What is the Worst Starter Pokemon?

starter Pokémon are some of the most

beloved and memorable in the entire

series I mean every game literally

starts with you picking one to be your

partner to make sure these Pokémon feel

special they're across the board pretty

good some are perhaps a little bit too

good and when they aren't doing so well

gamefreak tends to give them special

treatment with mega evolution gigantex

forms and Regional forms but not all

starter Pokemon have been treated this

way some are out here begging for scraps

while Charizard stuffs itself silly and

that got me think thinking what is the

worst starter Pokémon of all time before

anybody tries to beat me up in an alley

for saying that their favorite starter

Pokémon sucks keep in mind that I'm

talking strictly about competitive

Pokémon here I love a lot of the Pokémon

on this list but that doesn't stop them

from being dogwater competitively okay

nobody's going to get mad at me right

okay first on our list is septile ah I

can already hear the comments yelling at

me listen it's not as bad as you think

I'm starting from least bad and moving

up I've selected five starter Pokémon

that are really bad but not quite the

worst and then I'll share the top three

worst starter Pokémon of all time septi

is on here because well it just isn't

very good as a pure grass type Pokemon

it has a number of weaknesses and

there's a bunch of types that resist it

septi main selling point is its speed

it's faster than most Pokémon the

problem is it doesn't really have a way

to make use of this septile has the same

attack stat as quell marom and thwacky

you know middle stage starter Pokémon to

compensate it also has less special

attack than Haunter not Gengar Haunter

and unlike many grass type Pokemon it

doesn't have the supporting move set to

really mess with your opponent's

strategy it doesn't get Spore or sleep

powder either of which would actually

make it really threatening on top of all

that septile is frail if it gets hit

with any super effective move it'll do a

grov vile impression from Pokemon

Mystery Dungeon and vanish all starter

Pokémon of a type have the same ability

overgrow for grass Blaze for fire and

torrent for water their hidden abilities

though can vary and these can have a a

pretty big impact in septile case its

hidden ability is some kind of sick joke

it's unburden which doubles its speed

stat once septile has consumed Whatever

item it's holding while for some Pokemon

doubling their speed is a big deal speed

was the only stat septile didn't have to

worry about thanks game freak now

septile has gotten buffed over the years

most recently it was given the move shed

tail that despite being a great move did

nothing to improve septi viability the

more meaningful buff was the

introduction of meas septile now a grass

and dragon type mega septile was even

faster got a lot more special attack and

a massive 10 points to its defense the

only increase to its bulk on the plus

side it did get the ability lightning

rod which actually is a big upgrade Mega

septile is by far the best septile has

ever been which is still uh let me check

uh not very good while you could do some

cheeky Shenanigans with like choice

scarf discharge to make it stronger it

was just so frail that using it was a

liability grass and dragon both being

weak to ice meant even weak moves like

icy wind were a huge threat and the

addition of two new weaknesses in dragon

and fairy didn't make things any easier

since you could only Mega Evolve one

Pokémon per battle it isn't hard to see

why Mega septile wasn't worth using

speaking of not worth using let's talk

about one of the most beaded starter

Pokémon of all time embor as the third

firefighting starter in a row embor

received a lot of negativity when it

released and its Public Image did not

improve once players started using it

while Infernape and blazekin look cool

and are fast and strong capable of using

their good offensive typing to overwhelm

opponents embor is slow and looks well

goofy now the good thing about being

slower is that typically Pokémon that

are not so fast tend to be much bulkier

to compensate embor seems to have missed

the memo on this one while it does have

a lot of HP its defense and special

defense stats are like seeing a Band in

concert that isn't very good live they

leave a lot to be desired embor is

strong and its hidden ability can make

it even stronger Reckless Powers up all

moves that have recoil like flare Blitz

and wild charge while the damage boost

is nice more damage means more recoil

damage making it even harder to keep

embor alive basically if you want to use

embor you need to use the move trick

room which lets slow Pokémon move before

fast ones but mmore actually isn't even

slow enough to really take advantage of

trick room it's got this awful speed

stat where it's slower than anything

even average speed but faster than the

slow Pokemon that tend to thrive in

trick room like aongus despite all of

embor shortcomings there is one player

who believed in it more than any other

this player used embor to win their

first event a regional back in 2011 and

then brought embor to the World

Championships finishing sixth who was

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as I talk about the next Pokémon on our

