| Luke888 said:
Type advantage on gym leades+ which starter is the most competitive nowdays (with no mega of course) Venusaur is supereffective against both Brock and Misty (won't list all of the gym leaders, but the first ones are most important since it's when you have the laest mons in your team) while Charmander is weak to both and Squirtle is supereffective against Brock but resisted by Misty. List goes on for pretty much all of them, Serperior is there for competitive use since the 1st gym is supereffective against all of them and the second i normal... |
Haven't played the older games so can't comment there, but in no way is a mono grass type with a god awful movepool the best starter of it's generation. To get more on topic, I don't think there's any sort of trend or cycle Gamefreak follows, assuming they even know which starters are gonna be the best beforehand.
| shikamaru317 said: Froakie was the best gen 6 starter, but I'm #Team Rowlet this time. They better not let Popplio learn Ice moves though, or else it will completely wreck the starter type triangle, Ice is 4x effective against Grass/Flying. |
Of course he'll learn Ice moves, they wont make a starter drastically worse for such a silly reason. See Sceptile vs. Swampert or Empoleon vs. Torterra.
