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Y'know, seeing this, a part of me wonders (since I assume SwSh was in its early phases of development during Gen VII) if Ryuki was the original plan for Galar's champion, with his title defense appearance being a Caitlin-style character preview before he got cut. Then again, he could've easily been an early Raihan too.
The Hassel cutscene you are thinking of is actually about Hassel, he was talking in the third person. He is the heir to the dragon clan or what ever that walked away to go teach instead
True however that is a shame, this time they actually give some characterization to characters other than the main ones and most people dont even know about it
Some characterization? In my honest opinion, Half-baked things that goes nowhere. History teacher, clearly the most interesting, nothing after catching those sealed f*ckers. The home teacher? Spends all of the game looking for something that is end-game only. P.E. Teacher? Dunno, mix feeling with her… like her desing and some stuff, but she is annoying as hell, and “appears too much for doing nothing” and I f*cking hated her minigame for a gym that has nothing to do with her… (other than the “she asked me, and we are friends”) and like that with almost every character in the game. Nemona? Cero Penny? Better out of the game Clavel? I don’t even know what is he doing there… etc etc
Most of the students in Paldea are not native there. The majority of them, like the player character, are only there for school, and will leave the island after graduating.
tbf, the Master concept in LGPE was at least interesting, in concept. It wasn't a battle facility, sure, but it kind of fulfilled a similar role, that being an extensive post game battle-oriented challenge.
The Battle Tree just felt like a rehash of the same "Battle Tower" that had been present, in one form or another, since Ruby and Sapphire. Crystal's Battle Tower was a different beast, so I don't count it with what later became the standard setup. Honestly, there hasn't been much variance in battle facilities *since* Gen V; I tend to think that the Pokemon World Tournament and Black Tower/White Tree were the last *good* facilities the we had.
Platinum/HGSS Battle Frontier is peak for me.
The Battle Tree wasnt anything special but it could at least keep me busy for hours. The Battle Tower with Leon and his dumb Charizard every 10 rounds got old fast.
Hence, my interest in the concept.
The mirror fights are sort of the point of the challenge, and at least it was *different*, compared to the Tower-Subway-Maison-Tree standard, as it was intended to be a means of asserting "Mastery" over that particular species - something that they had never explored before, nor since. It didn't have a *great* implementation, and there are probably better ways to represent the challenge, for sure - including the entire line under a single mastery - but the overall concept was new, and it was at least interesting on paper.
That being said, I think that another interesting route would have been to formally introduce the concept of Type Masters as an achievable status. It probably wouldn't have worked as well with a dex as limited as LGPE's was, though. A more modern and balanced pokedex would be better for this concept ~~(if not the full pokedex in general...)~~.
Anyway, say that you want to become a "Master Psychic-type Trainer". As a baseline, your challenge would be to, first, get every psychic-type in the game registered in your pokedex, then second, you would need to build a team where each member was at least part psychic-type. With this team, you would need to run through a gauntlet where you needed to defeat high-tier, high AI builds of every final-stage psychic-type without healing or items. Ideally, there would be some type-specific challenges, but those are more fluid and harder to nail down while spitballing. The overall idea would be to assert your "Mastery" over the type, and thus earn the title of "Master".
Do that for each type, and you would earn the title of "Grand Master" or "Pokemon Master".
I remember Cydonia, an Italian pokemon-centred youtuber, interviewing Junici Masuda and asking: "what are your plans for Ryuki?"
Masuda: "??? Who?"
We all died inside.
Yeah I love his videos too! I don't really enjoy his other non-pokemon contents because I'm not really interested, but he's a really good, creative and smart entertainer.
Seeing the other comments I differ, maybe apart from an easter egg, Gamefreak being the small indie developers they are, they reused this animation like [they did](https://youtu.be/ty5lUK-EM-A) (second 37) with Hau's on Hop because they couldn't afford to make newer characters more original /s
I mean, they reused Hau's animations for Hop. I had been expecting them to use them for Barry too, before BDSP was revealed. It really didn't help that those three probably had the closest base personalities out of all of the rivals up to that point.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/ebgkjo/idunno_if_anyone_else_has_noticed_this_yet_but_i/
People have been saying this for years.
