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>Gen 1 rival
>legit is competing with you, is antagonistic to you, has a cool and tough aura around him
>team rocket basically a mafia
>Gen 2 rival
>a literal criminal, abuses people and pokemon to achieve his goals, also has a tough aura to him with an interesting team
>team rocket a mafia again, but weaker now
>Gen 3-7
>we're best friends
>omg you're so good and cool
>here, let me heal your pokemon. Okay now lets fight with my severely underleveled pokemon with bad teams. Okay, you won let me heal you and give you items
>the teams of these games want to destroy the world for no reason
This is why Gens 1+2 are the best Gens. They didn't treat you like a kid and your rivals were actually rivals.
