>>38079922You play through every main game in the series in order (ALL of them. Red > Blue > Yellow > Gold > etc.). Each time you win, you ban every species that was on your winning team. So since Charizard was on my winning team in Red, I can't pick Charmander when I play LeafGreen and I can't take the free Charmander in Yellow. It takes a special kind of autism to actually do it, though - Kanto alone is run through 9 times, for example.