After completing my first (out of twelve) random runs of Yellow, I've started on the second.
The way I picked my teams was to have one randomly chosen traditional starter, and five randoms to fill up the team. If I drew a critter that was already in a team (counting evolutions), I repeated this process, until there weren't enough pokémon left to fill a team. This gave me twelve unique teams with most of the pokémon in the game, as I excluded legendaries and pokémon that aren't available in Yellow (I think those are Ekans, Koffing, Meowth, Weedle, Jynx, Electabuzz, Magmar, perhaps a few more). The unlucky two that were left over were Slowbro and Sandslash, which I decided were free to use as HM-users. I use Pikachu until I have caught the sixth member of the squad.
The first team was: Blastoise, Oddish, Abra, Krabby, Tangela and Eevee. But because it sucked so much, I just decided that evolving them was okay, and with that, the team looked a lot better and I decided to evolve Eevee into Jolteon as it's the most usable Eeveelution (if you already have Blastoise and Kingler), and you don't need Flareon to defeat Erika as Kadabra wrecked her with Psybeam. The team ended just shy of level 50 (one at 51, one at 50, lowest at 46), and despite having two Water-types and two Grass-types, there wasn't too much overlap. Blastoise was the usual all-out attacker, while Kingler had Double Team and Guillotine (with X-accuracy it hits 100%), while I gave Tangela a Body Slam/Rest/SD/Bind set, while Vileplume had Mega Drain, Acid, Bide and Sleep Powder. So usually I'd lead with Vileplume, set sleep, than either switch to either Tangela or Kingler depending on what I was facing, with Blastoise, Jolteon and Kadabra as clean-up.
My new team is:
- Blastoise
- Lickitung
- Victreebell
- Dugtrio
- Seaking
- Kangaskhan
From the getgo, I'm looking at Lickitung and Kangaskhan and I'm thinking to myself.. Why?! I don't think we get two Body Slam or three Earthquake TMs! Though I'm probably going for a SD/Screech/Wrap-combo for Lickitung with Paralysis support from something.. Somehow.. While Seaking is basically a slower HornDrill-variant of my previous Kingler. Victreebell a better, more offensive Vileplume obviously. Dugtrio is a great addition, HiCrit-Slash and Earthquake is awesome.
Though I got to be fair.. I freaked out when I saw where I could catch Lickitung: Cerulean Cave.. Ouch.. Should've thought about that.. But completely randomly, I came across a glitch-video on YouTube (when I was refreshing my mind on how to beat Brock with just Pikachu), about how you can get a lvl100 Gengar before fighting Brock, and then there was this video about how to get rare pokémon in Viridian Forest based of the Special-stat of a random wild pokémon.. And then the guy randomly got a Lickitung after fighting a wild lvl8 Spearow..
I mean I couldn't resist. So I copied the steps and now my team (pre-MtMoon) is a lvl19 Pikachu and a lvl10 Lickitung. Onwards to capture HM-1 and Bellsprout I'd say.
Edit: I guess I should edit this, because I did a major haul, and while my Pikachu didn't grow much, my Lickitung, Bellsprout, Sandslash (nicknamed Hmmmmmouse) and Diglett are all level 26 and I've saved in front of the S.s. Anne.
So I guess it's that time where I don't see the infamous truck, watch as the S.s. Anne sails away and beat Surge into a pulp and get Squirtle. After which I only need a Goldeen and Kangaskhan.