Is Piplup a good choice for Platinum/BDSP?

Title basically. Asking because I want to do a nuzlocke for both of these games at some point, however I want to use different starters. Chinchar is the starter I’ll use first and I was thinking of Piplup for the second, but I’ve never seen anyone use that starter for a nuzlocke before, so I wanted to understand how it performs in the Sinnoh games, specially due to the Water/Steel typing.