list for alligator okay I do feel like

people are going to be mad at me about

this one too but I'm not here to tell

you what you want to hear I'm here to

tell you the truth ver alligator more

like garbor ver alligator is a pure

water type Pokémon wow how original even

though it's not as slow as embor I mean

it's still not very fast and while it

bulk is well not great but at least

better than the Pokemon we've talked

about thus far it's somehow super weak

it's a gator but they didn't give it any

attack why the issue with feraligator

and this is going to be true with a lot

of Pokémon on our list is that there's

nothing that really makes it unique for

example some of you may know that

feraligator gets Dragon Dance but if you

want a water type dragon dance Pokémon

you're better off using Gyarados if you

want to foro setup and instead run an

offensive item in for alligator like I

don't know choice band you'd probably

rather use a zerel if you want a bulky

water type well there are a ton of

better options like my loic or gastrodon

I could go on but you probably get the

point there's really nothing that makes

feraligator better than its peers I

guess the one thing worth mentioning is

that it does get the ability Shear Force

which in my opinion is one of the

weirdest abilities in the game cheer 4

says hey if this Pokémon uses a move

that has some sort of secondary effect

that could activate forget about that

secondary effect and take a damage boost

instead the reason I say it's weird is

that for whatever reason it works with

life orb life orb is an item that gives

all the users moves a 30% damage

increase in exchange for 10% of their

Max Health every time they hit something

and for whatever reason this 10% recoil

effect is counted as a secondary effect

for sheer force meaning you keep the

damage Boost from Life orb without

losing any health while this is a really

great combination for sheer force users

generally it isn't enough to save our

strong jawed friend for alligator just

isn't fast or strong enough to make use

of this powerful interaction and that's

probably the reason its results page

looks like this this is actually an

identical results page to our next

Pokemon tort Tera torta is a grass and

ground type Pokemon that unfortunately

is by far the weakest of its generation

while Infernape is fast and strong and

imp poon has a great ability and cool

typing tort Tera got stuck with a

quadruple weakness to ice and a great

role in detective Pikachu T is the first

Pokémon on our list to actually have

respectable bulk while it isn't absurd

it is tanky enough that it should be

somewhat difficult to get rid of it if

you don't have the Right Moves its

attack isn't good per se but it is

usable especially since torta gets some

high damage moves but that's about where

the good news ends torta is super slow

which like I mentioned earlier would

imply you prefer to use it in trick room

but because it isn't strong enough you'd

never use it over an actual trick room

attacker that can you know do damage

with its quadruple weakness to ice and

weaknesses to Fire and flying though

using it outside of trick room isn't

much easier in scarlet and violet Tor

Tera was given shell smash a powerful

move that doubles the user speed attack

and special attack stats and there was

talk about whether this would finally

allow tort Tera to well maybe not

dominate but at least do something it

would not unfortunately torta is so slow

that even doubling its speed doesn't

allow it to outrun many of the faster

threats in the format not to mention it

is so vulnerable on the turn you use

shell smash since the move also lowers

your defenses so despite this buff and

gaining access to the powerful new move

headlong Rush torta still hasn't been

able to do anything ironically there

were a few weeks back in 2015 where

Grotle Tor tera's pre-evolution was a

major threat it was used as an endgame

demon using leech seed and synthesis to

keep itself alive as it gradually

Whitted opponent's teams out of HP as a

pure grass type it doesn't have that

quadruple ice weakness and it's actually

really tanky with the Evite item which

it can use because it isn't fully

evolved it didn't like take offer

anything and I don't think it got any

like super good results but it's the

only time that I can think of where

anything close to torta was relevant

which brings us to our final member

before we talk about the three worst

starter Pokémon of all time delox delox

is a fire and psychic type that is one

of the most forgettable starter Pokémon

ever it's designed to be a fast and

strong special attacker but it isn't

fast enough or strong enough to work

very well while also not being bulky

enough to do anything else when Del Fox

released it was one of only two Pokemon

that could use the move mystical fire a

middling power move that lowers the

target special attack stat and this move

was basically the only reason you'd ever

want to use Del Fox unfortunately

mystical fire was changed in later games

to be usable by way more Pokémon

including the number one Pokémon in the

game taking away Del Fox's only real

special trick fire and psychic are okay

typing at least they work together well

offensively as no type resists both fire

and psychic and defensively they do all

right too providing seven resistances in

exchange for five weaknesses

