All three Dark type Starter Pokémon would dominate Kanto because of how OP the Psychic type was

A funny thing is that Oshawott really fits with Johto thematically, because it's a samurai on a traditional Japanese region

Can’t believe he didn’t mention my favorite starter trio: Pachirisu, Starly, and Munchlax from Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia. 😂

Well, if you consider Greninja's RPG class to be rogue, you can easily slot him into Galar thematically by likening him to Robin Hood. Also, Primarina has way more move options than merely Water, Fairy, and Ice.

The Alolan starters would actually do amazing in the johto region. Primarina would leave lance in a coma being effective against 5 of his Pokémon, going neutral with Gyrados. Decidueye would would fair pretty well against Chuck, Morty, Will, and even Bruno. Even holding his own with Koga as his ghost type makes him neutral to poison. Incineroar would do pretty good against half the gyms and Will adding his dark typing. Being especially useful against Whitney as it can double kick and burn the opponents. Not to add it learns outrage at level 46 so he would be able to take on lance

It would be really interesting to see what individual starters would be best in each region, but still sticking with the requirement of one grass type, one fire type, and one water type. Maybe a topic for another video!

I’ve always thought the starters are endangered species in the region or wherever they’re actually from. That would explain why we can’t find them in the wild in most games. They’re starters to help preserve the species and make them feel more special than just any wild Pokémon :)

I would absolutely LOVE a modded heartgold/soulsilver where we could run through it with the unova starters. Something I didn't know i needed until today

I don't when I'm going to watch this video, but I'm hoping to see Chikorita in a region that isn't floraphobic like Johto

This fits with one of my issues with the games on the switch, had BDSP been a remake like ORAS we could have played Sinnoh with mons from Gen 5-8(at the time of release) and gotten so much more out of the game like trying a playthrough with a later starter

I’d say Greninja still fits in Galar, not as a ninja but as an assassin type of character Europe even had martial arts but they didn’t care about it when they saw how effective guns were

@Emperor Cubone - lol you killed me man "in a Happy way to heaven kind of way" with the pure nostalgia music playing in the background lol my hats off to you sir :)

I’d honestly love to see you do this again with the individual starters as well

Very fun video idea!! I love all your picks and I definitely wanna do runs if these games with the starters you picked!

The Kalso Starter was make a whole lot of Sense

Another great creative concept!

1:44 “Roger Roger, my brother!”

I think the Galar Pokémon theme into Alola well! Soccer seems to be pretty prominent in island countries, along with different cultures whose main instrument is the drum. Intel Ron is the weirdest here, but I always think of “James Bond like” characters going off to remote tropical islands to fight their main villain.

I have been commenting this for years now but I have to say once again this is a brilliant and creative video idea I have not seen before

This is a really interesting video idea!

I think it'd be a lot more interesting a conversation if it actually was on an individual Pokemon basis, but this is still a good video!

Poor Torterra, it's the only grass type starter without an overwhelming advantage vs water types, and it gets sent to 7.8/10 too much water. Although yeah, at least it's the one best suited for taking on Team Magma. As a fun afterthought: The starters from Ranger 2 Shadows of Almia might be reasonably well off in Hoenn as well. The first choice of partners you get in that game is between Munchlax, Starly and... Pachurisu. The partner Pokémon don't evolve in Ranger, that's why this is seen as a fair choice. There are two other places where Pachurisu might keep up with Staraptor and Snorlax: Let's Go Pikachu, assuming Pachurisu gets the overpowered new Pikachu moves, or Hoenn, where it will at least stay usefull for the water portions.

1:44 Somebody is putting the Emperor in Emperor Cubone

Delphox casually dominating every region because the evil teams are mostly poison, bug, and occasionally fighting. It even has a little bit of TM coverage to counter the dark types in Hoenn.

A good video would be what different combo of starters would be best in each region

Are they sure though? I mean....... In a next Legends game, the region itself can be based of the mixture culture between Old Norse and even Stone Age. So the best starters of that are Litten (Smilodon), Totodile (Spinosaurus), and Turtwig (Ankylosaurus)

