blaziken started the trend of fire-fighting starters, which got pretty old by the time emboar arrived
at least delphox broke the pattern
and yet, for reasons i just cannot understand, charizard is not fire-dragon
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."same type /=/ same pokemon
just taking a look at their stats
blaziken has better attacking stats, but is much slower and has a moveset inclined to physical attacks
infernape has quite less in its stats but is much faster and can go special as well (grass knot, vacuum wave, fire blast, and nasty plot make a nasty combo), mixed or physical
so one isn't as fast but nails things harder, while the other is pretty damn fast and can hit more things, but for less damage without boosts
y'know until gen V came along, gave blaziken speed boost and turned it from The Worse Infernape to an unstoppable force of terror which could sweep entire teams after one protect, and then if it was feeling spiteful would baton pass those boosts to something else when it was low on health
so now the distinction is "one won't get you called shit"
meanwhile emboar is just pitifully average
fav starter by gen
1: not bulbasaur. historically probably charmander line but I do have a soft spot for squirtle
2: totodile
3: treecko is the best and I will die on this hill he's like the one starter I like that no-one else does
4: torterra
5: snivy. Could have been the emboar line, if they had made Emboar fire/dark like he should be
6: froakie, no contest, my other options are eventually a witch furry and I'm not too fond of chespin's middle evolution
because fire chicken!
even though in order to GET to blaziken you have to get through "eh, cute" torchic to "that's a penis" combusken
and even gen 6 seems to be throwing sceptile a bone since its mega is by far the biggest overhaul (dragon type, and an ability that, while it SEEMS worthless considering the type, lets it switch into volt switch which is painfully common) as opposed to blaziken (literally Hidden Ability blaziken with more stats)
plus christmas tree tail missile
FUCK i love sceptile its my favorite pokemon
bitch that thing's a fucking monster once you master wavedashing
edited 17th Feb '16 3:54:24 PM by Trip

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