Charmander, Bulbasaur or Squirtle?

[Night Fury]

Bulbasaur for life.

[Spooniest]

No, the real question is why don't you have Gyarados when fighting Misty. You can get a Magikarp early and using it in random battles, the Moon Mountain and North of Cerulean City results in it evolving early enough making the Gym Battle easy enough and giving you a Pokémon you can use for the rest of the game. Gyarados is not even threatened by Lt. Surge because Lt. Surge is beaten by a single Dugtrio.

I haven't caught a Gyarados because I caught a Pikachu. Pikachu is not threatened by Misty's or Surge's gyms at all. Gyarados learns Bite at level 20, which makes it outclassed in Generation I by Squirtle. I don't even need to catch a Dugtrio. Gyarados' Special is still really bad in Gen I, so the best move that it learns is Strength, not counting Hyper Beam.

Even further than that, you don't even mention that instead of Trainer-Fly to get Gengar with Night Shade, you can Trainer-Fly yourself a level 100 Gyarados with Dragon Rage in Mt. Moon. So instead of getting the useful Gyarados, you got the useless Gyarados.

Have you played this game before?

I A M S U R R O U N D E D B Y C A S U A L B O Y S , B O Y S

No reasonable person could ever be expected to know any of this.

I am gazing at this post as though staring into the abyss of Pokemon fandom with a bewilderment and terror previously unknown to my humours.

[Sephex]

Charmander because it evolves into my favorite Pokemon, Charizard.

[Dat Matt]

@Sephiroth - It goes stupid deep through glitches. Pokemon yellow can be finished in 0:00 minutes that way.

[Pike]

I honestly can't tell if Tav is being serious or not

[blackmage_nuke]

Bulbasaur is easy mode, Squirtle is normal, Charmander is hard.

Charmander every time on red version so there was the added difficulty of scouring the viridian forest for a Caterpie to evolve into a Butterfree with Confusion

[Shlup]

I am just sick to death of charmander.

why do you hate me

Mostly you just have terrible taste. Don't worry, I know it's not your fault.

[Ayen]

I am just sick to death of charmander.

And Charmander is sick to death of you!

[Sephiroth]

Have you played this game before?

Sorry, haven't bothered reading your stuff once you started mentioning internet crap and glitches. Not impressed by what the TCGers call netdecking. Not impressed by a so called glitchless run that still uses glitches like the Pokédoll error and also not impressed by "catching a Gyarados" which is not even possible in Pokémon Red/Blue without a glitch or a cheating device as Gyarados can be caught the earliest in Pokémon Yellow's Fuchsia City.

GETAWAYCOPYANDPASTERSBACKTOSEREBIIWITHYOU

[Wolf Kanno]

All I can say is that this hit pretty close to home.

[Ayen]

Smurf off, Brock! You have no eyes.

[Slothy]

Charmander 4 lyfe.

[Rez09]

Squirtle all the way. Charmander is cute and all, and Bellyzard is, like, my favorite thing ever, but I lurv turtle pokemanz sooooooo much, so it's an easy pick for me.

[Masamunemaster]

Most people look at it in the difficulty stand point. I always go with Bulbasaur because I love him, he's so cute and awesome.

[Rin Heartilly]

My first ever starter was Squirtle :3 But I almost always choose charmander every other time. I like dragons, even though charizard is a dragon but not classified as one (charizard x doesn't count shhh) although Alteria and Vibrava are, say whuuuuut?

With that being said, I play pokemon competitively and actually understood everything Tav said, so I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad that I don't get much sunlight from the outdoors :<