unfortunately Del Fox's stats just

aren't good enough to bring out the

typing's full potential one thing that

could have saved Del Fox is its hidden

ability with a great ability like

drought or psychic surge it would have

actually been usable instead Del Fox got

magician and if you don't know what

magician does you aren't alone off the

top of my head I could not tell you with

100% certainty after doing some research

I figured out that the way that magician

works is it allows the user to steal the

item of whatever Pokemon it hits while

stealing items sounds good in theory it

only works if the user isn't holding an

item so if you want to get any value out

of magician you either need to run no

item or an item that can be consumed if

Del Fox were bulkier it could be a

decent user of citrus Berry to recover

HP and then steal an item but

unfortunately giving delox a citrus

Berry is like giving a toddler a Ferrari

it won't be able to use it very well

your only real option is the focus sash

which won't even activate every battle

and even if it does delox could get

knocked out before it has a chance to

move if delox is a magician it's like a

kid who got baby's first magic kit and

they're so bad you can see exactly how

they're doing the trick but you want to

encourage them them so you pretend to be

amazed anyway all right enough talking

about mid Pokemon you didn't come here

to learn about what the almost worst

starter Pokémon were you want to know

about the bottom of the barrel the

starter Pokemon game Freak should issue

an apology over for messing up so badly

and what better place to start are worst

of the worst than with a Pokemon with

two forms and no hope samuro samuro is a

pure water type Pokemon from Unova that

just sucks it basically has everything

that was wrong with FR alligator but

it's somehow even worse probably the

biggest issue with samuro are its stats

it doesn't do a single thing well it

isn't strong enough to be a sweeper it

isn't bulky enough to be a tank and it

isn't fast or slow enough to be useful

inside or outside of trick room if you

want a Pokemon to be below average at

everything samuro is a great place to

start but stats aren't the whole story

what about samur Ro's ability plenty of

Pokémon are saved by their ability right

well Samurai's ability is good in a

vacuum it's shell armor which prevents

it from getting critical hit the thing

is shell Armor gets more value the

tankier a Pokémon is as they'll stick

around for longer meaning more and more

potential crits get negated

unfortunately as we've already

established samuro isn't that bulky of a

Pokemon what about its moves well they

aren't bad but they're pretty much

exactly what you'd expect it gets all

the water and ice moves that come

standard with your water type in the

mail it doesn't have really any

meaningful coverage moves outside of

like Grass Knot that's that's actually

kind of it it is worth noting that

samuro actually placed third at the

world championships in 2011 a fact I

completely forgot about until uh just

now this is because back in 2011 you

could only use Pokémon that were

catchable in black and White's Pokedex

and there were way way fewer good water

types than usual unfortunately after

2011 samuro was never seen again but

samuro got another chance at life when

the Pokémon from Legends arus were added

to scarlet and violet as Hui and samuro

was a new take on on the Narwhal now a

water and dark type its new stats oh

they're somehow even worse it's a little

stronger and faster now but still not

fast enough to outspeed anything and

they actually made it even frailer at

the very least Hui and samur Ro's

ability is better now being sharpness

boosting the power of specific cutting

moves by 50% which is actually a big

deal and huian samuro gets a signature

move called ceaseless Edge that both

does damage and sets up the entry Hazard

spikes when ever it hits something while

this is a cool move it still hasn't made

it worth it for anybody to actually use

Hui and samro especially with so many

better water type Pokemon available I

feel like they got so close with huian

samro with the better typing ability and

move pool but by changing the stats to

be even worse than they already were

they've doomed it to obscurity but

obscurity would be a kindness compared

to the state of our number two worst

starter Pokémon of all time deui this

one especially makes me mad because

design-wise

rocks an owl Archer and it evolves from

rowlet which is one of the best recent

gen starters in my opinion let's not

talk about dartrix anyway they did deui

so dirty just like samuro most of the

problem is with its stats actually both

samuro and deyy have extremely similar

stats their offensive stats are flipped

but identical except for a single point

and their defenses are in roughly the

same range thei is less bulky on the

physical side but maybe slightly more on

the special side and they both have the

the exact same speed stat so as you can

imagine these stats are a huge problem

grass and G typing is actually pretty

good as you resist a bunch of useful

types and get two immunities though you

do have some spooky weaknesses overall

the typing isn't a part of the problem

the same can't be said for its ability

deui gets Long Reach which is just a

total joke Long Reach allows deciu

