User blog comment:Hollow6Laramie/Starter Pokemon/@comment-4070862-20110622222122

I'll go first then, I think Bulbasaur rules because he is basically a dinosaur with a bulb on his back but besides the aesthetics it is a reliable grass pokemon which is useful for caves and surfing areas thats 2/3 places the third being ordinary grass. I have a problem with water starters for the most part because then your starter is likely to have to know surf :/ kinda lame, hasn't worked out for me anyway, Charmander is okay I may have taken a dislike to him after seeing Ash's Charizard when it got older (yes I know its obedient now) plus the whole fact that almost every one would start out with him put me off, but thats beside the point, and I always had Ninetales in my party due to it well being awesome, I'll think up an arguement for why later. Also Bulbasaur is a great STARTER Pokemon he has a type advantage over the first two gyms, and Lapras was always in my party aswell... Bulbasaur rules (if you scanned this and only read the last sentence and think I'm hypocritical, just read it, I may have swayed your opinion on Bulbasaur.)