My Pokeymans, Let me show you them.

I never really cared for the Bulbasaur family before. It was always my least favourite of the 1st Gen starters. On my 3rd play through of Firered, I picked a Bulbasaur. His name was Don and I managed to stick with him the entire game.

Don was slow and tanky, so I used that to my advantage. By the end of the game, he had Sleep Powder, Toxic, Leech Seed and Razor Leaf. I'm pretty sure he took out most of Bruno's team with Toxic and Leech Seed alone.

Currently, he's sitting in my HeartGold cart at level 62 and is Naughty in nature.


I love the Charizard family. Always have. I always wanted an awesome pet dragon when I was a kid, so I was excited to pick Charmander as my very first pokemon.

I also got the luck of the draw and snagged a girl. Female starters are only 1/8. I named her Charley and she was the only pokemon in the game that I named. She had an Adamant nature, which wasn't so great in a 3rd gen game, but much better in 4th gen where I'm going to teach her Flare Blitz at some point. Right now, she's level 63 and has Flamethrower, Wing Attack, Dragon Claw and Dragon Rage. At the time, I just figured Dragon moves were really good, so I let her have two of them.

In Platinum, I built myself a Sunnyzard named Scott. Sunny Day, Flamethrower, SolarBeam and Air Slash lets him take on water types like Swampert pretty well.


The Squirtle family was my second choice when going through Firered. I've realized that it's incredibly valuable to have a decent water type early on in the game, so long as you've got someone to take on all the grass types that pop up in the early game. Bug and Flying types are easy enough to get.

I also managed to luck out with another female, Ophelia. She was a Sassy Blastoise who pulled me through the game with Surf, Ice Beam, Brick Break and Waterfall. Brick Break was solely to deal with Lorelie's Ice types.

Ophelia is sitting in my HeartGold cart now at level 53.