i choose fire
list of my starters
heartgold
pearl
xy i used froakie kinda breaking the chain
sword
My favourite starters?
Kanto: Charmander or Squirtle; Bulbasaur just doesn't get as much move variety.
Johto: if it's Crystal, Cyndaquil (since the physical/special split hadn't happened yet). If it's HeartGold, Totodile.
Hoenn: Treecko or Mudkip.
Sinnoh: Turtwig or Chimchar
Unova: Oshawott. If I'm playing BlazeBlack/2, where Serperior gets Dragon-type, Snivy's good too.
Kalos: second-least favourite region, but I suppose Froakie's good. Too dependent on Hidden Ability, though, like a lot of Kalos Pokémon.
Alola: Litten, I suppose; none of these three are really great, sadly.
Chikorita's useless, I don't really like Torchic much (until Speed Boost happened), Piplup has such a shallow special movepool and
needs a good HA like Swift Swim or something, I've always hated Tepig due to how slow and not-exactly-bulky he is alongside having a lack of good Fighting-type moves, Chespin has too many weaknesses and is slow, Fennekin is just poor design and has a shallow movepool for AGES, and Alola starters are all slow and mediocre.
I mean, going from Torracat to Incineroar has your Speed drop from base-90 to base-60 for some dumb-ass reason; Decidueye has a noticeable lack of move variety; and Primarina is far too feminine-looking to be usable. Popplio is my favourite of the unevolved starters, but...UGH, they screwed him over hard.