>>51151224>so swap x trope for y tropeNo, I just said I don't like repetition because it's lazy. It worked for Blue because he WAS your rival, dogging you throughout the game, so by the end you expected him to attempt to surpass you one more time. Replace him with Brendan or Bianca and it's just retarded. Likewise, a movie star champion or rich boy coincidentally meeting the player once or twice on the road is improbable and just doesn't fit. Kukui kind of subverts it, if you consider him a champion.
