Your initial Pokemon starter choices

[BigJerichool222]

I'm not talking favorites over time or multiple playthroughs, I'm talking you turning on the game or games for the first time ever. Who did you pick? My choices were:

- BULBASAUR: I could have gotten Pokemon Red (as my brother got blue) and this would have been my choice, but I was maybe a little TOO young at the time so when my mom went to Toys R Us to buy me my game and system, I got distracted and wanted a bunch of pokemon toys instead. When I eventually DID play a gen 1 game, it was Bulbasaur all the way, because even as a youngster I felt bad that he wasn't on a cover and wanted to give him some appreciation. Absolutely picked Bulbasaur for the remakes.

- TOTODILE: Got my first game, Gold, on Thanksgiving day and played it on the way to a relative's house. My older brother was that generic 90s FIRE IS KEWL kid so I went with Totodile to gain the advantage, plus, let's be honest. Totodile is the best looking of the bunch. Picked it again for the remakes and got a female one, which I thought was cool.

- MUDKIP: I don't remember when I specifically got Sapphire, but I do remember picking Mudkip specifically because I picked the water starter in the last generation. That's...it, really. I will pick Mudkip again in the remakes for the sake of remake consistency.

- PIPLUP: Again, when playing Pearl for the first time right at the beginning of a school vacation, I picked Piplup to maintain my streak of Water type starters.

- SNIVY: Broke the streak when I bought White on release date; I was just a big fan of Snivy and thought Oshawott was overly-cute garbage. HOWEVER, I did wind up picking Oshawott for White 2, because I didn't want to just pick the same starter 2 games in a row and we can all agree that Tepig was the worst of the bunch.

- FENNEKIN: Never thought I'd pick a fire starter in my life, but the motherf***er was too cute to pass up. Yes, despite passing on Oshawott for being cute, I still went with Fennekin. If and when Z comes out next year, I might give Chespin a try.

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Until X/Y my first starter choice for each generation was the Grass-type for different reasons.

I picked Bulbasaur cause it was green(that's all the reason I needed back then), I picked Chikorita cause it was green and really cute, I picked Treecko because it was badass looking(note I never actually played Gen III beyond borrowing one of the games very briefly), I picked Turtwig because it's line was the most badass looking of the three, and I picked Snivy because yes I completely bought into the Smugleaf meme that stormed the internet.

I picked Froakie in Y, though, because Chespin looked sooooooo stupid(he doesn't look awesome until he becomes Chesnaught) and because Froakie turned into a damned ninja.

[mo]

I usually get fire for the main game and water for the secondary. Got Froakie for X though as I was planning on getting Charmander from the Kanto starters. I'm not too good with grass types so I don't usually choose them.

[Deleted]

I always started off with the water type, until X/Y.

I couldn't help it, Chespin is so damn cute!

[chazraps]

I chose Bulbasaur because I really, really wanted to someday have a Venusaur.

It's important to set goals, kids.

[Deleted]

Only played four generations, so...

Squirtle was my very first Pokémon in Pokémon Red. I love Squirtle, my favorite Pokémon, so it wasn't hard to choose.

Totodile was next because I wanted to continue the water trend and I wasn't vibing on the other ones.

Treecko, I picked him because I figured I go for a grass type this time and he reminded me of Gex.

Chimchar is a monkey... That's all I needed.

['Foretold' Joker]

Started with Fire Charmander and Cyndaquil (although I didn't play that until heartgold)

But now for some reason my first pick is always grass type?? Treecko, Turtwig, Snivy & Chespin.

I tend not to pick water types as by default I always use Kingler in that role.

[J is Justice]

Squirtle: I believe my friend suggested I pick him.

Cyndaquil: Charmander was my fav starter in Red, so I had to pick Cyndaquil, too.

Torchic: See above. He's my least favourite of the Ruby/Sapphire starters, though.

Pinplup: Thought his final form looked badass.

Oshawott: Thought Tepig looked shit, and everybody was gonna pick Snivy.

Froakie: Was gonna pick Fennekin until I saw it's final form.

[hat]

I always pick the fire types.  

[Yami Daimao]

Squirtle - Because the first Pokemon game I played was Blue, so I figured I would get Squirtle since Blastoise was the mascot. Turned out Squirtle was even better than I expected, and it became my favorite starter of all generations.

Cyndaquil - There was something cute about Cyndaquil (the anime didn't help make it any less cute), and I thought going Fire this time around sounded like a good idea. Typlosion ended being the first and only Pokemon I ever reached level 100 with, so there's a lot of memories there. Eventually when I got Gold, I tried Totodile, and I absolutely loved him too. Nowadays my favorite starter from Johto is always a tie between Cyndaquil and Totodile.

