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Here me out on this one. I tried not to be too autistic but I know the whitney and lance stuff probably is:
>Bugsy
I feel like ladybug>spider>beetle is a good representation of bug catching kids typical catches, with heracross being the rare one.
2 cocoons and scyther don't capture that bug catching kid energy well in my opinion.
>Whitney
I think if they updated johto, you know, true sequel or whatever, whitney would be a fairy gym leader.
Her whole gym is shaped like clefairy and most trainers use clefairy and jigglypuff. her gym design is very fairy esque now that the type exists.
Her character design could be normal or fairy, so I gave her granbull as an ace since its still normal in gen 2, but is fairy now like clefairy.
Also going to go over what i changed with the e4 and lance since they werent in OPs pic
>Will
replaced slowbro for slowking, because why didn't he have slowking in the first place?
also replaced first xatu for girafarig
>Koga
replaced korretress for weezing. forretress isnt poison and I see weezing as one of kogas important pokemon from kanto, hell, his kanto team is literally 2 koffings, a muk and a weezing
>bruno
replaced onix for steelix. onix sucks
>Karen
replaced vileplume for sneasel. i thought about giving her espeon but i didn't want to replace the not-dark type for another not-dark type.
>Lance
I replaced 2 of his dragonites.
one of them i replaced with kingdra which i feel no one would object to.
the other i replaced with ampharos.
since ampharos does gain dragon type via mega in later gens, I think it'd be a nice reference. sorta like how we got a ghost type marowak later on.
I also want to point out that this would help balance out the high amounts of flying and water on his team, and also point out that lt surge doesn't even have an ampharos.