Starters

In my opinion here's how the starters rank (from worst to best)

Fire: Typhlosion, Emboar, Blaziken, Infernape, Charizard

Typhlosion is just horrible. Stats are good but no moveset at all. Best move set? Eruption, Flamethrower, Double Edge, and Rollout??? Emboar is simply a third attempt at the same freakin' move set, looks like an obese piglet and is just another sad excuse for a starter. Overdone. PLEASE, Pokemon, start a new combo!!! Blaziken has terrible defense and Infernape just has a better moveset. Sorry. Charizard kicks some serious @$$ with it's moveset and is immune to a big weakness, Ground due to its Flying duel type. Also can't go wrong with learning Dragon type moves, Hyper Beam, Giga Impact, Earthquake and very strong Fire type moves either... and he just looks awesome :P. Don't pick Typlosion unless you REALLY REALLY need a fire type. Choose Infernape over Blaziken and Emboar if possible and always always always go Charizard if you have the option.

Grass: Sceptile, Servine, Meganium, Venusaur, Torterra

This was a close one. Not that I think any of these are bad choices, I just think based on statistics and the second type is several situations gave Torterra and Venusaur advantages. I picked Servine and Sceptile as the worst because of not so impressive moveset. Sceptile is a bit worse because it has no defense whatsoever. Not gonna lie, Meganium's isn't much better. But, Meganium has the advantage based on defense alone. Venusaur's moveset is decent and it doesn't have as many weaknesses as Meganium and Sceptile do due to it's dual Poison type. Torterra is the clear winner because it's part Ground and can slay everything with Earthquake. Clear winner here. My only knock on Torterra is that it gets PWND by Ice types. Oh well. Grass types aren't good on them anyways. Unless they're part water also... Anyways, go with the ground type.

Water: Samurott, Feraligatr, Blastoise, Swampert, Empoleon (barely)

So I give the edge to Empoleon because it resists like EVERYTHING. With the exception of Fire and Grass and whatever can actually hurt it (hardly anything). Despite Feraligatr and Blastoise being much faster than my first and second place peeps, they lack a very solid moveset and both don't abuse their type advantage (low special attack). Swampert and Empoleon are much too effective defensively to not be picked for first and second. Swampert however came in second because of it's type split. Although the duel type is WONDERFUL, it splits the attack power in half (between special attack and regular attack power). Empoleon doesn't do that which makes it a very useful water type. My only knock on Empoleon is that it like never learns a Steel type move... that can hurt things. I mean really? Metal Claw??? If you gave it a TM then your'e cookin but still. All except Feraligatr and Samurott are solid choices. Blastoise's defense makes it good enough to be passable as a single type starter, but Feraligatr and Samurott aren't very impressive. Although the Gen 5 movesets are better, still not particularly wonderful.

Starters make me happy. They don't take a whole lot of training and are typically strong Pokemon overall. Dual types are preferibble to single typed (IMO). Still, I decided to rank them becuase I can. Agree to disagree or disagree to agree. These rankings are my opinions. Deal with it.