Got into a discussion with one of my normie friends about this. I pointed out this only works if you ignore all the rivals except Blue/Gary. He said it works even if you consider them, which I think implies that the only criteria that needs to be met is similarity to one rival.
Thoughts?
But thats not how rivals work
Every time someone brings up this "you're the rival" shit it means they don't actually know what the word "rival" means. It's a mutual relationship, you're rivals with eachother. "Rival" isn't a word describing one person's role in a relationship.
>>30299332
I get that, but let's brush that aside for the sake of conversation and think about the word as it's used in the context of the games. Would you say the MC of SuMo fits the role more than Hau?
>>30299285
What does that make Kukui since he has the starter weak to Hau's?
>>30299332
Regular words have slightly different or more specific meanings when applied to certain games all the time. Case in point: evolve
>>30299332
you are the seme
he is the uke.