Not picking Bulbasaur

Shut up loser

I always picked Bulbasaur, I was like 7 or 8 when Pokemon RB came out and KB Toys sent out promotional VHS tapes to everyone in our area and my friends and I all decided we would pick starters according to our favorite colors and trade back and forth to complete the Dex.
Red != Ash

Venasaur and Charizard are both dual types. Thus they are objectively better than gay ass mono u Blastoise

benched all of them for the first pidgy I got

Squirtle for me because he's cool. But onaholezaur's hard to resist

OP, I literally just picked Bulbasaur last run. It didn't become a Venusaur until the last gym because I wanted sleep powder.

Swords dance + hyper beam Kabutops was my MVP

pick squirtle so rival is stuck with venushit

box squirtle

treat nidoran (male) as my ace

>Not picking Bulbasaur

Sorry, I like my early game to have a fire or water type. All those Pidgeys and Oddish and Zubats suck all the fun out of using a grass type pokemon until your team is like level 40.
You have to be mentally challenged to pick Bulbasaur, or just want a slower run.

charmander is the cutest

All those Pidgeys and Oddish and Zubats are 2HKO'd by tackle, and later one shotted by body slam, take down, double-edge, or hyper beam.

Oh boy I get to use nothing but tackle until I get to the SS Anne. Amazing game and amazing pokemon pick.

charmander can light cigarettes
squirtle can wash your ass
what can bulbasaur do for you? look like a potted plant?

Rape me with his tentacles

Sceptile bros...

He says this while spamming scratch during the hardest part of the game, Cerulean City Gym, and half of the following dungeon.

Defensively, Bulbasaur is one of the better mons to use against poison types for its poison status immunity. If it's not zubat, then it probably has poison sting or poison powder. Passive damage and buying antidotes are annoying. The less money I spend on items, the faster I can reach 110,000 pokedollars for hyper beam.

the hardest part of the game

Brock is easily defeated by ember at level 14 at the highest. You can skip Misty and head straight to Vermillion after getting the SS ticket, and by the time you get back you have Slash or a pokemon that can deal with Starmie, like I dunno, Bellsprout, which evolves into an objectively better pokemon than Venusaur.

Victreebell is worse than Vena except in Attack and you can catch Pikachu in Viridian Forest to wipe Misty, or use Nido. Even Mankey if you're playing Yellow.

You can skip Misty

Anon, stop! He wants you to say tha-

>>NEEDING ANOTHER POKEMON IN RBY

OH NO NO NO NO CHARIZARD BROS THIS DOES NOT LOOK GOOD ON US

Reminder that if you didn't have a Gyarados by the time you got out of Mt. Moon you didn't beat the game.

The secondary typings are more of a hindrance than anything, with Charizard not even getting a flying type attack until Yellow and poison making Venusaur weak to the best type in gen 1. That said, water types are annoyingly abundant in most gens, so the water starter is usually just redundant.

Slash breaks the game in 1st gen but speedrunners use Blastoise or Nidoking anyway. I know with Blastoise you can get a moveset super effective against 14 types or some crazy shit.

Kid you saw a dinosaur and didn’t pick it, then tried to use your later knowledge to justify the decision.
You were a fag, sorry to break it to you.

Every time I replay Gen 1 I always use the glitch for Mew
And it's great every time :)

Awlays been a Water chad.

I played the game in 1998 and I don't remember a single one of my friends picking Bulbasaur, it was basically 80/20 Charmander/Squirtle.

You can't catch Bellsprout in Red. No one plays blue because Red's brand name is too powerful.

Charizard was on the box you fucking retard

I was the only one of my friend group with Red, actually. All my friends had Blue version.

Kevin Nash was raped by a pack of bulbasaurs

KWAB

Flip skirts with his vines.

They're all shit choices.

Fire type is trash in-game in general, but especially in Gens 1 and 3

Bulbasaur is weaker than Bellsprout who becomes available almost immediately

Squirtle is mogged by like half a dozen other Water types

Pikachu is a shitmon (moreso when it can't even evolve) mogged by Magnemite and Jolteon

There were no good starters until gen 3 from a gameplay perspective, and even then it was only Swampert.

What are you? A fag?

Yes, that's why I picked Squirtle

Objectively it was Torchic, seeing as how Gen 3 had absolute dogshit fire Pokemon and there were some solid Water choices. I like Spheal because he's fat.

Razor Leaf trades coverage for even more power, so you're not missing out on broken crit moves with Bulbasaur. Squirtle is only used for speedruns because it's a starter with surf.

Bulbasaur doesn't get Razor Leaf until 27 in gen 1, which is well after you make it to the SS Anne for the Body Slam TM.

Fire type is a waste of a slot, Blaziken is only passable because it's a Fighting type but there are better choices (especially in RS where Medicham is an option). Swampert transcends Water type due to its typing and STAB Earthquake, Walrein having STAB Ice over it barely matters when most Dragon types are 4x weak to Ice anyway they're getting one shot.

But I don't like Venusaur.

If you didn't pick Blaziken, Ninetales was the best option thanks to its high speed and having flamethrower from the start.

set up sunny day before taking out Steven's Skarmory

he immediately sends in Metagross and loses his best pokemon early into the fight

However, you have to ask yourself, "Why on earth would I even want a fire type in Emerald?"

What are you? A fag?

yes :3

BIG
MAN
BLASTOISE

i only ever saw poors playing pokemon though.

kid playing for the first time knowing about evolutions

Yep, retroactive fag confirmed

dragon monster is on the cover

one of the starters is clearly a smaller version of it

At least make your shitposts somewhat sensible, you fucking retard.

Help me grow weed.

I had Chikorita.

My friends forced me to pick it because I got Silver a few hours after them and made fun of me because they watched me play and waited for me to catch up to them in Goldenrod City. Chiko fucking sucked in early game being a pure Grass type and got beat up by birds, bugs and team rocket. When we got to Ecruteak they wanted to borrow Chikorita for the Pokedex data and to get eggs from the daycare.

They took turns fucking my poor little Chikorita (who may have been Fainted, the thing was always dead or dying) and harvested 5 slots of eggs. One of them got a shiny and we were all shitting bricks and thought it was a glitch.