The strongest starter Pokémon Bruno L. Carli Independent researcher, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. Email:
[email protected] Earlier this year, an article entitled “Which and Blue versions for Nintendo’s Game Boy is The Most Offensively Powerful Starter console. (As a side note, in celebration of its 20 Pokémon?” (Codd, 2016) caused great years of existence, earlier this year the controversy on the Internet among players and Pokémon Company released a website fans of the Pokémon franchise. This article containing a timeline of their products). compared the three classical starter Pokémon, On TV, Pokémon was first released in Japan based on the anime, and concluded that in 1997 with the episode “Pokémon – I Choose Charizard was the strongest one. You” (released in the United States only in The present work aims to analyze and 1998; Wikipedia, 2016), triggering wide public discuss the data presented by Codd (2016) attention. The franchise is now successful regarding the following issues: (1) Does his worldwide, attracting millions of fans and anime-based data coincide with the game players of all ages, ethnic groups and social mechanics? (2) Can his study be applied to classes, and the games are often regarded metagame prospects? (3) Is Charizard really the extremely seriously by the players. most “powerful” Pokémon in-game? CODD’S THEORY ABOUT POKÉMON Codd (2016) concluded in his article that Pokémon™ is an entertainment franchise, Charizard (the last form of the starter created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995, that started Charmander) was the most powerful of the with video games, but now includes an anime, a three initial options (the grass-type Bulbasaur, trading card game, clothing and several other the fire-type Charmander and the water-type products.