[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

As is tradition, at least one Squirtle attempts a last minute Water Gun (one year it was Hydro Cannon!) to propel himself to the finish line ahead of Creshire Chrome, racing buck and pride of the East. It doesn't work. Flush with the energy of Spring, the famed Sawsbuck gracefully leaps through the red ribbon at races end.

How was a Squirtle using Hydro Cannon?  The only base starters in the games capable of using the elemental hyper beams in the games are the Johto starters, and that was a VERY special case in pokemon XD since only the fully evolved Kanto starters could learn those moves at that time.  (that, and you had to go through a 100 enemy gauntlet with 0 breaks 3 times to get all 3 of those basic starters with their hyper beam variant and an egg move).  That'd have to be quite the special squirtle!