Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle? Who is the BEST Kanto starter?

Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle...who will reign supreme when it comes to clearing a video game intended for small children?

This is a deep dive (7.8, too much water!) into each of Kanto's three starters, as well as an introduction to the Gen 1 quirks that you can take advantage of to maximize your starter's performance.

This is my longest "educational" (lmao) video to date and took me quite a while to research and stitch together. It was great practice on all fronts, and hopefully you'll find the end result informative and entertaining. Please let me know any and all feedback, either positive or negative; both are invaluable to helping me grow as a creator.

Please consider leaving a like (or a dislike!) and perhaps even tossing a sub if you feel I've earned it. Hope to see you on the next upload!

Can You Beat Pokemon GREEN With ONLY...the A Button?!

Timestamps!
00:00 Introduction
00:44 Rating Criteria
04:50 Kanto Overview
06:27 Bulbasaur & Gen 1 Mechanic Intro
10:05 Bulbasaur Analysis
15:08 Charmander Intro
16:36 Charmander Analysis
22:04 Squirtle Intro
23:24 Squirtle Analysis
27:30 Pikachu "Analysis"

BGM
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Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu / Eevee -Pokemon Center Theme

Route 1 Theme -Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu / Eevee

Pokemon Conquest - Grass Battle

Pokemon Conquest - Dungeon Theme 1

Pokemon Conquest - Event Theme 5

Magmar's Theme-Rival/Champion Battle (Pokemon)

Pokemon Conquest - Ground Battle

Pokemon Conquest - Flying Battle

Ai wo Torimodose!! (愛をとりもどせ!!) 1984 Full Instrumental Decent Quality

Pokemon Conquest - Water Battle

Pokemon Conquest - Poison Battle

Pokemon Season 1 Music: Silly Psyduck

Pokémon Anime Sound Collection - Team Rocket's Secret Strategy (Kanto Version)

#Pokemon #PokemonStarters #Gen1 #Analysis #Bulbasaur #Squirtle #Blastoise #Charmander #Charizard #Starters #Venusaur #Ivysaur #Pikachu #Kanto

[ImportedCheese]

Hey everyone,

If you're new to my channel, I'd like to thank you for taking a chance on a channel like mine with a small subscriber base. I know that a humble sub count is a bit of a red flag, but if you've scrolled down this far I've hopefully managed to hook you!

To my wonderful subscribers, thanks for being patient with me. It took me about 35 hours of writing/recording/editing to put this one together; I hope it was worth the wait! Reading your comments is what makes the process worthwhile.

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If you've come across this comment, would you mind leaving a reply letting me know how you came across my tiny channel in the first place? Just call me Colress because I'll be analyzing your feedback to help me reach a wider audience.

And of course, if you could share my content with others who you feel might be interested I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks everyone!

[luizbezerra]

Just to add something to your analysis of Bulbasaur: Lance's dragon types are actually useless against it, since they'll just keep spamming Agility and Barrier

[primalgiratina]

How Game Freak sees this video: "Green Charizard, Regular Charizard or Blue Charizard, which one is THE Charizard?"

[Blue-fgvt]

Imagine an alternative world where game freak idolized bulbasaur instead of charazard.

[dustinpaulson]

Bulbasaur. No matter how many Pokemon are created, he'll always be #001

[Kyouma.]

You can cheese Lance easyli with Venusaur by abusing two glitches. The first glitch makes the AI think that the Psychic-type Agility will be effective against Venusaur's Poison-type, so his dragons will always spam Agility against Venusaur. The second glitch is the Toxic-Leech Seed combo

[lawdjesus]

I always just picked bulbasaur because i liked frogs. I've been looking for a vid like this!

[Heattokun]

Adding something: Eggecutor’s line and venusaur’s line have access to an obscure glitch: toxic and leech seed use the same damage calculator. Since these two Pokémon are the only ones that learn both moves, leech seed will inherit toxic’s snowball mechanic, which means that whatever damage toxic is at, leech seed has the same

[Twigs_]

I love how Bulbasaur uses Razor Leaf while Charmander uses Flamethrower and Squirtle uses Surf

[PCPrincipalsHusband]

*throws rocks at a dragon*
Charizard: *dies*

[christinekatzman]

Imported Cheese: You can slowly stall out opponents with fancy tactics, or you can flamethrower and win.
Blissey, a go-to competitive staple: And I took that personally

[piemanlad]

Im a shuckle fan and im enraged!!

With 5 base speed it took me months to type this comment

[leetfukk]

If the criteria is the one that gets you into the Hall of Fame as fast as possible, we already know it's Squirtle from speed runs

[TheBlueWizzrobe]

Absolutely fantastic intro.
Also, minor correction: at 19:47 you say that gen 1 rock throw has 70% accuracy, but it's actually slightly worse than that with a measly 65% chance of hitting.

[jtalkalot]

I'm impressed. I hate charizard and love venusaur, but I've found someone who simps on charmander like I do Bulbasaur. You earn a sub. Also good video by the way.

[sevenlewdz]

he likes erika? no need to hear more **subscribes**

[oMaruMesmo]

When I was a kid, i chose Charmander.
When I was a teenager, i chose Squirtle.
Now, as an adult, I choose Bulbasaur.








Actually, I've always chose Bulbasaur, my froggy boy's the best !!!!

[pacoramon]

Raticate is also really decent in gen one, body slam+ bubble beam beats any pokémon with 1-2 hits.

[DKQuagmire]

in every single one of my yellow version playthroughs i use NIDOKING!!
If anything, Nidoran male should be treated as the yellow version starter pokemon.
though Mankey and Nidoran female are also options.

[ShadowSaberBaroxio]

Bulbasaur easily wrecks most of the gym leaders by virtue of it's typing alone. On top of that, it can abuse the most Gen 1 glitches. Super easy crits, laughable "super-effective" AI, Toxic + Leech Seed Shenanigans, etc.