I think the grass starter has always received the best threatment in stats terms. There's a lot of variety among grass starters: Serperior and Sceptile are both really fast, but one is a sweeper, the other a defensive pokemon. Venusaur and Meganium are medium fast but one is a special wall the other is a mixed wall. Torterra and Chesnaught are both pretty slow with the first being a strong physical attacker with great bulk and the other being a physical defensive and attacking. I mean there are a lot of choises among grass starters. The problem of the grass starter is that Grass is not a great type while Fire and Water are.
Charizard and Thyplosion are basically the same pokemon. Speed Boost Blaziken and Infernape are basically the same pokemon. Delphox is basically Charizard/Thyplosion with more sp. def and less attack.
Emboar is the only peculiar fire starter.
Blastoise is defensive and mixed. Feraligatr is a physical attacker/defensive, Swampert is a bulky physical attacker, Empoleon is a special attacker/defensive, Samurott is a slow mixed attacker. Greninja is a fast mixed attacker. More variety but except for Greninja they are all slow.
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