>>30728168What the fuck are you talking about? What's their "role?"
They're characters in a story doing whatever they want. Professors don't need to give you a Pokémon, be the one to directly tell you your Dex progress, etc.
I, for one, am loving the departure from old or geeky white guy cookie cutter builds to a character who was pretty unique. Birch, Sycamore, and especially Kukui were all solid. The rest are pretty underwhelming. Oak gets a nostalgia pass though.
However, if a gen 4 remake comes out, I'm fully expecting GF to flesh out Rowan, and I'm stoked for that. He had a really stern, business-oriented demeanor that fit his sprites and formulaic Pokémon studies very well.
