Charmander

I was gonna resize a lot of these images to feel a little more to scale, like I did with the bulbas, but then I thought about how much total time out of my life that would take by pokemon 700 or so, and decided I'd instead force you to deal with Charmanders 600 pixels across. Deal with it. Charmander is going to look bigger than Charizard and you're just gonna DEAL.

A simple, flaming lizard isn't my forte, but I can objectively say that Charmander is an excellent pokemon, and would have been an excellent series mascot if Pikachu weren't around. It's simple and adorable.

The fact that Charmander canonically dies if it's little tail-flame goes out, though, feels like something the series has never properly addressed. They talked about it briefly in the anime, when Ash rescued a Charmander trapped in the rain, but nobody has ever batted an eye about it since, even hurling their Charmanders into arenas with water-spewing fish monsters. Brutal.