>>53669495You better pick Chimchar if you want to use a fire type. Also prepare for the slowness, just comparing DP to Platinum back to back you'll see that during battles the DP battle engine has constant micropauses for literally everything while Platinum goes by smoother.
I would unironically recommend you to play BDSP instead of DP if you're so adamant on using the exclusives, while it is kind of a clusterfuck in some aspects it does fix my main gripes with the game, being the overall slowness, the HM slave experience and the Pokémon selection (kinda). Still, imo that is still not enough to recommend over Platinum under normal circunstances.