What's The Best Starter In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX? ll Pallet University 

Just one thing you missed about Cute Charm: As genders aren't defined for individual Pokemon in this game, the Attract status works on ALL Pokemon, up to and including Pokemon who should normally be immune, such as Metagross or most Legendaries. This essentially means that Cute Charm is a better version of Pikachu's Static!

Guts doesn’t just activate on the typical status conditions (poison, burn, etc), it activates on any negative status such as a speed drop, confusion, or having a move sealed.

The best duo would have to be Charizard and Swampert, they cover each others weaknesses perfectly.

So basically my meowth + bulbasaur team could not be worse? Got it: Hard mode activated

I use skitty because the move pool is amazing. Skitty does have the downside of having very weak stats but if you take the time to get lots of power boosting drinks from quest rewards, skitty is absolutely busted. My moves are Double Slap, Blizzard, Thunderbolt, and Shadowball. Double slap kills everything and does around 50 damage per hit. I have the accuracy pretty much maxed so it always hits which makes it completely broken. Blizzard kills everything in an entire room, good for monster houses. Then I have Shadowball for range and coverage and Thunderbolt for coverage and it hits all pokemon around you which is also good for monster houses. Ps. Skitty is currently level 25

Here is a little something about Bonemerang, it PIERCES... getting some Accuracy Drinks and Power Drinks on it makes it to where you can wipe out like troves of pokemon~ It's super great... I got Cubone as my Quiz choice and at first I thought it was a Jab at me the game calling me 'Lonely' But it turns out being super lonely worked out in my Advantage... Mystery Dungeon showing you that no matter if you are alone you can always be the best when you got friends to back you up!

I picked Eevee for me and Cindaquil as my partner. Well let me tell you that at the right moment i learned Refresh it became super easy lmao that thing heals EVERYTHING 😂 I also think the IA greatly improved in this remake cause when i do take Cindaquil as lead and end up being confused, Eevee heals me right away, it's very VERY useful

Psyduck is great for nullifying weather effects that deal damage! Its really handy

Cubone is probably my favorite, so I'm glad hes kicking ass in this game. He's definitely who I picked in the original, and my partner was Chikorita in my first playthrough. And that pair holds a special place in my heart now lol, seeing the partners personality on Chikorita made me really like that Pokemon overall.

grass type equals hard mode you convinced me im being a treecko XD

So I got Eevee and picked Psyduck as a partner (cuz that’s what a friend of mine got) and I later picked up an Oddish as a third member. They are. Absolutely. Ridiculous. I taught Psyduck Blizzard and Ice Beam via TM, Oddish learnt Sweet Scent, Stun Spore and Moonlight (the first two I linked) and Eevee had Helping Hand and Refresh. I‘m sure you can imagine the result: Weather? Don‘t care, got cloud nine. Use sweet scent-stun spore once and have a guaranteed paralysis and chance for blizzard to hit, and buff the shit out of my team with helping hand. Also, no need for recovery items, as I can heal status ailments with refresh and health with moonlight. My immediate post story lv 30 team swept lv 50 moltres without taking a single hit.

Started Charmander with Totodile partner and blew through the story without wiping once with no link moves. Giving apples to those in need made all the difference. Currently lvl 40 Charizard and Feraligatr. I'm almost diamond rank, but only have Articuno since i'm trying to farm money so I can get all the camps so I stop losing shinnies. I got the befriend rare quality from the first gummy I ate, but I lost 5 shinnies so far due to not having their camps.

I'm almost tempted to say that, whichever Pokemon I get (I'll do the quiz most likely), I'll pick a Pokemon that has the same colour rescue team scarf. Fittingly enough, my original pair, Psyduck and Charmander, both wear blue scarves, so that's perfect. XD

Eevee and Chikorita are the only partner combo that is allowed in my heart. Idc if I'm a lonely meowth or brave machop!!

