I decided to choose Chimchar, because I have Piplup on my Pearl and Turtwig on my Diamond. I'm also going to get an Elekid, Togepi, Scyther, Sneasel and Buizel for my team.
I've been playing Platinum a little bit every day. I restarted it today to change my team around a bit. I could never quite get into the Hoenn games, though. Maybe I will try Emerald again.
I recently logged onto PokeCommunity after a little while away after restarting FireRed and buying Platinum. You were in my friend list and I was thinking to myself "who is this person"? I have my suspicions of who you are incase you got a name change but right now some confirmation would be great. XDD