You know, ever since b/w, the gymleaders of the older games feel useless. They just stay in their gyms even as the crimes happen right outside their building... Other than the lunatic old guy and your dad, none of the leaders ever do anything! More backstories, maybe a double battle with the GymLeaders against the villains... I'm so tired of just meeting and being helped by that one trainer who, surprise surprise, is the champ of the region. Obviously not happening in a remake tho.
Yeah, GameFreak doesn't seem to know if they want to get their Gym Leader involved in the story/side things (which they should) or just be bosses who stand around in their Gym all day. It's another thing that annoyed me in XY, only really Korrina was seen doing anything that didn't involve her being a boss (the only one who "helped" was Olympia by
reading ahead in the script peering into the future and vaguely tell you things are about to go down). And this is coming off Gen V which tried doing something with their Gym Leader.
Hopefully in addition to expanding upon Team Aqua & Magma the also expand on the Gym Leaders, maybe even let us see them outside the Gym doing things (like maybe have them compete in Pokemon Contests). They'll also probably add a Fighting Dojo/Battleground place somewhere so that they're more easier to go and re-battle.
Oh, and also the same for the Elite Four, even in BW they pretty much did nothing (except for Marshal, but he only got a slightly extended role in BW2. Actually I kind of feel bad for him, he's Alder's apprentice yet who's the next person to become the titled Champion? A little girl). Nice to see them involved too.
That makes them seem weaker. Gym leaders are supposed to be strong. The champion can't be in 8 places at once. The "meh I won't do anything cuz I'm sure the champ can do everything" attitude just makes the gym leaders seem even more useless. Having trust and respect is one thing, but that attitude is just sheer laziness and kinda subverts my image of what a gym leader should be
Indeed, I always saw the Gym Leaders as like the local police chief/sheriff. Though that's technically not part of their job (and we've seen plenty of Gym Leaders who don't qualify), I imagine everyone in the town/city still looks up to the Gym Leader for at least some help as they're probably the permanent strongest trainer there. While they of course need to listen to the Pokemon League, is something is happening (like a villainous team is running around) it's there job to keep an eye on things and report the suspicious activity, and even personally responding to it and doing what's best for the whole.
And going back to the Elite Four, why is the Champion the only one seen running around doing stuff? Where are the Elite Four who I would imagine be just as active agents as the Champion is. I can see the Pokemon League wanting to use the strongest person in the League, but what about the other 4 strong trainers at your disposal?
are we going to be able to do level 100 battles on battlespot in the upcoming games? i dont like the fact that its only restricted to PSS battles.
That's a detail I don't think we'll find out until the game is released, I'm afraid.
MOD EDIT: Why are you telling us about that? Every single other fansite will have information about those giveaways and this is not the topic for it anyway.