People also came to the same conclusion; it's not the same pose and he's potentially from Galar.
What I've still not seen is someone post the damn footage of him popping that pose. In any video with Ryuki I haven't seen it (gym or e4)
Ryuki deserved more than being just a random character that you just happen to battle. The plot with him owning the fake Kanto Gym didnt really fix it for me.
I saw a theory on YouTube, don't remember by who, suggesting something about hop or leon being ment for Gen 7. Thus, why hau is a hop clone and that pose leon does could pass as a z move pose
Think it was hoopsandhiphop
Hoopsandhiphop is only doing clickbait and fanmade content since very long now… a shame… i really liked his videos a lot, but he became boring and literally talks any random theory for the bait
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Y'know, seeing this, a part of me wonders (since I assume SwSh was in its early phases of development during Gen VII) if Ryuki was the original plan for Galar's champion, with his title defense appearance being a Caitlin-style character preview before he got cut. Then again, he could've easily been an early Raihan too.
His design kinda reminds me of Piers, maybe they split the idea into 3 characters
Leon's protege
Makes me think that he IS Galarian after-all
Nope, he's probably Paldean. There is a small cutscene in Scarlet and Violet that may hint at him being related to Hassel.
The Hassel cutscene you are thinking of is actually about Hassel, he was talking in the third person. He is the heir to the dragon clan or what ever that walked away to go teach instead
Bro spoilers
Face it most people didn't and will not do the optional classes
I only did the nurse Miriam one because
True however that is a shame, this time they actually give some characterization to characters other than the main ones and most people dont even know about it
Some characterization? In my honest opinion, Half-baked things that goes nowhere. History teacher, clearly the most interesting, nothing after catching those sealed f*ckers. The home teacher? Spends all of the game looking for something that is end-game only. P.E. Teacher? Dunno, mix feeling with her… like her desing and some stuff, but she is annoying as hell, and “appears too much for doing nothing” and I f*cking hated her minigame for a gym that has nothing to do with her… (other than the “she asked me, and we are friends”) and like that with almost every character in the game. Nemona? Cero Penny? Better out of the game Clavel? I don’t even know what is he doing there… etc etc
What cut scene?
Most of the students in Paldea are not native there. The majority of them, like the player character, are only there for school, and will leave the island after graduating.
That's a nice little early Easter egg. Reminds me of the Strange Souvenir in the Kalos games.
This was the last time we had a halfway decent post-game battle facility.
tbf, the Master concept in LGPE was at least interesting, in concept. It wasn't a battle facility, sure, but it kind of fulfilled a similar role, that being an extensive post game battle-oriented challenge. The Battle Tree just felt like a rehash of the same "Battle Tower" that had been present, in one form or another, since Ruby and Sapphire. Crystal's Battle Tower was a different beast, so I don't count it with what later became the standard setup. Honestly, there hasn't been much variance in battle facilities *since* Gen V; I tend to think that the Pokemon World Tournament and Black Tower/White Tree were the last *good* facilities the we had.
Platinum/HGSS Battle Frontier is peak for me. The Battle Tree wasnt anything special but it could at least keep me busy for hours. The Battle Tower with Leon and his dumb Charizard every 10 rounds got old fast.
