The only debate people have about the Treecko line is wether Grovyle or Sceptile is better. It's actually rare for any Pokemon to have every single form so we'll liked.

Poor Chikorita, I don't understand the hate for it. I hear people say "it's weak against the first two Johto gyms", well Charmander is weak against the first two Kanto gyms and people respect it for it being "hard mode". It'll always have a special place in my heart, plus it's adorable.

I have so much personal nostalgia for Chikorita. When I was little my brother gave me a Chikorita plushie we named "Prince Leaf", it's been one of my top picks ever since. I love the designs of the whole line personally and don't really understand why people don't like it on a non competitive/offensive standpoint.

Not seeing a lot of love for Turtwig in here, which is too bad since it's probably one of my all-time favourites. The concept of a massive turtle with trees growing on its back is just so awesome to me.

I feel like over the years, Emboar has become less popular than Delphox. I personally love Delphox and always have, but still.

I love Fennekin line and nothing can change that. If I play XY games, I always pick Fennekin. Someone has to defend it from this cruel world.

Oshawott is my boy. It's so freaking adorable and full of personality. Dewott is one of the neatest middle stage evolutions, and while Samurott has been somewhat controversial, I think its Hisuian form is a definitive improvement over its Unovan form: sleeker design, no weird gorilla chest, cooler helmet, cooler sabers, and double typing. I'm not one of those who wanted a bipedal form for Legends Arceus, so in my book, the Hisuian Samurott line is perfect. I love it.

Chikorita might not be the most useful Pokémon in the game but in the anime it has so much personality and was one of my favourites

I personally believe if Delphox had a hat, it would be a lot more liked

I think Fennekin has that reverse middle stage syndrome, where the middle evolution is cooler than the last one. I think Bayleef, Dewott and for some people Groovyle are also on the list of middle-stage pokemon that can outshine their final forms. I think people may overlook these mons while picking them. There are many cases of starters with weird/unpopular middle stage forms, but they are completely saved thanks to their more remarkable basic and final forms. Grookey, Chespin, Mudkip and Squirtle are good examples.

I like the idea of giving Magnium the secondary fairy typing. Hopefully that becomes canon one day

Picking a starter is sort of like picking a level of difficulty for the game. For example, Bulbasaur in Gen 1 can be considered easy mode because it has an advantage over the first two gyms, whereas picking Chikorita in Gen 2 is choosing hard mode given its type disadvantages against the first two gyms. There are other battles throughout the game to consider, but once you get through the beginning, you have access to more types and the opportunity to diverse your team, so the beginning really is a challenge in itself and you rely heavily on your starter.

I’d say the least popular are Meganium, Emboar and Chesnaught. Meganium is forgotten I feel due to how popular the other starter Pokémon in it’s gen are, even it’s pre evolutions are a lot more liked than itself. Tepig has love but people don’t like Pignite and Emboar. This is the same situation with Chespin. Delphox Isn’t too liked but people love Feniken and Braxien a lot.

In terms of acknowledgment from the company itself, Meganium is the first Ilumina Pokemon on Snap! And was heavily used in the advertisements for the game

Now I wanna see a legends game where it includes Tepig, Chikorita and Popplio (tho I think they and their final form are still popular) are the featured starters. Would be cool to see them get some love on their own with new forms and new moves. Maybe something like a Grass and Fairy, Fire and Steel, Water and Ghost final forms or something like that.

I love Fennekin, Braixen, and Delphox ALOT. I love their designs so much and definitely one of my favorites

I personally think Fennekin and its evolution are underrated. I love the adorable fire fennec, alongside the dino cabbage and the mudfish axolotle.

Chikorita was my starter in my first ever Pokemon game, SoulSilver, and it will forever be among my favorite evolution lines. They're all so cute! Meganium is admittedly not amazing in battle but I love it all the same and pick Chikorita every time!

I love Delphox. Never understood why anyone could dislike it.

I hope tepig gets a regional form or something. tepig itself is a great design but the other factors weigh it down. Shiny Emboar looks awesome though

In my opinion, Delphox has the best shiny colours among all starters till date (except Gen 9 ones), I love its beautiful purple colouration.

