Dragon

lover of milotics

Age 30
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Viridian City
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Posted October 24th, 2022
11,170 posts
9.7 Years
Rival battles; they're like the thing that pumps you up before a major battle, y'know? They're pretty epic, don't you think? All to prove yourself better! But still, whenever I play a pokemon game, the rivals and their themes are indeed important to me because, well, they're part of the reason to keep you more invested in playing the game, at least on my perspective. At any rate, this is the discussion of this thread:

*For you, what was the best Rival theme(s) from any game?
*How does that Rival theme enhance your experience upon fighting them from their own particular game?


Feel free to use the video's below as a source for your answer, since it contains all of the Gym Leader Battle music. You can click on the protagonists that represents his/her own region to listen to the gym battle theme from that region, and I'll even provide the times on which every gym battle takes place too! (but credit goes to the maker of this video):



0:00 - V.S. Trainer (FireRed/LeafGreen)
1:42 - V.S. Silver (HeartGold/SoulSilver)
2:54 - V.S. Ruby/Sapphire (Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald)
4:05 - V.S. Barry (Diamond/Pearl/Platinum)
5:14 - V.S. Cheren/Bianca (Black/White)
6:12 - V.S. Hugh (Black 2/White 2)


Pokémon X/Y - Rival Battle Music
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Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire Brendan/May's Battle Music
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Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire Wally's Rival Battle Music
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"Let the fools who stand before me be destroyed by the power you and I possess...
DRAGON SLAVE!"

Dusk

Age 29
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Kanon Town
Seen November 18th, 2022
Posted September 24th, 2022
2,997 posts
8.4 Years
Aaahh it's always so hard for me to pick a single favorite. Though I have to say my favorites among the rival themes are Silver's Theme, Brendan/May's theme (ORAS version), Wally's Theme, and Barry's theme.

As said above, Wally's theme is so cool and his character development in ORAS makes me swell with joy. <3
In particular, I like how character personality shows in Silver and Barry's theme. Barry's energetic theme always makes me tap my foot and wanna go jogging or something. ^^
VPP: Vulpix @ 3,086 &Wobbuffet @ 3,012 ✩

Emboar

Male
Iowa
Seen 4 Weeks Ago
Posted December 28th, 2020
6,658 posts
8.7 Years
For me, it's a tie between Hugh and Silver. Hugh's theme is upbeat, and you know that you're going to have an epic battle when you hear it, but Silver's theme tells you all hell is going to break loose, so I really can't decide.

Hiatus

Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted July 24th, 2021
12,283 posts
10.8 Years
I like all of them, more or less, but on top of my list, it's definitely May and Brendan battle theme from Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.

May and Brendan generally have nice encounter music (well, at least in my opinion), and following it all up with their battle song is an amazing touch. It has a bit of slow start, but things begin to pick up soon after. The theme is loud, vibrant, colorful (so to speak), and it never ceases to get me into the mood of battling and whatnot. If you ask me, they seemed to have done a great job here!

Remix version of this song in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire is nice as well, but I tend to side with original more mostly due to nostalgic purposes. Aside from that, I'm also pretty fond of FireRed and LeafGreen rival theme, as well as the one from HeartGold and SoulSilver.