Alright Nintendo, this is how to make the Elite Four awesome in the next pokemon generation, so listen up.
My memory might be faded, but I believe in the pokemon anime that, since so many people wanted to challenge the Elite Four and were eligible to do so, it was a yearly thing, and you had to beat the shit out of all the other would-be champion contenders before even being able to approach the Elite Four. Ash failed to do so. Anyways, Do this. Except not yearly, maybe like every week or something, on a particular day (Fridays or Sundays - make Pokemon the Pokemon world equivalent of Football). To keep it with the story, maybe have the first time the player is able to enter be the "canonical" tournament, with the plot-related Champion and even contenders, perhaps. Next, when someone becomes Champion, they fucking stay Champion. Whether it's the player character or someone else. If the player character becomes the champion, they have to listen to their radio on Elite Four day to make sure that nobody is about to wipe the floor with the Elite Four and challenge them. If they aren't there when the challenger defeats the Elite Four, too fucking bad, player character resigns his championship. Otherwise they do battle, and these challengers have to have, at the very least, pokemon teams that level up, but preferably have them change their teams around a bit on occasion. Also, how about the Champion gets a periodical stipend to make it more desirable to stay Champion than fight your way back up to Champion again. Last, notice I brought up the radio? Bring it back, and broadcast Elite Four battles. That would be so fucking sweet to hear. And put it on the TVs scattered throughout the region, too. But at the very least on the radios so we can still train while we listen in.
You could also do some interesting things like if the player stays Champion for a long time, some random, ridiculously strong competitor will come with level 100 legendaries or starters or something, and likely wipe the floor with the Champion, and if he does, he'll just disappear and never take on any challengers. But if he does disappear, have him be findable, maybe like Red was in GS.
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Писатель всегда будет в оппозиции к политике, пока сама политика будет в оппозиции к культуре.
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