I think you overlooked Chesnaught quite a bit. While its design isn't terrible, and is actually okay, it wasn't anything groundbreaking so people were pretty thrown off from it. Not to mention that it had no competitive prowess whatsoever. And even though it may be close, I believe that Quilladin is way uglier than Pignite and is in fact the worst stage 1 starter evo

Funny thing about Litten is it was the reverse for me. I was team Litten from it's reveal through much of pre-release. Then eventually saw its final evolution in the leaked pokedex. Immediately disowned it when I saw it became a wrestler which is just another fighter inspired design despite not having the type lol

I feel like some of the middle forms had something going and then the final for was like oh ok

I feel like Chesnaught is definitely the most forgettable starter so that would be my pick. Honorable Mentions would be Meganium, Delphox, Emboar, and Inteleon

I know this is going to make a lot of people hate me, but I honestly don’t think Tepig and its evolutions are THAT bad. I used them on my Unova team and I really liked them. They’re not as cool as the Cyndaquil or Treecko lines, but I still really like them. You’re allowed to send me hate comments in the replies, I don’t care lol 😅 Edit: I didn’t expect this comment to get so many likes and replies lol 😅

Chicorita was my first ever Pokémon in HeartGold version Therefore, I could never hate it. However, it is an awful choice and should NEVER be given a chance, less you seek punishment.

I appreciated emboar a lot more recently because I learned that his whole gimmick/strategy is supposed to be him using recoil moves and his high HP stat is what balanced him out. So basically his whole design was that he was supposed to inflict a big amount of damage to the opponent without suffering any real consequences because he has such a high HP stat. I would like to play black 2 but this time pick tepig and use this strategy. It sounds very fun to me personally.

The Tepig line were my 1st ever pokemon and it pains me to see how unpopular they really are. But I did like your analysis on what made a pokemon popular or unpopular, good job!

The Chespin line is definitely the least popular when I started my journey in Pokemon X I chose Chespin and I love it! If anything the line deserves more love especially since it becomes a Grass/Fighting starter pokemon. Chesnaught carried my team in Pokemon X!

Delphox will always be my favorite starter, the psychic/fire typing is great and the mage vibe is awesome

I see a lot of people defending Chikorita and I'm here for it! I picked her and have loved her since.

It makes me sad to see the Chikorita line getting a lot of hate. Sure it has its flaws but I wouldn’t consider it outright useless. Its appearance is beautiful in that the buds on its neck eventually bloom into an amaryllis flower, and it is a dinosaur; It’d probably be one of those herbivore Dinos. As for movesets, it can serve as a bit of a tank. It can learn reflect and light screen which raise both defense and sp. defense. It can learn Aromatherapy which removes a status condition off of you or an ally if you’re in a double battle. And it’s not like it can’t put up a good fight. Even if its level up moves aren’t the best, it’s not like you can’t improve your particular chiko’s moveset with TMs or move tutor. I have picked chikorita every single playthrough of Johto and I have always found a way to use it, and it has never let me down. I love chikorita, even if the majority doesn’t 🍃 🦕 🍐

Delphox has been datamined to be in Unite soon, and it's the only Kalos starter in Masters and Pokken (as Braixen). I think we can eliminate that from the least popular.

I think a good way to revamp the tepig line would be in another Legends Arceus type game where emboar becomes a fire/ground type and goes down to walking on all fours and make it more boar like(maybe an ability that has a chance to make a move priority to fit in with a boar rush) and making it similar to torterra in appearance I feel would be a solid improvement to that line

What I find interesting is that design-wise Water is not often the favourite of each gen but its also rarely the least favourite so its actually the most consistent, rarely divisive. In my mind, fire is the most popular starter type because it's so often the favourite of a gen, and yet it has some of the worst starter designs we've ever seen.

I always loved Meganium, if given a regional variant in some future legends game I think it would be well deserved

I still think that the Kanto and Hoenn starters are the perfect starter trios. Never really seemed like there was one obviously better and none stand out as being bad. (Side note, Sceptile is best grass starter !)

I dunno man, Popplio is imo fantastic and I love him. And no one can change my mind.

Aww I actually love Delphox's design it's a shame the majority don't like it :(

It’s so odd that one of my favorite starters is Chikorita. I think that’s because I loved Ash’s Chikorita that he caught in Johto Journey’s when I was a kid.

I've seen more love for Delphox than for chesnaught, I actually kinda hate chesnaught. For most of the games my first choice for a starter is either Grass or Fire type, and Gen 6 is one of the rare times when I would rather have the water type over the grass. As for the Gen 8 starters, I don't feel like many people actually like them? I would place them at the bottom 3.

Emboar will always have a place on my heart. It being so hated made me love it more 😩✋

THANK YOU for pronouncing the word Pokémon correctly! I just can't handle the other "Po-C'mon" pronunciation that's all over KZfaq.

