Yeah pictures are only secondly terrible to how bad the names are. Really I didn't know this became an Austrian game with German hot dogs for names LOL. Don't forget the sweedish pig thats in the lead right now lol, its just so funny and so obvious. Pokemon lost all its hype after the first two years, died off even faster then yugioh, I guess their ultimate goal was for it to end up like magic the gathering where it has steady popularity over a period of 20 years rather then amazing popular 1st year, second year stable, 3rd year what was it 74.6% decrease according to nintendo in the new decade. Thats pretty bad. I remember I came back to elementary school after one summer and talking about pokemon made you the school nerd lol, even though three months before every person was talking about it(oh how interesting elementary school was).

I would probably have to go with Snivy, or Oshawott, because I don't like the look of Tepig 3rd evolution. Most likely Oshawott, because Snivy's 3rd evolution looks a lot different than what I'm used to.

Im goin with Tepig, for two reasons:

1: Both of the others are creepy.
2:Tepig is a pig. Enough said.

Pokabu the fire type pokemon because it will evolve into a fire/fighting type pokemon and those aren't easy to find.

TheOmegaDragon : Well, technically fire/fighting aren't that hard to find. Every fire starter since gen. 3 has been that combination.

Shane : I'm speaking of generation V pokemon not IV and under like Blaziken or Monferno although they share a common type it's rare to find one early in the game and is useful for the first few gyms like the bug and normal type gyms.

I picked Oshawott, because I really didn't like the way Snivy or Tepig's evolutions look, and I just don't use the water starters much and wnted to mix it up.

I have to go with Oshawott. Daikenki looks awesome. Snivy and it's evolutions are to cocky for my liking, and I just like Daikenki and Mutachimaru more than Emboar and Pignite.

When I get pokemon black I will get oshawott and nickname it failwott!

I always play my game more then once so i can try out all the starters unless im lucky enough to get the event in that case i wouldn't restart ever.