Don't worry.
I started with Bulbasaur when I first played Red. Then Gary came and used Flamethrower. After that I always used Charmander and still does. Bulbasaur is hard to lvl up with such a low ammount of TP. I always caught a Dugtrio in the Diglett cave because it was a great addition to my team :3
Snivy is pretty decent, mainly because of the stat buffing moves it gets. Never liked Oshawott because of his final evolution. Tepig is the one I usually start with... mainly because I love Fire type xD
I don't understand why Pikachu was so overrated :/ His stats is total crap and you can't even evolve him... The starters is a good thing though, but doesn't you become too overpowered?
I never had such a huge interest in legendary pokemon :/ The only one I actually used is Ho-oh because it was good looking and got the Fire type. I mean, look at Moltres! Remove the wings and head and then you get a grilled chicken on fire. I'm serious.
Is there a specific reason to why you love those types? ^^ The reason to why I love Fire is because fire is beautiful and interesting :3 Poison is awesome since it satisfies my sadism :/ It's also good that you can't be poisoned yourself xD
Oh, I see... I thought that critical hits was 2x the normal damage but that the attack also ignores all defense/special defense. It feels that the critical hit rate is higher for bots >_> Especially since they got higher accuracy and higher chance to inflict status ailments than you got.
Yeah, he got a pretty slow speed :/ You probably have to breed to get that move D: Almost? He seems to hit all types for at least neutral damage xD I haven't tried using him with Choice Band... I might try that later!