ITT: We post autistic habits and such we have playing Pokemon.

I think I'm starter locked. I'm about to do a playthrough of Alpha Sapphire, and I want to use Torchic, but when I first played Gen 3, I used Mudkip. And it feels like sacrilege to not use him.

I could always ask someone to trade me one and use both, but then that leaves less room for a new team I could create.

This goes for all games. I wouldn't mind using a different starter, but I can't bring myself to break away from whatever I used during my first playthrough.