Torchic - By the time Ruby/Sapphire came out, I was pretty much done with Pokemon entirely (boy did I do a 180 with that). When I did eventually play Sapphire, I thought Torchic had the most potential. Blaziken was a monster (and I don't mean of the pocket variety), but playing again, and Mudkip ended up becoming my favorite from that generation.

Turtwig - Having never picked the Grass starters during my first runs, I decided to give Turtwig a shot. While he wasn't bad, and I thought the tree on his back was an awesome touch, I quickly lost interest in him, and boxed him the moment he evolved into Torterra, something I've never done with my starters before. Chimchar/Infernape ended up becoming my favorite.

Oshawott - It was Water (Water Master Type!), and had a samurai-like theme. Why WOULDN'T I pick it?

Chespin - A Grass/Fighting starter sounded interested, plus I liked its tanky look. That, and I didn't want to pick Froakie because I knew I was already going to pick Squirtle. Froakie ended up becoming my favorite, even though I liked Chesnaught.

[Toxik916]

Charmander and it's not even close.

[JDviant]

Bulbasaur - He was badass on the toon.

Fenekin - Never felt the need to pick up another pokemon game utnil 14 odd years later. My two roommates had the other two starters so thsi was my choice.

[MrBRulzOK]

Let's see...

1st Generation: I believe it was Charmander I picked first. Although later I actually restarted my game and went with Squirtle instead, I believe. The reason: back then I had no idea you could actually catch other Pokemon. What a fool I was as a child. I still don't understand how I missed that.

2nd Generation: Totodile because he looked the most appealing.

3rd Generation: I don't recall being too big a fan of this generation for whatever reason. Believe I went with Treecko here.

4th Generation: I went with Piplup here. In hindsight I'm not sure why.

5th Generation: Tepig, because I actually liked the fellow, even if it was another fire/fighting type. But ah well.

6th Generation: Chespin was my first, but after accidentally erasing my data on my first game I ended up going with Fennekin on the second go.

[KStrick]

Gen 1: Squirtle. A water turtle. To a babby KStrick, that was all I needed. My second playthrough I picked Charmander.
Gen 2: Totodile. Up until Braviary, Totodile was my favorite Pokemon just for being awesom.
Gen 3: Mudkip. By this point, I had grown attached to water type starters. Starting had the best stats, and since water was the only type NEEDED to get through the game (due to surf/whirlpool/dive/et al.), it just fit.
Gen 4: Pinlup. I had been wanting a penguin forever, even if it wasn't ice. A water/steel combo wasn't bad at all.
Gen 5: Snivy: Smugleaf. Nuf' said.
Gen 6: Fenniken. A fire/psychic combo was unique (well, excluding Victini and Darumian... or whatever that stupid ape thing was called).

[Raskovnik]

I chose Charmander because my friend got Squirtle. Then I chose Chikorita for some odd reason, even though I like Cynadquil way more. Then I went with Treecko for Gen 3, but I didn't like that game so I didn't get very far. I chose Chimchar for Gen 4 because I love that little guy. Went with Tepig for Gen 5 because he was the cutest starter ever and evolved into a badbutt, and Fennekin in X because he's my new favorite.

[MicroRetroMetro]

Squirtle: It's a water type, and a turtle. Those are practically my two favorite things.
Treecko: I was interested the minute I saw it.
Piplup: I like penguin looking things...
Snivy: The shape of it was enough to sell me. It doesn't take much to sell me on a Pokemon.
Froakie: What can I say? I like frogs.

[Bad Moon]

Charmander, because little 8 year-old me saw a that beautiful dragon on TV and went "I want that." Although later on squirtle became my favorite.
Cindaquil, because I thought fire was the best element and I evil rodent things. Although again, now that I look back tototile is probably my favorite.
Mudkip, because non of the starters in Emerald looked particularly amazing to me, but with mudkip I could at least mess up that STUPID looking kung fu fire chicken.
Platinum was the last game in the series I played and it probably has the best overall starter line-up. Between the king of 88000 monkeys who bears a halo of flame, the penguin praetorian guard and a cross between an ankylosaurus and a tank who is so ancient and mighty he has a tree growing from his back, I probably still couldn't choose my absolute favorite, but turtwig was the one I ran with first.

[lionheart21]

I only played up to Gold/Silver, so:

Squirtle: I've always liked turtles, so this was an easy choice for me

Cyndaquil: I liked how it looked compared to the others, plus I wanted to do a Fire starter this time around over a Water starter

[Flippity Floppity Floo]

Squirtle supremacy all the way. I tore through Brock's gym like a hot knife through butter.

[Deleted]

Squirtle is my homie.

Going through there and picking the actual starters I picked upon first run throughs of all these games lead me to the harsh realization that I picked the water starter in every game except for when I choose Treecko over Mudkip. Although to be fair, I only picked Oshawott over Tepig because my amigo I played Pokémon with already chose Tepig and I didn't want to double up.

I guess in general I just like the look of the water starters better.