Pokémon: Ranking The Starters Of All 6 Generations From Worst To Best

6. Chimchar

Pokemon Chimchar
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In direct competition with both Torchic and Tepig, Chimchar will definitely come out on top. Landing right in the middle of the spell in which Fire Type starters were always becoming Fighting Types as they evolved, Chimchar got the best of this combination.

We've talked earlier about how Pokémon for neither of these types are likely to sent into battle with the expectation that they'll outlast everyone; they both do big damage while they can. Chimchar and its evolutions have awesome speed stats, and are solid in both forms of attacking to play up to moves for either of their typings.

They may struggle for HP and defensive stats, but if you use the final form Infernape properly then you can do more than enough damage before that has to become a problem for you!

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