When people mention "canon" protagonist teams, they always leave good old Tentacruel out.
>>57185287>canon protagonist teamsCanon based on what?
>>57185308It's a general headcanon thing based on the idea that every Pokemon that are guranteed to be obtained for each protagonist is their "canon" team. Think like how Red's team is based on Pokemon he gets as gifts or are guranteed to encounter in Yellow.
>>57185359GF should've kept the Espeon. Making his team weak to a good Electric Type is fucking stupid.
>>57185287>There is a timeline where the mc stole the Shuckle and the Spearow
>>57185492Shuckle is gifted to you if you max its happiness.
>>57185359Yellow isn't canon
The magikarp is actually a good purchase
>>57185836Didn't know that. Cute
>>57185869According to GSC/HGSS it is.
>>57185287That's only from a rare timeline where the protagonist is a retard who abandons all his good Pokemon while stranded on an island
>>57185869Correct, it was soft-retconned into Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee.Funny that the team rocket trio from the anime are canon in the games since that game though.
>>57185869>>57186509btw you fight Red, pre-gen 7 battle in that game as well, and it's generally implied the game takes place during or shortly after the events of gen 2. So if you want to see the Red's modern canon team, play Let's Go. Or just play gen 7 post-game to see his team in modern times in-setting, afaik gen 7 has not been retconned, though there is some strange stuff with the SwSh DLC.
All i know i that Red canonically has arcanine and that's enough for me
>>57186684*is
>>57185886I wonder who could be behind this post...
>>57186509LGPE is an entirely different timeline/multiverse, they're all canon, just in different universes, even versions. Black/White straight up confirms this. Every game is canon.>>57185287Probably because it just doesn't fit when the characters. If anybody would use one then it's probably Leaf. But even then think about that, Leaf with a Tentacruel just seems off.
>>57186088Not really. Red having all starters represents every choice.>>57186509>Correct, it was soft-retconned into Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee.False too.
>>57186510> it's generally implied the game takes place during or shortly after the events of gen 2Its very clearly supposed to take place prior to the Gen 2 events(if those events happened at all in LG timeline) given Team Rocket's state, the fact that there was no league champion prior to Trace, the gym leaders, including Gio, being Gen 1 and Sabrina's prediction.
>>57186510Gen 2 happens after that, he just replaces Arcanine and Machamp in that timeline with Blastoise and Charizard.
>>57185287This implies that the HGSS protagonist would release every other team member though, starter included.
