PokéBonk Tier List

What makes the starters different

Squirtle’s Torrent Shell grants +15 armor and +20 shield, plus +40% damage below 40% HP. Bulbasaur’s Photosynthesis grants +1.5 regeneration and +25% healing, with Grass-hit healing of 0.4% maximum HP up to five times per second. Charmander’s Blaze grants +10% Fire damage and +40% damage below 40% HP. These differences support a defensive, sustain or Fire-offense choice respectively; they do not prove a fastest-clear winner.

How the 79-row comparison is calculated

Each League member has a four-move kit in the official bundle. We retain the types of damaging moves, excluding status-class moves, then take the best effectiveness against each of the 18 single defending types. Coverage counts the types above 1×. The mean is the average of those 18 best matchups; sorting uses coverage, then mean, then Pokédex number. Weaknesses count attacking types above 1× against the starting species.

Under this specific coverage calculation, Mew reaches 11 of 18 favorable single-type matchups, Mankey 10, and Hitmonchan and Kabuto 9 each. These are concrete kit-coverage comparisons, not claims that an unlocked Mew clears faster than the starters or that any kit is universally S tier.

The calculation assumes access to the whole kit and ignores move power, cooldown, area, unlock timing, passives, Ultimate, STAB and enemy frequency. It is useful for choosing complementary attack types, not comparing equal DPS. A narrow kit can perform well through its passive or move geometry. Base stats are source dex values, not the actual run panel. Dual-type enemies require the separate matchup calculator.