>>35961537This. In Gen I Arcanine's BST was 455 tied with Exeggutor's; they were the highest Fire and Grass type non-legends. Meanwhile Gyarados and Cloyster had 480, just 5 points under Articuno and tied for highest Water type BST.
There's a reason Blue says he chose the strongest Pokemon. He literally has the highest BST non-legendary Grass/Fire/Water mons in the gen outside of his starter.