a wild pokemon

jon thought about all the possibilities and finally decided what better than to be a wild pokemon, the box says i can be anyone of them and its still free roam which will allow me to do whatever i want.
jon selected the wild pokemon option which opened up the initial instructional video
it was a nidoking talking to me explaining the basics of the game, i couldn't skip through it, eventually i got to the choose your pokemon part, after looking around the options i noticed that you had to be the beginning stage of the pokemon so i couldnt start off big and bad "gotta start somewhere" every pokemon option showed areas where you would start off in, it randomly would select for you as well as how common or rare that type was, the more common the pokemon the less chance that you specifically would get caught
getting caught didnt end the game but jon didnt like the idea of getting caught, especially since a caught pokemon obeys the trainer, how would that effect the game?
finally jon decided who he wanted to be
"i choose you...."