I think most would agree that the rivals have been slipping for a while now, which rival teams were the best? which were the worst? And if you could fix the team of any rival what would you change?
>>30315942
I would have liked to battle Ethan/Lyra the way we battle the other MC in Hoenn and Sinnoh.
Evolve things that need to evolve on Silver's Team.
Silver, Gladion, Hugh, Cheren and Bianca are the best
>>30315942
>Wally's final team
Oh shit I'm proud of our manlet
>>30315942
anyone who doesn't think gary is the best rival is a cuck
>>30316339
>Gary
>Bluefags are THIS pathetic
>Hau gets a Crabominable, his grandpa's ace mon
Nice
>>30315942
I love when rivals have variable lineups like Blue and Barry. The Grass/Fire/Water trio might take up some space and be kind of predictable but it's weirdly satisfying to some kind of orderly compulsion in me
>>30315942
Barry
Good mix between friend and rival
Also has the same team formula as Blue so he could've easily shown up in a certain tree with six pokemon without revealing his startrer
Silver is the best, especially because dat Crobat. Blue is good though it's because he is both rival and champion, which makes me not sure what to clarify him as. May was possibly the one I struggled the most with early game, and Wally was good in his last battle but pretty placid before that (though I guess that's the point of him, to be a surprise)
>>30318202
I especially like the exeggutor/arcanine/gyarados or magneton/ninetales/cloyster and roserade/rapidash/buizel over the eevees or monkeys like in 5th and 6th gen. Brendan and May had a similar setup, if only they'd developed into a decent team.
>>30315942
I like that in yellow, other than having Eevee as a starter parallel the Player's Pikachu, Blue had a Sandslash as a kind of anti-Pikachu on top of the G/F/W as well as an electric type of his own.