It's as if Pokemon made it so that if you pick a fire type in the game, it would be easy. If you picked water, it would be so-so. Then if you pick a grass type, it's hard. amirite?

bulbasaur was still awesome though!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I disagree. In the original blue and red, fire was the hardest. You had a rock gym, in which both grass and water would excel, and then a water gym, in which fire would be destroyed. But sapphire and Diamond, yes that was true.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Beat me to it :P.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And also in terms of leveling up, grass was the easiest, water was in the middle, and fire was the hardest.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Or you could get a Nidoran with double kick

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not for water. In sapphire I always always get Grass, and train a swellow and Ralts alongside it so I have a good team. Then I can beat the game in like 9 hours.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But you can catch a Pikachu in Viridian Forest

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think they're talking about the new games, in which it's reversed.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

bulbasaur was the best. raped the first 3 gyms

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, but in the long run, Charizard has the ability to pwn both blastoise and bulbasaur

by Anonymous 13 years ago

whaaat? how can Charizard pwn blastoise?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

move set. but only in the newer generations -.-' which is kind of gay

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeeah. Fire was good for short term, grass for the long run and water was inbetween. Grass just seems so puny, which is why most people don't pick it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's completely the opposite of what is generally true.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

In Silver/Gold, grass is the worst. Helps for few to no gyms. USELESS in the Elite Four. I should know. I chose chickorita first. Water is probably the best in Silver/Gold. Easiest to train and very useful throughout the game. Fire was tricky, but not bad. Not the best, but not bad. I haven't played the original Red/Blue in forever, and I haven't played FireRed or LeafGreen in about 2 yrs, so I can't judge on those. I think I'll try FireRed again.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was playing Pokemon HeartGold... with Chikorita. Even Team Rocket can beat my starter Pokemon x.x

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh, chickorita. XD. Actually in both the original silver and SoulSilver I quickly discarded of my starter pokemon and blew through the whole game with a Pidgey. It worked suprisingly well, didn't have issues until I got to the Dragon gym. The elite four were very easy. (though it was lvl 100 at the time.... XD)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think Water is the easiest to win with.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Possibly, but all the water starters were ugly. XD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Piplup and Mudkip?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They were cute in the beginning, but their evolved forms? No thanks. T_T

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I guess you're right =

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's supposed to be like that, actually- and originally Grass was the easy type (because the first gym was the rock gym, and fire doesn't fare well against rock types.) Uhh... I mean... pokemon? Dude, I'm too cool for pokemon!... *plays SoulSilver*

by Anonymous 13 years ago

got it backwards. All the fire starters would learn the good moves much slower than water and especially grass

by Anonymous 13 years ago

@431014: You beat me to it but I agree. I never chose fire pokemon since I would fail miserably in the water gym. Grass was the easiest to raise for me.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I chose mudkip in ruby simply because all the other water-pokemon sucked too bad, and i'd eventually need one.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

All the original starters were awesome though. I had a tough time choosing with them, and probably beat the game with all three, especially in yellow version where you could get all three. In gold i used cindaquil or totodile - however you spell them, and in ruby i used torchik, ahhh reminiscing in the pokemon days.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I hate bulbasaur. In red version I used charmander. I taught charmeleon dig so i could beat Lt. Surge. Also if charmander is at least level 11 you can beat all of Brocks pokemon with ember. I got pikachu from varidian forest to beat misty.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In fire red you could just learn metal claw. I feel like all pokemon were most balanced in fire red/leaf green...except pidgeot...it has great potential but it was screwed over by its move list

by Anonymous 13 years ago

or you could catch another pokemon and stop worrying about how your fire/water/grass pokemon is weak in one or two gyms.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In Blue/Red version, if you picked fire, you basically got raped at the first two gyms.

by Anonymous 13 years ago