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>S
Squirtle, cyndaquil, and totodile are truly perfect first stage starters. They are all cute, interesting, and look likey they could hold their own in a fight.
>A
Bulbasaur is borderline S. The lanky ones (treecko, froakie) look cool and competent but not quite cute enough. Torchic and rowlet are adorable but are missing something. Grookey and chespin are really solid but not as solid as the S tiers. The croc is an odd case and I was a little surprised to put him in A, but here he is. With slightly better teeth and proportions he could be S tier but then he'd just be red totodile, wouldn't he? As is he's got that lovely tough little chunk look that something like gible gives off.
>B
All of these are perfectly fine. Charmander's got this weird baby head and shape but he's still a cool fire lizard. Chikorita's flat face has always been a little uncanny to me but I think I'm alone in that, very charming otherwise. Turtwig is borderline A but there's something a little off about it. Head shape maybe, I don't know. It's good. Mudkip and tepig are cute but don't look very strong and mudkip always looked particularly plasticy in a gen where half the pokemon look like they're made of plastic. Litten would've been A or S with a smaller head/better proportions, those glassy eyes and general color scheme are great. Furaffinity is kind of bland but at least it's got some texture and looks competent.
>C
Not bad but flawed. Piplup always struck me as way too textureless and blobby and wasn't cute enough to make up for it in the way rowlet is. Fennekin feels like a parody of modern starter design, with the giant bobble head, tiny body, and no cool color scheme like litten has to distract from it. Scorbunny is kind of dolllike in a way treecko and chespin aren't. I think it's the proportions again. The duck could honestly go to C.
>D
All real bad, with chimchar as the worst. So fucking ugly.