“Grass starters are trash” *me watching this after beating the game without a single wipe in 18 hrs as a Treeko*

As a Skitty player myself, it makes me smile to see that Skitty is considered one of the best in PMD DX! Now, I like playing as a Skitty even in the Explorers games. Sure, it can be a pain in the butt to have Normalize, but I still have Cute Charm so that can help and it allows me to still hit any Pokemon! I just get very nerfed when fighting Pokemon that resist normal type moves. But in Rescue Team DX... I got super lucky, getting the TMs for Thunderbolt and Ice Beam pretty early, and I kept those moves for the whole game. And when I got Doubleslap, I can really start dealing damage! Ice Beam is a good move to hit from far away, Thunderbolt can hit any enemies around me and Doubleslap works great on bosses! Cubone is my partner and Brutal Swing is just as you describe, I never removed it from her moveset. Bonemarang is a great move as well. Skitty and Cubone make a very solid duo to play through the main game with! I'm thinking of being an Eevee next time, but I'm not sure who to make as my partner if I do. But I will always be a Skitty girl at heart... even when Normalize gets in my way, I won't let it stop me! Edit: Also, I'm sure you know this now, but it's not tricky to evolve Eevee here! Any Pokemon that need an item or whatever else they would need just needs to get some Evolution Crystals! You can get two pretty easily when you beat the game, you just have to get through Waterfall Pond, which is only 19 floors. And since you are allowed to pick, it's not a problem at all really!

To save time for anybody who's watching recently, Skitty, Cubone, and Psyduck are pretty much some of the best starters. Cubone is broken early game with its starting moves, and even more broken later with bonemerang. The moves it starts with are pretty much the moves you'll use for the rest of the game, with the exception of bone club for bonemerang and headbutt for the rock slide TM or something else. That's how good Cubone's starting moves are. Skitty has good versatility with it being able to learn thunderbolt/thunder, ice beam/blizzard, and shadow ball TM's. It also learns double-slap which is absolutely broken with the rapid bull eyes rare quality. If you're not able to get any of these TM's early on, you still have moves like charge beam, attract, and sing. I didn't find the shadow ball TM for a long time, so I ended up linking sing with double slap, allowing me to put enemies asleep then easily K.O. them if they get too close. Anyways, I never actually used Psyduck, but with cubone's electric rod ability, you can absorb electric moves for your partner Psyduck, although Cubone is a better physical attacker than special, so you don't have much of a use with the boosted special attack. Psyduck has a good ability as well, (i think) and also can learns lots of TM's similar to skitty. A bunch of other starters are good too, but the ones I listed are known to be some of the best starters ingame. Charmander and Treecko/Mudkip are a great duo, because they have huge movepools and versatility, and also ontop of that they have solid mega's when fully evolved, so use them too if you want. Also just because I didn't list a starter, doesn't mean it's not good. Eevee, Torchic, and Machop are really good pokémon as well. Try them before deciding they aren't good. That's really all the tips I have for starters though, but on the other hand I can tell you about good early game pokémon. The Magnetmite you get for free is great, it's really defensive, already knows a lot of good moves, and can learn a lot more. Definitely a good pokémon for early game and slightly late game. Exeggcutor is great, and is as easy to obtain as the free Magnetmite you get. It can know confusion and seed bomb, which are super good moves if you link them together. Exeggcutor also knows barrage, which is a ranged double-slap, making it really overpowered with the rapid bull eyes rare quality too. Make sure to check Gulpin's move reminder if exeggcutor doesn't know these moves. Those are all the early game pokémon that I know good, and for late game I unfortunately don't know many good pokémon for it. I have heard Altaria is broken, but i've never used it so I'm not sure. You can probably find your own late game pokémon if you're starters aren't good enough for late game somehow. That's all the tips I can share, so I hope it helped.

If Pickup works in DX like in the original games, the item you can receive is pulled from the item spawn pool of that floor of the dungeon. Psyduck was SO GOOD in vanilla Rescue Team! It was late-post game POWERHOUSE! Cloud Nine and Damp were super good abilities to have! Again, if it works in DX like in the originals, stats are not only more rounded, but tend to be lower overall. Like, 70 or so in a stat is considered high.

I went with Eevee (player) and Pikachu (partner), simply because they're my favorites, given the choices. The real challenge of who to evolve Eevee into. The problem is, I love all the Eeveelutions! In Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, I went with Fennekin and Pikachu.

I love it when you randomly come across entertaining poketubers talking about games you love :)

Great video! Thanks for the great information! It's really cool to see a smaller channel making good, helpful content! Keep up the good work!

