Does any one know a good starting team for pokemon crystal?

1. Totodile or Cyndaquil
2. Pidgey (rt. 29, 30, 31, 32) or Spearow (rt. 46)
3. Rattata (rt. 29, 30, 31, 32)
4. Weedle (rt. 30, 31)
5. Gastly (Sprout Tower)
6. Mareep (rt. 32)

Totodile is probably the most powerful of the 3 starting pokemon, and will be the most useful when you have to use moves like surf and cut, but it learns very weak moves.

Cyndaquil is slightly less powerful, but learns very strong moves and evolves quickly (lv 14).

Chikorita, the other choice, is the weakest of the 3 pokemon, and is very succeptable to 6 of the 8 gyms' elements. it is not very useful unless you need a pokemon that can learn cut, but past lv. 40 it can actually become quite powerful. however, it is definately the worst of the 3 choices, especially for a starting team.

Pidgey is relatively stronger in defense than Spearow, but Spearow definately has superior attack and speed. However, Pidgey's evolutions, Pigeotto (lv. 18) and Pidgeot (lv. 36) are much more powerful than Spearow's evolved form Fearow (lv. 20). I would suggest Pidgey, but if you feel responsible enough not to do anything reckless with your pokemon Spearow is probably the better choice.

Rattata is a very strong and fast pokemon in spite of its appearance and learns very powerful moves such as hyper fang and super fang. However, be careful when fighting ghost pokemon because against them Rattata's attacks will do no damage at all!

Weedle is slightly less strong, but it has a strong defense as a poison-type. its evolutions, Kakuna (lv 7) and Beedrill (lv 10) are very strong however, but it would be wise to ditch them once you reach goldenrod as their power will become obsolete against higher-level pokemon.

Gastly will be very useful against many types of pokemon. though it grows somewhat slowly, it is very strong and learns many useful moves. beware of normal-type pokemon, however, because though normal-type attacks do not affect ghost pokemon, ghost-type attacks do not affect normal pokemon and this will become a huge problem if the normal pokemon knows a dark-type move.

Lastly, Mareep is an excellent pokemon, though somewhat weak in its first stage. It will become very useful against flying and water pokemon, and can learn flash. electric pokemon are naturally fast and strong, but beware of ground pokemon because electric-type attacks will not affect them.

If you can't wait to get a Mareep, you can catch Caterpie (rt. 30, 31) or Geodude (Dark Cave) but Caterpie is VERY weak until it evolves into Metapod (lv. 7), and it still will not be of much use against the first gym, even after it evolves into Butterfree (lv 10). However, Butterfree will learn some psychic moves, which will become useful in Sprout Tower and against the plethora of poison pokemon in the game.

Geodude is very hard to train in that it takes a while for it to grow to a new level. though it does have a good offensive against a number of element types, its attacks are generally weak and it is very slow. However, if you can get it to learn Rock Throw, it will become useful in the first gym as rock pokemon are very strong against flying-types.

Personally, I like cyndaquil as a starter. Fire is one of my favourite types, and it's also the most useful during the game of the starters I believe. Cyndaquil is also the fastest of the starters, and speed is important to winning battles. Fire is strong against Grass, Ice, Bug and Steel.

A good team should also have an electric pokemon. Paralizing a pokemon is a useful technique due to it drastically reducing speed and sometimes preventing the pokemon from attacking. I emphasize that speed is important again. Electric is good against Water and Flying, and the only type super affective against it is Ground.
An ice type Pokemon is good to have as well. If anything is better than paralizing, it's freezing since it leaves the pokemon completely unuseable. Ice is strong against Grass, Ground, Dragon and Flying, with at least one pokemon from all the Elite Four trainers having the later, and three of Lance's Pokemon being both Flying and Dragon.

The only time you can do easy on the speed is when you get a good Ground pokemon. It's useful to have a pokemon with strong physical attacks, and Ground is also good against Fire, Poison, Electric, Rock and Steel. Most Ground pokemon tend to have good defence too.

A good Psychic pokemon is useful too, but a decent Flying type is just as useful if you already have the Ground Type. Those are the only two types that are super effective against Fighting pokemon. Psychic is also good against Poison (but Ground will take care of them) and Flying is also good against Grass and Bug (but Fire will take care of them). Flying is resistant to Grass, Fighting, Bug, and completely immune to Ground, while Psychic is resistant to Fighting and other Psychics.

The rest is up to you. Well, it's all up to you, I'm not forcing you to listen to me. But I'll stress the importance of speed again, it can win you battles.

Cyndaquil or Totodile
Sentret
Pidgey
Geodude or Onix
Bellsprout

If you get a Totodile, put Growlithe in your party. If you get Cyndaquil, put a Poliwag or Magikarp (who evolves into Gyarados on L20)

Get cyndaquil
bellsprout
poliwag

and later on get
slowpoke
cubone
and umbreon

Cyndaquill, then Hoothoot, Psyduck, Mareep, Drowzee and Onix

Cyndaquil to start.

Catch a Pidgey.

Catch a Wooper.

Catch a Bellsprout so you can trade it for the Onix in Violet City.

Catch a Pineco in that forest after Azalea Town.

Catch the Sudowoodo and Swap it for Onix

Eevee is a must have.

My starting team

cyndaquil

poliwag

zubat,pidgey,spearow etc

abra

scyther is alright but scizor is awesome (only if you can trade).

