What Is The Best Starter In Pokemon Soul Silver

[Lavonna Baldree]

Thenuzlocke authority among the community, Jan aka Pokemon Challenges, always advocates to always pick the fire starter because fire types are rare and very good, water types are abundant, and grass types are just trash. At least in official games because things change up a lot when playing rom hacks

HGSS falls under that category because Meganium is like the single worst starter among all the starters. Feraligatr, while being good, is often times just completely outclassed by Gyarados, which is a guaranteed encounter in this game and it's even shiny. Gyarados is the single best Pokemon in any nuzlocke game and I know that from my own experience in nuzlockes. Even in Hoenn where Swampert is really insane, Gyarados still gives it a run for its money as the best water type. It can really save your ass with its stats, early evolution and intimidate. That just leaves discount Charizard as the only one that isn't trash nor completely outclassed

According to these threads on reddit, it's either a toss up between Cyndaquil and Totodile and many users do say that using Chikorita is just straight up making things difficult. Given that Gyarados is a guaranteed encounter, you might as well use Cyndaquil as it is the optimal strategy. Don't worry too much about Miltank. The only reason that thing seems hard is because many were kids when they first fought her and kids don't really have the best grasps on strategies. I don't think it is super hard to find a fighting type and I believe you can even guarantee a Heracross in this game, I just can't remember how. If you have Heracross, make Whitney cry so much even god himself will envious that her tears surpassed the flooding he ones subjected the world to

I will start this by saying it definitely isn't Chikorita. It has poor type matchups against 5/8 gyms, as well as Team Rocket. It's shallow move pool and bad defensive typing also doesn't help it at all.

Cyndaquil is a solid choice, being fast to evolve and with good Sweeping stats and access to powerful STAB moves by level up, such as Flamethrower, Lava Plume, or potentially Eruption. It has a relatively easy time early game Clearing through Sprout Tower and Bugsy usually singlehandedly, and transitions well enough into late game, having only 2 true hard matchup, being Lance and Clair. It's flaw come from its also shallow move pool, making it more so just a 1 trick pony.

Totodile, in my opinion is the best starter for a nuzlocke in this vacuum. Water Typing alone makes it more viable then the other choices, considering this gens lack of a Grass or Electric specialist, As well as the generally weak selection of those typings available in this game. It can hit just as hard as Typhlosion late game with much better bulk for survival. But what really sets it apart from the other two is it's superior move pool. Capable of learning Bite and Ice Fang Early and Fighting/Ground/Rock coverage in the late game.

The caveat is their are so many good Water Types available, Namely Gyarados, Quagmire, and Tentacool to name a few. Gyarados in particular, is essentially a more powerful version of Feraligatr, filling all the same niches that Feraligatr does while having a superior ability and more powerful stat spread.

Typhlosion is much harder to replace, Fire types are often rare in the wild,and the selection this game isn't all that great with Ninetales, Rapidash, and Magmar, but if your playing HG, you can get access to Arcanine, a more well rounded Fire Type with better abilities.

TLDR while Totodile itself is a bit better then Cyndaquil, the wide array of good Water types available mitigates its advantage slightly. If you want your team to have a fire type, Cyndaquil is the answer, if you don't need a fire type, Totodile is the answer.

Cyndaquil

Cyndaquil is neutral against Falkner, but beats Bugsy and his beautiful Bug types, which is good because his Scyther is deceptively dangerous. As do all starters, it struggles with Whitney and her vile cow, but is neutral against Morty, as well as Chuck, but struggles against his Poliwrath. It will do good against Jasmine for the first part, but her Steelix needs something else to take it down. It also struggles against Pryce, and against Clair. In the Elite 4, it struggles against Will due to his Waters, and beats a good chunk of Koga's team. Bruno isn't a great matchup with the Rock coverage, and it does pretty well against Karen. Finally, it struggles a good amount with Lance.

