Will Gamefreak please go back to giving rivals full, balanced

>>26975254
Did you not play ORAS?

>>26975281
That was a remake of an older game that featured full teams for a rival. X/Y are the latest original games, and the rivals are a joke.

>>26975303
The rival uses a full team in Kiloude.

>>26975254
>go back to giving rivals full, balanced teams
>Go back
Are you implying that any rival besides post game Wally had a balanced team?

>>26975254
that's one ugly as fuck Arcanine

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>>26975550
Pretty sure he means "balanced" as in well-rounded.

Like Silver for example:
>battles you with four Pokémon in Ecruteak, when you have 3-4 badges
>battles you with five Pokémon in the Underground, when you have 7 badges
>uses a full team in Victory Road

You could argue his teams aren't competitively sound, but that's because it's fucking Pokémon.


Blue fights you 7-8 times, depending on whether you do the optional battle near the start of the game.

>has 1 Pokémon in initial battle
>has 2 Pokémon in optional Route 22 battle
>has 4 Pokémon at Nugget Bridge, where you'd have 1-2 badges
>has 4 Pokémon at the S.S. Anne
>has 5 Pokémon at Lavender Tower, where you'll have 3-4 badges
>has 5 Pokémon at Silph Co.
>has a full team at the second Route 22 battle
>obviously has full team as Champion

And of course Barry is great.


Compare with XY, where 3/4 of your rivals are laughable and the fourth one doesn't reach five Pokémon until Victory Road, never getting a full team until postgame.

The older rivals aren't "hard" but they're much more interesting team-wise.

>>26975994
I still don't see what people like about Barry's team.
I mean
>Only one item on Torterra
>Swarm Heracross
>Swift Swim with nothing that can use Rain dance
>Steel Wing
>Run Away Rapidash
>Leaf Storm Torterra

>>26975254
I want back 5 team Elite Four members

>>26976381
Wait what the fuck. Why do Rapidashes and Heracross' ability change between the 5th and 6th battle?

>>26976626
The player killed his first Rapidash & Heracross, he caught new ones. Barry just didn't care enough about the first ones to get different Pokemon species. Barry is no Blue.

>>26975254
>wants balanced teams
>posts a team with two flying and two psychic types

Yeah, real balanced.

>>26976709
>implying two Psychic-types is bad in Gen 1

>>26975994
>not superior infernape team