How To Get Bulbasaur, Charmander And Squirtle Early In Let's Go

How to get the best versions of Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle in Let's Go

Interestingly, catching the starters in the wild isn't the only way you can get them in Pokémon Let's Go - and, in fact, it's not even really the best way to get them, unless your intended purpose is top-tier competitive play.

Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle are all gifted to you if you talk to the right people in Pokémon Let's Go. Better yet, gifted Pokémon in Let's Go have great stats: they'll have a garuanteed one stat marked as 'best' and two others marked as 'fantastic', which is just slightly below best.

Even better, it seems as though those stats are tied to the Pokémon's base stats - so, your Squirtle will have 'Best' or 'Fantastic' Special Attack and Defense, for instance - meaning their best stands tend to line up with their best use in battle.Here's where to get these gifted versions.

Where to get Bulbasaur as a gifted Pokémon with high stats

In Cerulean City, the first house on the western side of towm - just as you enter from Route 4 - has a lady inside.

She'll give you a Bulbasaur if you've caught enough Pokémon. You need to have caught 30 Pokémon in total - these can be of the same species, so it's nice and easy to do!

Where to get Charmander as a gifted Pokémon with high stats

On Route 24, in the top left corner, is a man who'll gift you his Charmander to look after if you've caught enough Pokémon.

This time you need to have caught a total of 50 Pokémon, and again these can be fifty of the same Pokémon, it doesn't matter if you double up, so it should again be nice and easy!

Where to get Squirtle as a gifted Pokémon with high stats

Finally, you can get a gifted Squirtle in Vermillion City from the Police Officer there - who you will have spotted struggling to keep up with the Squirtle back up in Cerulean City!

She'll give you the Squirtle if you've caught a total of 60 Pokémon, and once again that's 60 Pokémon caught in total, not 60 different species, so by now you should have plenty enough of them - if not, of course, you can just go out and catch more!

As all three of those are available pretty early in the game, we recommend you use them as your main ones, if you do plan on using starters in your regular squad. Otherwise, while it's certainly possible, your chances of catching one with even better stats in the wild are pretty slim, so unless you get lucky it could take quite some time to do better than the above three to find the actual very best!