>>23316435>Red made an incredibly specific teamRed made a diverse, balanced team out of a variety of powerful Pokémon. The Grass/Fire/Water core is extremely basic and Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise is clearly the superior option to Blue's Exeggutor/Arcanine/Gyarados.
>out of Pokémon that are incredibly difficult to obtainIn gameplay. There are a number of other trainers in-game with other starters, and the starters are presumably native to Kanto somewhere. Oak would know where to find them in the wild and there's no apparent reason why he would hinder Red from completing his Pokédex when he was the one who set him to the task in the first place, and as is explicitly demonstrated in G/S/C itself being a Champion grants inherent privileges including access to areas containing rare, powerful Pokémon such as Mt. Silver. Failing all that, he could just trade with someone else for the two he wasn't given.
>and that fit perfectly with the game that he isn't followingWow, the player character from the previous game has a team packed with iconic Pokémon from that game?
>then also captured a Pikachu and didn't make it evolveViridian Forest is the first dungeon between Pallet and Pewter, he could have had it since before Brock. The Light Ball he gives it doesn't work with Raichu.
>but muh speed over power, muh calcsI will remind you Red's Pikachu is 38 levels higher than the Champion's strongest Pokémon and 30 levels higher than Blue's strongest, it really does not matter much.
