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The First Starter You've Picked For Each Generation?

I: Charmander
II: Cyndaquil
III:Torchick
IV: Chimchar
V: Tepig
VI: Chespin

Yeah despite loving fire starters for the most part, I really couldn't choose fennekin when I saw the monstrosity the was delphox. These days, I also like the totodile line more than cyndaquil's, and turtwig's line a lot more than infernape.
 
I - Bulbasaur
II - Totodile
III - Treecko
IV - Turtwig
V - Tepig
VI - Chespin

I obviously favoured the grass starters, for the most part.
 
I've never actually owned a gen I or II game, and I've been too lazy to play on an emulator.

Gen III: Bulbasaur in LeafGreen and Treecko in Ruby and its remake.
Gen IV: Turtwig in Diamond and Cyndaquil in HeartGold.
Gen V: Oshawott in White.
Gen VI: Chespin in X.

I like most of the grass starters, I don't get why they hardly get any love...
 
[MENTION][/MENTION]Fire Red - Charmander
SoulSilver - Totodile
Emerald - Torchic (though my brother traded to his account without my approval at around level 14, so I ended up having to use a Linoone for my whole Emerald adventure.)
Alpha Saphire - Torchic
Black - Oshawatt
X - Fennekin
 
1. Bulbasaur (red/firered) and charmander (blue/leafgreen)
2. Totodile (silver/heartgold)
3. Treecko (emerald/alphasaphire/saphire)
4. Turtwig (diamond/platinum)
5. Oshawott (black/white) and Snivy (black2/white2)
6. Froakie (x)

I will generally stick to a single starter through all the runs - typically the grass one; major exceptions are in gen 1 where I may pick charmander at times and in gen 5 where I tend to be 50:50 split between oshawott and treecko :)
 
Blue/Leaf Green: Squirtle
Soul Silver: Cyndaquil
Sapphire/Emerald: Mudkip
Pearl: Turtwig
Black: Oshawott
X: Chespin

...I don't choose Fire-type starters very often.
 
Let's see; the starters I picked for each generation are as follows:

Gen 1: Charmander

Gen 2: Cyndaquil

Gen 3: Treecko

Gen 4: Turtwig

Pokemon White: Snivy

Pokemon White 2: Tepig (you can blame the anime trailer for that choice)

Gen 6: Froakie
 
I'm gonna list generation- and game-wise.

I: Charmander
II: Cyndaquil
III: Torchic
IV: Chimchar
V: Oshawott
VI: Fennekin

Red: Charmander
Crystal: Cyndaquil
Ruby: Torchic
LeafGreen: Charmander
Diamond: Chimchar
Black 2: Oshawott
Y: Fennekin and Charmander
OmegaRuby: Mudkip

Usually I just pick what I get the best first impression of, but sometimes my opinion of favourite starter has changed afterwards, which happened for gen V and VI starters; it's nearly impossible to pick a favourite starter from those generations! >.< Still, pretty much fire preference...
 
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Gen 1- Charmander
Gen 2- Cyndaquil
Gen 3- Torchic
Gen 4- Turtwig
Gen 5- Snivy
I haven't played Gen 7 yet, but I would probably pick Froakie.
 
Gen I - Bulbasaur
Gen II - Chikorita
Gen III - Treecko
Gen IV - Turtwig
Gen V - Snivy
Gen VI - Fennekin ...

Looking back I always choose the grass starter because I usually think it's got the better design and I really look forward to its movepool. Also I tend to have a sort of pre-set team for every game: 1 surf user, 1 flying type, 1 grass type, 1 fire type, 1 special attacker, and 1 physical attacker (with overlaps here and there), and so it usually makes things simple for me to choose the grass-type starter because it's often a very good grass type in general.

Also Only time I changed was in X, where I picked Fennekin and I regretted it every step of the way..... fire/psychic is not a combination I like at all :/
 
Gen I: Bulbasaur
Gen II: Totodile (in hindsight, I should've gone for Chikorita)
Gen III: Treecko
Gen IV: Turtwig
Gen V: Snivy
Gen VI: Chespin
 
Sapphire- Torchic (and in AS)
Pearl- Piplup
Soul Silver- Cyndaquil
Black- Oshawatt
X- Froakie
 
If I remember correctly

Gen 1: Bulbasaur
Gen 2: Chikorita
Gen 3: Mudkip
Gen 1 Remake: Bulbasaur
Gen 4: Chimchar
Gen 2 Remake: Cyndaquil
Gen 5: Oshawott
Gen 6: Froakie
Gen 3 Remake: Treecko
 
Gen 1: Charmander
Gen 2: Totodile
Gen 3: Torchic
Gen 4: Turtwig
Gen 5: Tepig
Gen 6: Fennekin
 
Gen 1: Bulbasaur
Gen 2: Totodile
Gen 3: Treecko
Gen 4: Turtwig
Gen 5: Snivy
Gen 6: Fennekin


Remakes:
Gen1: Charmander
Gen2: Cyndaquill
Gen3: Treecko again
 
Kanto: Squirtle
Johto: Totodile
Hoenn: Treecko
Sinnoh: Piplup
Unova: Oshawott
Kalos: Chespin

so in three more generations I'll pick grass again after water XD
 
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