they're kinda equal really, this time the starters were balanced off really well.. how ever the whole thing where if you chose the grass type, the begginning of the game would be much easier than if you chose the fire type... treeco is defenateli the best starter of hoeen since it's fast and can take down the first coupla gyms well... while mudkip's somewhere in the middle, torchic is the hardest to train and slowest at leveling and learning useful moves...
... but i'd prefer blazekin out of the 3 coz it'd be more versatile; sceptile needs to be bred to have any decent moves that it could pull off, and swampert's offensive capability aint too impressive until it can get the reflectin moves n maybe curse... but blaze gets powerful moves naturali =S ... it's scawi >.mudkip>torchic>treeco is how it's supposed to be like; who ever said mudkip>treeco... errrrrrr....... wat ever man...