I like Misty the best, if my icon doesn't declare that obviously enough. I find the whole idea of a trainer whose greatest accomplishment is giving of her own to help others become stronger absolutely fascinating (see volume 14). Plus I love her personality- she's like anime Misty, only stronger, more mature, and with a better character design. I've seen some people who claim she's a crybaby, but I think that's rubbish. I honestly think that she's one of the more psychologically deep characters. XD
I also love Red, Blue(EnglishGreen), Crystal, Silver and Sapphire...but I have to admit something that'll not make me all that popular: I don't really like Yellow. I mean, she's okay, but she's not in my top ten, and I don't much like specialshipping as a result.
Her powers bug me. I mean, I'm okay with the healing thing, but adding the mind reading on top of that is a bit much. Why couldn't she just understand poke-speech? That'd be a bit more believable to me. Also, the pretending to be a boy thing: either she was pretending to be a boy before meeting Blue(which doesn't make sense, continuity-wise), or she told the Fisherman who taught her to use her rod to pretend she was a boy, which is odd. I mean, when almost everyone knows the truth but Red, the charade seems...horribly convoluted. Honestly, how many people were covering up the truth just so she'd not be so embarrassed around Red? It's weird.
Aaaaand no more ranting for me. O_o