What do you mean we might have to find them. They found us in B&W.
I think it's more along the lines of some of them doing something else. Like Whitney trying to win a Radio Card or something at the Goldenrod Radio Tower or most probably Shizui giving advice or touring people around the town where his Gym is at.
Elesa is shopping for clothes, she can't fight you right now
Why not go look for her
We have to enter a dressing room to make her come to the Gym.
I'm going to make a few predictions just for fun, then I'll be able to check back and see if I was correct or incorrect:
1. Drayden won't have a Haxorus. He'll have Fraxure, but not Haxorus.
2. Lenora is in the Elite Four.
3. Iris is Champion.
1. OH MY GOD. NO.
2. Hmmm, I really don't see her as the type to leave her exhibitions with her husband, especially with what happened when Team Plasma stole the Dragonite Skull.
3. Elite Four maybe. I dunno.