Poll: Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle. Which is superior?

[Corporal Yakob]

Charmander for life yo! It looks adorable and then eventually transforms into a Dragon, what more could you possibly want? I know I didn't want anything else, thats why I won't play any of the new Pokemon games-what the hell am I going to do starting off with a penguin!?!

 

[feeback06]

Squirtle has always been my favorite.

 

[TimeLord]

Yeah, Blastoise is pretty badass but he can't compete with this.

A well placed Hydro Pump says he can compete with that

 

[deidara]

Squirtle for best 1st evo, and Charizard for best full evo. Ivysaur is probably my fav middle evo too, so Brawl was right on the money there.

 

[SpaceBat]

If I'm playing seriously and not just for giggles, I take Squirtle. Why?

That's why.

I am playing for shits and giggles, and I still take Squirtle.

The thread is now over.

These two images pretty much explain why Squirtle is the correct choice.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Squirtle. I almost always picked the water starter before gen 3 (then I switched to the grass one). Besides that, he evolves into Wartortle who is simply badass and Blastoise who is the embodiment of badass. Also, if you pick Charmander, it takes forever to get past the first gym.

 

[Fishyash]

Squirtle.

Especially due to gen 1 being stupid. At the elite four you become unstoppable with Earthquake, fissure, Blizzard and Seriously who cares about the 4th move. Those 3 alone are enough to destroy the elite four. Why fisure? Because Blastoise is a tank who can take a couple of hits while you use an X speed and an X acuraccy at the start of the fight, then proceed to oneshot any pokemon that isn't weak to your other attacks.

Bulbasaur worked really well in gen 1 because gen 1 was stupid.

AKA... sleep was stupid, critical hit was EXTRA stupid. Razor leaf + dire hit = WTF.

So... in general I like squirtle the best since he has in general the best movepool.#

The main reason I don't really like charmander though is because even though he has some nice moves, he can't really learn any ice moves (my favourite move type) and he doesn't have any annoying stuff like bulbasaur can.

 

[modernRecluse]

My personal favorite was the stupidity with Toxic's increasing damage getting linked to Leech Seed. Sub at the beginning and throw this out, he became practically invincible. I'm not sure what I gave to him for his fourth move... Probably Razor Leaf since the way it was calculated made it so it would crit just about every time it was used.

 

[Zx30]

I knew going into this that Bulbasaur would clearly not be the winner but I didn't know he would be disliked THAT much.

I vote Squirtle. <3

Votes are tied now.

 

[GeneralKrunk]

Three words, Onix uses (softly weeps) bind. First gym in red, blue, yellow, is brutaful unless you have squirtle. But I stopped playing at those one's so maybe i'm totally wrong...
Edit- 151 for life.

 

[Danny91]

I was one of those guys who had my Squirtle, and tanked through everyone just with him. My other party members were pretty much HM Slaves, until I actually did serious collecting post-game. Id rather have had my Blastoise, who was like 10 or 15 levels higher than my enemies, just from being in every battle, then have to train a whole team over and over...So he's always gonna have a special place in my heart for that reason

 

[Ocelano]

I've seen a mlot of love for the elemental advantage against gym leader 1 and two with bulbusaur and leader 1 with squirtle But IMO Having an elementally weaker main forced me to develop my team more If I ever really get a powerhouse monster I put everything on him rest of my team be damned charmander made me a better player. that and early game his slash kicks ass and he turns into a mother loving FIRE BREATHING DRAGON and not a total pansy dragon like that cutesy stuffed toy dragonite

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Squirtle! Its cute, badass and awesome. Charmander is none of them yet everyone loves him. Nobody cares about poor old Bulbasaur.

 

[A Free Man]

If I'm playing seriously and not just for giggles

You can play pokemon seriously? OMG! I have been missing out...

 

[Rack]

In Gen 1 it's all about Bulbasaur, he gets you to Kadabra/Alakazam and once you have them game's over. Generally I favour Charizard because he is one of the only decent fire types you can easily get.

 

[Robot n.o 9124791234]

And he's the only starter thats ever been able to fly. Owned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfoGBVM86PM
2:42

That is all

 

[Tazzy da Devil]

I chose Squirtle because he was the first pokemon I had as a kid. Partly because I had pokemon blue and his evolution was on the cover, but mostly because he was cute. Plus surf. But anyway, after seeing the results of the poll, I kinda wish I had chosen Bulbasaur. I didn't realise Bulbasaur wasn't liked.