I’d like to point out that Skitty and Cubone can learn blizzard, which nukes the entire room you’re in, which is AMAZING for monster houses, and you can increase the accuracy through various stat boosting items. Also, base stats don’t matter in this game. EV’s and IV’s don’t exist. Every single stat can go all the way up to the cap with enough vitamins and gummies, which are NOT hard to come by. Also, Rapid Bullseye makes them INSANE

The crazy thing about lightning rod is that for dungeons like Mt Thunder in the main game and Thunder Field in the postgame, enemies will constantly waste their turns if you have a water type partner because they'll keep on trying to exploit that partner's weakness only for their moves to be redirected to you every single time.

I run a Bulbasaur with Torchic (because thats what i got when i played red rescue when i was a kid), but it's useful because Bulba can't be poisoned so I can just walk over poison traps and eat grimy food all day, and I just spam sunny day so I can spam solar beam, power up torchics fire moves and become immune to weather. And then sleep poweder if anything too strong gets too close. Basically a walking artillery cannon with lots of utility.

I went for machop, because i really like him and i thought i could play on *hard mode* throughout the campaign, since most campaign bosses are flying type. It ended still being easy because i got rock slide early and made him really bulky. I kept bullet punch because i wanted atleast one move that can hit 2 tiles away. Then got dual chop and dynamic punch as the last 2. Dual chop is absolute broken. Oneshot everything and makes rayquaza feel like fodder and dynamic punch is great fightning move because it can cause confusion. Sure the accuracy is bad, but i buffed the move to 100% accuracy. Guts also works with every negative status in the game. still not the best but it's something.

I got Psyduck as starter and got Cubone as partner. Didn't even know Cubone had Lightningrod. Love the comp!

My experience with Bulbasaur/Skitty was very positive. I found that my player Bulbasaur was able to tank a lot of attacks in spite of the abundant weaknesses grass has. Since TMs are so abundant in this game I was able to snag Sludge Bomb and Energy Ball and absolutely ruin all the boss's days with them. (Sad that bullet seed TM was snapped out of existence but oh well.) No trouble with being 1 or 2 shot here! Heck, I have yet to wipe with Bulba just by playing smartly with ranged attacks. (Though I did come prepared with reviver seeds just in case) Skitty has a passive ability which makes me happy whenever I see it. it's a 10/10 partner. I love its base move pool and TM access. Give your Skitty Ice Beam, you will not be disappointed.

Start with Cubone and level until you learn Bonemerang. While you level to this point, unlock the Rare trait Steamroll, which allows moved to still deal damage when they would normally fail. Example: Normally bonemerang has no effect on flying enemies, but with this trait any pokemon is fair game, even ones who have the Levitate ability to resist ground-type moves. Increase its power or maybe link it with another powerful move and you have a beast. Not only that, Cubone can learn Ice Beam, Blizzard, and Flamethrower. both incredible moves to start the game off If you're still not convinced, he and the rest of your team are competely immune to electric attacks because his lighning rod ability absorbs any electric attack in the room and uses it to increase cubone's own stats. You really didn't do my boy any justice:(

Yea, this is one of only two mystery dungeon games where there is one starter who is clearly the best. This and og Red Rescue Team- Skitty(op double slap and best movepool) Explorers of Sky- Riolu(strong moves in force palm, focus punch, swords dance and more, not to mention super effective damage on two of the toughest bosses and weak to non of them besides drozee, which doesn’t matter since you get bite)

My first play through of Red/Blue I was Treecko. It was a very difficult introduction to mystery dungeon as a grass starter, but it’s what made me love the game. I’ll be using Treecko again this time and I’m so pumped

I got mudkip and cyndaquil. Overall I would say my experience through the game and post game was pretty easy with the exception of groudon and kyogre since typhlosion is super weak aginst them.

I got Chikorita in the personality quiz which I didn’t mind since it’s my favorite grass type starter and choose Mudkip as my partner because I never used Mudkip before and honestly it was very fun because I could spam Energy Ball and Mudkip would use Ice beam and it would basically one shot everything also with bosses It got difficult sometimes but Chikoritas Ancient Power really helped it out alongside Synthesis

I was told I was lonely in the demo and I got cubone and going through the dungeon with brutal swing I was like holy shit. By far best starter. During the demo I ended up trying out all of the starters and cubone was by far number 1.

