<blockquote><div><cite>Carni-vore wrote:</cite>You don't have to have the starter with you, it's just a known one you have an option of. It can be in the box and you can still have just the growlithe. So no, region wont effect you too much just say kanto, and you can travel anywhere.</div></blockquote><br/>See, the one problem with that is it doesn't quite mesh with my character concept, a newbie trainer out on the world with her first pokemon and best friend. It doesn't really make sense for her, in a character perspective to have just left her first pokemon behind.<br/><br/>Besides, as the show showed us, its not like those starters were set in stone. They were just what the various researchers and whatnot had on hand at the time to give to the trainers.<br/><br/>All I'm saying is, is it alright if I just have the Growlithe as my starter? Possibly given to her by her parents, or a friendly researcher?