Pokemon Yellow offers you the chance to get Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle without having to trade, much like how Ash was able to obtain the three starters from Red and Blue in the Anime. Bulbasaur can be found in the house to the west of the Cerulean City Pokemon Center. Here, a lady offers you a Bulbasaur that she has nursed back to health if your Pikachu is in a happy mood. This is a reference to "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village", where a girl called Melanie takes care of injured Pokemon.

Use Squirtle against Fire, Ground and Rock opponents for best effect, but it can even hold its own against Ice types as well at least on the defensive side of things. In emergencies, Dig could help Squirtle get at least one hit in on an opposing Electric type. Squirtle doesn't last long in a battle against Thunder or Grass Pokemon. Thunder or any other similar Electric attacks usually knock it out in one go.

Pokemon is is having quite a year for its 20th anniversary with two brand new mainline games coming later this year, along with games like Pokken Tournament and Pokemon GO as well. The actual 20th anniversary was on February 27th and brought us the three classic Pokemon games on the 3DS Virtual Console. While Red and Blue limit you to one of the original three starters, all three can be obtained in Pokemon Yellow. As Pokemon Yellow is the one game to be somewhat based off the anime, you instead start with Pikachu as your starter, which leaves Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle out of the fun from the start. However, each one of these three can be gotten separately without too much work in the early portions of the game.