>>12588763Now you aren't this character's rival. He is YOUR rival. That fucker you bent you over like a little bitch and you as a player want revenge. And you'll get your chance occasionally. After all he's your Rival. So you run into him three towns over and challenge this guy because fuck him. And you kick his ass. He plays it off as he wasn't at his best. Sore loser? Except the game does subtle things to actually enforce this.
>We meet after clawing our way through Mt.Obligatory. A doctor healed me near the exit, but when I see his trainer sprite, two of his pokeballs are X'd out because they succumbed to the cave and he couldn't heal them.>His roster has six pokes now, but where was his starter? It was over leveled the last time we met, and it should have evolved now... (He's in the box while he's training a new addition and he needs an HM slave because he's actually travelling the world like you are. (Bonus points if a dude actually has Cut on his team.)>We're in the middle of a pokemon battle and- what the hell, Team Failure is here?! Looks like it's turned into a doubles battle.In short, you never get to beat this guys ass 1-on-1 legit until you finally make it to Pokemon League and become Champ- which he does significantly ahead of you; to the point that when he appears in some late game event as Champs do nowdays, he actually is the champion already. Because he is the champion, he doesn't challenge you- he just says he'll see you in pokemon league.