Psyduck + Cubone is the best combo throughout the entire game hands down. It’s good literally as soon as you get it, and the only thing you need to get to make it impossible to beat is Ice Beam TM for Psyduck, which due to the changes to Keckleon shop is really easy to get. You can make an argument for Skitty instead of Psyduck but Skitty doesn’t ignore weather and it’s Fighting weakness doesn’t get covered so.

Great stuff man. Just get some editing in there so you dont feel so hard pressed to get your info out and you'll go great

After +100hours id say the starter doesnt matter, you just need to get an altaria (swablu) asap and thats by far the most convenient way to beat/ play the game

Thanks for the video! I’ve played as all the starters in the original game except for the male exclusives. Grass types are indeed tricky to use in the game but I usually don’t have much trouble since I’ve played the games so much. I usually get Pikachu, Charmander, Chikorita, and Bulbasuar as my picks from the test. I chose Eevee and Treecko as my partner. I’m now a Vaporeon with Refresh, Hydro Pump, Blizzard, and Scald. Eevee gets Refresh which heals all team members bad statuses which is one of the parts of playing as an Eevee!

Im a mudkip with a Charmander as my partner! Blizzard/Heat Wave combo is very op. My third member is Kangaskhan with Comet Punch ( a multihit move ) and the more I max out the power/accuracy of it the more op it gets. A single hit is doing 100 damage roughly

Bulbasaur gets sleep powder fairly early which automatically makes it great, on-top of that it also gets razor leaf early on and synthesis, bulb is really good, untouchable by most bosses.

Yeah my chicarita is disadvantaged type wise, but I picked it with the intent for it to tank with its heal. Synthesis +ancient power linked, and make it survive with light screen and growl. And give it all the def ups and item.. Charmender doing most of the dmg. No on use item strat I try to do in rpgs, crawling up mountains poisened with 20% food left letting sleeping pokemon sleep 😂

I have Meowth (or, as you wrote it, Mewoth) as my partner, so here’s a quick addendum: Pickup works regardless of whether or not Meowth is holding an item or an equipment. If your bag is full, the item will be placed on the ground. It does not work on every floor.

I often use Eevee and Pikachu; I even did as a kid long before it became a main of the 5 gen 1 starters. The reason being is due to the immunities Eevee has and Pikachu's starting moves is very versatile. You can get the others easily via give apple fainted Pokémon in like sky tower. There's where I got Squirtle

Gave my cubone Blizzard TM pretty early on (Kekleon shop), upped power accuracy and PP with the drinks, upped SpAtt. If it's in the same room as me, it dies in a maximum of 2-3 hits (not including bosses obviously), even across the other side of a room. It's honestly a thing of beauty.

I was a Chikorita, but I opted for Eevee and a partner Torchic. We did pretty well throughout the game with enough prep. But glad to know my OG team of Charmander and Treeko are a good choice for a team too~ I also mainly wanted Eevee so I could be a Sylveon in post game. Super fun so far.

i kinda thought Mudkip/Cubone and Charmander are a good combo when they evolve Marowak has lighting rod or Swampter for electric moves and rock resistance for Charizard and Charizard for there grass weakness and Swampters 1 and main weakness. *for Earthquake and Heat Wave combo*

I used Cubone and Cybdaquil. They are pretty solid. Cubone with Boomerang and Smack Down kills crazy.

Whenever I have trouble with a boss I just link every move possible 😂😂

I started with mudkip and cubone having trouble beating rayquaza

I always choose treecko as my partner no matter what. He’s been through blue rescue team to dx with me

Pikachu and Meowth have been going great for me so far, and I’m on my second run! My first run was Eevee and Cyndaquil, and I never once failed a dungeon!

The ability steamroll helps the grass types tremendously :) linked razor leaf + energy ball chikorita is very strong but nothing compared to my Blizzard Cubone hehe, those monster houses don’t stand a chance

When I played Mystery Dungeon Blue way back in the day, I had Totodile and Chicorita, and she suffered hard. All of those Flying type SAB moves kept taking her down most boss fights, so to prevent that I would constantly have to get up close and personal to keep the aggro away for her. don't get me wrong, I loved her as my partner, but it really forced me to bring in a heck of a lot more of those revive seeds then I wanted too.

