>studious, a student council president type>naturally gifted, daughter of nearby town's gym leader>focuses on her studies instead of battling, hence she hasn't trained a team despite taking on the league challenge>when she does battle, she uses rental pokemon>has beaten six of eight gyms, each on separate trips she's taken with her father, and each with extensive preparation and a rental team chosen specifically for the fight>halfway through the player's journey, she asks to battle you>upon losing, realizes that she's limited herself by not training her own team>graduation's coming up, decides she'll go on a journey after it>becomes a rival from then on, starting out with a small number of well-trained pokemon>introduces you to some form of EV-training, and gives you stat reducing berries>with each rival fight she gains more pokemon>in endgame story event you're both saved by legendary pokemon, which you can then catch>her legendary has type advantage over yours>in final rival fight she has a well-balanced weather team with the legendary, and her team shits on some of the better strategies that your starter + legendary can use>>50128394I like her arc anon. This thread kinda makes me want to make a romhack