A good electric or fighting pokemon eg machop, tyrouge(from odd egg)or Jolteon

hope this helps!

Cyndaquil

Hoot-hoot

Geodude

Caterpie (evolve it to Butterfree at lvl 10 and you'll have a Psychic Pokemon)

Wooper

Bellsprout

For the starter I would say Cyndaquil for a fire type then for water wooper and for grass I would say pickup Bellsprout then for flying pidgey then you should pickup a fighting type or electric type for fighting tyrouge and electric type magneton then for the sixth any type you like HOPE THIS HELPED. POKEMON THAT JUST MISSED arcanine, flareon,golduck, poiwarth,parascet, tangele,fearow,primape,electrode.

If by starting you mean after you beat the game and are battling someone then I would use
Feraligatr
Raikou
Pinsir
Tyranitar
Electabuzz
Steelix

All of them being on level 100
You could replace witch ever with draginite if you please

Currently I am just working with Totodile and Spearow. I am considering adding sandshrew into the team and work from their. But in all honesty you work with your team the way you feel works for you. There are certain Pokemon that most people are not used to having so it might not be best to add that Pokemon unless you know what move set you want that particular Pokemon to have. Hope everything works well and if it doesn't well try balancing out your team so that it doesn't have a weakness.

This is my team....and feel it's awesome. Its all at stage three

Cyndaquil
Nidoran (boy)
Gyrados
Machamp
Bagon
Pidey

Crystal is my favorite Pokemon game! Here are some good team choices.

If you don't use Chikorita as your starter you can catch a Bellsprout for a grass type. It's final evolution Victrebell is pretty boss. You can get a Leaf Stone to evolve it from Picnicker Gina on Route 34. Teach it moves like Razor Leaf, Sleep Powder, Sludge Bomb, Toxic, Sunny Day, and Solarbeam to name a few.

If you don't use Cyndaquil as your starter you can catch a Growlithe for a fire type. Beware, they like to use Roar to escape from battle so you'll have to get lucky when throwing Pokeballs at it. You can get a Fire Stone to evolve it from Schoolboy Alan on Route 36. Arcanine can learn Extreme Speed which is a really good move, as well as Flamethrower. It also learns a lot of cool TMs too like Dig for type coverage.

If you don't use Totodile as your starter you can catch a Lapras on Fridays in Union Cave. Lapras has really good stats and learns really good moves like Sing, Confuse Ray, Ice Beam, and you can teach it Surf. It's a powerhouse.

For electric types you can catch a Chinchou by fishing in the water at New Bark Town with a Good Rod. It's a dual water/electric type that is interesting. It doesn't have the best stats but it can learn cool moves like Thunder Wave and Spark, and you can even teach it Surf too.

If you play in the morning you can try and catch a Phanpy on Route 46 by New Bark Town. They are very rare, and will flee from battle. So like Growlithe you have to be lucky when throwing Pokeballs. Phanpy is also a bit hard to train but when it evolves in Donphan it is a force to be reckoned with. You can teach it Earthquake, Rollout, and Strength for some hard hitting moves.

If you headbutt trees you can find some cool bug types. Look for a Pineco in Ilex Forest. Like Phanpy it is hard to raise, but has a great defense stat, and when it evolves in Forrestress it becomes Bug and Steel type and learns Explosion, which is a funny way to take out some strong Pokemon. If you're lucky and you can find a special tree to headbutt you might find the rare Heracross. It has a massive attack stat. Sadly it doesn't learning any good fighting moves, but you can make do with other powerful moves like Earthquake and Strength alongside Megahorn.

Lastly you can get a free Eevee by talking to Bill after he returns to his house in Goldenrod City. Eevee can evolve into five different forms this game. I personally think Espeon is the best for Crystal, but the others are bad by any means. If you need a Psychic team, definitely roll with Espeon. It has great Special Attack and Speed and will OHKO a lot of Team Rocket's Pokemon easily. Umbreon can be used as a defensive Pokemon on your team if you need one.

Those are some of my favorite Pokemon that I've used in Crystal playthroughs. Enjoy! :D

My Pokemon are cydaquail pidgey magikarp apiom draginite and tyranitar

I got cydaquail eevee hitmochan pikachu I don't have a 6th Pokemon yet I'm thinking hard what that Pokemon is going to be

Hey I need help with my team I just started crystal and I have 4 Pokemon that's on my team
Bayleef level 19
Poliwag level 19
Spearow level 18
Growlithe level 18.
Who else I should add to my team?

Ive just started, I'm as far as ilex forest atm. My team is lv16 Bayleef, lv16 Phanpy and lv16 teddiursa. Teddiursa is one of the best early Pokemon, his atk stat is nuts

Geodude is a must have. Magnitude and Rock Throw makes team rocket a breeze

And post Goldenrod, Drowzy/Hypno is great with moves like Shadow Ball, Ice Punch and Confusion

I focus on training them and Cyndaquill and utilize Weepinbells Vine Whip for the fishermen.


On a side note, there's no advantage in a dual type Pokémon (other than the STAB on select moves). All you get is a Pokémon susceptible to more attacks. Besides, single type Pokémon can learn different types of attacks via levelling/TM's

Totadile/cindaquil
Growlithe/slowbro
Electabuzz (from egg)
Umbreon/espeon
Pidgey/spearow
Dragonite