So, who do you think was the best starter in Pokémon Red/Blue?

I preferred Squirtle myself, since the Water-type had the fewest weaknesses out of all the R/B starters, and Blastoise really can take hits because of its high Defense and Special Defense

Blastoise: 2 weaknesses: Grass and Electric... but Grass wasn't much of a threat if you gave it Ice Beam
Charizard: 3 weaknesses: Water, Electric, and Rock... the only generation I starter with a 4x weakness
Venusaur: 4 weaknesses: Fire, Flying, Ice and Psychic... that second type really made it fairly weak, plus there were a lot of powerful Fire-type moves in the game... also, many Water types can also get Ice-type moves anyway, so...

My Blastoise on my most recent playthrough of Pokémon Blue had the moves Surf, Ice Beam, Body Slam, and Hydro Pump by the time I reached the Elite Four

I also used Fearow until I caught Zapdos, and used it for my electric type (I had a Pikachu/Raichu earlier in the game, but it fell into disuse as well...)

I only used Jigglypuff/Wigglytuff for Flash and to catch a Gastly by using Sing (which I actually caught at full health with a Great Ball ), which I evolved into Gengar using the emulator TGB-Dual

I also had an Alakazam on my team, which really served me throughout the game... that is, until I caught Mewtwo

My team for the Elite Four on my most recent playthrough of Blue was: Blastoise, Alakazam, Gengar, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres

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