#1: Bulbasaur vs. Charmander vs. Squirtle

Charmander always, not only I like its design best, it's an unstoppable beast in Kanto and Johto, and the new Mega Evolution (X not Y) just made it better.

Bulbasaur was the one I chose while playing Red for the first time. Charmander gets the coolest final evolution but among these 3 I liked Bulbasaur's design best.
Plus, Ash's Bulbasaur was pretty awesome in the anime.

Squirtle <3 For no other reason that it was my first ever Pokemon! I am being hit wit nostalgia right now so bad ;-;

*goes and plays Blue Version*

I love Bulbasaur! Even though I do love the ever popular Charmander too.

I was the only kid in the class to pick the gentle flower seed dinosaur over the vivacious hot-tempered and awesome charmander. Both are great, but Bulbasaur is more appealing to my personality. I am just a sucker for plant/flower pokemon.

Squirtle, I like, not as much. However, I am not a big Blastoise fan. Though, Wartortle is one of, if not, my favorite intermediary stage water starter.

Voted Bulbasaur!

Seems like Charmander won, wohoo! Unless a spur of Bulbalovers come now in the last day.

I am actually going to rate them.

Bulbasaur - 8/10

Bulbasaur is cute and it's the only starter with a dual typing. Also, Bulbasaur has the advantage over the first two gym leaders, Brock and Misty. However, Bulbasaur's evolutions look horrible (especially Mega Venusaur).

Charmander - 5/10

Charmander is slightly overrated (and please don't get me started on Charizard) and can't really beat the first 3 gym leaders because it has the lowest defenses of the three starters and is weak against the first two. However, Charmander does look pretty badass.

Squirtle - 7/10

Squirtle is ok overall. It isn't cute in my opinion but it's still great in-game and competitively.

So overall, I'll pick Bulbasaur

This was a tough choice, but I chose Bulbasaur. Besides the fact that it needs more love, during my PMD playthrough Bulbasaur was the ish. Especially considering it has Sleep Powder, which is amazingly awesome. Although I don't like Venasaur because he's sorta... fat. ><

Normally though I would've chosen Charmander, but... I figured Bulbasaur needed the extra push. It's also probably more huggable, since I don't want to get burned by Charmander's tail.

I picked Squirtle because in Pokemon Red and FireRed you can go through the elite four only using Blastoise and Zapdos, beating the elite four can be piece of cake but i do love charizard because he was my first pokemon.

When I first started playing, much like most pre-teen boys, Charmander (and eventually Charizard) was easily my favorite. I mean honestly, what's not to like about a bad-ass, fire-breathing Dragon that isn't really a Dragon?

As I've gotten older though, I've found myself using the other two starters just as much- if not more than Charmander. And if I had to pick, I would go with Squirtle as my favorite Pokemon. It gets access to a lot of great moves, and has arguably my favorite Mega Evolution of the Kanto starters (sorry Mega Charizard X, you're trying just a bit too hard).

And now that we've got a new PokéPOTW up and running, this thread will be de-stickied, but feel free to continue voting and posting your opinions if you haven't already!

This is a rather tough choice, because I have a fond for reptiles in general, and all three starters were given various improvements in battles with their Mega Evolutions, which also come with useful abilities, but as far as favorites go, I may have to go with Charmander, because it evolves into a dragon despite initially not being a dragon type, unless it has a Charizardnite X.

Charmander. ♥ My first Pokemon ever. Design-wise, the Charmander line might even be my favorite of all starters to date.

Poor Squirtle.

Anyway, Bulbasaur all the way. My first starter and the easiest to train of all three.