>>48889107Not even him, but that's bare fucking minimum. That's like saying Hoenn has above average characters for Pokemon because Flannery was gassing herself up for the sake of the role of gym leader and the MC having a direction relation to Norman. By your standards, Gens 7, 5, and 8 are the epitome of character writing in the series because nearly all of the characters in them have background info and stuff that they do outside of being a gym leader