ask-keystar replied to your post: I love it when everyone goes after one starter…

I want the cat. While I’m not a fan of the others, I don’t really mind them.

Minor spoilers for 7th gen starter stats, but Litten’s not a bad choice at all.  Incineroar has really respectable attack and solid defensive typing and stats.  It’s a little slow, but so are the other two.  

Decidueye has average physical and special attack, special defense that’s decent and physical defense that’s below average, with base 70 speed.  It’s set as a mixed attacker that doesn’t hit fast, and doesn’t really hit hard on either end of the spectrum.  On top of that it has more weaknesses than resistances, (though it does have 2 immunities) and relatively thin coverage.

Then there’s Primarina.  It only has 3 weaknesses, to relatively underused types while resisting 6 types and being immune to a 7th.  Stat wise the best comparison would probably be Gardevoir, but Primarina does what Gardevoir does better, albeit slower.  It hits harder and tanks hits better than Gardevoir, and has the highest Special Attack and Special Defense stats of any starter Pokemon in the history of the franchise.

Decidueye’s not bad in the scheme of things, but I expect to see a LOT more Incineroar and Primarina than Decidueye in competitive, and in just playing through the games.