>>58663578>Conflict in Gen 1More or less the same lack of involvement by any party as XY, but it's a fucking GameBoy game, and the region is without a champion, and is not written by the usual writer
>Conflict in Gen 2Lance goes out of his way to try and stop Team Rocket fairly late in the story, I get it the version of the game we got came out at about the rate of a human child
>Conflict in Gen 3Steven attempts to take an active part in what the hell is going on
>Conflict in Gen 4Cynthia occasionally pops up in parallel to the plot in DP, role expanded in Platinum to actually properly interact with it, your rival also shows up to actually do something instead of making things worse like Gen 1/2
>Conflict in Gen 5Basically everyone gets in on that, Gym leaders constantly show up, the ex-champion basically comes out of retirement, even both rivals get to participate in their own way in ways that are set up over the course of the story (Cheren still sucks ass as a character in spite of this). B2W2 kind of sucks ass but the rival is arguably more invested in the main conflict than you are.
>Conflict in Gen 6Your useless friends try to help at the ass end of the game, then get a medal like any of them did anything meaningful. Shauna might be worse than Trevor/Tierno because she had to have an entire awkward Chekhov's Gun that has nothing to do with anything about her character set up so she'd be useful, like they forgot to give her anything but still wanted her to be on screen.
>Conflict in Gen 7Hau sucks shit at Aether Paradise, but in USUM he doesn't drop out of the plot and instead becomes an interesting rival because of it
>Conflict in Gen 8Retard fight
>Conflict in Gen 9Look there's a lot of shit going on, and any one element is arguably more meaningful than XY but together they definitely are
Seems like XY is worse at integrating the villain plot with the world than almost everything before it and is marginally better than SS, maybe SM at a stretch.
