>>30488057I think Gen 7 was done to sort of explain how the E4 works, mostly as an invited group of toplevel trainers in a region who as a qualifier to challenge for the champion position. Yeah, it's a bunch of people who lose to the champion contenders like you said, but since we follow the champions we don't see how many washout of the challenge.
My guess is the E4 in Red was founded with that lineup then Lance quit once people started beating the challenge to try it himself.
>>30487767Since we don't meet the Gen 2 protags in WB/W2B2, it is possibly still Lance.
