heres the only canon pokemon I can think of for each protag
red: well he actually is fought in the games so I don't need to come up with one
ethan: starter (imo: typhlosion), togetic, umbreon, shiny gyarados, whatever legendary
Brendan/May: for this im gonna use pokemon used in the rival fights along with some other stuff
first theres the grass/fire/water type triangle
sceptile camerupt and wailord, blaziken breloom and wailord, or swampert camerupt and breloom
and for the other 3
swellow, a lati/castform depending on whether or not its the remakes, and one of the box legendaries
lucas/dawn:
a starter, blissey, staraptor, luxray, box legendary, and im really not sure what else I can put unless theres a gift pokemon that im forgetting
Hilbert/Hilda:
starter, corresponding monkey, sawk/throh, box legendary, not sure what else
Nate/Rosa: starter,herdier, magnezone, zoroark, box legendary, not sure what else to put (keep in mind the herdier and magnezone are just out of my ass and really just pokemon encouraged to use)
Calem/Serena:
for this one its really a pool of potential picks to me
starter, corresponding eeveelution, corresponding kanto starter and its mega, mega absol, meowstic, altaria, box legendary, clefable, garchomp, heliolisk, mega blaziken
Elio/Selene:
starter, corresponding eeveelution, lycanroc/snorlax, nebby, and then im not really sure but my headcannon is crabominabole and kommo-o
Victor/Gloria:
starter, corviknight, toxtricity, gmax meowth, eternatus, and idk
