>>32958054>Yellow let you have all three starters and it's the CANON version ;_;I mean aside from the fact that yellow has a few things such as Pikachu avoiding traveling in a ball and various anime inspired characters who never appear in any other games, the simplest explanation for Red having all 3 starters is that they wanted Pokemon Trainer Red to represent as many people as possible. By giving him every starter from his generation, he represents players no matter what starter they ended up picking.
>B-but his PikachuMascot character, of course he has one.
There's no way they'd stick to one canon starter for any of the protags game-wise, as that would invalidate players who didn't choose those starters. I mean maybe in manga or anime, sure they would for the sake of narrative, but certainly not when they don't actually need to.
But, if you do want me to go full autism and pick which starters I think would fit each protag best, I'll indulge you.
Red: Charizard
Ethan: Feraligatr
May/Brendan: Blaziken
Lucas/Dawn: Torterra
Hilbert/Hilda: Samurott
Nate/Rosa: Emboar
Calem/Serena: I like the idea of Shauna having a Chesnaught, but let's be real it's fucking Naruto Frog.>>32958078Right, I guess they should have the legendary dragons. But on the flip side, you don't really encounter in-game trainers outside of battle tower type things with legendary mons (aside from N), so let's just assume that that's their team without the dragons on them.
