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Leonhart54 February 19th, 2015 5:50 PM

Favorite Pokemon Red/Blue Starter Pokemon?
 
Mine was Squirtle!!! What was yours?

Astinus February 20th, 2015 4:58 AM

Mine is Charmander. Fire was my favorite type when I first started playing Pokemon, and I've always been a fan of dragons. Even though Charizard isn't a dragon-type, it still looks dragon-like to me.

Though I do have a soft spot for Bulbasaur. I raised one to level 65 without ever evolving it, and made it to the Elite 4 with him.

Judge Mandolore Shepard February 20th, 2015 6:52 AM

When it comes to the Starter Pokemon in Red and Blue, Squirtle is my favorite since it was the very first Pokemon I ever used.

Zoinkity February 20th, 2015 7:22 AM

Although Bulbasaur is probably the niftiest looking starter, always went for Charmander.

mcminer2011 February 20th, 2015 9:00 AM

Mine's always been Charmander. Ever since I got FireRed that is. When I first started Gen 1 I had Pokemon yellow so I always had Pikachu. I never even got past Brock back then because I never had the right moves...

PokéMew February 20th, 2015 10:38 AM

Charmander too unoriginal. Bulbasaur, meh, I was never a fan of the grass starters. That leaves squirtle, being my favorite GenI Starter :P

Infamy February 22nd, 2015 1:38 PM

I've always loved Charmander the best. I think the reason behind it is because Charizard was one of the first Pokemon I ever saw and it kinda got me into Pokemon to begin with.

d4rk February 27th, 2015 3:56 AM

I've been trough roughly 20-30 parties of Pokemon RB as a child, and then as a teen.

The first times I chose Charmander because Fire and all that, then I had many Squirtles, and finally I discovered how much I love having a Venusaur in my team. Leech seed became my favourtie attack at the same moment.

So it'll definitely be Bulbasaur, even though I have much interest in the Squirtle line as well.

Toni88 March 1st, 2015 12:44 PM

Squirtle, Water type is one of my favorites.

BettyNewbie March 1st, 2015 4:54 PM

Surprised to see so much Squirtle love here, as I though Charmander was, by and above, the most popular one. {XD}

For me, Bulbasaur wins out, as the line has most of the tools to get you through the game. Charmander gets points in the looks department, though, but Fire isn't the greatest type in Gen 1. As for Squirtle... I like Starmie/Vaporeon/Gyarados/Lapras better, LOL. {XD}

Precious~Dark March 2nd, 2015 2:37 PM

Bulbasaur is my favourite I always liked him. Squirtle is very handy especially at the start against Brock and Charmander is adorable and useful however I prefer other fire types over charmander.

DyingWillFlareon March 2nd, 2015 10:12 PM

My first starter was Charmander in Blue, but I used Squirtle in FireRed, and I've used all three before in different games hacks or official. I have to say despite 4x weakness to Rock, gotta love Charmander. It's one of my favorite colors and has fire on it's tail, Fire types are my second favorite, and it's just so cute. Pikachu in Yellow is ok but I hate not bejng able to evolve it and still have them follow you.
Squirtle is a close second, as he got me through many hard times in FR, but I'm still not that big a fan of Venusaur. I even used one in Y, but..... Well they aren't too cute(I prefer Ivysaur) and I don't really like all of it's moves(but Leech Seed.... Yes....) but I'm sure I might like then better in Red/Blue, seeing as I've onlh used him in Y and Yellow, once in RB but I lost that game before going to Viridian Forest.

Gligar March 3rd, 2015 3:35 AM

When I was a little kid, I just went with the cool looking pokemon. I thought Charmander looked the coolest, so I picked him. I was just like any mainstream kid who loves Charmander. I'm a pretty hipster person, so I hate mainstream ideas.