I assume the deciding factor as to where they would perform best (in comparison to one another) would come down to their secondary typing, or lack of. It'll be interesting to see in particular which of the Grass starters would perform in Johto, given how it's rather harsh to them (I'm Chestnaut thanks to Rollout and later Fighting typing). 0:54 - Oh, where would each starting trio thrive the best. An even more interesting question than initially xpected. 1:33 - A bit ironic you say this when Bulbasaur's part Poison typing gives it's neutral damage from both early game Bug and Poison. Still true about the Flying type part though. 2:30 - I love how you even factored in the stats such as Wartortle's high Defence. It shows just how well this has been thought out. 3:55 - So the single type trio fares best in the other region that is home to a single type trio. Rather hilarious. 5:16 - It was so strange that the Kalos starters were passed up for Mega Evolutions. The Hoenn trio end up feeling more fitting for the Kalos region than the Kalos starters themselves as a result. 7:17 - Johto was my pick for the Kalos trio, so unless you're having two trios share the same "best region" I find this Unova pick particularly interesting. 8:09 - There is a repeat... but not the repeat I was expecting. The RPG class theme would fit Galar very well... though Greninja would to be renamed Grehero (I'm sure some Brits here well get that joke). 11:50 - So Unova, Kanto and Hisui are the two mainline regions that go by without an ideal starter trio. What a fun discussion topic!

interesting video concept

Great video

This is a ridiculously fun idea

I like the idea of Johto Starters being at Kanto because Chikorita may be much helpful

I'm most excited to see if new legends games gives the other Johto, Unova, and Alola starters alternate forms. Im excited to see either Meganium, Emboar and Primarina, or Feraligatr, Serperior, and Incineroar get rebooted like the Hisui mons did.

Just imagine if they had Rilaboom in the islands. Team Skull would probably love it(I think)

So I have traded eggs across and I can confirm that Piplup does well in Hoenn. At least in ORAS. Trading in Pokemon from other regions is a lot of fun.

I’d probably put the Eevee from XD gale of darkness in Unova either Games because the first gyms have normal type (😂not including the straiton gyms monkeys) and so the Eevee had equal early game matchups and afterwards you can than decide what way you want eevee to go. I’d place Pikachu in Paldea just because I think having the games mascot in the biggest open world games where you’re Pokémon can be out with you during picnics and stuff it’s iconic. And the umbreon and espeon I don’t know if I’d change because I like having a light and dark themed Pokémon in Orre the place known for shadow Pokémon but if I had to change I’d think I’d do Alola especially Ultra games because The games are literally sun and moon (which eevee changes evolution based on time of day) and the final Necrozma boss might be a tad easier with a dark type to counter and a psychic type to at least resist.

Ik the shadows of almia map when I see it absolute favorite non main series game

6:31 thunder punch go brrr

I wonder what Top 6 problems you have with Paldea. 🤔

I would really like to see a mix and match trio and the best region for them. Like how well would Blastoise, Chesnaught, and Skeliderge work together. Just an example

Okay, but for real. I would sooooo play every single region with these shuffled starters just for the experience!

What about which indivitual starters for each region and no overlaping so each region needs the best three starters that match them overall

I dont know if you have already or not but kinda similar to this... What new starter trios would you make and for what region like arceus, id love to hear your opinion on it!!!

1:22 that applies for every generation So when people say Pokémon needs a difficulty settings They don’t realize it’s always had it

Funny you had the Unova Starters go to Johto. In the original Black and White games, Lenora was my Whitney. I almost couldn’t beat her because Retaliate was just too OP for a second gym. Thank God I didn’t have to face her in the sequels because that would have been super annoying!

7:07 Am I the only one who saw that there was an arrow missing from Grass to Water (No, its not missing because of Steel canceling the weakness, otherwise there wouldn't be an arrow from Water to Ground)

"any grass typo would struggle against johto first two gym leaders" Rowlet: Am I a joke to you?

I'd like to see you place reach individual starter in is best region!

I don't think I've seen a video like this before

Smuggling Pokemon into games they shouldn't be in has always been fun

How would the list change if a Region could only be selected once? IE Once the Johto starters were picked for Galar, Galar became locked in and no other trio could go there? I'm just curious because I saw Sinnoh and Galar mentioned several times, but a couple regions didn't get mentioned at all in the list.

Emperor cubome:: the Paldea starters would do great in Sinnoh Aaron: hold my beer

This video just makes me sad that some of these combinations are impossible. As in you can’t use some of these starters in certain regions

Imo, Alolan starter in Kanto would be incredible.

Would you imagine what would it be like if you would have to choose between every single starter in Pokémon history

I think if you're going to do the individual Pokemon instead of trios as a followup, you should go through each region and say which Grass, Fire, and Water starters would thrive best against it and assemble new trios, and again as with here not worrying about putting multiple trios in the same game, not worrying about putting the same individual Pokemon as a starter in multiple regions. So first in Kanto, who are the best Grass, Fire, and Water starters? Bulbasaur might still be the best Grass starter but I'm a little inclined to say the best Fire starter would be Fennekin or Litten. Likewise going through all the other regions.

