According to Marriland Infernape(62 best Pokemon) is the best, then empoleon(65 best Pokemon), and finally torterra(73 best Pokemon). Personally, they are all good to me. I started with chimchar and got all the starters, so I would know which starters are good .
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Infernape(fire fight) : can kill torterra with fire type attacks and kill empoleon with fighting type attacks, or since empoleon is a water steel type, and steel is weak to fire, fire can also do quite a bit of damage.
Empoleon( water steel): can take out infernape with water type moves, and take out torterra with steel/ice type moves.
Torterra(grass ground): take out infernape with ground type moves and empoleon with grass type moves.
So once they all evolve, they can take out each other.
You know what, start with chimchar and trade some other Pokemon for a piplup and a turtwig.
Team 1 are INFERNAPE,EMPOLEON,TORTERRA. Team 2 is ENTEI,SUICUNE,RAIKU,MOLTRES,ARTICUNO,and ZAPDOS. Team 3 is charizard,blastoise,venusuar,blaziken,swampert, and sceptile
honchkrow/staraptor (aaron), infernape/rapidash (aaron), leafeon/roserade/torterra (bertha), empoleon/floatzel (flint), honchkrow/spiritomb (lucian), glaceon/abomasnow (cynthia's garchomp)
in my opinion i think torterra is the best but the thing is turtwig is easy to handle its torterra piplup is easy to handle when its piplup and chimchar is easy to handle when its monferno i think that turtwig grotle and torterra is the best because its easy to handle for the longest period of time it depends on what you want to choose and when you want it to be easy to handle hope this helps alot =)
My party is a lv 56 Garchomp, (You can find a Gible in the wayward cave under the bike road, or you can find a Gabite in victory road), lv 56 magmar, lv 56 Gengar, lv 56 Vaporeon, lv 56 Lucario, and a lv 56 staraptor. P.S. I beat the elite 4 with lv 56 Pokemon! In the future, don't take such risks. the person above me has a good team but hes a realy good team im using ATM magmortar salamance golem spirtomb (ghost and dark so has no weakness) luxray garchomp (has same stats has most legenary Pokemon) Both of the people above me have MOSTLY good Pokemon but these are the bad ones: magmar,golem and (vaporeon is Ok) here are the 5 best teams for Pokemon platinum: team 1 torterra flareon staraptor frosolas dragonite and magmortar. team 2 empoleon jolteon lucario garchomp electivire and giratina. team 3 infernape vaporeon rhyperior salamence alakazam and staraptor. team 4 MY TEAM:Torterra empoleon dialga giratina rhyperrior palkia. team 5:MY BROS TEAM:empoleon torterra dragonite garchomp luxray Alakazam. My team is infernape, torterra, magnezone, rhyperior,dragonite/ salemence, golduck or kingdra my teams: Pokemon pearl: infernape, torterra, magnezone, rhyperior, golduck, dragonite heartgold: feraligatr, houndoom, honchcrow, ampharos, victreebell, dragonite diamond: torterra, infernape, empoleon, staraptor, rampardos, alakazam
i think piplup but you would have trouble in the 2nd gym i recommend chimchar. Chimchar is the best because he can learn moves to over through all types of Pokemon Of course Chimchar because it is fast and his evolved forms are Fire-Fighting type,so it would be useful. No.... Piplup is the Best. You just have to train it. When it evolves it becomes a Water-Steel type, So look at it this way... Fire hurts Steel, but not water, Grass will I think hurt.... But Piplup is the best and adorable. Chimchar can die Easily. No! Chimchars evolved forms can't learn water type moves. piplup of course the second gym just use a starly or staravia and empoleon can kill infernape easliy and infernape has low defence. Piplup is the best he has only three weakness in his last form(ground,fighting,electricity). Ive had an infernape and an empoleon. Empoleon is waaaay better! And Empoleon can beat most of its weaknesses anyway. But what everyone fails to see here is that all the starters after silver are bad. And by the way, how can empoleon kill infernape so easily when infernape is a fighting type which is a weakness for empoleon, and also infernape is much faster thus he will be able to attack first. In platinum, they made it so that all the starters have the capability of being equal since each has the weakness of the other 2(which goes for all of them), however considering infernape has a significant speed stat and formidable attack stats he can beat the other two. Therefore Chimchar is your best bet. yes chimchar is because even though empoleon turns into a water/steel type chimchar evolves into infernape and infernape can learn fighting type moves i think chimchar is the best in my personal preference. i used him in pearl and platinum. yeah i know he sucks on defense but makes up for it with good speed and offense. piplup is good but infernape is a fire/fighting, and any