It's either a 1 in 7 or a 1 in 8 chance of getting a female starter. So you can try restarting until you get one.
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You have a 12.5% for a starter Pokémon to be female, so it's luck. Another method might be breeding it later and hope for a female. ~ To breed males you need a ditto, which you can only get after beating the elite four. (In case you don't know, you put the starter in the daycare with a ditto and after some amount of steps you'll get an egg of the female)
You must choose chimchar as your starter. If your starter is male, then you must reset the game many time and try again, until it's female. ATTENTION: Every starter (inklusive Eevee and other non-starters) is about 87,5% male and 12,5% female. It's rare to get a female starter.
it depends on what game but on most males are better because most wild Pokemon are female ACTUALLY sex does not determine battle effectiveness, males and females are almost exactly the same like every other gen since in began. Sex determine reproduction (female determines resulting Pokemon and male determines it's move-set). Since you talking about a starter, the only real advantage is that you can reproduce that Pokemon IF you can get one.
what starter? you already get a starter after you beated red.-_-
Piplup is a starter Pokemon in Pokemon Pearl. you can get him early in the game as your starter Pokemon.