The Lets Go games were essentially starter changing games for the region if you don’t consider Yellow version. Having Eevee is basically using the starter from Gale of Darkness on GC.

Anyone know where the map at 1:06 is from?!!!

Dang i wanna use the paldean ones in sinnoh now

Honestly since every single starter Pokémon is going to be in scarlet and violet for the first time the last time all starters returned in a game was in ultra sun and moon so in scarlet and violet I'm curious to see how every single starter trio performs in paldea with updates with their movepools, what's the best tera type for every starter that's returning ect I'm curious 🤔😁😁

Alola starters in kanto with the alolan forms would be the only time I would consider returning to Kanto one last time cous now kanto would be complete with more now every typing and more than one line for the new/unique lines Instead of FRLG only having one steel line (magnemite) one ghost (gastly) one dragon line dragonite) Now Ghost has rowlet line alolan marowak Dark has litten, regional forms mega gyarados Fairy and dragon representation is now popplio line old normal mons now fairy, alola vulpix line and regional form exegg with mega charizard (f it add my boy poipole and type nulls as a retired UB killers wanting to chill in kanto both as a gift I’m wilding) Also got alola forms for more typing in steel sandshew line and psychic raichu as an extra PSY potential slot if you don’t want to alakazam Basically adding megas like LGPE let’s go meta/Pokédex but with alolan starters, melmetal, megas makes a bigger better game if you give them abilities and items Honestly got hype writing this but we’ll Pokemon is awesome but gamefreak woudve never even had this in mind just satisfied with adding in Pokémon go players and newly introduced melmetal with regional forms to switch 😢😂

There are Rom Hacks where you can have almost every starter. Here are some examples Radical Red: You can pick any of the 27 starters by choosing which generation/reigon you want to pick from. I picked Mudkip cause its one of the best water starters for the game. Other starters you can get via eggs, special events given by a rival, or catch in the wild. Another good water starter is Popplio thanks to Primariana's fairy typing. Meganium gains the Fairy typing which can be helpful. Best Fire starters besides Charizard are Blaziken, Infernape, or Cinderace with its hidden ability form. Best Grass starters are Bulbasaur, Meowscarada thanks to its hidden ability and pool of coverage moves. Samurott gains the Steel typing in this rom hack Luminscent Platnium: You can get the Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn starters all before the first gym so even if you pick Chimchar, you can get both Water and Grass starters before the first gym. In this rom hack Charizard is Fire/Dragon with Levitate so say good bye to its ground weakness, and Blastoise gains the Steel typing. Meganium has Fairy again and Feraligatr has Dark typing, and you can get Hisuian Typhlosion in this hack. Inclement Emerald: Choose which generation/reigon you want to pick from though you can get all starters at the Mauville Game Corner. Samurott gains the Fighting type, Meganium once again gets the Fairy typing, regular Typhlosion becomes Fire/Ground, and Feraligatr once again gets Water/Dark. That rom hack however only goes up to Gen 7 as of right now. GS Chronicles: Only goes up to Gen 4 but can get all starters including now Hisuian Typhlosion. NeoXY: Only goes up to Gen 6 but can get all starters Blaze Black 2 and Volt White 2: Goes up to Gen 5 , Charizard becomes Fire/Dragon and Meganium once again becomes Grass/Fairy

What if the starters were swapped with other starters of the type? Just a thought. E.g Mudkip swaps with Piplup etc.

I once beat Gen 2 remakes with only the Water type Starter. Just couldn’t beat Red on Mt silver, and never managed to beat him since.

Galar starter and a unique bunch they deserve more love They tried something different and I respect them for that At least it’s not fire fighting

Huh, which starter group wuld do best in Unova.

what is the map at 1:09 ?

This list of changes also works thematically for most of the starters.

In my opinion, Fennekin and Froakie would fit somewhere in Kanto or Jotho cause the Fennekin line could be based of a Miko (Shrine Maiden) and Froakie fits there because of its ninja theme. Maybe Hisuian Decidueye can fit there too. Meowscarada can fit in Hoenn cause of the contests. I would put Incineroar in Unova and Empoleon in Galar. Kalos can have Inteleon.

I like this video. If you ever do a sequel, you should use them individually and split the trio's. I think that could be fun

Is at 1:07 ? Is that a fan region or from a spin off?

