now that the dust has setted, can we state they're the best set of rivals to date?

now that the dust has setted, can we state they're the best set of rivals to date?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    no

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    yes

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    they really arent...
    Fricking barry was a better rival
    HAU was a better rival. and i fricking hate hau

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Fricking barry was a better rival
      aaaand here's the bait
      >HAU was a better rival.
      but trolling is against the rules

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Kill Penny, Spit on Penny.
    Nemona can stay if she gets her mouth taped.
    Arven is based.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Did not pay. Did not play. Don't care. Go back to discord

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cared enough to reply :^)

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        You sound like a poor person obsessed with replies. So here's another (You)

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    FRICK no

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like Arven and Nemona, but penny is a boring character.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'd barely count them as rivals aside from Nemona, and while she's fun, she's also far from the best

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Absolutely. Especially compared to the fricking homosexual friends in Kalos. God I hated them so, so much.
    Turns out getting to know people before they become your friends and having some harmless conflicts going between them is a million times more interesting than a group of literally who's who act like they are your best buddies.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Shauna was frickable. If only she had been alone instead of in a group she would be more liked.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Shauna was ok but I didn't care too much about her either
        I just really wanted to strangle everyone else especially that homosexual stupid ginger kid

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why is Penny facing the other way?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because she's not important and has her own friends

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nemona was a very good compromise as far as rivals go. She’s competitive without being an butthole, so she can be your friend and still want to test herself against you.
    Arven I feel is more of a better character than a rival. I can get behind a boy who wants to help his pupper heal and recover from serious injuries, and he was pretty compelling the whole way through the Titan missions and great in area 0

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >AI generator
      kys pedo freak

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >AI=pedo
        ?
        Oh…… it’s moronic

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >You sound like a poor person obsessed with replies. So here's another (You)
    Also, poor enough to buy both games at launch, right?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I'm proud enough to tell everyone on /vp/ that I bought both games at launch even though I'm basically penniless
      Holy shit that's embarrassing as frick

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Also, poor enough to buy both games at launch, right?

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    arven was a friend
    nemona was a rival
    penny deserves death

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Thinks I care about GF as a company

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wanna frick all of them

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They cute

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Best rival or not I want to know what type of underwear Nemona would wear.
    With a sporty attitude id say sports bra and panties but the miss perfect at academics angle makes me believe she wears lacey sexy bra and thong/side-tie underwear.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Only for someone she likes

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        That doesn't answer the question anon, she could think her sports bra is her sexy underwear for her future bf/gf but I wanna know which she wears regularly.

        God I wish that was me
        [...]
        Lies

        Go outside, check the first bush near your home im sure there's a girl like her behind it rn.

        Yeah because I want to have veganal sex with Penny while we watch some shitty anime together

        Depending on the anime it could encourage this behavior

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      God I wish that was me

      Arven is improved Lillie

      Lies

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >you will never get looked at like this

        uploaded the wrong one

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Cute

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They're a decent bunch. Better than Galar's and Kalos's absolutely.
    But far from the best.
    Arven was the best character and even then he was discount Lillie.
    Nemona was fine but she really needed some conflict.
    Penny was trash. You know her "twist" the second you meet her.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Arven is improved Lillie

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        This is the first time I've seen someone say that.
        Agreed, he is pretty much the same character trope as Lillie but with actual depth and a motivation beyond family issues. And unlike Lillie he had to accept that his family died by the end instead of a deus ex machina of friendship.
        That said Nemona is just spamming the fight button and Penny has a background less interesting than gen 6 "rivals". And that's a feat of bad writing.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Arven is also largely independent as a character, he only needs help with the titans. Lillie can't do shit on her own, so we constantly have to hold her hand and slog through her(!) cutscenes. That makes her far more annoying than Arven. People just like her more because they can coom to her
          And Nemona isn't that bad. The Area Zero and postgame stuff shows that she has pretty much literal autism which makes it hard for her to find friends. Battling is her special interest and she saw your potential which is why she's instantly clinging to you
          Penny definitely needed more time in the oven though

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >actual depth and a motivation beyond family issues
          such as?
          > instead of a deus ex machina of friendship.
          What deus ex machina?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      arven is lili well done this last game during is no more a pretty accessory and that's it and the only moments of development that he has are during the bridge and when mother yells at him being very anticlimactic and then he goes off to kanto while growing arven is more costly having to change and accept your reality

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    SV didn't do the best of literally anything. They all around sucked, worse than even SWSH.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      t. Didn't play it

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah because I want to have veganal sex with Penny while we watch some shitty anime together

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >rivals
    Arven and Nemona are your spouses.

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ok, so like, legit discussion, what do people actually like about previous rivals? Mostly the "butthole" rivals, they just don't seem to have that much more personality than any other rival. And if they do, I would actually like to know

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's just a mix of nostalgia and the fact that it feels more satisfying to kick someone's ass in a battle when they're buttholes.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      buttholes are just good rival material.
      Someone telling you, "Smell ya later" is perfectly hateable so kicking his ass feels good at a basic level.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Blue Oak
      Terrible mouth, but if you look closely, he was actually a wholesome guy who would give you tips when you need them the most.
      >Silver Giovanni
      Probably the only true butthole rival in the mainline games. I like how he was desperate to get stronger but if you don't have Mystery Gift, you'll never know his true motive.
      >Wally
      The games managed to portray his progress from a dying weakling with asthma to someone who can serve as your stepping stone despite being a tertiary character who serve literally zero purpose to the progression of the story.
      >Barry
      Fricking obnoxious
      >Hugh
      I like him. But crusading against a dangerous terrorist group just for the sake of retrieving a fricking Purrloin is just plain dumb.
      >Shauna
      Made for sex. I can't remember the others. Even a random tree in Santalune Forest is more memorable than them.
      >Gladion
      Hugh 2.0
      >Hop
      Hau 2.0

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        What about May/Brendan, Cheren/Bianca and Serena Calem?
        Also I hardly consider Wally a rival in the slightest, you only get one real fight with him at the end, but I did like the ORAS version for giving slightly more depth

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I purposely excluded protag characters because they aren't true rivals in most cases. They act more like assistants than rivals

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Oh wait. Cheren/Bianca. Forgot about them because I tend to replay BW2 more than BW. I can say that Cheren was like Blue but a whole lot more polite. Bianca was like Shauna and Lillie, a weak and typical femme fatale

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Bianca was like Shauna and Lillie, a weak and typical femme fatale
              >femme fatale
              That is not how that word is used in the slightest.
              >mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >a weak and typical femme fatale
              I don't think you know what femme fatale means.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >The games managed to portray his progress from a dying weakling with asthma to someone who can serve as your stepping stone
        They didn't.
        And I'm a big Hoenngay but that was always an issue with those games and ORAS didn't do shit to solve them.

  23. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I still like the rude rival more.
    But when it comes to the friendly rival team, these are the best.

  24. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Frick no

  25. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    No. Rivals were only good in the first 2 gens.

  26. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Arven was fun. Nemona was generic but somewhat enjoyable. I wanted to trip Penny in Area Zero and watch her body fall down until it landed into tiny bloody bits, then feed the bits to my paradox Salamence

  27. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nobody seems to care about Penny but the amount of lust Nemona and Arven have provoked among fans is insane.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      To be fair, Penny has her own close friends in Team Star, so she isn't really supposed to have a close connection to the MC I think. Arven and Nemona are actually the MC's friends, Arven even calls them his best friend iirc.
      Doesn't help that her design is by far the weakest out of the three.

  28. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Only one person here is a rival.

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