Root/Black Sludge has been amazing. Haven't completed the game with him yet but I'm looking forward to it. The poison typing is really useful for absorbing toxic spikes that the enemy seems to love to throw around.

[Might Gai 63]

by my opinion, blaziken is the most op "and infernape is a lees op version" followed by greninja, charmander is the best early mecause dragon rage, and if you give serperior enough love til lvl64 he will become instopable

[DemICE 230]

i see many ppl mention greninja, tho its not really anything special in-game, not even with protean. i think they jump to conclusions from the competitive scene yea it has some variety of moves but thats it

also charmander line is not only good early game, but later too. I have solar power and sunny day on my charizard, and its heat wave does obscene amounts of damage

[5hift 78]

I chose Mudkip and got my ass handed to me by Fern(shithead) in the beginning of the game.

Water types really aren't too great towards the start of the game.

[WSGreen 13]

When I did my second play-through of reborn I picked turtwig and it put in the work for the first 3 gyms. It ate up Julia's helioptile attacks and i spammed curse and blew everything back with razor leafs. And for Corey lvl it up to lvl 32 to get torterra and EQ and the only problem mon for him is crobat.

[CheddarSouffle 22]

Blaziken makes the game ridiculously easy.

Poor Chikorita. It has to get WAY buffed to be even decent.