2010-03-23, 11:48 AM
I always start with fire. Mainly because fire does the best in game for the story because of the offense based stat layout and nice type coverage. Water and grass always seem to have more of a "take hits and last long in your battles" stat build, but if you're going around 1 or 2 hitting everything with a bag full of potions and revives lasting long isn't really that needed. That and I usually build my final team around the 3rd or 4th gym, and sometimes a good fire type isn't present at that point, or I don't like the fire type that is available(while I like the water/grass types there are most of the time).