But what pokemon would they have as their teams or grab specifically for their friends? Well here's just some ideas, though I am always open for ideas or your own takes.

Me out here feral running around with 3 badges and a team of level 50 pokemon who have never once ignored me bc I raised them from when they were single digits: Man, these guys are hard to catch.

I grabbed a forth badge for shits and giggles and "pokemon up to level 35 will listen to you and be easier to catch." set me to space.

Me: Deadass? huh... No wonder these level 48 Vaporeon were so hard to catch.

Also had a mini dream just before waking of a Soulmate au where after meeting/crossing paths in some way the pair wake up the next day on some grand adventure. This is usually just a real life version of that MapQuest Find The Airport game for people bc the goal is to find the way home, and typically provides a compatibility/get to know situation. This results in the pair falling into either intense besties, romantic partners, 'I'll keep in touch.' and never does (Mutual), or even some level of rivals/enemies. (slippery slope to a secondary adventure of Enemies to Lovers, but some soulmates have traditions) Just because you're spiritually compatible doesn't mean your current lives make you people the other likes.

So obviously, Danny (And Tim), can't have a normal adventure. It's because Danny has superpowers, getting isekai'd is normal for most hero (or villain) types.

Danny wakes up in the middle of a forest and befriends a Phantump. Tim gets his Fletchling (because I adored that post about Tim finding a weird injured bird and nursing it back to health)

Just cute boys trying to find the way home and bonding with some friends. Probably won't give them a full team of 6. It'd be an even split of 3 each if they do. I'm imagining a whole conversation about it where Tim goes over the practicality of having a team for defensive reasons and Danny pointing out that any pokemon they have with them are basically one whole person even if they spend most of their time in pokeballs.

So they agree to only 'catch' a pokemon if they really might die if they don't hold them right now and forever.

Tell me Tim and Danny aren't the kind of people who cry when "X toughed it out so you wouldn't be sad" happens or "X used all its focus to break through the paralysis/poison, so you wouldn't worry"

so yeah anyway, just an excuse to have Danny and Tim on an adventure and mainly Danny carrying around a Phantump like "Guess I'm a dad now." bc ghosts, before learning where he is and stuff.

That's actually it. The whole au is built on the basis that Danny adopts a Phantump and that's his son now.

Danny arguing that Little Altair doesn't count toward their 3 allotted party slots bc "He's my son! how dare you." "Danny I know he's a ghost type but you can't just adopt him like an actual kid." "He didn't mean that baby, papas just not talking sense." "Hey!"

Considering how Danny reacts to pokeballs, absolutely against 'catching' Altair until it's explained that doing so protect Phantump from being caught by another trainer and is protection if he gets hurt, and they're far from a poke center.