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The hardest rival is Cheren. It's him because he always out smarts me. He always use his strongest pokemon first. That's his servine with it's leaf tornado. Then it's easy.
N was definitely the hardest, but I never lost to any of the rivals. Cheren comes in second just because his starter has the advantage over yours, but he and Bianca were both easy.
Everytime Bianca complains about not being strong I roll my eyes because shes a hell of a lot stronger than Cheren. I have no problems with Cheren at all and his quest to be the strongest makes me laugh. Bianca however, with her Stoutland make at least one pokemon faint during battle.
Cheren throughout the game by far is the most challenging of the three.
Both N & Bianca get alot stronger as the story goes on but even then with Bianca's team of six and N with his Reshiram/Zekrom are still easy enough for me to beat.
I never really considered N a rival per say. I thought of him more as the head of Plasma and you were the person trying to foil his plans. He was more challenging if you would actually call him challenging compared to the other two. Bianca and Cheren I really found neither challenging, but they were more worth while then some past rivals like Brendan/May in RSE(who is the worst rival imo).