Matching them based of effectiveness is a bit of a boring concept. I’d prefer if you matched them individually based on theme or geography. What it might as well be is predicting the next 6 Legends games starter trios. The obvious ones would’ve Snivy and Piplup being in Kalos since they are French.

The question is… which starter trios would fare most well in Kanto and Unova respectively

Greninja does slot in well for Galar being that the Isles of Armor have a heavy Japanese inspiration

Chikorita: anything but Johto! PLEASE!

What about the unova region???

4:02 Nessa is really hard for a begginer player, her Drednaw can set up rain and has Swift Swim

Would you say the Kanto starters thrive well in Kalos? This video reminded me that you get a choice of the Kanto starters on top of the Kalos ones in X & Y.

1:46 Why are the Separatists from Star Wars counted among the roster of evil Pokémon team?

Do This Again When Generation 10 Comes Out In 2026.

They are that’s why they were placed there in the first place 0:40 GF is really consistent with that stuff they get the lore right every time

I feel like Meganium (my favorite starter) both fits thematically best in Kalos, and pulls up where Chesnaught’s Fighting type makes it fall short there. Chesnaught (my second favorite) could also do better elsewhere; MAYBE Sinnoh since two of the later gyms are Steel and Ice. It would just have a very hard time against Aaron, Flint, _and_ Lucian, so Galar would probably be a better fit even though I think there are more worthwhile fighting types to choose. My argument for Meganium in Kalos: a) Kalos introduced fairies, and the 6th gym-read: after your starter will be fully evolved-is a Fairy specialist. b) The next highest level gym is Psychic. c) Fighting doesn’t resist Ice, so Chesnaught will do no better defensively in the final gym than Meganium anyway. d) The final elite 4 member _is_ Water, but Siebold’s Starmie has Fairy and STAB Psychic moves, which Meganium isn’t weak to. Meganium doesn’t really do anything better _offensively_ in Kalos, but if you don’t have a Grass/Fighting type, it frees up a space for a better suited fighting type on your team. A lot of people probably want to use the gift Lucario anyway and he takes neutral damage from all three of Chesnaught’s fighting weaknesses due to his Steel type. Plus the fact Meganium has a flower and its secondary color is pink. I feel like it just _looks_ nicer in the Kalos region (and the defensive help is just a substantial bonus.) 🙂🌸

So Unova is nightmare for any existing combo of starters😂. Had most fun and challenge in Unova region till now. Even Emerald was comparitively easier.

10:38 rillaboom literally has 60 sp. atk

Why is the separatist alliance symbol in with the evil teams

Kalos starters in Kanto would be great. Their secondary typings are fantastic in that region . Physical broken. Dark, countering broken psychic, fighting for the abundance of normal types

Ik you mah not play competitive but id like to add some would be goods in gen 9 post dlc Serperior, everyone is bracing for this demon already despite beimg wave 2 Incin, i domt need to explain Meganium, hear me out, depending on new moves and tera it could FUNCTION

Video idea: top pokemon that deserve a baby form!

Legend unova I think the starter should be Squirtle - turtle in sewer Turtwig - Central Park Litten - all stray ny cat. Hoping the slightly get different 3 stage

my favorite evil team, the confederacy of independent systems

If only Chikorita could have been in hoenn. Then it could have had a branch evolution with Tropious

Sad to see unova didn't get any starters in this video, so I'd like to submit my own pick! I propose the Paldean starters as the best pick for the first pokemon black & white games, thanks to the elite four! Because of the elite 4's ghost, dark, psychic, fighting combo, each starter has a member they'll struggle against, and a member they will demolish. Quaquaval's fighting type makes it a great choice for Grimsley, while its many flying type moves are a good counter for Marshall, and its water moves can defeat Shauntal's golurk & chandelure. Meowscarada's dark type is ESSENTIAL for the elite 4. It defeats both shauntal and Caitlin handily, while being resistant to Grimsley's dark type moves. Finally is Skeledirge! It destroys Caitlin, is immune to a lot of what Marshall can throw at it, and risking it with shauntal is great fun!

8:18 Digimon Xros Wars reference

I thought you were gonna mix and match

Running around and throwing stuff.

Finaly Alola is my favorite well next to unova

I would love to go through a region with nothing but bird starters; Rowlet, Torchic and Piplup (sorry, Quaxly).

I don’t see why a wizard and knight seem more fitting to Galar than Kalos to you when both had both in equal measure.

I thought this was going to be how they would fare in the actual physical environment!

It would have been nice if you had picked a set of starters for the Kanto region

The Cubone knows Thank you big boss