>>43264727Undergoes development, which is good. The Kimono Girls thing in HGSS kinda ruined him by making him lose to them, since before he was justified in believing his philosophy on power was right since only the player (and later Lance, the champion) could ever beat him. Also disappointed that HGSS got rid of the champion battle theme for him, should've kept that in at least for the first time you do his last fight.
Other than that, it's pretty neat that even though Giovanni actually tried to teach him a positive virtue like the value of teamwork, it ended up making Silver learn the opposite, considering he saw teams as just weak maggots clinging together.
I don't think we need to go as far as making rivals criminals like Silver was, but the concept of having a rival be strong but misguided is ideal to me, because the whole "friendly rival who just loses all the time" even though they don't anything differently than the player, is a pretty bad concept that doesn't lead to character growth.
