Starter Pokémon

**Starter Pokémon**, or **Starters**, are the Pokémon a trainer chooses at the beginning of their Pokémon journey.
In each generation of Pokémon games, a set of Starter Pokémon are available for new trainers to choose from in sets of three; the types that make up these sets are Fire, Grass, and Water. However, *Pokémon Yellow* is currently the sole exception to all the above, with Pikachu as the only starter available to the player.

## Trivia

* All starter Pokémon except Pikachu have a 12.5 chance to be female and a 87.5 chance to be male. Eevee is the most notable.
* All grass starters up till Generation VI were reptilian.
* Each starter type has a bird based Pokémon, Rowlet being Template:Type, Torchic being Template:Type and Piplup being Template:Type.
* All the second and third evolutions of the fire starter Pokémon from generation III to V have Template:Type as a secondary type. They are also the only Template:Type/Template:Type type Pokémon.
* With the exception of Pikachu and Eevee, all starter Pokémon are all either Template:Type, Template:Type or Template:Type.
	+ Bulbasaur and Rowlet are the only Starters to be dual-type in basic form, being both a Template:Type- and Template:Type-type and a Template:Type- and Template:Type-type respectively.
* With the exception of Typhlosion, most Fire-type Starters' final evolution consist of two types.
* All the Starter Pokémon have a common color on their bodies. Fire starters have red, Water starters have blue, and Grass starters have green.
* In Kanto and Unova, there are three Gym Leaders who specialize in the same type as the Starters: Misty and Cress use Template:Type types, Erika and Cilan use Template:Type types, Blaine and Chili use Template:Type types.
	+ This is the same case with the three trials captains on Akala Island in Alola.
* In Hoenn, the Starters gain signature attacks unique to them: Sceptile gains the attack Leaf Blade, Blaziken gains the attack Blaze Kick and Swampert gains the attack Muddy Water. In the later generations, these signature attacks were also given to certain other Pokémon.
* In Unova, the Starters, with the exception of Tepig, Pignite and Emboar, originally had signature attacks, but were also given to certain other Pokémon: Snivy possesses Leaf Tornado, Oshawott possesses Razor Shell and Tepig alone possesses Heat Crash.
* In Sinnoh, Torterra, Infernape, and Empoleon all have a super effective typing against the other. Example: Torterra is part Template:Type, Infernape is part Template:Type and Empoleon is part Template:Type.
* In Johto, the Starters stay pure Template:Type, Template:Type and Template:Type types throughout their evolutions. They never gain a new typing.
* In Kalos, the Starters gain a greater type advantage over the disadvantage type as well as possessing a signature attack: Chesnaught is part Template:Type and possesses Spiky Shield, Delphox is part Template:Type and possesses Mystical Fire, and Greninja is part Template:Type and possesses Water Shuriken.
* In Alola, the Starters gain secondary typing unique to the Starters before them as well as possessing a signature attack: Decidueye is part Template:Type and possesses Spirit Shackle, Incineroar is part Template:Type and possesses Darkest Lariat and Primarina is part Template:Type and possesses Sparkling Aria.
* Starter Pokémon have unique special abilities: all Template:Type Starters possess the ability Overgrow, all Template:Type Starters possess the ability Blaze, and all Template:Type Starters possess the ability Torrent.
	+ However, Pansage and Simisage have Overgrow as their hidden ability, Pansear and Simisear have Blaze as their hidden ability and Panpour and Simipour have Torrent as their hidden ability.
	+ This also not always the case. For example, one may breed a starter Pokémon and get one with a special typing (For example: Greninja can have Torrent (normal) or Protean (special) however this is a rare occasion. Same with Delphox it can have Blaze (normal) or Magician (special) besides it being the ability of Hoopa)
