Myself, ive never started with water. Something about leech seeds and fire that is so much more fun than Hydro pump.

What about you guys?

I have always started with fire types. I know, I'm so mainstream.

I start out with whichever Pokemon looks the coolest!

What's a fire type?

I've always started with water on my first playthrough - I really wanted to choose Snivy in pokemon black, but I couldn't bring myself to do it :(

No. I think it's because of cuteness, but I don't repeat the choices in remakes

Let's see.

Blue - I picked Bulbasaur
Yellow - Pikachu (yeah, controversial choice, I know)
Gold/Silver - Never played
Saphire - Mudkip
Leaf Green - Squirtle
Emerald - Torchic
Pearl - Turtwig
Platinum - Chimchar
Soul Silver - Cyndaquill
Black - Snivy - It was the first time my starter wasn't my main pokemon - I really struggled to make him usefull

White 2 is probably going to be Oshawott

for me it is Fire or Water always.

I used to pick grass in red because it would make the first two gyms easy, and I was young and bad at the game. When I restarted, I picked Charmander though because he seemed cooler than bulbasaur who was a bit ugly.

Gen 2 I continued to pick fire as Cyndaquil was awesome. And that was the last generation of Pokemon I played!

From the main games I went Water>Fire>Water>Grass>Water. G/S water dude was lame, and Turtig was the shit! Other than that, water it is for me.

I normally pick fire as they tend to be my favorites out of the starters, but I also rarely choose water or grass. I just feel like grass is such a worthless pokemon type to use when you rely so much on "Surf."

Because you have to have a water pokemon, the only good thing grass does is kill water pokemon. That really doesn't make it worth a precious slot on my team. =

Bulbasaur is my favorite pokemon of all time, however.