Pokémon General Thread

Some kids I knew back in elementary school did.

I think I named him ???. I think I did it to be a smartass, though, not out of confusion.

Does N count as a rival? He shows up just as often as Cheren and Bianca, plus he's the other dragon's choice.

Too closely tied to Team X.

I personally don't count N as a rival but as a reoccurring antagonist.

N is the leader of Team Plasma. Yes, I know not really, but the game treats him that way until the very end when Ghetsis challenges you out of nowhere.

He's definitely a rival and probably the biggest one. The idea that one can't be a rival and villain at the same time is silly and most rivals in videogames usually are villains at some point or another.

Now you can say he's unique among the pokemon rivals in that he's both, but I'd definitely consider him a rival and the only one since blue to beat the pokemon league.

By that logic, shouldn't Cyrus be a rival, too?

I don't really consider him a rival or a villain team leader (Even if he technically is the latter). I just consider him a unique opponent who defies classification.

N is kind of like Green/Blue/Gary in the since that he's your opposite and he gets everyone before you do and gets Resh/Zek while you get Zek/Resh. Except Blue/Green/Gary is a jerk and N is just awkward and not good with people.

Cheren is the Blue of the game, really, being a very competitive childhood friend who uses the starter yours is weak to.

I also named Silver ??? and remember being dumbfounded because I was sure I didn't get his name.

And I actually like how they handle naming Silver, although it doesn't make as much sense in the originals.

Then what does that make Bianca?

Because she's the one who gave me trouble, not Cheren.

edited 10th Jul '14 4:24:33 AM by ultimatepheer

Bianca would be the NPC Brendan/May of Gen 5.

She's just as competent (if not more) than Cheren, but because Cheren's already got the hyper competitive rival angle covered, they gave her a more passive role because she's a cute girl.

I always found Bianca harder to defeat than Cheren. She's also ridiculously adorable and I like her character so favorite rival.

N can be argued as being the closest thing the series has to an Evil Counterpart. He's Well Intentioned, just like you supposedly are, but his ideas are formed from flawed premises that were manipulated by Ghetsis. Additionally, he's the only Team Leader that's in the Competence Zone... which may explain how he was able to beat Alder...

Evil Counterparts make the best Rivals after all.

Did Tierno have any Shut Up, Hannibal! moments in-game? For some reason, I got the idea that he would've been the one of the five to best resist any We Can Rule Together and We Are Not So Different lines. Also, he seems to fit better in previous generations due to the Contests/Musicals.

edited 10th Jul '14 8:29:27 AM by DonaldthePotholer

Cheren with simisage was a lot harder for me than Bianca has ever been.

I've been swept by Cheren before but never lost to Bianca.

You'd better name Questionmarkquestionmarkquestionmark correctly, or you'll be guilty of lying to the police!

why does the player character get a limit of 7 characters in their name

but the pokemon get 10

Because the game isn't called player character.

That doesn't make sense. At all.

Some strange form of traditionalism/oldschoolism/genwunnerpurims?

I dunno, you'd think we'd have unlimited space by now.

In the japanese games, it was actually seven for the hero and five for the Pokemon.

They dropped that limit for Pokemon in Japan in BW 2.

The limit's 12-ish for everything now, though, right?