When I started it was early Alpha and there were no guides, I figured "everyone would choose the mental" and therefore I would choose it's counter, the turtle. I was right in that everyone did choose Houchic, I was wrong thinking that would make my selection good however, I dumped my starter on the second island.
I went with Crystle, and it definitely does well in the first couple islands, but then falls off right about when you can catch a wild one. One other point in favor of Houchic is that in Kisiwa you can pick up Osuchi, and Osukai is an utter beast that seems to fit the same role that Seismunch does.
Awww Crystle is so dang cute but I knew he was the lesser choice when he was the only starter you could catch wild in the first main release of the game. Very in depth vid, hey thanksss! ^^ Also I think I understand the malware comment someone left the other day, there are some sketchy software ads on some videos for "driver updates" and what not.
As a speedrunner, I have to give my point of view. I have made multiple runs to try out each starter and that's the conclusion I made : The first island is full of electric tems despite the theme of the island, which make Houchic the least favorable tem to have, also knowing that no catchable temtem on that island resist electric which make crystle the best temtem on the 1st island (especially with the crystal dust synergies) The 2nd island is pretty even with the 3 starters, even if I have a preference for Smazee and his trait which boost attacks for every ember he gets (and that happens a lot) although this island is mainly cleared with a noxious bomb user (Ganki the god) Houchic can be super useful also to clean the numerous Skuchs which are hard to defeat (hello Belsoto in the Volcano) The 3rd island is for Baboong, Uppercut rules and destroys everything, especially with the brawny traits. By the 4th island you should have a Valash, and an Adoroboros, so no need for crystle or houchic anymore. Therefore Smazee is (by far) the best starter !!! (there is other reasons but the longer I write the least amount of people will read ^^)
@@urkerab Gyalis is super flawed for multiple reason : n1 : it is a 5% encounter rate which isn't ideal when you're speedrunning n2 : His only melee move is Double Gash which is base 49 dmg (low compared with uppercut) n3 : its trait resistance is OP in competitive but have very little value for a playthrough,Baboog Brawny would be much better n4 : You will be much likely to use it for the 3rd and 4th island, but the 4th island has quite few earth tems who will threaten your gyalis I can go on for each melee tems : Skunch : only hold melee move (without eggmoves) Osukan : (Osukai leveling like crazy and overall available too late / many weaknesses cause earth type) Mushook : Not catchable, need a mushi and it takes time to evolve Saipait : only hold melee move
i just picked up temtem a couple days ago and i've already dropped ~17 hours into it. i beat the first dojo and i've been grinding a lot using the ganki/nessla combo. now i'm wondering if i shouldn't have picked crystle lol.
Tuwai is my favorite because it allows you to have alternative typings as my first. Tortonite is intriguing. But, I gotta go with Houchic as a second opinion. Crystle has a awesome final evolution.
i quitted temtem a year ago when houchic's evolved form tental's passive ability got nerfed so i am happy that houchic is still considered as the best starter temtem.
I havent played the game, but houchic for sure. I've always wanted a psychic starter in pokemon. definitely prefer the mental/melee/crystal trio over fire/water/grass personally.
i get it that video was before cipanku but judging from my gameplay and my team and the game crystle when it evolves into tortenite it will be an ideal tank for your team and fun fact its crystal spikes attack does a significant amount of damage i didnt expect from it...plus it helped me with its signature move tortenite's garden to decimate and easily beat with only 5 healing items general x and not give it in easily as i would with the other starters..i know all of them are cool but tortenite in my opinion is the best especially for starting players or even the most experienced who know how to utilize their gameplay style...as i said my opinion but ye i accept your opinion as well :D
Subbed. Just got this game. I always go for dark/ghost/psychic type mons, although they never seem to be starters. Gengar and Litwick being my two alltime favourite Pokemon (Aesthetically, although Gengar is one of my favourites in game as well) With this in mind I'll probably pick the corresponding starter in TemTem, as we actually have one as a choice here. I might go with the lion though, I just need to find out more. Can they all be obtained later in the game anyway?
