>>41826436But what personality would you say Lance has? Because all I remember him doing was repeating the usual "trust your pokemons" spiel, and that's fucking nothing because literally every good NPC in those games talks about how it's important to be nice to your Pokemons.
Blue atleast has the cocky jerky kid thing going for him, Iris atleast has the loud screaming child thing going for her, but people like Lance and Cynthia might as well have been replaced with your rival from those games instead due to how little actual character they have.
>>41826490Kukui was the final boss of the game and just had a huge finale fight with Ash in the anime, so I think in general people will always see him as a champion even if he technicaly wasn't.
