Had to pick cyndaquil, as a kid, it was the obvious choice to me. I did end up picking totodile on gold, and chika on crystal, but cyndaquil takes it for me. It was one of those moments where you saw it and just knew. I know technically Totodile's line is the most competitively useful due to base stats/movepool/dragon dance, but as a kid, my starter always got all my vitamins, and we didn't care about base stat totals or movepools. (Although typhlo can learn thunderpunch, I always ate my rivals feraligatr for lunch with that move since typhlo outspeeds.) so it always had enough attack to one shot with thunderpunch. It was also the second mon I ever got to level 100, right after Pikachu in yellow. So many memories are flooding back, like taking on red with only Typhlo... ahhh. The rereleases on virtual console
Need to hurry up and get here! XD