I find it hilarious that you're trying to act like I'm a moron here.
To the musician: have you played the games recently?
Please check the text: your goal in the pokemon world is to fill the pokedex. There may be a bunch of battling, but the outright stated goal is to fill the dex. Do not even try to dispute this.
This automatically disqualifies Silver, as in the game he does not attempt to fill the dex.
Now then, note that Blue treats filling the dex as second to his
massive ego pokemon battling skillz; in other words, that disqualifies him as well.
In fact, this disqualifies every rival in the games except for May and Brendan.
Due to this, if we are to continue to use the term "rival" to describe Blue, Silver, and Barry, we're going to have to use the other definitions. The ones I pointed out. The ones that do not in any way describe Blue and Silver.
Now then, let's look at the other definitions. companion, associate, equal, peer.
Hmm... you know, that last one looks rather familiar to me... but where... oh, right.
You also need to look up the definition of a peer.
This sounds like a great time to do so!
Main Entry: 1peer
Pronunciation: \ˈpir\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French per, from per, adjective, equal, from Latin par
Date: 13th century
1 : one that is of equal standing with another : equal; especially : one belonging to the same societal group especially based on age, grade, or status
2 archaic : companion
3 a : a member of one of the five ranks (as duke, marquess, earl, viscount, or baron) of the British peerage b : noble 1
— peer adjective
Would you look at that. Rival means peer! Which means The Musician's entire argument fails. Good job.
Also, while we're at it, about that quote in the lake; summarizing
does not mean completely changing its meaning.