Felix Kristanelo
Negai Boshi
krishnath
Negai Boshi
I usually go for the fire type, which never turns out to be useful early on. But I had Chimchar on Diamond, so maybe Piplup for Platinum....
Hmm, you're so much more strategic than I am. I've never bothered with type advantages for the first gym, I just train my Pokemon til they can beat them. In the 1st Gen ganes, I would always catch 3 Pidgey or Pidgeotto, plus a Nidoran and whatever else I could find, then use each Pidgey's Sand Attack over and over til the opponent had almost no accuracy. Then I could slowly Tackle it til it Fainted. Geodude took the first Pidgey, Onyx took the other two....Useless little strategy, but it worked, and I tried it in Diamond too. It's fun. ^-^ But I won't have to do that with a Grass or Water starter.....
You were forced to do that in yellow. Oh, what a glorious battle that was!
Lol, yeah. Yellow was the first game I played, followed by Red with Charmander as the starter, so I didn't even consider the possibility of using a Pokemon with an actual advantage in that battle until after I beat it on FireRed. Lol....