>>27053322>Mudkip is a meme and evolves into a useful typing>Blaziken is incredibly useful maingame and has a design kids would naturally find cool, and would probably have ended up being the secondary shillmon if Lucario didn't pan out>Sceptile is probably the most flexible Grass starter design-wise, retroactively became a Dragon, and is part of a line that has an uncanny ability to repeatedly appear in spin-off media (such as the anime, Pokken, and PMD.)A lot went right. Even if you don't like the designs, it's hard to argue with the fact that they're a pretty well-rounded and useful group of starters where all three options are decently effective. Even the gameplay 'weak link', Sceptile, is still pretty competent compared to the average starter in most other generations. Especially in Emerald.
