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jos must've been like "well since it's a pokemon game I have to put in a rival, it's just how it is" and made artie. idk why he didn't have him do anything in the plot but that's why he's there. it just doesn't work for me, he's not on the opposing team where we'd naturally fight over the course of the game, we're not training together to become time wardens or whatever, he's just blocking me from progressing because it's pokemon and he's a rival. he does nothing else in the game but block you, even though he's your best friend of 21 years, even when the villain is moments away from achieving his goal, he's still blocking me. having a single ethereal grunt in this spot blocking me from stopping angelo would make infinitely more sense. I might hate artie more then cain, ace, possibly even terra.