Okay... Why is Charmander so high in the stats poll? It most certainly isn't the strongest starter throughout the game, in fact it is one of the weakest ones (except very early game when you can still abuse Dragon Rage). I assume people are counting the Mega Evolutions when they are voting. But the poll didn't mention anything about including them, and even then M-Charizard (X or Y) is far far far worse than both Blaziken and Greninja. Not to mention the poll is about using these mons in-game, Charmander is useless mid to late game, until you get one of its mega stones (which for all we know is probably post game). So I'm really puzzled by these results, because they give off a false impression that Charmander is actually good in game (when as I mentioned previously it is one of the weakest starters). The results of the poll are very misleading, and I urge anyone who is seeing it to not actually believe that Charmander is one of the strongest starters in game.
Torchic far surpasses it in every single aspect, even if you include both Megas. Froakie end game is also much better due to its incredible versatility, but it is very bad mid game due to Frogadier's mediocre level up moveset (hence why I don't think it's the strongest starter).
EDIT:
Since the poll results are very different right now. I'll edit my post to say that at the time I wrote this Charmander was TIED with Torchic in the stats poll. And that was after I voted for Torchic.