Me too. I love shedinja and ghost types I choose crystle and don't use water temtem. Every island is super effective to water temtem. Using piranant, or oceara or platipet or nessla is a trap. Fun fact about the ai even if you have a nature temtem like kinu and a second temtem that's weaker by 4 levels, the fire type tem targets the weaker mon ignoring the kinu which is super effective. I like Golzy with Voltaic Charge (restores health when physical move). Tulcan(of course I evolved my tuwai duh). the gift temtems Cerneaf, Vulcrane(actually ok it kinda looks to much like a human but it's a great earth tem), nessla, loali, piranant.
I really dont Care wich is strongest, i Go for coolest, and to me thats Smazee... That said, i think they should buff up crystle so that New players are not Punished for picking her.
Houchic might be the better one, but I still chose Crystle cause I chose design over stats.......even if it screws me over. It's fine I chose Chikorita for gen 2 so I'm used to the hard mode.
Best starter? It's gotta be Smazee! I chose Crystal to carry be through the first island but didn't like it's final Evo so I dropped it. Hoping to pick up a Smazee in Cipanku because my team could always use a rock throwing monke.
apparently it's dead easy to get a cryste in the wild anyway. I'll probs go with the wee lion as well. I love the look of the psychic one, and some people have said it's the best one. I hear though that this one is really weak in the first area due to being weak to lightning though. wish I could find some solid info on best starter, as I want to start this game and can't till I know for sure which one to pick :(
@@D00M3R-SK8 The floating purple mental type one that looks like Mew from Pokemon. Last time I played, that things final evo was easily the best out of the 3. Good stats, good ability, and great typing. Dunno where Crystal stands and I'm pretty sure Smazee was also very decent. I talk from a PvP perspective but from experience in Pokemon and Dark Souls I can say that PvP metas tends to translate mostly well to PvE. If something is good against a human then it'll likely be decent against an AI. Crystal dude tanks, Mental one is special offence and the Monkey is physical offence. I'm super picky when it comes to style so Smazee was the only real choice for me given its final Evo looks the nicest to me. You also get Crystal come the 3rd island I think it is? He's the earliest one too pop up so the other two might be a solid choice if you wanna do a triple starter playthrough.
@@D00M3R-SK8 Your also have a point with the early game. The hardest part of TemTem is easily the first Island because of the players lack of options and general game knowledge. Crystal is sorta the cheese pick and it'll get you through the first Island pretty reliably but that's not to say it's the only choice to make the game easy. A wind/electric type exists on the first Island that will easily overpower the first Island because of it's offence. Little guy is a bit too cute for my tastes but it's usefulness is undeniable even beyond the first Island. I forget it's name but it's pretty commonly found. I ended up using the first route 1 bird, rodent, Crystal and the gift bird to get me through the first Island. My team ended up becoming mono flying by the 4th Island because those two birds specifically where amazing and I fell in love with the bird looking Tems as a whole.
Crystle is the easiest to use, Houchic is the hardest in the early run, Smazze are balanced in the long run. All rewarding in the end just the beginning is almost a dark soul difficulty since it's easy to get K'O so easily.
crazy idea: i think smazee is on cipanku actually, because golzy according to that twitter post was bred for muscly jobs...aka...it was bred to be melee...and it has the orange fur...that very recognizable orange fur...again its crazy but maybe
Thanks I love this game but he can be a bit difficult sometimes and I love your content it’s gotten me through some very difficult times especially since when you give the move sets so you know what to work for and not throwing good moves away
@@GymLeaderEd I’d like to ask if you could make a monster sanctuary best team to go through the story I recently picked it up Because it’s difficult to understand which ones are good and bad to go through the story so I’d like some help upgrading Martin along the way
I might get yelled by this but... Have you seen loomian legacy? The game is still on early stages but the story even if its still developing is starting to become awesome and serious, the loomians also have amazing designs.. Sadly it being in roblox just makes it quite fall a bit since most items that help you or give you a leg work is behind a pay wall (wish roblox removes the money aspect) but its still quite good since its an mmo and can let you play it with others
I really liked Crystle and its evolution. Then the last evolution happened and all I was left with was disapointment... I really do not like the design for the last form.
