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I chose Chimchar in Pearl so I'll pick Piplup for Platinum. I was thinking about getting turtwig but Steel/Water is really cool typing that I'd like to try out.
I always pick Chimchar as my starter in the fourth generation games.
EDIT: Nevermind. I'm actually going to pick Turtwig as my starter in Platinum. Why? Because my favorite fourth generation starter is Chimchar and my least favorite is Piplup. Now why am I not going to pick Chimchar like I said I would? Because I'm planning on trading all my Pokemon from Diamond to Platinum, and I don't think I really need 2 Infernapes. The reason I said Chimchar at first was because I never thought about trading because I don't know how to, but I'm trying to find information now.
I usually choose either the fire or water pokemon. The grass pokemon doesn't appeal as much because it learns status changing moves more than anything and I prefer to attack.