I went Cubone and Psyduck. I went Psyduck for cloud nine. I went Cubone cause of lightning rod, which gives Psyduck only a grass weakness which isn’t common for legendaries. So I’m only weak against grass (x2), water, and ice. Bring companions to cover your weaknesses. In particular, magnemite (to cover ice and water) and any poison or bug type (avoid flying and fire cuz electric/ice/water are common boss coverage types)

I got psyduck and chose eevee as a partner. Didn’t expect it to be strong, but after putting ice beam on psyduck, feels a tad broken. Plus not having to worry about weather is pretty solid

My Bulba/Skitty team ran through dungeons with ease. (Test gave me Bulba like it it in Blue rescue team, Skitty is my chosen partner.) Despite having weakness as a grass type against the majority of bosses, Bulbasaur's STAB poison moves did enough damage to not sweat. Additionally, watching Skitty double slap Rayquaza to death was incredibly hilarious.

Solid explanation, thanks for this video!

Going with Bulbasaur Squirtle and Absol into Sky Tower wish me luck

My duo is Totodile and Charmander. The Totodile is named after me and the Charmander after my BF. They’re our favourite starters. Glad both are solid picks too. Especially because Totodile is the best Pokémon in existence. :3

Great video, although you overlooked the most important aspect of any Pokemon in PMD... Which ones can learn multihit moves and how early. It's one of the main reasons Skitty was the best in the original and still one of the bests (now tied with Cubone) in the remake. Not to mention that Fury Swipes is the main reason Meowth is actually salvageable as a starter in this game.

Depends on what we are talking about, if we are talking in terms of the overall game its hard to say as PMD has many types of pokemon within dungeons unless said dungeon has a specific theme. So you are bound to come across your type weakness at some point especially when monster houses are involved. If we are talking strictly boss encounters, I would have to go with Cubone given the fact most of the bosses especially early game are part flying. So Cubone learning Rock Moves via TMs really helps you out there, also with its Ground Typing the likes of Zapdos, Moltres etc aren't going to be to much of a problem, bosses further on you have the luxury of being higher level so you have more assets to give you a better advantage. So I would say if we are talking about bosses only Cubone is the way to go especially if it has lightning Rod, due to its Ground typing it has little weaknesses giving it a good type matchup against a lot of threats the game throws at you. For the partner I would probably choose a Grass Type, Treecko being my preferred choice. As it covers all of Cubones weaknesses including ice as Treecko knows a Steel type move Iron Tail by default in the remake, it also covers the weakness to water and its a neutral matchup to fellow Grass Types, by giving Treecko a flying Type move such as Aerial Ace which it can learn via TM.

I always go for torchic and Treeko for blue rescue team every game after I allways choice riolu and treeko as my main team obviously not gates of course Hahaha

I respect your opinion on grass starters. However, Chikorita’s access to screens made my personal playthrough so much easier than expected. I had played the original games growing up and knew how much of a challenge the grass type had considering the bosses. Admittedly ancientpower boosted Chikorita’s viability considerably. However, I never felt like she underwent any kind of trouble. That may be due to the innate defenses she carries, but she definitely had a supportive presence that should not be underestimated. Also (late game) light screen caused Kyogre’s water spout to cause a measly 1 HP on damage! That kind of protection shouldn’t go unnoticed just because the grass type face considerable opposition throughout the game. The other two grass options receive mega evolution but Chikorita’s offers impressive support and an eventual all opponents damage dealing move in Petal Blizzard (as does Bulbasaur). Those moves are incredible for clearing monster houses, especially when combined with the steamroller ability. :)

my 'best' team is me as Cyndaquil and my partner as Mudkip. just spam smokescreen on the boss and its an instant win. moves not really useful in the main series can be really good in mystery dungeon. link tail whip and a physical move and you just keep doing more and more damage each turn

Thank you RU-vid, underrated youtubers like you are some of my favourite to watch, especially on Pokémon mystery dungeon