fighting move could KO empoleon. infernape could also beat torterra with a fire or fighting move for torterra also being a dual type of grass/ground.chimchar is also a good pick for the elite four. chimchar for sure: if you evolve it before 1st gym, it beats roark easily with mach punch, second gym: any fire attack can KO gardenia, not very useful in fantina's gym, but can use something like flame wheel to do some damage, 4th gym: KO for lucario with flame wheel and if you evolve it into infernape before, close combat, weak in 5th gym, but can be used to KO quagsire, 6th gym is super easy thanks to flame wheel/close combat/flamethower 7th gym: even easier due to same moves 8th: not really useful but can learn eathquake to KO volkner as of its speed. elite four: aaron: KO for bugs, bertha: close combat to golem and some other, flint: maybe to hit some Pokemon with close combat, lucian: KO for his bronzong and Cynthia... well, infernape can KO her roserade and togekiss. also he is useful in battles againist Cyrus, as he mostly uses dark-types. i had all three starters in my platinum. chimchar was the toughest of my team. i really mean it, he's your best bet if you want pretty easy game. ////////Garythecool: well i prefer chimchar because its high speed makes up for the defense. And its fire attacks are killer and can beat torterra easily. Its fighting type moves like close combat can take out empoleon in a snap. But if i had a second choice i would pick empoleon because it has good resistance. Torterra is a good choice too with its strong defense but its speed is slow so a Pokemon could deal a lot of damage to torterra before it attacks. Torterra is a powhouse when it comes to some grass and ground moves though.//////// Daveey8505 I think Chimchar is the best choice because when he evolves into Infernape who is awesome for the elite four.Plus he can learn earthquake(which you can get in the cave where gible lives) to cover his weakeness against empoleon.If you can't find earthquake, then make sure he has a good fighting move like close combat or focus blast.Also,if you trade to soul silver, you could teach him dynamicpunch and then trade back. Hope this helps!!!:)
My team is: Infernape Empoleon Torterra Honchkrow Umbreon Raichu Well that's my team... you pick yours
gallade tyranitar and torterra are your best you can improve by normally levelling up until lvl 1000(lvl ex)
first of all:when you see question answers about who's the best starter Pokemon in Pokemon diamond\pearl and say a Pokemon the real answer is:there is no best starter Pokemon because empoleon's blizzard takes down torterra and empoleon's hydro cannon beats up infernape.infernape's close combat beats up empoleon infernape's blast burn unnilates torterra.torterra's eartquake tears infernape into peices torterra's frenzy plant slices empoleon.second of all:yes
infernape and empoleon and torterra and emboar,seperior,samorout,charizard,blastoise,venasaur
i always used Chimchar in my battles, Infernape is a beast attacker, whereas Empoleon is a great defender, i never used Torterra because i thought he was shizer
Team 1 are INFERNAPE,EMPOLEON,TORTERRA. Team 2 is ENTEI,SUICUNE,RAIKU,MOLTRES,ARTICUNO,and ZAPDOS. Team 3 is charizard,blastoise,venusuar,blaziken,swampert, and sceptile
some people have said that turtwig is because it evolves into torterra and it is a Grass/Ground type, but you have to take into considerasion that Chimchar evolves into Infernape which is a Fire/Fighting type and piplup that evolves into empoleon which is a Water/Steel type.
you capture all the Pokemon and beat the elite four and the champion GOTTA CATCH EM' ALL POKEMON! Beeat not only elite four but all the gym masters and train your Pokemon to be the best and DONT HAVE A PIKACHU! Pokemon needed: Infernape, Torterra, Electwire, Empoleon, Metagross, Salamance
honchkrow/staraptor (aaron), infernape/rapidash (aaron), leafeon/roserade/torterra (bertha), empoleon/floatzel (flint), honchkrow/spiritomb (lucian), glaceon/abomasnow (cynthia's garchomp)
I would say piplup, but that's just my opinion. go for the type you like best. Piplup evolves (eventually) into empoleon which is Water/Steel. Turtwig evolves (eventually) into Torterra which is Grass/Ground. Chimchar evolves (eventually) into Infernape which is Fire/Fighting.
in my opinion i think torterra is the best but the thing is turtwig is easy to handle its torterra piplup is easy to handle when its piplup and chimchar is easy to handle when its monferno i think that turtwig grotle and torterra is the best because its easy to handle for the longest period of time it depends on what you want to choose and when you want it to be easy to handle hope this helps alot =)
Infernape hands down! Bronzong is a steel type and it is VERY weak to fire. Trust ne I've beaten the elite 4 and Cynthia 14 times I'm not lying. Anyway, good luck!