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I prefer Treeko- his speed and special are all well above average when evolved.
Torchic/Blaziken gets the best sweeper move variety.
Swampert is one of the better/best walls in the game.
Overall, all of the starters are really good in some respect, IMO.
well here's how it breaks down by gyms:
Treecko - easiest against early gym leaders
Mudkip - easiest against middle gym leaders
Torchic - easiest against last gym leaders (excluding Wallace XD )
it doesn't matter as much, though, because they didn't make your rival hard enough. So don't base it on your rival.
torchic is horrible against the last three gym leaders...flying, psychic, water? in fact, besides ground, those are all of it's weaknesses. and ground gets covered by your rival's swampert anyway...but you're right the rival sucks in this game.