Quote Originally Posted by tgva8889 View Post
This doesn't actually sound totally unreasonable. I mean, if you want a good reason to force people to use some non-Starter Pokemon, this might be it. And low-level Dragon-types aren't insurmountable, so you could challenge them with some of the low-level Normal-types. I consider it at least an interesting thought.
I considered it my earlier list, actually, then thought maybe dragon-types were a bit hard for bottom level. Then I thought how pants Axew is in terms of stats (only marginally better than a starter), so it could work. (Especially if you added a few new Pokemon in as well.)