I'm thinking of doing an updated version of this. Nagaise was pretty good, but I feel like Seismunch might be better now with the full game. Nagaise is good until the late game imo.
@@GymLeaderEd couldn’t agree more. My buddy who’s using Seismunch seems like he had an easier time with end game than I did. Early game I dogged walked everything with nagaise but the further you get the more toxic and electric Tems you run into.
if you wanna breed and make money smazee is the way to go because of their unavailability in the game and the gender ratio (i found that one out the hard way)
Does not matter that much. You will not have a perfect temtem from the starter. I think i just released my starter after getting to the endgame. And the "best" starter i would say is seismunch, but as you say houchic might have the bigger advantage early on. You will however have no problems finding other good mental temtem before getting far into the game, but you'll not find other temtems that are earth/melee. But the real reason i would but seismunch before naganis is because of the earth move he can use every second turn that hits the entier enemy team. While he got hellicopter kick as a first move that also hit the entier team.
Let me guess: this is yet another monster collecting game where basically anything big and menacing is useless while the super skinny monsters are overpowered. This feels like a problem in so many Monster collecting games, and it's kind of frustrating.
@@GymLeaderEd modern Pokemon even feels like it's doing that deliberately. There is really no reason that Guzzlord needed to be complete garbage, but Pheremosa and others are OP.
So happy to see all the stuff from the wiki being used as screenshots. Guess all the work the team and I have put into it has really payed off!
The wiki is a great resource!
YES The Wiki is full of amazing people !!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the work you’ve put in
When I started it was early Alpha and there were no guides, I figured "everyone would choose the mental" and therefore I would choose it's counter, the turtle. I was right in that everyone did choose Houchic, I was wrong thinking that would make my selection good however, I dumped my starter on the second island.
I don't really care which one is best, I'm just choosing Crystle because its the only one I like the design of. Still watched the whole video though
Nobody: Me choosing my starter in Temtem and Shining Pearl when they releases for switch.
"WHERE ARE THE TURTLES!!!!!!!!"
I chose manky because of looks but after seeing final evolution i think Mental looks best, imo of course
Game was on sale for $18 so i decided to pick it up, ty for the help im gonna need it.
got mines on sale too lol
as a crystle fan, i state IT IS NOT CRYSTLE
I agree, lol
I went with Crystle, and it definitely does well in the first couple islands, but then falls off right about when you can catch a wild one. One other point in favor of Houchic is that in Kisiwa you can pick up Osuchi, and Osukai is an utter beast that seems to fit the same role that Seismunch does.
Awww Crystle is so dang cute but I knew he was the lesser choice when he was the only starter you could catch wild in the first main release of the game. Very in depth vid, hey thanksss! ^^
Also I think I understand the malware comment someone left the other day, there are some sketchy software ads on some videos for "driver updates" and what not.
Oh weird :o and thanks for watching :)
Crystle is my fav design wise 😕 I hope they buff it in the coming updates
I heard this one is the easiest to catch, so one of the other 2 is the better choice. I might go with the psychic one.
As a speedrunner, I have to give my point of view.
I have made multiple runs to try out each starter and that's the conclusion I made :
The first island is full of electric tems despite the theme of the island, which make Houchic the least favorable tem to have, also knowing that no catchable temtem on that island resist electric which make crystle the best temtem on the 1st island (especially with the crystal dust synergies)
The 2nd island is pretty even with the 3 starters, even if I have a preference for Smazee and his trait which boost attacks for every ember he gets (and that happens a lot) although this island is mainly cleared with a noxious bomb user (Ganki the god) Houchic can be super useful also to clean the numerous Skuchs which are hard to defeat (hello Belsoto in the Volcano)
The 3rd island is for Baboong, Uppercut rules and destroys everything, especially with the brawny traits.