I think Emboar's had a bit of a redemption lately. Not from any official source, but a lot of people are coming around to it now that Fire/Fighting starters aren't as oversaturated. Chesnaught on the other hand? I honestly haven't seen anybody talk about it.

I think you should've considered the chespin line for sure, because I've seen way more hate for it than the fennekin line lately, and according to a truegreen7 video he did a bit ago (which might not be fully accurate, but should still be relatively similar to the general opinions of everyone), every single member of the chespin line did worse than the fennekin line

Honestly, I really feel sad about Chikorita's entire evolution line. It's unfair for it to not have any good moves aside from Petal Dance in my opinion. I hope the Pokemon Company would improve Chikorita's line in the future by making it learn more adaptive moves like Dragon Pulse, Stomp, Earthquake, or maybe even some Fairy type moves. That would've been cool.

Chinese Zodiac Theme Believers: HAI-YA! **glues on rat tail and rat ears on syndaquil** **cuts off most of fennekins ear parts and shaves tail** **cuts off fuecocos limbs** **also forgets that fuecoco MIGHT be a horse**

Even if Delphox isn't the most popular it is certainly helped by being the best starter for a Kalos playthrough

How dare you call Meganium boring! It’s majestic and adorable!

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How Chespin is not the least popular pokemon in this list is beyond me.

Here's my favorite per gen Gen 1 = Honestly Bulbasaur's grown on me no that's not a weird pun lol Gen 2 = Chikarita, honestly I have the least amount of headaches with it. It level's up pretty fast and I usually have more problems with Cyndaquill and Totodile. Gen 3 = Treecko, you can't not love Treecko. Gen 4 = Piplup. I like it's whole evolutionary line, I think Prinplup is underrated. Plus steel types are my second favorite typing in Pokemon next to electric. Gen 5 = Snivy too me looks like a spiritual successor to Treecko, I think it has a similar attitude plus I've used it in many playthrough's so it's the one I'm nostolgic for. Gen 6 = Fennikin, it's the cutest and I have no shame in that being my reason for liking it, and honestly I never noticed the weird ear hair thing until people started bringing it up but I don't think it distracts from the overall cuteness it has. Gen 7 = Popplio, I do think that it's the cutest starter and to be honest I like the animal it's based off of. Gen 8 = Sobble, I thought it was adorable, and it conquers it's own self doubt when it evolves. I find it relatable because I was a big cryer as a kid and then I learned to be strong. So I relate to Sobble in a lot of ways. Gen 9 = The fact that it's a duck alone makes me like Quaxly, I love ducks, Psyduck is tied with Snorlax for my favorite Pokemon of all time just because it looks like a duck, I even looked up how to take care of one as a pet just because I love ducks. Now it's rumored that it's a pirate duck? Are you kidding me?!?!?!?!?!?!? I love pirates and I love ducks, combine my favorite type of fictional stories with my favorite animal of course I'm going to love Quaxly.

Meganium is my fiancee's favorite Pokemon, and she was beyond excited when Meganium got a big chungus variation in New Pokemon Snap.

Cyndaquil was my OG. As he evolved and got to his Typhlosion form with Thunderpunch, he actually stood a chance against water type Pokémon and rock type with Iron Punch.

I honestly love the Fennekin line, it’s legit my favorite Gen 6 starter. It also, in my opinion, has the best shiny line out of Gen 6. The Fennekin line is also super good throughout the entirety of X and Y, like crazy good. Idk why people hate it so much tbh

Delphox was my very first starter, and I love that thing to death. I feel personally offended when people talk bad about it lol. It's ✨majestic✨

Admittedly I feel bad for poor Chikorita. I have a huge soft spot for that cutie, and admittedly like Chikorita so much that I admittedly choose it over the other two Johto Starters. I just think that Chikorita is neat and sometimes you just gotta give the unloved Pokémon a little bit of love

As a young kid I liked Chikorita because it was cute. But I could (and did) just pick Cyndaquil if I wanted cute and strong! I'm a water trainer but I found Totodile too boyish, which my grass trainer big brother preferred. It's a good thing my twin brother has always liked every fire type pokemon lol

