>>38883864a lot of you are too young to remember but as a kid bulbasaur was like "the interesting starter" where you didnt just spam flamethrower and hydro pump. you lay down leech seeds, poison, eventually you can sleep powder, and solar beam was cool in the 90s.
swampert was cool when gen 3 came out because there hadn't been a dual type water starter yet, and he ran train on hoenn.