contact moves to act as if they don't

make contact if you don't know what a

contact move is it's a special subset of

moves that basically trigger specific

things like Rocky helmet activates when

the user is hit by a contact move same

with flame body or effect Spore

basically a contact move is a move where

your Pokemon has to touch the other

Pokemon like fire punch or Thunder Punch

or ice punch or Mega Punch or Comet

Punch or actually you get it anyway this

ability is completely insulting because

it's basically like not having an

ability it only does anything when deui

one uses a contact move and two hit

something that would be affected by the

contact if you're lucky this might come

up once every five battles if that and

even then dodging a single instance of a

contact move rarely actually matters

it's part of the reason why the item

that does exactly this has never been

used competitively deise moves are at

least a little better it gets a

signature ghost move called Spirit

shackle which traps whatever it hits

until deu switches out or faints while

this is a really interesting move deui

just doesn't have enough going for it to

make good use of it even a number of

other useful damaging and support moves

aren't enough to save deui but just like

samuro Dei was given another shot at

life in Legends arus with its new huan

variant and this new form was somehow

worse than the original unlike huian

samuro huian deui stats actually got an

upgrade as it becomes slower and loses

some special attack in exchange for some

more bulk and a little more power in its

attack stat but unfortunately the new

grass and fighting typing is a huge

downgrade with no immunities a quadruple

weakness to Flying a new weakness to

fery and the inability for either type

to hit flying poison or bug types for

even neutral damage this typing is

nothing short of a disaster and huan

decidualized signature move is in my

opinion a downgrade while triple arrows

has a good base power a heightened crit

rate a 50% chance to lower the target's

defense and a 30% chance for the Target

to Flinch this move that would be broken

on a good Pokemon is somehow mediocre

the thing is deui is so slow that the

Flinch chance almost never comes up and

it isn't able to reliably combo with the

defense drop for the same reason huian

deui was given the ability Scrappy which

is actually good not only does Scrappy

allow its fighting type moves to hit

Ghost types it also makes it immune to

intimidate which is an ability that is

uh a little bit common but despite the

better ability and improved stats the

suan deui still has too much stacked

against it to ever hit the target all

right now all that's left just to talk

about the worst starter Pokemon of all

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say what the worst starter Pokémon of

all time is unfortunately it's one of my

all-time favorite starter Pokémon

Meganium

meum I love this thing because I love

Chikorita as a kid but holy cow it is so

bad it's like the designed a Pokémon

with the express purpose of punishing

anyone who uses it there is one good

thing I can say about Meganium and that

is that it is decently bulky it's not

like anything to write home about but if

it isn't being hit with crazy strong

moves it'll probably take two or three

hits which is better than almost

anything else on this list and that's

about where the good news ends Meganium

has super low offensive stats making it

nearly impossible for it to do damage

and it's not very fast as a pure grass

type it pretty much only gets access to

grass type moves but it doesn't get the

broken grass attacks no Spore no rage

powder not even a sleep powder Meganium

best moves are like synthesis leech seed

its ability is tied to the strong

sunlight weather condition but it's not

a good ability like chlorophyll or solar

power nope Meganium gets leafu guard do

you all even know what leafu guard does

it stops status conditions only if the

sunlight is strong no status conditions

what a miracle in the 13 years I've been

playing competitive Pokémon not only

have I never played against or seen

Meganium I've never even heard of anyone

considering it there are just so many

grass types that each do unique things

amongus puts Pokemon to sleep and

redirects Venusaur is a chlorophile

sleep powder sweeper jumpluff is a

support for sun teams RAB boom sets

grassy terrain tanks damage and does

damage back woen ogre PA supports his

team and does huge damage and then you

have Meganium where the best thing we

can say about it is uh maybe it'll sit

in the field for a few turns and despite

being around longer than any other

Pokemon on this list Meganium has been

given nothing no Regional form no mega

evolution nothing if you told me the

developers forgot about Meganium I'd

have no choice but to believe you

actually it seems like they're keeping

Meganium around just as a punching bag

on April Fool's Day this year gamefreak

announced that Mum would be the next

Terror Raid event even game freak thinks

Meganium is a joke but I guess the nice

thing about starter Pokémon is that

because there's so iconic there's always

a chance they'll be given some love in

the future who knows maybe some of these

Pokémon will be given a new form or a

new ability or actually I think it's

okay that some starter Pokémon are bad

maybe they should all be bad actually