Which game(s) had the best human characters?

[Sheep]

What the title says!

The Pokémon games are mostly about the creatures, but we have a very wide range of awesome human characters as well. Which game(s) do you feel had the best ones?

 

[Devalue]

Scarlet/Violet. Enjoyed Arven (after the rough first encounter), Iono, and Clavell. Always watches Mela's walking animation too, if that counts.

 

[_confused_piplup_]

Ofc as usual it's DPPt for me, because I enjoy most of the characters, but yeah SV have a good set of characters too tbh

 

[Explorer of Time]

I think Black and White (and by extension B2W2) had the best human characters out of the mainline games, and Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia had my favorites from the spinoffs.

 

[PoryKid575]

B2W2: the rival has an actual relationship with the player as well as a good motivation for why they want to go adventuring, Colress is an intriguing and nuanced villain by Pokemon standards, a lot of the gym leaders are more than one note (Cheren is a rival from BW1, Virbank's leader has the subplot with her dad, Skyler is a pilot, etc) and the majority of the standout characters from BW (N, Ghetsis) return.

 

[Camisado]

I feel like the friends (Arven, Nemona, Penny) in Scarlet and Violet was incredible and I still miss them now I've completed the game. The three were so different but worked so well together! I also loved Carmine and Kieran in the DLC.

And extra vote for BW/B2W2 after seeing the great opinions above. :)