Adding on to what Xia said, what if the three starters were there and if you didn't like your options then Oak himself would take you out and help catch a starter pokemon near the lab. Like you tell Oak who you would like to start out with then and go out in high grass or whatever then and Oak and you could capture your starter pokemon. You can tell Oak who you want from a list which can be narrowed down to so many pokemon.Also, seeing as we're starting off in Kanto, are our starter Pokemon going to be given out by Oak? If we do that and combine it with the "choose your starter" idea, we could do a questionair at the begining. Each combination would result in a different trio.



