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Protagonist Canon Teams / Forced Captures

Prince_Ludwig
Prince_Ludwig Member Posts: 42 ✭✭
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Many of the Pokémon mainline games have forced captures in order to progress the story, such as the cover legendary. Or others force a gift on you.


Given that, we can consider those as canonical members of that protagonist's team. Can we together create a list of these canonical members of teams for every generation's protagonist?


Red (Gen 1) is already done for us, though, since he repeatedly appears as an NPC with this team: Pikachu, Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, Snorlax, Lapras.

Where Pikachu is his starter, Charizard / Venusaur / Blastoise are all gifts in Pokémon Yellow, Lapras is a gift from the Silph Co. guy, and Snorlax is an in-game event.

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  • UnovanZorua
    UnovanZorua Member Posts: 2,165 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I like to imagine the BW2 protagonist having a full team of nothing but N's Pokémon but that's probably never going to be canon.

    Anyway XY has Delphox/Greninja, Venusaur/Charizard, Mega Lucario, Lapras, (maybe) Rypherior (evolves from Ryhorn and the mother is a Ryhorn racer) or Snorlax, and Zygarde.

  • PinkYoshiFan
    PinkYoshiFan Member Posts: 59 ✭✭
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    Gold/Silver has starter, Sudowoodo, Eevee, Shiny Gyarados and the Legendary

    I guess you could add one of the legendary beasts depending on starter/legendary types

  • Prince_Ludwig
    Prince_Ludwig Member Posts: 42 ✭✭
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    So here's a point to clarify: When it comes to things like Sudowoodo, the player didn't have to catch it; they could choose to KO it instead, so it wouldn't be a forced capture.


    Compare to something like Nebby in Gen 7 where you MUST have it.

  • Acornyo
    Acornyo Member Posts: 733 ✭✭✭✭
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    Sword and Shield has Kubfu, Squirtle/Blastoise, Eternatus, Calyrex & Glastrier/Spectrier (to finish the story you need to catch it, so it's a forced catch), the Regis, the Galarian Birds, the Box Legendary, and your starter.

    I'm pretty sure that's all, but it's a lot of legendaries.