Your Pokémon’s stats aren’t the only thing that matters-whom you battle makes all the difference. However, Bulbasaur too will breeze past the first two gyms, so where does that leave us? Squirtle does have the highest starting defense, and its attacks will be super effective against the first gym and those on the Mt. Early game, you have two tough trainers to face, as well as a draining slog to make (Mt. The starting stats at least don't appear to point the better initial investment. And if you calculate the percentage increase for each statistic for the three Pokémon’s evolved forms-how much better they get the longer you train them-no Pokémon yet jumps out in front. In terms of starting stats, it looks like all the starting Pokémon are on a similar footing. The next question to ask is the big one: What starting Pokémon should you have picked? Let’s start by looking at the statistics for all three starting Pokémon and their evolved forms: In subsequent generations since Red/Blue there have been many“legendary” Pokémon that have likely pulled averages up a bit, but all the stats are in a pretty good grouping. Over time, it doesn’t look like Pokémon have changed much (unlike how science fiction starships have). Using WolframAlpha’s data, I plotted the average (median) statistics for all Pokémon over the last five “generations” (everything up to the latest releases, X/Y): But first, it might be interesting to see how Pokémon, from a data perspective, has changed since I first played back when the original games debuted. With so much data now at anyone’s disposal, it’s the perfect time to settle the age-old starting Pokémon question. Recently, one of my favorite computing services-the amazingly useful WolframAlpha-decided to add the stats, pictures, and descriptions of over 600 Pokémon to its database. So, for all the nerds who have forever wondered, for all the kids who will second-guess themselves for the rest of their lives, it’s time to direct the same dedication that drove me to steal a trading card towards answering the question once and for all, with science. And like any fanboy or girl who has ever played the original games, Pokémon was singular in that it provided me the first life-altering choice in my young life: Which of the starting Pokémon-Squirtle, Charmander, or Bulbasaur-should I pick? It felt like a digital “Sophie’s Choice,” with any decision rendering two Pokémon forever un-catchable, destined to be used against me by my rival.
I have moved on from wanting to be the very best, like no one ever was.īut no matter what my relationship to Pokémon is now, I can’t deny that it was one of the driving forces in my nerdy life. I have refused to play the other games like the newest Pokémon X/Y out of some misplaced hipster angst.
POKEMON RED SAVE FILE BEFORE BROCK FULL
My binder full of rares has since disappeared. But as I got older, I didn’t stay with it. I was in China when Pokémon fever hit and I got it bad. I had the games, I had the cards, I had the trading cables (the most genius/evil marketing scheme ever unleashed on a nine-year old). Thanks to a timer attached to each play-through, I know that I have since spent full days training and battling in those virtual worlds.
The first introduction to my future Pokémon obsession was to Pokémon Red/Blue when the games first came out for Nintendo’s GameBoy. I was nine-years old and I had to catch them all. It was wrong to do, I know now, but at the time I didn’t care. The Kadabra was placed into a plastic binder filled with other cards, some “shiny”, some not. I was discovered and interrogated, but I eventually lied my way out of it.
It was slipped discretely from a child’s backpack and into my pocket. In the fall of 1998 I stole a Pokémon trading card in Shanghai, China.
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