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LeafGreen: Squirtle
HeartGold: Chikorita
Alpha Sapphire: Torchic
Platinum: Piplup
Black: Oshawott
White 2: Snivy
X: Chespin
Sun: Rowlet

As you can see, I seem to have favoritism for Grass and Water types. There's never been a Fire starter that I liked better than either the Water or Grass starter except Torchic. I'd love if the next starter I picked was the Fire type one, but I always go for a favorite, and not based on what I need, so only designs will tell!

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On 2/19/2018 at 5:34 PM, Levant Mir Celestia said:

Gen 1: Grass (Bulbasaur's evolution line has good matchups against most gyms)

Gen 2: Grass

Gen 3: Water (Mudkip's evolution line is decent to good for the entire game)

Gen 4: I've used all of them, so I can't really decide

Gen 5: Water

Gen 6: Grass

Gen 7: Water (I like Primarina's mermaid aesthetic; the same cannot be said of its gender ratio, however)

Agree with you about the gender ratio, as someone who likes to have a fully female (For the most part) team i find  starters to be a complete time suck considering how long it took me to go through the same cutscene every time just to see if i got lucky. I think it ultimately took me 2 hours to get a female popplio with a mild nature.

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  • Blue: Squirtle (Wound up losing my Blastoise halfway through for complicated reasons, but thankfully I actually had a solid team going so it wasn't a big deal)
  • Gold: Cyndaquil (I only raised that Cyndaquil and thus got stuck at Clair's gym. I then replaced it with an Octillery and only used Octillery for the rest of the game, even beating Red. Somehow my sense of team building atrophied between generations and wouldn't come back until Gen IV)
  • Ruby: Mudkip (Only used Swampert the whole game, which worked out surprisingly well aside from Sidney's Cacturne's Needle Arm)
  • FireRed: Squirtle again (This was the last game where I used only my starter; all future games featured balanced teams of six Pokemon)
  • Diamond: Piplup
  • HeartGold: Cyndaquil again
  • White: Snivy
  • White 2: Oshawott, but ditched for a Sewaddle immediately.
  • Y: Chespin
  • Omega Ruby: Mudkip again
  • Sun: Rowlet
  • Ultra Moon: Popplio, but ditched for Grubbin and Cutiefly immediately as part of an all-Bug team.

Also, for bonus points:

  • Colosseum: Croconaw
  • XD: Chose Jolteon as my evolution

So it seems like I have a few rules; I only actually use the starter Pokemon in the first games and not sequels/third versions. I also always re-use the same starter in remake games. And it seems like I favored Water early on, but shifted to Grass as of Gen V.

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Always the Fire Starter for my first playthrough~ Subsequent playthroughs, I've used:

Chikorita

All Hoenn Starters

Piplup

All Unova Starters

All Kalos Starters

All Alola Starters

Can't remember using Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Turtwig, or Totodile~

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Only the games I legally own and have completed bar Yellow/White 2 (I started a new game on it)/Sun, which I have not completed:

Red: Bulbasaur

Yellow: Pikachu of course

Leafgreen: It was Charmander and it was a level 76ish Charizard before my little brother deleted my save so I went with Blastoise the 2nd time

Pearl: Turtwig

Platinum: Piplup

Heartgold: Poor chikorita gets screwed by Johto but I love her anyway

Black: Snivy

White 2: Oshawott

Y: Froakie

Sun: Rowlet

As you can see I generally don't consider the fire types

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Welllllll I normally end up ditching my starter Pokémon at the begaining of the game. I'd like to say it was because I enjoyed the challenge, but normally it was just because I found another Pokémon of the same type that I liked better.

 

 

Blue: Squirtle 

Crystal:  Chikorita

Sapphire: Mudkip

Leaf Green: Charmander

Diamond: Turtwig

Black: Tepig

Black 2: Oshawott

X : Fennekin

Omega Ruby: Torchic

Moon: Litten

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FireRed: all three (multiple playthroughs, used a different one in each, eventually decided on Charmander)

Diamond/Platinum: Turtwig.

Y: Chespin on the first playthrough, Froakie on subsequent playthroughs. 

Omega Ruby: Treecko

Sun/Ultra Sun: Rowlet

Wow; looking at this list, I just realized I seem to have a bit of a preference for Grass Types. I thought I didn't really have a preference when it comes to starter Pokémon.

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Blue- Squirtle

Gold- Cyndaquil

Sapphire- Torchic

Pearl- Piplup

Soul Silver- Cyndaquil

Black- Oshawatt

Black 2- Oshawatt

Alpha Sapphire- Torchic

Omega Ruby- Mudkip

X- Froakie

Y- Fennekin

Sun- Rowlett

Ultra Moon- Litten

 

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I'll go with first playthrough as replays I don't think should count.

Yellow: Didn't have a choice, did I?

Crystal: Totodile, because best starter.

Pearl: Piplup, lost the cart so I can't really remember it.

Platinum: Tirtwig, though I used all three starters.

Soul Silver: I may have picked Totodile again, but I actually dropped him to try a playthrough without a starter. 

Ruby: I am not remembering from the first playthrough. Think it was Blaziken.

Emerald: I think I used Mudkip first, though my first finished used Treecko.

Fire Red: From my first nuzlocke, where I picked Bulbasaur. 

White: Oshawott.Yep, despite the B/W Derpface.

White 2: Seperior, mainly because I kind of prefer it over Tepig.

Y: Fennekin. I don't have much reason.

Alpha Sapphire: Treecko, I just prefer it over the other two.

Moon: Poppilo, Just give it a bouncy ball.

Ultra Sun: Rowlet, because Incineroar angers me and Takumon didn't.

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