The least popular starter statistically is either Chespin, Popplio, or Chikorita. The issue with Chikorita and Popplio is the fan base has declared them to be too feminine of a starter as they're obviously targeted for female trainers. In Japan, Chikorita is considered to be "the most seriously useless starter Pokémon," however because its a classic and has more time to grow a fanbase it's become more popular over the years especially in the anime. With Chespin and Popplio though, they are still roughly new starters and considered to arrive past the "peak" of Pokémon. Between the two it seems like Chespin statistically is the least favorable since grass and fighting isn't the best combo typing, plus its design isn't as appealing to any other starters. With Popplio though, it typing of Water/ Fairy is unique and comes in handy with many battle in its debuted game. While Tepig might be the least liked out of the gen 5 starters, its selection rate is on par with Snivy and Oshawott. All 3 starters in term of design are equally balanced and the only real downside to Tepig in the fanbase is it being the 3rd Fire/ Fighting type in a row. It's stats are greater then the two other starters and even greater than Infernape and Blazikin in defense/ attack. So the actuality is Tepig might be the least favorable out of the fire starters, but the real worst starter statistically is Chespin due to it's terrible stats, design, and underwhelming appeal to the Pokémon fanbase.

My favorite is Chikorita and I came here full expecting it to be the least liked starter. I always loved Chikorita and Bayleef, but I disliked Meganium as a child/teen. Now I love Meganium and it reinforced my love for the Chikorita line, I like how it's a feminine bulky pokemon, and since I don't really play competitively I don't care about stats that much, I just know my Chikorita is always a valuable player in my team and I love it.

As a Chikorita fan, I already know the answer (said before watching the video)

9:44 “Pignite is a HUGE disgrace” Me with a custom made wooden sign of pignite in my bedroom: *nervous sweating*

“Who is the least popular starter Pokémon?” *puts arguably the 3 most popular starters on the thumbnail*

Emboar looks cool, y'all can fight me lol. Chestnaught is also cool, but Chespin is def my favorite one of the evolutionary line.

"Fennekins line is the most overlooked of its generation" TFW Chespin is so unloved in its generation Emp' unironically argued the Renamon of Pokemon was unpopular.

Been a fan of pokemon for years so I already knew chikorita had to be somewhere high on the list

I fall into the line of 'after three fire-fighting types Im done.' Torchic/Blaziken will always be my favorite Fire starter, and Chimchar/Infernape eventually grew on me... But I never have played a game with Tepig/Emboar as my starter...

Here's my favorite starters of each region! Kanto: Charmander. Johto: Totodile. Hoenn: Treecko. Sinnoh: Chimchar. Unova: Oshawott. Kalos: Froakie. Alola: Popplio. Galar: Scorbunny. Gen 9: Sprigatito.

My go to is always fire …grass is my least favorite but I do like the sleep powder moves that grass types learn

*My favorite starters are Rowlet, Poplio, and either Litten or Scorbunny, the gen 7 starters are just wonderful in my opinion, and Scorbunny can be any type*

10:06 tepig actually was in an outside game in the form of pokepark 2 where you could play as tepig, and although not as popular as the pokemon mystery dungeon games, I'd still say that helped tepig's popularity quite a bit an even gave it its own personality

I think I'm the only one who likes Pignite's design, it just looks fun for a fighting pig

Fennekin is the best and cutest starter and idc what anyone else has to say.

Maybe I just have a lot of friends that adore Delphox- cause I had literally no clue it was underrated in any sense Sad to see Chespin’s line get hate in any way since I love that Pokémon so much and since it was my Pokémon Y starter and the fact that he literally *carried* my team in several ways, but I get that the design is kinda boring and that it’s not the most stellar Pokémon but I’ve found it to be useful (obviously that’s subjective lol)

“They still have their signature moves” Delphox and Chestnaught: *pain as other Pokémon have their moves*

I fell off pokemon after Gen 3 and didnt return until they released x/y many years later when the hype was getting crazy for 3d pokemon. So I didn't really have the fatigue and all that with fire starters. And when I saw the kalos starters I was instantly drawn to Delfox, it was such a cool concept and I liked the design. I also only play mage characters in rpgs so there's that. I had no idea it was a disliked pokemon though.

I think Chikorita gets a bad wrap because many people chose the easier options in Johto. I found it and it's evolutions great once you get past the first two gyms, with my Meganium taking down most of the Elite Four in my first run-through. The Johto starters are really deserving of an upgrade, especially after they were overlooked for Megas. Even an additional typing or new form is deserved. Also, Bayleef is a brilliant design and was great in the anime. There's quite a few other starters and their evolutions that I just can't get with, especially in Gens 5, 6 and 8. Greninja being the exception.

