>>53410830I love how *nobody* read the premise and immediately went into powerwarring, it's "if you could pick"
that being said obviously シロナ, I like cool and stylish polymaths who are multifaceted and have so much potential depth to flesh out from (that Gamefreak's writers never could do justice to towards almost anyone in the games), and her team also seems both lorewise and irl the most insanely difficult and impressive team to assemble (like how could you get a Spiritomb to cooperate with a Togekiss? And then to care for a Garchomp on top of all that) whereas Red and Leon have multiple starters (I will say the Snorlax is cool) and Ash doesn't actually seem to know a thing about Pokemon care and maintenance or Pokemon outside the limits of his knowledge (he still uses the Rotom Phone lmao)