{"id":9728,"date":"2022-11-07T18:14:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/feature-every-pokemon-starter-evolution-trio-ranked-from-worst-to-best\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:14:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:14:29","slug":"feature-every-pokemon-starter-evolution-trio-ranked-from-worst-to-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/feature-every-pokemon-starter-evolution-trio-ranked-from-worst-to-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Every Pok\u00e9mon Starter Evolution Trio, Ranked From Worst To Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Except for Kanto because come on \u2013 they\u2019re obviously the best.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While The Pok\u00e9mon Company reveals the adorable starters at the beginning of a new Generation\u2019s media cycle to feature them prominently in trailers, merch, events and whatever else the juggernaut of a franchise puts on, the final evolutions of these cute critters remain a carefully guarded secret until someone unceremoniously leaks some blurry photos a week or two before release. It\u2019s these much more powerful forms that you\u2019ll spend most of your time with and that have a larger legacy on the series as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Look no further than Kanto&#8217;s Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise as proof. They\u2019ve appeared in many subsequent games and remained competitively viable in official formats ever since. Venusaur terrorises with Chlorophyll and Sleep Powder. Defensively sound, Blastoise can wash away a whole team after a single Shell Smash. And Charizard hits like a flame-engulfed truck under the Sun. On top of all this, all three have awesome, memorable designs that make it hard to pick between them. For these reasons, we\u2019ve decided to omit them from this list \u2013 we all know they\u2019re objectively the best starter trio. It doesn\u2019t need repeating. You&#8217;ve even told us yourself that Generation I has the best starters of every single type.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/every-pokemon-starter-evolution-trio-ranked-from-worst-to-best\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Feature: Every Pok\u00e9mon Starter Evolution Trio, Ranked From Worst To Best<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Except for Kanto because come on \u2013 they\u2019re obviously the best.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While The Pok\u00e9mon Company reveals the adorable starters at the beginning of a new Generation\u2019s media cycle to feature them prominently in trailers, merch, events and whatever else the juggernaut of a franchise puts on, the final evolutions of these cute critters remain a carefully guarded secret until someone unceremoniously leaks some blurry photos a week or two before release. It\u2019s these much more powerful forms that you\u2019ll spend most of your time with and that have a larger legacy on the series as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Look no further than Kanto&#8217;s Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise as proof. They\u2019ve appeared in many subsequent games and remained competitively viable in official formats ever since. Venusaur terrorises with Chlorophyll and Sleep Powder. Defensively sound, Blastoise can wash away a whole team after a single Shell Smash. And Charizard hits like a flame-engulfed truck under the Sun. On top of all this, all three have awesome, memorable designs that make it hard to pick between them. For these reasons, we\u2019ve decided to omit them from this list \u2013 we all know they\u2019re objectively the best starter trio. It doesn\u2019t need repeating. You&#8217;ve even told us yourself that Generation I has the best starters of every single type.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/every-pokemon-starter-evolution-trio-ranked-from-worst-to-best\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}