Andrea is an editor at GameRant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 8, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy.

Another Johto starter, Chikorita arrived at the same time as Totodile but doesn’t seem to get as much love as its counterpart. That’s a bummer because the Grass type’s base stat total of 318 gives it ...