There may not be a need, but will be nice to have the pull start as a back up in case the battery packs in the box die or something else goes wrong with it.

I have the electric wand style starter with backing plates on both of my nitros and it sucked when the starter went out and I had no way of getting them to run. If I would have gone with a starter box I could have left the pull starts on and had a back up method of starting them.