Charmander is so cute and perfect for ash since hes had one that turned into charizard 1.Charmande can still sit on his shoulder 2.he wouldn't want to evolve him like he doesn't want to evolve pikachu to show his love 3.I bet this will make the story different instead of thunder bolts at team rocket it will be flamethrowers and plus charmander will make it funny because ash or one of his friends might touch charmanders fire tail and get an ouchy! Hahahhahaha lol ♥

I'm pretty sure that Charizard is the 2nd most iconic Pokémon next to Pikachu. That's the fact at least here in Japan, no matter what you may want to believe.

Lucario, since it is one of my other favorite Pokemon.