The thing left out on Bonemerang is that it pierces which means it hits more than just one pokemon in the line. So in monster houses, back up one step and throw repeatedly and watch everything fall over. It is utterly ridiculous and one of the few physical attacks that hits at range without blowing up your team (like Earthquake). Hydro pump pierces too which yeah, makes any water choice + Cubone, very strong. Care if you pick Mudkip though and want Hydro pump, Swampert does not learn Hydro pump but Mudkip does at 41. Muddy water hits everyone (allies and friends) sooo not ideal. Feraligatr gets pump very late too, Totodile at 50 for instance and Gatr doesn't get it until the 70s. Squirtle gets it at level 40. Meganium and Venusaur do both get Petal blizzard (Meganium via Gulpin and Venusaur at 50) though which is really strong (hits all enemies but not friends in the room) and with steamroll on something, the typing of things doesn't matter so post game, those two are quite solid picks if you have the patience for them. Choose Machop and Cubone just because I wanted to be 'no grass/water/fire starters'. Cus I'm a rebel. Or something?

I was personally thinking that eevee(Espeon) would be very strong after the story and it seems you could easily get hyper beam to wreck anything

3 years late, but I just picked up mystery dungeon on switch yesterday. Never played a mystery dungeon game before, idk why! Found this really helpful even though I’ve already started the game. I got bulbasaur based on the quiz and picked cubone as my partner. We’ll see how it goes, but this was good information.

watching your most recent md video and you mentioned hunting yama in gen 2. Im playing through crystal and looking for it took forever then i found out you can repel trick and take some of the encounters away if you are higher lvl than them. Use lvl mon that yanma appears at in the front of your party with a repel

I picked Eevee (because it's tradition at this point) and partner Totodile, did super well together. In the original Rescue Team game Skitty and Chikorita were my one true pairing. Double Slap everything into oblivion, with linked Sing & Wake-Up-Slap Either way we slappin'

I chose Pikachu and Eevee as my duo. I was originally assigned Treeko but I knew the many flying type bosses would give me fits so I stuck with Pikachu. And Eevee because I wanted to name it after a friend. And let me tell you: after level 20, she was my saving grace.

Bruh. I was level 45 by the time I fought the 1st boss. Meowth is fine. Just git gud lmao XD

You clearly know your stuff because I didn't understand about 75% of it! However what I did convinced me to roll a Cubone/Squirtle team to see if it works.

If you dont have eevee as your partner wtf are you doing

Grass types just can't catch a break huh? Whether it's the core series or a spinoff, it's grass type starters against the world.

Cubone's Bonemarang is crazy when combined with the rare qualities steamroll and rapid bulls eye. It makes both shots always hit twice, pierces anything in the 10 tile range, makes nothing immune/resistant to it ontop of being STAB.

I’m a pikachu with a cyndaquil partner, just started the post game, I’ve never been all that great at mystery dungeon so I’m still struggling with kyogre, my current move set is pikachu has electro ball, charge beam, discharge, and iron tail while cyndaquil has ember, flamethrower, double kick, and lava plume

Well I hear what you’re saying, but here’s the thing, I like machop so imma pick that boi anyways

Machop is a lot better than you give it credit for imo. For one, there are a lot more "status ailments" that can trigger guts like being trapped in a binding move or having your speed lowered, and many of the boss fights have something that can trigger guts, like Fire Spin on Moltres, Icy Wind on Articuno, and Groudon's lava patches. Add Facade to the moveset and and I was able to do around 100 damage per Facade on the Moltres fight, which is an absurd number on a not super effective move on a boss at that point of the game. Lastly, if you switch up your tactics to prevent damage done to your partner, having earthquake as a way to combat monster houses before other means are available to you was very handy or is even better once you can start going on adventures by yourself.

I mean machop base moves obveously shouldnt stay, but it gets bulk up, dual chop, knock off, cross chop, not to mention all the tms it can learn. And eevee can barly learn anything. The only one it could learn was shadow ball

Picked charmander (spyro) and squirtle (krushem). Going really well so far!

i randomly decided to pick skitty and cubone during the demo and ran with it. they were a killer pair

I went with Totodile and Cubone partner. Loved it.

Youre not gonna mention double slap on skitty?? Combined with sing? I started with skitty/psyduck and had a killer combo of water pulse (that can confuse, and last longer on boss fights than other staus conditions) and fucking double slap that hit atleast 2-3 times which early on took about 30 damage each, and now that im on post game (after boosting speed, attack and accursacy) Hits about 100-200 per fucking slap. I'm i the only one one-shoting with double slap??

