IMO both Charizard and Typhlosion should be bumped up at least one tier. Charizard I'd actually move up two. Flame Burst from Charmeleon is amazing in the early forest fields that you fight in, since it completely negates the field and turns it against the opponent. And against Corey it lets you suicide attack any of his Pokemon should it be necessary on that path. And Dragon Rage on Charmander will be a powerful tool until at least Florinia. Typhlosion is less useful, but at least still has lava plume by the early 40s, letting it do similiar field based shenanigans. Though I could also see an argument for leaving it where it is.
Blastoise knocked down at least one. Though, Blastoise might honestly be worse than Meganium early game since at least Bayleef won't be one hit ko'd if any of Julia's Pokemon look at it funny, and resists Florinia as well. Wartortle has neither advantage.
And...Greninja needs to be bumped down too. Don't get me wrong, Greninja is good. Very good. I have one in my full playthrough of the last several episodes. But early game its not amazing like some of the others. Its level up movepool sucks until it is fully evolved, and the lack of TMs early game mean you can't abuse Protean enough to get major use out of it. IMO Infernape and Swampert are better than Greninja AS A STARTER. Solid B IMHO.
Feraligatr I'm unsure on. On the one hand it does have powerful physical moves to use in Crunch and Ice Fang. But it doesn't get a decent physical STAB move until well past the Circus, which again limits its viability as a starter, which as with Blastoise isn't helped by being weak to both Julia and Florinia. Though at least it will be able to hit Florinia's Pokemon with Ice Fang, so its not Squirtle levels of bad.
nature power sceptile should be A, instead of a great move pool you can span leaf storm mega drain and nature power and you are good, and some fields you get a lot for nature power that combined with unburden terrain seed its OP, and dont forget you can get mega sceptile before hardy gym fight.
And plz dont forget the legendary mixed attack sceptile spammer of leaf storm and abuser of terrain, seriously you did dirty puting him on that rank.
...hm...not sure. I've never used either one (I have a general thing about not using Pokemon my rivals use), so I don't know how good those two are. And I didn't comment on them due to that. Just considering the stats though, I doubt it. Especially Incineroar (though that might have something to do with me not liking physical fire types). Greninja does at least have great speed, while both Incineroar and Primarina have...basically no speed actually. And Greninja does at least have a good enough attack and special attack stat to let it be a mixed attacker. So maybe an A then. A bit worse than Charizard, but better than those two (at least in theory, since never used either).
I've used Greninja just about every playthrough of Reborn and while it's good it's not Blaziken good. It actually has a nice earlygame with Protean. A lot of Pokemon use normal type moves which it can avoid with lick. It really struggles midgame right after evolving into Greninja because none of its moves hit hard enough until it gets extrasensory. Then it gets hydro pump icy wind, dark pulse and a lot of other moves that make it the second best starter.
I think Serperior is the third best. Sure it sucks that it doesn't get leaf storm until a higher level but it's not all bad without it. It's reasonably bulky and fast so I like doing one of two things before learning leaf storm: coil set with leaf blade slam strength coil and leech seed or use a subseed set with giga drain substitute leech seed and hidden power. You need to not have contrary for the first one but that's fine, you can find an ability capsule right at the start and there's at least a couple more before you would get to the point of having to change it back for leaf storm. After it gets leaf storm its insane but we all know that.
So imo Gren can go down to A+ for its poor midgame, Serp can go to A+ for having a managable early and midgame while being one of the best lategame starters. I also think that Typlosion and Venusaur can go up a tier. I was going to suggest Feraligatr to move up but it gets its first physical water move at level 63 so yeah, just remembered why I don't use it. Other than that I think the tier list is pretty accurate.
Incineroar and Primarina get strong Stabs upon evolution. Incineroar is reasonably bulky and gets a wild variety of moves via Level Up. Primarina has the highest unmodified Special stats of any Pokemon and gets solid utility moves and offensive coverage,
Greninja doesn't get any good attacking moves except maybe like, Extrasensory, until you get Dark Pulse from Luna, which is way later compared to Incineroar/Primarina getting their strong stab moves potentially before Corey.
As for Serperior, it doesn't get Leaf Storm until based Level 64, or something like that, It's in the 60s. Serperior has no support movepool to speak of and its piss poor offenses mean it doesn't do any relevant damage to anything. It's just too awful for too long.
I'd put Delphox one level up, or even two, and Charizard up two levels (Delphox has VERY useful typing in reborn, usefulness throughout the whole game, while Charmander destroys early like it's nothing, only slightly dropping off later when you get access to better fire types), Decidueye one level up (he's suprisingly decent for a very long time, and even later you can rely on him - he's constantly good, not perfect, but all time good in many situations and settings, you just dont need to try hard to get him rolling in reborn). Greninja is disappointing in reborn, as mentioned in many posts above, down two levels.
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