>>58860221>someone not very powerful in the grand scheme of thingsmost pokemon villains are like that, they have to misdirect champions and such so they don't get dickflattened
>who not only survives among the top players but thrives among them and makes them piss their pants in fearrealistically, how would you do this?
what can make hardened experienced trainers piss their pants?
this isn't a gotcha, genuinely curious
>Maybe some kind of psychic-empath that can dismantle strategies and poke weaknesses through intuition, or something similar.not a bad idea, I've seen a protagonist like that
but to write a villain like that, you really gotta be smarter than the audience; to abuse foreshadowing so it IS something that can be put together beforehand
asspulls just piss everyone off, unless you're the one doing the asspulling