Beats: Bugsy, Jasmine, Koga, Karen

Loses to: Pryce, Clair

Totodile

Again, Totodile is neutral VS Falkner and Bugsy, and struggles with Whitney, but beats Morty with Bite. It is neutral against Chuck and beats Jasmine's Steelix and resists Pryce, but struggles against Clair. It does well against Will and Karen.

I have codes from reobtaining the Johto and Kanto starters as well, but I haven't tested them and assume they probably won't work either. I believe I got them from the same locations as I got the hoenn starter codes. So I'd like those codes for the US version too.

PS: I did the event where you trade a fortress for "iron" with Steven. I think that event comes after you get a hoenn starter from him. I don't know if that will impact whether or not the code will work, or not.

I'm in Saffron city, outside of the huge office building, only one pokemon on my belt. I boot up the game with the codes, click start+select at the same time, then walk into the building. The building is, of course, empty except for the woman at the counter and the police officer at the elevator. I tried walking around to activate the event or clicking a to see if he's invisible and I need to talk to him, nothing worked.

If you want, I'll through up a YouTube video, beginning with me entering the soulsilver-loaded action replay into my DS, booting it up, showing you the accuracy of the code, and the failure to get the Steven 3rd gen starter event via ANY activation.

I've done nature modifiers, shiny modifiers, max items, all TM/HM, max money, et cetera. All work immediatly. Never even had to re-enter the code, always get them right the first try: even the long ones.

It was automatically detected by my action replay, but I double checked it on some forum somewhere just in case, and it was what was posted there. But it's not what YOU just posted here. I'm afraid to change it for these reasons (works with other codes, was automatically detected, and independently verified), but I guess I can always change it back. I'll try the code you put in and see if it works. If it doesn't, I'll show you a Youtube video showing the code I've entered and everything working except for the Steven Stone starter thing.

There is something in the code that is preventing it from working in a CERTAIN circumstance. Otherwise it would work for all of us or none of us. There's something different in my file from most other files that is preventing the code activation. I can't read or understand your code, so I can't logically figure out what it is.

Is there ANOTHER block or event "switch" that tells the game that the event already too place? Is there another event or situation in the game that can tell Steven Stone to not show up? There must be, or else it would work. We're missing something.

After reading his post......and maybe before that i got the feeling that he did not hit all the flags necesary to meet steve for the first time....: You must get the copycat girls item back then meet steve in vermillion city and then have the national dex and then he must show up in saffron city for the first time and ask you for a stone to obtain....then after you get the first "legal" starter you should use the cheat code and then enter the buillding and it should work.....!

The first time I got the Hoenn starter I got it legit, so I know I originally got all the events completed to allow Steven to appear. I got all the badges, got the national pokedex, beat the elite 4 the second time around (after 16 badges), defeated Red, and did all the Copy Cat girl stuff. Just in case you're wondering about any of that. Hum, maybe I'll check to see if any of the copy cat girls events repeat or anything weird...

I kinda doubt that any codes I've used screwed up the events allowing for Steven to appear, since I haven't entered any code since I got my first Hoenn starter from him. If a "bad" code I entered is what's screwing Steven up in this new code, then wouldn't it have screwed up my legitamite obtained hoenn starter? I DID actually enter the duplication code after I got my first Hoenn starter, but that was long after I was already having issues with this infinite steven stone starter code.

Anyways: Yes, I manually enter all my codes directly into the action replay on my DS. It's sometimes long and grueling, lol. I have no idea how to copy paste them into the code manager, I cannot find the option to do that anywhere. It all looks very simple and limited.

But don't worry, like I said I checked the code over dozens of times without exaggeration. And I've never made an error before. Even my friend Jenner (who can look at codes like these and even tell me what certain lines mean) looked it over.

Alright, figured out how to do it. Wasn't that hard. I didn't want to do it because somehow I remembered a long time ago whenever you added codes this way it wiped everything else on your action replay or something.

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