* Except for Pikachu and Eevee, all the Starters in any form can learn the ultimate attacks. Bulbasaur, Chikorita, Treecko, Turtwig, Snivy, Chespin and Rowlet can learn the ultimate Grass attack Frenzy Plant. Charmander, Cyndaquil, Torchic, Chimchar, Tepig, Fennekin and Litten can learn the ultimate Fire attack Blast Burn. And Squirtle, Totodile, Mudkip, Piplup, Oshawott, Froakie and Popplio can learn the ultimate Water attack Hydro Cannon.
	+ However, both Eevee and Pikachu can learn what can be called the ultimate attacks in there respective type in any form. Pikachu can learn Volt Tackle, and Eevee in one of its evolved forms, can learn Hyper Beam.
	+ The starters also have the Pledge moves that are exculsive to them: Bulbasaur, Chikorita, Treecko, Turtwig, Snivy, Chespin and Rowlet have Grass Pledge, Charmander, Cyndaquil, Torchic, Chimchar, Tepig, Fennekin and Litten have Fire Pledge and Squirtle, Totodile, Mudkip, Piplup, Oshawott, Froakie and Popplio have Water Pledge.
* In Pokémon Colosseum, the player starts out with an Espeon and Umbreon, while on Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, the player starts off with an Eevee. However, these games are not part of the main series.
* Pikachu is the only Starter that has a pre-evolution.
	+ This said pre-evolution is Pichu.
	+ However, in the game that Pikachu is the starter, Pichu didn't exist yet.
* Bulbasaur, Eevee, Chikorita, Mudkip, Turtwig, Tepig, Fennekin, and Litten are starters that stand on four legs, others stand on two legs(or arms in Popplio's case).
* The rival trainer the player character comes across will *always* pick the player's Pokémon's weakness, with a few exceptions.
* Thus far, all Template:Type-type starters have a flame somewhere on their bodies by their final evolution. Three of them, Charmander, Cyndaquil, and Chimchar, have such a flame from the beginning.
* In the first six Generations the vast majority of fully evolved Template:Type type starters end up dual-type with Typhlosion being the sole exception, however three out of six Template:Type type starters and three out of six Template:Type type starters never end up dual-typed.
* Starting in Generation III with Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald the starters began to be obtained outside the resident professor's lab with Hoenn having the player character save Professor Birch from a wild Pokémon by picking from Treecko/Torchic/Mudkip in his briefcase, the wild Pokémon was a Poochyena in Ruby/Sapphire and a Zigzagoon in Emerald. For Generation IV in Diamond/Pearl the Player and their rival find Sinnoh's starters Turtwig/Chimchar/Piplup inside a briefcase left behind at Lake Verity's shore by Professor Rowan, though in Platinum Dawn/Lucas returns it to Rowan shortly after he stops them from walking into the tall grass just outside Twinleaf Town giving them out on the spot. In Black/White Professor Juniper delivers a present to the player character's house containing the starters Snivy/Tepig/Oshawott. Black 2/White 2 had Bianca giving them to the player character in Aspertia City, their home town, from inside a container. In Kalos the player character receives one of the regional starters, Chespin/Fennekin/Froakie, from a kid named Tierno in Aquacorde Town at an outdoor table along with several other kids, and they also get a Kanto starter from Professor Sycamore.
* In Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, Professor Birch will give Torchic/Treecko/Mudkip to save him from the wild Pokémon. After beating the Elite Four and the Delta Episode, he will give the choice of Chikorita/Totodile/Cyndaquil to rescue him again. After beating the Elite four a *second* time he will give the choice Turtwig/Piplup/Chimchar. Now beating the Elite Four for the *third* time, he will give the choice of Snivy/Oshawott/Tepig. That means the player gets one of the three regional Pokémon for Hoenn, Johto, Sinnoh and Unova before they beat the Elite Four four times.
* In Pokémon X and Y, two starters can be obtained. The player can pick between Chespin, Fennekin, and Froakie, then later they can choose all of the Kanto Starters except Pikachu and Eevee.