By the 4th island you should have a Valash, and an Adoroboros, so no need for crystle or houchic anymore.
Therefore Smazee is (by far) the best starter !!!
(there is other reasons but the longer I write the least amount of people will read ^^)
I'd love to see some of those speedruns! Do you post them to ur Channel or stream them? I subbed either way haha
@@GymLeaderEd it's been a while, I've been streaming them, and I was planning on doing one after Cipanku releases
So you don't like any of the other Melee types? How good is, say, Gyalis for playthroughs?
@@urkerab Gyalis is super flawed for multiple reason :
n1 : it is a 5% encounter rate which isn't ideal when you're speedrunning
n2 : His only melee move is Double Gash which is base 49 dmg (low compared with uppercut)
n3 : its trait resistance is OP in competitive but have very little value for a playthrough,Baboog Brawny would be much better
n4 : You will be much likely to use it for the 3rd and 4th island, but the 4th island has quite few earth tems who will threaten your gyalis
I can go on for each melee tems :
Skunch : only hold melee move (without eggmoves)
Osukan : (Osukai leveling like crazy and overall available too late / many weaknesses cause earth type)
Mushook : Not catchable, need a mushi and it takes time to evolve
Saipait : only hold melee move
@@Jerdz Oh thanks, I hadn't realised that the representation of Melee type was so poor.
i just picked up temtem a couple days ago and i've already dropped ~17 hours into it. i beat the first dojo and i've been grinding a lot using the ganki/nessla combo. now i'm wondering if i shouldn't have picked crystle lol.
The extremely easy answer is Smazee. Used right, you can even use it to meme ranked matches if you feel like it.
Tuwai is my favorite because it allows you to have alternative typings as my first.
Tortonite is intriguing. But, I gotta go with Houchic as a second opinion.
Crystle has a awesome final evolution.
i quitted temtem a year ago when houchic's evolved form tental's passive ability got nerfed so i am happy that houchic is still considered as the best starter temtem.
I havent played the game, but houchic for sure. I've always wanted a psychic starter in pokemon. definitely prefer the mental/melee/crystal trio over fire/water/grass personally.
I was unprepared for "...which is inconsequential because he just creampies your team."
8:35 - He does what now?
I love the crystal starter evolution style wise
I’m going with the water one that looks like if mew hung around the wrong crowd in highschool
i get it that video was before cipanku but judging from my gameplay and my team and the game crystle when it evolves into tortenite it will be an ideal tank for your team and fun fact its crystal spikes attack does a significant amount of damage i didnt expect from it...plus it helped me with its signature move tortenite's garden to decimate and easily beat with only 5 healing items general x and not give it in easily as i would with the other starters..i know all of them are cool but tortenite in my opinion is the best especially for starting players or even the most experienced who know how to utilize their gameplay style...as i said my opinion but ye i accept your opinion as well :D
design i love the houchic line, but luma wise it is the crystel
It’s great on PS5, can’t wait for trophy support I want to platinum this baby
Subbed.
Just got this game. I always go for dark/ghost/psychic type mons, although they never seem to be starters. Gengar and Litwick being my two alltime favourite Pokemon (Aesthetically, although Gengar is one of my favourites in game as well)
With this in mind I'll probably pick the corresponding starter in TemTem, as we actually have one as a choice here.
I might go with the lion though, I just need to find out more.
Can they all be obtained later in the game anyway?
Me too. I love shedinja and ghost types I choose crystle and don't use water temtem. Every island is super effective to water temtem. Using piranant, or oceara or platipet or nessla is a trap.
