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>First fight against any of your "rivals" is with Shauna using the disadvantaged starter against you
>All starters know a STAB move right out the gate
>Calem/Serena, the "real" "rival," never fights you using the 1st stage advantaged starter, so it never gets entered in your Dex
>Your first fight with Calem/Serena is a multi-battle where they're on YOUR side, and you're fighting the two characters that canonically don't give a fuck about battling
>Calem/Serena proceeds to interrupt double battles against Team Flare, turning them into Multis that are heavily skewed in your favor. Doubles are already tilted in your favor to begin with when the opponents just have one Pokemon each
>Coconut Head keeps "challenging" you to a Dex-Battle you literally cannot lose, and does absolutely nothing post-game except mention a short list of Megas
>When Shauna's following you in the starter forest, she mentions wanting a Pikachu but she cannot find one. If you catch one, you can't trade it to her and she doesn't react to it at all
>Shauna is some clingy loli
>Tierno's team set-up
>"scare quotes"
I honestly cannot think of a single thing I like about anyone other than Tierno. He seems like a nice dude, and gave you a pretty rock thinking it was a Mega Stone.
That's the only thing that any of the four of them did right, is Tierno gave you a pretty rock.
