If you could choose your starter out of any basic pokemon, what would it be, or if the game had alternate choices for the 3 starters, what would they be.

If i could pick i would choose chinchou.I've always like the rain dance ,thunder thing and chinchou could grow into that. Also sandshrew.It seems to be the ground version of pikachu,and its not like any other starters, because its stats aren't that much higher than wild pokemon.