>>50497522What's wrong with a story where the rival is a dick, and through the competetive nature of battles and fighting you through the league, ends up humbled from getting his twinkass handed to him by you and possibly others by the end of the game?
It literally gives players the message don't act too cocky about your own skills, because there's almost always a bigger fish out there that will get you when you least expect it. It also makes everyone else hate you. Having that kind of development also humanizes an otherwise unlikable character and shows potential for growth in others.
If everyone's a goody-goody you're encouraging those kinds of dicks to rise because nothing challenges them and everything praises them.
