>>59003191
>Why would they fumble that concept if there is no proper "rival" anyway
What the fuck are you talking about
Serena is the rival. She competes with you for the same objectives. The rest are just friends you travel with.

>>59003221

She doesnt feel like a rivals, but rather like the npc that tell you to follow her so you can see where you should go. Shauna is usually closer to you most of the time. I havent even battled Serena once despite battling previous rivals twice early in the game

>>59003191
>>59003292
Serena goal is to beat the league and Trevor's is to complete the dex. Beating the league and completing the dex your primary and secondary objectives in the game so by definition Serena and in an optional way Trevor (he even compares his dex to yours) are your rivals, specially Serena. Tierno and Shauna are literally just your friends

>>59003531
Serena's goal is not to beat the league, fucking what. The rival wants to become famous as one of the few Mega Evolution users in Kalos, and feels like the player is getting in their way and achieving all the goals they wanted to do, and won't be happy until they defeat the player so they can stop living in the their shadow.

Fucking hell.

>>59003600
Anon she literally goes to the fucking victory road are you retarded?
>wants to become famous
Are you fucking high??

>>59003191
I read an interview at one point a few years back about the production of X and Y. I think it was with Masuda, but it might not have been. Shauna was mentioned as a sort of off topic and the interviewer pointed out that she seemed really close to a love interest and was clearly designed in a way that grabbed player attention and the answer was something like "She was when the game was in its conceptual stages, but they got cold feet part of the way into production and scrapped the idea. But they liked the design so much they kept her." They wanted to give the player a love interest after B2W2 toyed around with romance and wanted the design to be cute and inoffensive, so they made Shauna. And after they dumped the idea it felt like a lose to dump the design too, so they retooled the plot to include extra "rivals". Then during production they still toyed with the idea of giving her scenes or dialogue that looked romantic, while not fully committing again to the original concept. After X and Y, they tried romance one more time with Lilly. They were as subtle as they could be with that one and ultimately swore off romancing the main character after Sun and Moon.

Again, I remember reading this but I don't have the interview on me, obviously. So take whatever I said with a grain of salt. I might not remember it so good, or the whole thing might've been a fake interview. Who knows?

>>59003615
She goes to Victory Road to battle you. She does not collect badges, nor does she battle the Elite Four. The player is the only one collecting badges.

>Are you fucking high??
Did you play the fucking game? Her rivalry really began when she lost the right to the first Mega Ring at the Tower of Mastery, and felt she was living under their shadow ever since.

>>59003737
>She goes to Victory Road to battle you. She does not collect badges
Stopped reading here. You literally can't even enter the victory road without collecting the eight badges you dumb subhuman

>>59003708
sometimes I feel sad that they gave up on developing xy. It really could have been good.

>>59003759
To be fair, they give up on a lot of their game stuff. The cutting room floor for GF is like a swamp of potential content. BW was hit in such a way as to remove the entire backstory of a main character and make 2 related characters completely empty shells that come out of nowhere.

>>59003708
I want to read this interview too if it's real
It sounds very plausible but just plausible enough to be made up hearsay