My favorite Pokemon for each Gen Gen 1: Bulbasaur Gen 2: Cyndaquil Gen 3: Treecko Gen 4: Chimchar Gen 5: Oshawott Gen 6: Froakie Gen 7: Litten Gen 8: Sobble Gen 9: Sprigagito

I feel like Intellion is the most forgetable, as we often even forget to remember it as forgotten even though the gen just came out. I brings nothing unique to the table, and even with decent stats it doesn't stand out. All the more notable since it's a starter evo of the latest gen. Also Chikorita is bae, only Jhoto starter I solo'd the game with, and Meganium was my first starter to hit lv100

I think this was pretty fair. I like the chespin or tepig line the least. Chespin in itself is pretty cute though.

I feel like your videos always have an "Oh!" moment. Like I was like "I think it's usually the Grass type per gen", then you go "First, Gen 1 is probably safe" then I realized

Tepig was my very first Pokémon! I got Pokémon Black 2 for Christmas after discovering the anime and trading card game (Small child me had no idea the video games existed until I found out on the internet. I didn’t even get a Nintendo DS until near the end of the console’s lifespan) I begged my parents for any Pokémon game and I’m sure Black 2, being the most current release, happened to be the game they grabbed off the shelf at a Walmart. All of this to say, I’m 21 now and Pokémon has continued to be an enormous part of my life. I own almost all of the games in the series and replaying them brings me enormous amounts of comfort. Even though DPPt became my favorites and where most of my nostalgia is for, Gen 5, Black 2, and by extension Tepig, will always hold a special place in my heart, regardless of Tepig’s overall popularity. Here’s to you, Tepig! Thanks for kickstarting my love for this franchise. I’ll always love and appreciate you, even if you are the least popular starter of them all.

I love how the thumbnail is the 3 starters I’ve always relied on.

I still feel horrible knowing that pokemon itself doesn't like emboar... At least a handful of people still like emboar

Meganium was a prominent Mon in New Snap, even being on the box art of the game, so it has that at the very least.

I love all the less popular starters. I love Chikorita, Fennekin, Popplio evolutions ❤️

I have a very strong bond with Chestnut. When I was really young and just getting into Pokémon my parents bought me and my sister a few Pokémon plushies. I got a chestnut and my sister got panchem and nowadays I love both of them and they are on my favorites list. Their designs are also cool. I was very relieved that other people do not dislike chestnut because he’s my cute lil boi. (I say he but I mean it. It just looks a he)

personally i feel like the anime made me love chikorita and fennekin's evolution lines. its hard for me to believe how people might not like them but clearly i'm biased

I picked Chespin for my entre into X...and regretted it the moment it evolved. Never liked Chesnaught. And I've always felt the Froakie line was overrated. But I feel the Fennekin & Tepig lines are wildly underrated! My favorite grass type is the Grookey line! Still love it, and it's one of my favorite starters. But Totodile is probably my favorite starter of all time!

fennekin was and still is my go to starter 😭

I like how the staters on the thumb nail, was the most popular

You know, this makes me think about a theoretical future Legends game with those three least popular starters as its starters. One of each type, from different Gens... it matches up perfectly, and it'd make a nice contrast from Arceus, where all of the starters were... if not super popular (though I will say Oshawott, at least in the circles I've been in, was never particularly UNpopular - It's chosen as the starter of vanilla BW and BW2 Nuzlockes about as often as Snivy, and some of the most beloved/popular Gen 5 comics, including the third arc of the original Pokémon Hard Mode and Kynim's Myths of Unova, feature it as the starter of the protagonist!), at least reasonably well-liked already. For marketing reasons they'll probably never do it, but I think it'd be fun to have a Legends game where your starters are all those unorthodox, less popular picks. Give em some love and attention and all :p

My favorites of each region are Kanto: Bulbasaur Johto: Cyndaquil Hoenn: Mudkip Sinnoh: Piplup Unova: Oshawott Kalos: Froakie Alola: Popplio Galar: Grookey Gen 9: Sprigatito

My vote goes to Popplio. Aside from its very niche fandom, it has virtually no fans.

I like how the starters in the thumbnail are probably the most popular ones in the entire series

I’ve always picked water starters, from the very first time I picked up pokémon sapphire at 5 years old :’) never chosen another starter type since. I believe this will change soon though, as i’m pretty drawn Fuecoco

I really don’t understand the hate against Popplio, it’s so cute! Popplio is my 3rd favorite Pokémon in general.

has anyone ever thought that chikorita doesnt look like a starter Pokémon along with the other 2 evolutions, but especially its last evolution is like when a Pokémon trainer encounters an exeggutor.

Controversial yet brave opinion here, poplio is my favorite water starter period…