As a kid, I got into the world of Pokemon when my brother showed me Pokemon Emerald for the first time, we used to play video games using emulators since our parents couldn't afford to buy us any consoles, but I was in love with the game! I just wanted to catch 'em all and fill the pokedex. Unfortunately, my brother and I were kind of cheaters and we used save states (They basically give you the ability to save the game no matter what you are doing, e.g. fighting a pokemon you want to capture but are not sure if that attack will make them faint.) and one day I kinda screwed our save file using these save states and lost all our progress. We were just before Victory Road ;-;

But, anyways, it so happened that my first starter was Mudkip and since that day I have adored the boy! I just think Mudkip is neat, not a bad starter in terms of stats and very cute (If you avoid evolving him, that is >.>)