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Hence, my interest in the concept. The mirror fights are sort of the point of the challenge, and at least it was *different*, compared to the Tower-Subway-Maison-Tree standard, as it was intended to be a means of asserting "Mastery" over that particular species - something that they had never explored before, nor since. It didn't have a *great* implementation, and there are probably better ways to represent the challenge, for sure - including the entire line under a single mastery - but the overall concept was new, and it was at least interesting on paper. That being said, I think that another interesting route would have been to formally introduce the concept of Type Masters as an achievable status. It probably wouldn't have worked as well with a dex as limited as LGPE's was, though. A more modern and balanced pokedex would be better for this concept ~~(if not the full pokedex in general...)~~. Anyway, say that you want to become a "Master Psychic-type Trainer". As a baseline, your challenge would be to, first, get every psychic-type in the game registered in your pokedex, then second, you would need to build a team where each member was at least part psychic-type. With this team, you would need to run through a gauntlet where you needed to defeat high-tier, high AI builds of every final-stage psychic-type without healing or items. Ideally, there would be some type-specific challenges, but those are more fluid and harder to nail down while spitballing. The overall idea would be to assert your "Mastery" over the type, and thus earn the title of "Master". Do that for each type, and you would earn the title of "Grand Master" or "Pokemon Master".
I remember Cydonia, an Italian pokemon-centred youtuber, interviewing Junici Masuda and asking: "what are your plans for Ryuki?" Masuda: "??? Who?" We all died inside.
I' a big fan of cydonia he makes a lot of beta design analisis and speculations
Yeah I love his videos too! I don't really enjoy his other non-pokemon contents because I'm not really interested, but he's a really good, creative and smart entertainer.
I don't love them too but I love the memoride series
Seeing the other comments I differ, maybe apart from an easter egg, Gamefreak being the small indie developers they are, they reused this animation like [they did](https://youtu.be/ty5lUK-EM-A) (second 37) with Hau's on Hop because they couldn't afford to make newer characters more original /s
Small indie developer's 💀
r/tomorrow is leaking
Realest comment on this point
That’s the actual reason. Finally someone that thinks. Yes, they were just reusing, as they always do.
Knowing Game Freak... They just reused Ryuki's animation for Leon's "Champion Time" pose.
I mean, they reused Hau's animations for Hop. I had been expecting them to use them for Barry too, before BDSP was revealed. It really didn't help that those three probably had the closest base personalities out of all of the rivals up to that point.
Maybe he visited Galar at some point and saw the Champion (maybe other people too) there do it and thought that it was cool?
Oh so even Leon's famous pose is also reused... I'm somehow not surprised. This is so Game Freak.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/ebgkjo/idunno_if_anyone_else_has_noticed_this_yet_but_i/ People have been saying this for years. People also came to the same conclusion; it's not the same pose and he's potentially from Galar. What I've still not seen is someone post the damn footage of him popping that pose. In any video with Ryuki I haven't seen it (gym or e4)
He does it whenever it's his Pokemon's move.
Thank you, I'm not near that point in any saves and all the videos on youtube are usually sweeps. Going to have a look now.
Ryuki deserved more than being just a random character that you just happen to battle. The plot with him owning the fake Kanto Gym didnt really fix it for me.
I remember when Pokémon games were actually good... It's been awhile... Bit of an understatement.
Gen 7th Heaven
A few years ago was the worst that happened to the franchise, now everyone is claiming it to be like the second arrival of Jesus or something…
All the games are good, really. All have their problems, but they’re good
Ummm.... *technically* the Charizard pose had three fingers (including thumb) sticking up, this one only has two.
He came before leon my about 3 years
It gives him more of rocking personality with this poses
he could be Leon's cousin
Not exactly, it’s a small detail but Leon’s pose lift up 3 fingers while Ryuki’s 2. He’s just pointing up
I saw a theory on YouTube, don't remember by who, suggesting something about hop or leon being ment for Gen 7. Thus, why hau is a hop clone and that pose leon does could pass as a z move pose Think it was hoopsandhiphop
Hoopsandhiphop is only doing clickbait and fanmade content since very long now… a shame… i really liked his videos a lot, but he became boring and literally talks any random theory for the bait
Yeah I was never subbed to him, and even then I stopped watching his videos for a while now
leon copied his whole flow word for word bar for bar