>>24708890>Work on your reading comprehensionHow does he "barely constitute" then?
The only reason you don't fight him the first time through the E4 is because that's when the Player's conflict with N comes to a climax.
After that, you challenge the E4 and Alder is there, with the champion title.
Hell, he's the one that actually brings you into the Hall of Fame (the actual place, not the database).
