Over Half of You Are Picking Totodile as your Pokémon Legends: Z-A Starter

Who's your starter Pokémon successful Pokémon Legends: Z-A? Wait, wait, fto maine guess: is it Totodile?

Odds are, I was correct, astatine slightest based connected a canvass we've conducted surrounding the motorboat of Z-A yesterday. Our poll's been up for 22 hours and has implicit 11,000 votes from IGN readers, and it reveals that of the 3 Z-A starter Pokémon, implicit fractional of IGN's assemblage is picking Totodile implicit Tepig oregon Chikorita.

At the clip this portion was written, water-type Totodile had 56% of the vote, with 24% choosing grass-type Chikorita, and lone 20%, one-fifth of our readers, picking fire-type Tepig -- and we hold with the winner: Totodile is the champion pick, stats-wise, with immoderate caveats we spell implicit successful our Pokemon Legends: Z-A Best Starter Guide.

This mightiness not beryllium a daze to anyone, though, arsenic Totodile has agelong been a fan-favorite. Just look astatine the bitey boy! Chikorita and Tepig person historically gone less-loved, and Tepig successful peculiar is an outlier successful this trio arsenic some Totodile and Chikorita hail from Johto, portion Tepig was a starter successful Pokémon Black, White, Black 2, and White 2.

That said, portion I personally went with Chikorita (having picked Totodile successful Generation 2 each azygous clip and wanting a change-up), I gotta say, Tepig by acold has the champion last Mega Evolution of the three. All members of this trio get caller Mega Evolutions successful Z-A, and portion I won't spoil them here, Meganium's was alternatively disappointing and Feraligatr's conscionable looks weird. Emboar though? Looking awesome.

Don't overthink it though. All 3 starters are perfectly viable for the entirety of Z-A's campaign, and it's precise casual to drawback each 3 Pokémon for your PokeDex erstwhile you deed the endgame, truthful you won't beryllium missing out.

You tin larn much astir the starter Pokémon and their evolutions successful our Wiki usher if you're inactive connected the fence. Then cheque retired our in-progress Pokémon Legends: Z-A Walkthrough, positive our Side Missions List to marque definite you don't miss anything. We've besides got a Pokémon Legends: Z-A Pokedex, and astir importantly, a usher to All Clothing Stores and Clothing successful Pokémon Legends: Z-A truthful you tin drawback 'em each successful style. And my review-in-progress of Pokémon Legends: Z-A is present live, if you privation to cheque retired my impressions of the archetypal 24 hours, with a afloat reappraisal coming adjacent week.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. You tin find her posting connected BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].