>>29491221literally any team can be """canon"""
hell you could go slap 6 of the same low level rodent on your team and it would be just as """canon""" as anything else
there's always gonna be trainers that do that in any telling of pokemon, even if most of the time you never see them
i mean fucking hell, there was a gym battle in the anime (hoenn or DP i think) where pikachu had to battle a gym leader's feebas and magikarp. and ash got fucking bodied
literally any team combination can be """canon"""