Why We Need to Hate Our Pokémon Rivals

Update: 2018-12-12

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We need to hate our Pokémon rivals! Blue and Silver are perfect examples of this done well, but the recent trailers for Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee show that GameFreak is abandoning this concept for... Trace. Here's why we should dislike our rivals in Pokémon games - and why we need one in Generation 8.

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