Will its remaining Water-type manage to save face for Kalos? Tune in below to find out. It might seem as if we’re being a little harsh on Gen 6 here, what with two of its three starters being in the bottom four, but that’s just how the Lava Cookie crumbles. Speaking of which…įennekin! A starter that could have fared much better on this list if not for the aforementioned Delphox it will eventually grow up to become. We’re not saying that Incineroar is particularly great, but it’s a whole lot better than Inteleon, Chesnaught, and even higher ranked starter evolutions like Delphox, who has a cool typing but looks like it belongs in a bootleg Disney film from 1932. On the contrary, Incineroar is this evolutionary line’s only saving grace, allowing it to narrowly surpass Chespin and Sobble. Litten is a very strange starter Pokémon in that it suffers from the exact opposite issue to most other ones: it’s badly designed, whereas loads of other starters are great until they evolve. Drizzile? It probably recognises it alright, but it’s cooler to pretend it doesn’t. Pyukumuku Dhelmise Conkeldurr all jargonic names that Google Docs recognises. Judging by the red squiggly line we just saw, Google doesn’t even know its name. The worst bit is that Drizzile, the family’s middle evolution, is even more terrible.
Interestingly, all three of Gen 8’s fully evolved starters would actually be pretty good if not for Inteleon being Pokemon’s version of the McPoyles from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It never shuts up, it’s afraid of its own shadow, and it grows up to be a weird edgelord who shoots water out of its index finger and calls it a ‘signature move’. It’s not just that it’s outshone by the other Gen 6 starters – it’s cursed to be perpetually embarrassed by its parents.įor some inexplicable reason, lots of people seem to really like Sobble, an irritating little amphibian who, if Pokémon were real, would annoy anyone it was around in ten seconds flat.
That’s what we mean when we say it’s easy to feel sorry for this ‘mon. It’s prudent to note that Gen 5 featured a Pokémon who was literally made of trash and, in actuality, was still somehow less trash than the Chespin evos. It’s certainly not particularly good, but the primary reason for it being listed as the worst starter in Pokémon history here is because its evolved forms, Quilladin and Chesnaught, are both pure, unadulterated trash. The weird thing is that Chespin itself isn’t even necessarily that bad. The poor Spiny Nut Pokémon never stood a chance.
On top of being some vague form of unidentifiable, shelled rodent, it was introduced to the Pokémon series in X & Y, meaning it was burdened with the unfortunate circumstance of being unveiled to the world alongside the mischievous little frog that would eventually become Greninja. It’s easy to feel a bit sorry for Chespin. Here’s every single Pokémon starter, ranked from worst to best. We apologise for any inconvenience caused – this is just too big a breakthrough to disclose the details. This, reader, is the only correct Pokémon starter ranking that has ever been published, compiled using complex, highly secretive cutting-edge science that we are unfortunately incapable of revealing the methodology behind at this time. Even thinking about opening this can of Wurmple is a surefire way of instigating pure chaos.įortunately, we’ve decided to impose order on that chaos. While 26 starters might not seem like a whole lot, everyone in the world could have their own unique ranking and nobody would ever be happy with anyone else’s.
Agreeing to rank every Pokémon starter is basically the same thing as offering to be the main course at a restaurant full of starving humans.