Only extraordinary that are really love will grab my attention. Now, when I think about it, I'm sorry to say I don't like all three. I know loads of people are against that, but yeah.

marinhan March 6th, 2015 4:07 AM

Bulbasaur it so easy to play and level up, but i preffer squirtle o/

DrumminBeatz March 10th, 2015 4:35 AM

Squirtle for the win! I loved him to death~! Sure he wasn't strong against Misty, but I caught some other Pokemon to help with that~

Sheep March 10th, 2015 7:03 AM

Bulbasaur or Squirtle. Sadly Bulbasaur's line had awful backsprites so I didn't use them often.. it went from some kind of weird, deformed cabbage monster to salad and that put me off. Squirtle on the other hand was a little better and insanely useful with Surf and Ice Beam when evolved. <3

jranks July 7th, 2015 5:43 AM

Mine was and will always be charmander. Red was the first pokemon game I ever played and I started with charmander. I always loved charmander and its evolutions ever since. I still like the bulbasaur and squirtle, but I'll always prefer charmander

freddycore July 7th, 2015 6:19 AM

when i was 7 and got my first game i started squirtle! when i played my first rom on pc(age 15-16) i prefered charmender!
nowadays i always pick bulbasaur on firered/leafgrean=)!

IndependentCheetah July 7th, 2015 8:27 AM

Bulbasaur. I was the hipster. I got crushed by everyone because they had Charmander. I still love the grass type!

DarkSkys July 7th, 2015 11:52 AM

Out of the Gen 1 games, Yellow was my first. But got Red & Blue later on and in both I chose Charmander which is where my love for Fire types began.

Sirfetch’d July 8th, 2015 9:34 AM

Squirtle was the first Pokemon that I ever owned so naturally it is my favorite of the 3. Granted I really adore them all quite a bit, I just have too many fond memories using my little Squirtle who turned into the MVP Blastoise of my team.

Limey-chan July 9th, 2015 3:13 AM

My very first starter was a Bulbasaur, but in most playthroughs that followed, I chose Squirtle.

I always preferred Blastoise to Venusaur, and yes, even Charizard.

GiovanniViridian July 9th, 2015 5:10 AM

I chose Bulbasaur during my first time playing it, and also him during my first time beating the game.

Gandhi Savage July 9th, 2015 10:11 AM

All 3 of the original starters hold a special place in my heart for different reasons!



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Bulbasaur is just such a cool Pokémon! It's personality in the anime always stood out to me and I thought it was really powerful! It also was the starter I chose in my only LeafGreen playthrough where I finished the game when the game was released. It's bulk and stall-heavy moveset was vital in me making my way through the late game and it's typing made the beginning a breeze. I found it's design amazing and thought that Ivysaur standing on it's hind legs in the original games awesome! Mega Venasaur is such a pain to play against as it's just so good!


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Charmander was the best to me before I picked up the games. I was your average kid who followed the crowd really and everyone loved Charmander. It's character growth in the show was definitely the best of a Pokémon and I really loved it. It also helps that Charizard is represented like a Legendary in the anime too! Of course in reality it wasn't and just had no viability in the upper tiers of Competitive battling 'til it's Mega Evolutions (which are amazing too!). I'll never forget the episode of the show where Ash used Charizard to battle Casey, the nostalgia! Charmeleon is also my favourite of the middle evo trio!


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Squirtle is my absolute favourite! The cute little turtle/squirrel/whatever it is just is so adorable! It was the first starter I ever had (on a pre-owned copy of Blue), and was my most cherished partner. I loved it to death and used to travel around Kanto aimlessly and it was some of the most fun I ever had in my life, I was just a kid and my imagination was running wild like Hulkamania. It's just such a good evolution line and it inspired me to pick the Water type starter in every game since (excluding Silver but ignore that)!!! Shofu's reaction to the Mega Blastoise Mega Evolution also helped me come around to the idea of it and it's stuck with me ever since. #armcannons will never be topped as a Mega!


SLTE July 9th, 2015 2:41 PM

Though Charmander's my favourite in terms of style and eventual evolution, I usually choose Squirtle. I'm not a massive fan of a lot of the other Gen 1 water-types, whereas I like most of the fire-types.


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