

People say they gave Ash a Pikachu because it would earn them more money if
Ash had all three starters than just one starter. But then why did they make
Charizard their starter representative later? Charizard was the only one that
evolved from Ash's Kanto starters, the writers gave Gary a Blastoise to fight
Ash's Charizard, in _Mewtwo Strikes Back_ Ash is the one who represents
Charizard while other trainers represent Venusaur and Blastoise, and in the
_Pokémon Zencho_ mangá and in the _I Choose You!_ film, Ash has Charmander as
his only starter.


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Why did they turn Charizard into Ash's "starter"?


I think Charizard's popularity started when people got the tcg cards of a
holographic shadowless card adn people making fun of how charizard is a
fire/flying type who can't learn fly in the gen 1 games and people though
CHarizard was a dragon type.


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I think that because Charizard is the easiest Pokemon to draw of the starter
trio. If they wanted to pick a starter to be Ash's starter, They would have to
spend a lot of time drawing that particular Pokemon. Ken Sugomori mentioned
that he doesn't like to draw Venusaur because of its complexity. Blastoise is
a bit more difficult to draw compared to Charizard. So, it will be easier to
just let Charmander be Ash's starter.

Another reason which is Ash is an anime counterpart of Red. Red in the games
owns a Charizard/Charmeleon/Charmander.


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