>>45548816Honestly the best way to make a boss team I feel would be to give the protagonist you're facing three different teams of six, one for each starter, and have them randomly cycle through them whenever you battle them. Both keeps away "canon starter" arguments and with eighteen Pokémon slots, only three necessarily filled by the starters, you can give them really out their choices without feeling like you're ignoring Pokémon they'd "canonically" get (like gift Pokémon).