By now, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokémon fans have become accustomed to the mainline games taking a certain route. You’re a new trainer, and begin a journey around the region to become the champion… you know how this goes. While the franchise has added a few wrinkles and upsets in recent entries (Pokémon Sun and Moon’s island challen𓂃ge was a little different, for instance), that’s just the way these games seem to work.
Another crucial element is the fact that you’ll be hounded by a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:rival throughout most of yไo♏ur adventure. There have been lots of them across the course of the series, and most have made a nuisance of themselves in one way or another. L💟et’s take a look at some of the worst things the rivals of the games have done.
Updated on November 8rh, 2020 by Josh Davison: The rival is part and parcel of the Pokémon game, and the games have rolled out several different kinds of rivals over the years. Some are your best friend who wants both of you to keep getting stronger, others are jerks who just won't leave you alone, and others are downright villainous in one or more ways. Each one makes decisions that alter the journey of both themselves and the player--some of which are sins that are hard to forgive while playing the game. While 10 is a good start for this list, it seems as good a time as any to dive back into the rival chemistry with the recent release of Crown Tundra. With that in mind, let's look at another five of the worst things that the Pokémon rivals have ever done.
15 Trace/Blue Evolving Their Starter When You Ca🤡n't ꦫ
Trace was the reincarnation of Blue for Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee, and he starts with the opposite version's Pokémon than the one the player chose. However, unlike the player, Trace can evolve his Pikachu or Eevee while the player is stuck with the base version of their starter. This just seems like a scummy move, and Blue did the same in Yellow by evolving his Eevee into F⭕lareon, Vaporeon, or Jolteon.
14 𓃲 Cheren Being A Bit Condescending 𒅌
This may not be a grand sin, but there was something just a little annoying about Cheren. Unlike most other rivals, he was reserved, arrogant, and a tad condescending. He was a departure from previous rivals for sure, but was it a good one? That is of course up to your discretion, but he did end up feeling like a less villainous and slightly friendlier Silver. Bianca was definitely the preferable rival from Black and White.
13 Wally Bei🐭ng Too Scared To Catch A Pokémon On His Own
Characters being scared of Pokémon is a weirdly old facet of this franchise, but Wally's fear of encountering a Pokémon was the first time the idea really took center stage in a Pokémon videogame. Wally's father gets the player to help Wally catch his first Pokémon, which turns out to be a Ralts. Beyond this, Wally is actually a very likeable and sympathetic character in Ruby/Sapphire/Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire. In fact, his Victory Road showdown with the player in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire is among the best in the entire franchise.
12 ✅ Barry Almost Getting You Killed By Wild Pokémon
In Pearl, Diamond, and Platinum Barry is your hyperactive and impatient rival. He's a well-meaning and likable guy, but he does almost get you killed in the very beginning of the game. He is so eager to go check out the wider world of Sinnoh that he drags you out of Twinleaf Town into tall grass rife with Starly, Bidoof,▨ and Shinx. Thankfully, Professor Rowan and Dawn/Lucas stops you before you get Tackle'd to death.
11 ꦫ Hau Choosing The Starter Pokémon Weak Against The Player’s Own
We’ll s🐈tart with a si🍬lly act from a rival that isn’t exactly terrible, but still… come on, Hau. What would your Gramps say about this?
Sun and Moon begin in a familiar fashion, with the player character starting off their journey by meeting a rival and picking a starter Pokémon. Hau’s mistake, however, is that he picks the starter with a type disadvantage against y🎉ours, which rivals don’t tend to do. Still, he’s teaching us to utilize opponents’ weaknesses and we appreciate him for it.
10 ꩵ Klara/Avery Cheating Against You 🌺
Klara/Avery is the sort-of-rival the player gets saddled with upon reaching the Isle of Armor in Sword and Shield. Klara specializes in Poison-Type Pokémon while Avery uses Psychic-Types, and both are trying very hard to impress Master Mustard. However, the player keeps beating them in every Pokémon battle to the point that Klara/Avery decides to go to some extremes in finally winning against the player. Klara pre-set up the battlefield with Toxic Spikes while Avery prepares Psychic Terrain to give his Pokémon the advantage. When you win, they fess up to Mustard, and there seems to be no hard fee༒lings--but of course that is ultimately up to you.
9 ꩲ Blue Stealing That Eevee In Pokémon Yellow
Now, some rivals are perfectly competent trainers who help the player in countless battles and don’t really get in the way (Serena, perhaps, if we’re feeling generous). Others start to become a bit of a thorn in the player’s side as the game progresses. Still, others express their annoying ways right from the get-go. Our old♛ friend Blue definitely falls in the latter camp (though he's a fair trainer too, of course).
When you first begin your journey in Generation I’s Pokémon Yellow, you know that your starter is going to be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:that most familiar of electric rodents, Pikac�꧙�hu. That’s really what you signed up for. Why is it a Pikachu, though? Because Blue stormed into Professor Oak’s lab, pushed the player out of the way, and snatched up the starter Eevee, that’s why. Oak then had to give the player a wild Pikachu he’d caught instead. Rivals will do m𝓡uch worse, sillier and/or annoying things later, as we’ll see, but what if we wanted that Eevee?
8 Marnie Riling Up Team Yell ꦉ
Of course, you can’t have a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:new generation of Pokémon games without a new villainous team coming along for the ride. For 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokémon Sword and Shield, it’s Team Yell, 168𝔍澳洲幸运5开奖网:the punk rock/soccer hooligan ins༺pired band of ne’er do wells.
Unlike previous evil teams, such as the iconic Team Rocket, these rebels don’t exactly have criminal intent or plans for world domination. All these really do is follow Marnie around and cheer her on (that and continually pop up t🍒hroughout the player’s journey to block their progress temporarily. Whose fault is that? Marnie’s, that’s who. They’re her groupies.
7 ꩵ Tierno Making His ‘Dance Team’
Pokémon X and Y presented an interesting problem. In this ga🐓me, the player left on their adventure with four companions (Serena/Calem, Tierno, Shauna, and Trevor), all of whom can be considered rivals. As such, each of them needed a different goal, a different reason to be making the journey.
Tierno, for his part, has a huge passion for dancing. His intent throughout the game, then, is to create a dancing-themed team, comprised of Pokémon with dancing-related moves. This is all well and good, we suppo✅se, but h🗹e only has three such moves on his team over the full course of his journey: Swords Dance, Petal Dance, and Feather Dance. Rivals are supposed to be actual challenges, aren’t they? Stop with the gimmicks, Tierno!
6 Gladion Battling On Team Sku🤡ll’s Sideꩲ
Now, we can appreciate the character of Gladion, we really can. Often, morality in the Pokémon world i𝄹s very black and white, and it’s r🎐efreshing to experience the arc of a character who’s much more multi-faceted.
Is Gladion a villain? Not really. He did spend a time working for Team Skull as an ‘Enforcer,’ though, as well as allying with the player to bring down the Aether Foundation and his mother’s dangerous work. He’s on everyone’s side (and against everyone) at some point during the title’s events, so where else could we put him and his plotting than square in the ꩲmiddle?