>>34569811In touhoumon whenever you wanted to catch a Reimu, Marisa or some other main girl you would need to wait until a bit later or do some shit, they were much rarer than other touhous, the right way to do this would be having characters like Krillin and Yamcha being rarer, the player would start with grunts and bandits and slowly upgrade his team with more powerful warriors as he goes
Hell if you want some extra thought put into it why not have Gohan start as a baby pokémon or a pseudo that is pathetically weak early on but becomes a monster later?