Well, if you think about it, Brock just had a Geodude and an Onyx in the first set of games, so it's not like Gym Leaders can't start off with a slightly weaksauce team, and it makes sense in this setting for obvious reasons. Though I do agree that they would probably be a tad bit stronger than your average Joe's pokemon, but that's kind of given since they're the main characters here. And I'm assuming that the first evolution form rule (not second, since that would be stage three :P) would only apply to three pokemon families, so no one just starts off with an Arcanine or a Scizor or whatever?<br/><br/>Whatever, I think the waiting is having me put too much thought into this. I think I've put more thought into my pokemon team here than I have into any of my teams in any of the games (though, to be fair, this is my first attempt at making a team of a single type without giving it any weaknesses).