>>57258824to be fair these sets aren't horrendously bad, it's just that they lack items and some moves are questionable (slash on a mon that already has night slash, quick attack on an already fast mon, disarming voice this late in the game)
however a rival only having 4 mons after like 6 badges is pretty silly, especially since this is meant to be the "competitive" rival
>>57259217pokemon's developers are not a small indie company
there's no excuse for having AI bad enough to require this
also the jolteon and absol have moves that they have no reason to use that don't provide any meaningful coverage, so that's probably just a case of GF being inconsistent (wow who could have possibly guessed)