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>Gen 1: You are constantly beating them but your rival is one step ahead of you the entire way and shares the same achievements with you, which culminates in your final showdown
>Gen 2: Your rival is only vaguely interested in beating you and is more on a journey of redemption which they achieve in the end
>Gen 3: Your rival appears partway through the story and is just someone looking up to you who never measures up
>Gen 4: Your rival is just someone trying to get to their parents level and is just clashing with you among the way
>Gen 5: Your rivals are either off on their own adventure or deeply intertwined in the story culminating in a battle of fate near the end
>Gen 6: Your rivals are just a bunch of goofy kids on their own adventure and fight along with you as part of it
>Gen 7: Your rival has their own goal but is brutally beaten by you every time and never measures up or is a part of the story who you help out among the way
>Gen 8: Your rivals are all brutally beaten by you every step of the way and have to resort to their family and friends to find other goals or deal with it
>Gen 9: Your rival is already far ahead of you and is just treating you with kid gloves the entire time until you finally can beat them
Which of these did you like the best? How would you rank them?