Fun fact about the ai even if you have a nature temtem like kinu and a second temtem that's weaker by 4 levels, the fire type tem targets the weaker mon ignoring the kinu which is super effective. I like Golzy with Voltaic Charge (restores health when physical move). Tulcan(of course I evolved my tuwai duh).
the gift temtems Cerneaf, Vulcrane(actually ok it kinda looks to much like a human but it's a great earth tem), nessla, loali, piranant.
I love crystal but I had to go with the smazy Lion because it just fits with me while crystal doesn’t plus you can get crystal first
also I don’t know how to say crystal or cryastyl?
I really dont Care wich is strongest, i Go for coolest, and to me thats Smazee... That said, i think they should buff up crystle so that New players are not Punished for picking her.
Chose Houchic as Crystle is the 1st starter you can encounter. All 3 are good still.
When the game was still in Alpha (no guides available) I picked Houchic --- the design and telekinesis drew me in.
The devs blessed Houchik with the Superior Hue of Purple, of course it's the better pick.
Here i *Finally* am
Looked forward to Timtim when they said PS4 then they changed their minds
As someone who picked Crystle, omninesia is a living nightmare.
Houchic might be the better one, but I still chose Crystle cause I chose design over stats.......even if it screws me over.
It's fine I chose Chikorita for gen 2 so I'm used to the hard mode.
Best starter? It's gotta be Smazee!
I chose Crystal to carry be through the first island but didn't like it's final Evo so I dropped it.
Hoping to pick up a Smazee in Cipanku because my team could always use a rock throwing monke.
I personally picked smazee lol
Yes, Smazee really seems to struggle on the first island, even though it's mostly neutral to everything, but Crystle really shrugs off those Sparzy.
apparently it's dead easy to get a cryste in the wild anyway. I'll probs go with the wee lion as well. I love the look of the psychic one, and some people have said it's the best one. I hear though that this one is really weak in the first area due to being weak to lightning though.
wish I could find some solid info on best starter, as I want to start this game and can't till I know for sure which one to pick :(
@@D00M3R-SK8 The floating purple mental type one that looks like Mew from Pokemon.
Last time I played, that things final evo was easily the best out of the 3.
Good stats, good ability, and great typing.
Dunno where Crystal stands and I'm pretty sure Smazee was also very decent.
I talk from a PvP perspective but from experience in Pokemon and Dark Souls I can say that PvP metas tends to translate mostly well to PvE.
If something is good against a human then it'll likely be decent against an AI.
Crystal dude tanks, Mental one is special offence and the Monkey is physical offence.
I'm super picky when it comes to style so Smazee was the only real choice for me given its final Evo looks the nicest to me.
You also get Crystal come the 3rd island I think it is?
He's the earliest one too pop up so the other two might be a solid choice if you wanna do a triple starter playthrough.
@@D00M3R-SK8 Your also have a point with the early game.
The hardest part of TemTem is easily the first Island because of the players lack of options and general game knowledge.
Crystal is sorta the cheese pick and it'll get you through the first Island pretty reliably but that's not to say it's the only choice to make the game easy.
A wind/electric type exists on the first Island that will easily overpower the first Island because of it's offence.
Little guy is a bit too cute for my tastes but it's usefulness is undeniable even beyond the first Island.
I forget it's name but it's pretty commonly found.
I ended up using the first route 1 bird, rodent, Crystal and the gift bird to get me through the first Island.
My team ended up becoming mono flying by the 4th Island because those two birds specifically where amazing and I fell in love with the bird looking Tems as a whole.
Video is fake. We all know Ed is the best starter no matter what game ;-)
;)
should I get it now or wait for cipanku
Up to you! Cipanku is coming anyday now
Crystle is the easiest to use, Houchic is the hardest in the early run, Smazze are balanced in the long run. All rewarding in the end just the beginning is almost a dark soul difficulty since it's easy to get K'O so easily.
