okay okay okay OKAY OKAY OKAY. I wanted to post here, but I have to go full colress (however, I disagree!) on a few of these posts.
while bulbasaur is actually my favorite starter overall, I kind of have to disagree with this statement. you see, theres one edge the chikorita line has over bulbasaur- getting double screens through leveling. while it may seem as something minor, its actually quite a big deal as I was able to wall things like marianettes bewear (okay this may be rejuv but you get the point) without the need of a single healing item. while venusaur is better to 1vs1 a pokemon, meganium fits a support role better, I feel.
keep in mind that panpour and simipour are the only pokemon to be able to learn scald by leveling, and this as soon as level 22. not only that, if you hold off its evolution until 31, you get a move that covers one of the two types simipour is weak against- grass. sure, simipours defensive stats are rather lacking, but I really wouldnt say that simipour is living garbage because it actually is a god when you first evolve it at 31, boasting both stab scald and acrobatics while also having real nice speed and mixed attacking stats. heck, simipour actually was one of my core mons in rejuv (oops this isnt reborn again) and it was also vital against florin, taking out two of his mons and severely weakening one before it went down. florin. the grass leader. cant judge as much about simisear and simisage, simply because I havent used them before. I do agree on the designs though- fuck that.
as for the pokemon I seem to have a bit of a quarrel with. beautifly. theres absolutely NO REASON you would ever want a beautifly, considering you can get caterpie at the same time and butterfree is vastly superior. not to mention that literally every bug/flying-type that comes after is better and that beautifly needs quiver dance to be able to do just about ANYTHING, which it gets at solid level 40. also, getting beautifly means not getting dustox (unless you caught a wild silcoon/beautifly, in which case, why?), and dustox is also vastly superior to beautifly. while they fulfill completely different roles, the main difference between dustox and beautifly is that dustox can pull its weight. beautifly cant for its life.