Pokemon fans are continuing the age-old debate about which generation of the monster-battling RPG had the best set of starters. With nine mainline pairs of games under its belt and a few spin-offs with starters of their own, there are now more than 30 little monsters that Pokemon fans can pair up with to start their journeys, so opinions on the best of the best abound.
The first generation of Pokemon games was released in Japan in 1996 and made its way west about two and a half years later. Pokemon's Kanto starters — Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle — have always been among the franchise's most popular and are still in the debate for the best starter trio, but they're not at the top.
If players want to be the very best, like no one ever was, they are going to want to avoid the worst Pokemon starters in every Generation.
Game Rant's analysis of a recent Reddit thread with more than 400 comments found that the starters of Pokemon Gen 3 are far and away the favorite trio in the franchise's nearly 30-year history. Fans listing their favorite trio, and not just individual starters, picked Gen 3 as...
