>>34512052Let's see...
Giovanni - Stereotypical yakuza boss with absolutely no depth. I want money and power. Yet I appreciate the twist of him operating as a gym leader as a cover. Still he is the most generic villain ever, so no.
Maxie - Doesn't stand out too much. Some nerdy hipster who wants to expand landmasses to get back at his ex.
Archie - His ORAS design was great, but his RS design is pretty much Giovanni with a beard and bandanna on his head. Motives are also pretty shallow; expand the seas for Pokemon. Boring.
Cyrus - The first team leader with some actual depth to his character. The other villains had wicked ambitions and spirit to boot, but Cyrus was a nihilistic and misanthropic terrorist who wanted to destroy everything in the world and remake it in his image. He has deep philosophical questions for a game aimed at 6 year olds, and it is clear that his lonely childhood turned him into the pessimist that he is today. He hates the world as is, so he wants to change it.
Ghetsis - The most fleshed out team leader in terms of story, even if his character is a bit flat. He wants power and control, but rather than to achieve it with force like the other leaders, he wants to persuade and manipulate people into letting him get power. He pretends to care about Pokemon but sees them as tools. I also like how the game drops some small hints that Team Plasma's "public" motives and Ghetsis' true motives are separate. It makes the big reveal that Ghetsis used N to force everybody else to release Pokemon so he himself could have all the Pokemon much better.
Lysandre - He is pretty much a wannabe Cyrus with orange spiky hair that screams he is the villain. The world is shit, so let's destroy everything except a few people and make it over again in our image. Man, Gen VI was filled to the brim with cheap imitations of past iterations. He is probably the worst team leader. The only interesting part about him is that he is the descendant of AZ's brother.
