Why do we even have Grass starters? Grass focuses on stalling and gets annihilated every time, all the birds and bugs in the early game just fuck your shit.

Fire is direct damage and strong against many early types like bug and grass. Water is a good balance of damage and defense as it doesn't have too many weaknesses. Couldn't Grass have been something reasonable like Electric? Don't tell me Pikachu wasn't fifty times more popular than a nobody like Bulbasaur.