116 Base Attack, 119 Base Speed, Protean-like Ability in Liberto, REALLY good type coverage (Normal, Fire, Fighting, Electric, Poison, Flying, Ground, Psychic, Dark, Steel, Ghost, you name it!), one of THE strongest signature moves in the entire series in Pyro Ball (120BP+burn) and on top of that it even gets the literally broken Court Change move to troll Smugon players with lol
I know, Pokemon is one of the most unbalanced games out there, but there has never been a starter that's even better than more than half the Ubers, including the ones not in the game lol
On another note... I LOVE Falinks, such a great concept and strong signature move, +1 in everything each time you use it, plus cute! Reminds me of Patapon
Tell that to Greninja, the starter that got sent to Ubers the fastest out of all starters (Blaziken took MONTHS to get sent there in Gen 5)... I really wish we could FINALLY get a good Grass starter honestly, they always make them really slow and pseudo-bulky (decent defenses but not good enough), only actually strong one was Sceptile and it has almost as bad a movepool as Magikarp:/