Is this list still viable with 1.0?
I'd say its between nagaise and seismunch maybe seismunch now
crazy idea: i think smazee is on cipanku actually, because golzy according to that twitter post was bred for muscly jobs...aka...it was bred to be melee...and it has the orange fur...that very recognizable orange fur...again its crazy but maybe
in competitive i have such a hard time with seismunch and nagaise
I wanna get back into comp when we get the full roster of tems ! It's a lot of fun Lol
choosing Crystal and naming it Gamera
Is it coming on ps4
No only ps5 which it's currently out for already
@@GymLeaderEd oh ok
Smazee is cuter and that's all that matters imo
Can you please do a best team for this game
Sure:) I'll wait till cipanku drops tho
Thanks I love this game but he can be a bit difficult sometimes and I love your content it’s gotten me through some very difficult times especially since when you give the move sets so you know what to work for and not throwing good moves away
@@shadowending7529 thank you :)
@@GymLeaderEd I’d like to ask if you could make a monster sanctuary best team to go through the story I recently picked it up Because it’s difficult to understand which ones are good and bad to go through the story so I’d like some help upgrading Martin along the way
oh shit i've seen this game before
I picked mewthree
Looool
Did you the water temtem was a Pokémon disight the bever temtem was almost in Pokémon
It was a fakemon design not an official pokemon design
When is this coming to Xbox. It’s been a yeat
Year
I might get yelled by this but...
Have you seen loomian legacy? The game is still on early stages but the story even if its still developing is starting to become awesome and serious, the loomians also have amazing designs.. Sadly it being in roblox just makes it quite fall a bit since most items that help you or give you a leg work is behind a pay wall (wish roblox removes the money aspect) but its still quite good since its an mmo and can let you play it with others
The graphics are pretty cringe but good game overall
@@mr.preston1632 yes rthro can be very unnerving
I really liked Crystle and its evolution. Then the last evolution happened and all I was left with was disapointment... I really do not like the design for the last form.
I don't mind it but its my least favorite
I’m the exact opposite, I don’t care for the first two evolutions but I love the last one.
Idk dude, since mine evolved into a nagaise it’s been getting clapped by most everything.
I'm thinking of doing an updated version of this. Nagaise was pretty good, but I feel like Seismunch might be better now with the full game. Nagaise is good until the late game imo.
@@GymLeaderEd couldn’t agree more. My buddy who’s using Seismunch seems like he had an easier time with end game than I did. Early game I dogged walked everything with nagaise but the further you get the more toxic and electric Tems you run into.
Its Smazee
Luma X Hunter
i thought of stuff when u said creampie
if you wanna breed and make money smazee is the way to go because of their unavailability in the game and the gender ratio (i found that one out the hard way)
I just want this on the switch already
Same 😭
@@KobeyyyR its gonna get released this year mate so at least we have that right
@@AresuKing Yeah 😢
Does not matter that much. You will not have a perfect temtem from the starter. I think i just released my starter after getting to the endgame. And the "best" starter i would say is seismunch, but as you say houchic might have the bigger advantage early on. You will however have no problems finding other good mental temtem before getting far into the game, but you'll not find other temtems that are earth/melee. But the real reason i would but seismunch before naganis is because of the earth move he can use every second turn that hits the entier enemy team. While he got hellicopter kick as a first move that also hit the entier team.
Best starter is Tuwai amirite?
;)
Let me guess: this is yet another monster collecting game where basically anything big and menacing is useless while the super skinny monsters are overpowered. This feels like a problem in so many Monster collecting games, and it's kind of frustrating.
Lol I know what you mean with some of the games
@@GymLeaderEd modern Pokemon even feels like it's doing that deliberately. There is really no reason that Guzzlord needed to be complete garbage, but Pheremosa and others are OP.
I know what you mean lmao
@@baalfgames5318 stop crying and try the game. There’s plenty good giants
You are forced to choose crystal
No