>>46031529that would be cool, have a rival that is actually a full blown dickhead that will try to get you down by any means possible (attempting to sabotage gyms, messing up routes, purposefully unleashing highly trained pokemon right ahead of you)
a cool rival concept ive had is the rival is actually a humanoid pokemon your mom has sent out to make sure you are not falling behind in strength, and to keep you safe
for example:
>its moms gallade!>he is holding a note.>it says "hi [name of player], i sent gallade out to keep a eye on you. enjoy the battle!">enter battlealso came up with a way to counter the whole "but its only one pokemon" problem
the rival humanoid has a rotom device that will automaticly deploy 1-5 revive for the rival battles, the rotom device is also capable of letting the gallade quickly switch move sets between revives (and later into the game even types to keep the rival battles interesting)
to make the rotom device make sense though there would have to be some sub plot throughout the game, sadly it isnt GF's style but it would be the perfect chance for a postgame gamemode where you play as the gallade in a shorter playthrough to cover the subplot and tie up a few lose ends in the story. along with letting us see deeper into the pokemon world on the pokemon side of things.
