I must say, I'm disappointed in the handling of the rival's battling and team(Starter obviously would be there, and I suppose the other two are reasonable for early additions, but the same routes he would of got those from had other Pokemon he could have used, plus why not a 4th Pokemon, Bianca and Cheren had 4 just after Burgh's gym, this guy has three still after Skyla's gym), however, I do love his actual storyline, well from what I know of it so far. He does appear very often, perhaps appears more then any other rival, his story seems to get drawn out nicely, and we team up with him rather often enough, so at less one part of him is great to me, and I'm sure post story his team will be more interesting to battle, although he'll still probably have Unfezant and a Simi. Still, I like how they are handling him at less character wise.