Wow I managed to pick Cubone and Skitty without knowing all of this.. but after beating the game I definitely agree with them being great

Love that Cortland pride in the pack! C-State for life!

You forgot the worst combination: Pikachu + Cubone. Pikachu's STAB is just... gone. Poof.

I got Chikorita and used it. I can't wait for my Meganium/Blastoise combo to get absolutely torched.

Pikachu is definitely one of the best in my opinion. It was arguably the strongest starter in the originals but now that all of the starters start with egg moves its potency is played back a little bit. However I still do think it's one of the strongest starters for a couple of reasons. One its ability isn't dependent on your level of Health. In Mystery Dungeon the starter abilities are absolutely busted but that only activates when you're at very low health. In Super Mystery Dungeon they were nerfed a bit so that the stab attacks you're able to pull off don't scale a tie but they're still really good abilities. static can be used at any time and paralysis in Mystery Dungeon can really come in clutch Especially during boss fights. Paralysis was actually bumped in super it now prevents you from moving and drops your speed making it so you can only move half the time. Pikachu also gets access to stab from the beginning of the game but that's not really a benefit to it anymore seeing as how all the starters get egg moves now. Pikachu also learn some of the best spread moves and Status attacks black Thunderbolt discharge and Agility. With these three moves you could solo entire monster houses with just Pikachu. Pikachu also isn't limited to what sort of TMS can learn because of a starter typing. It's not as versatile as a normal type but it's still learns a ton of moves that otherwise couldn't if it was a fire grass or water type. Pikachu also only has one weakness

You really should emphasis how good Blizzard is in this game. It hits everything in the room, infinite range. And you can get one for free from wonder mail. Psyduck and Skitty both learn it. Squirtle obviously too. And I think cubone might.

I will play with Cyndaquil and Eevee

Watching this video really showed me how much harder I made the game with my starter choices. Myself as Bulbasaur and my partner as Mudkip. Neither had amazing level up moves, and I found that Bulby doesn't have amazing TMs either. Thank god Absol was so good so it could carry me

I am so jealous about how good Cubone is in DX. In the original game, my moveset at Lv 30+ is Tail Whip, Headbutt, Bone Club and Growl. The move that most recently tried to learn was Leer. _Leer._ Needless to say, this playthrough is being especially painful. Oh right and Vulpix with Imprison in PMD2 is OP.

Treecko is the greatest of all time don't hate on grass starters !😂

Another thing, all the evolution stones are replaced with evolution crystals. And by the way, you need two evolution crystals to evolve Eevee.

I became a Machop and chose Pikachu as a partner. It's going well so far, I even picked up a rock move. But Accuracy on it's kinda iffy

I got Psyduck from the quiz but I picked Charmander and my partner was Treecko

Quiz gave me a Machop, so I used what they gave me despite being able to choose, and I had never used Machop in these games before. I thought I would have a hard time against all the bosses, but thankfully that hasn't been the case because I hoard Revivers and early on got access to both Low Sweep and Rock Tomb. They're low accuracy, but I fixed that with lots of Accuracy Drinks, and every time they hit they lower the opponent's Movement Speed. If they happen to survive the attack, they usually go down in the very next turn before they can even hit you. I've also got Bulk Up + Cross Chop linked and a Scope Lens. Machamp is decent, sure there are better Fighting types like Breloom with Spore or Blaziken with Mirror Move and Heat Wave, or Heracross or Medicham, but for what I've been able to do with him so far, he's not that bad at all. But I imagine the average player would definitely have trouble using Machop.

I chose a team were I'm skitty and my partner is torchic. I chose skitty so fastly when I sawed it in the selection. Skitty is my favorite cat pokemon which I used to like when I played my first pokemon game, omega ruby..... Gotta admit echoed voice is literally powerful since I use it a lot. Im wondering which skitty move set I should use?

I beat the game as machop and Mudkip as my partner... I wanted a challenge and I got one... still struggling in post game lol

I got Bulbasaur on the quiz, and I had to go for it because I got Bulbasaur on the quiz back when I first played Blue Rescue team years ago! Because of that I even knew the boss hell I’d be dealing with, but I figured if I’d managed back then that I could do it again. And it was just to wholesome not to be back at it with my old duo.