People only put the starter Pokémon against the rival’s starter, and the rest is random. I’m not saying that the player should have only Pokémon that’s the counterpart of the rival’s team (mechanic and story wise), but people should at least try to use Shuckie the Shuckle against Silver’s Sneasel, who are both originally from the same trainer.
Good/Bad boy Silver. Possible the rival with most backstory of all. Son of Giovanni, Slow Learner, Long Red Hair, He's got all. Oh, and the Music. Good Lord that music is sick
He was an awesome rival, because he actually felt like a rival. Very determined and hated the protagonist. The battles with him felt like there was a lot on the line, just like against blue
Yes! A rival that literally stole a starter pokemon was a lot to gasp about. The character development pulled into his character was short lines of text, but very engaging. I was so invested in fights against him as a kid.
I’m surprised Silver wasn’t introduced into the show when Ash and co. went to Johto. It would’ve definitely added more depth to the mythos and give Ash an opponent that makes Gary look like a saint.
Especially since team rocket and giovanni was already a presence in the show... revealing Silver as the son of GIOVANNI would've made me go insane as a kid
One of my favorite little details in the remake is in the post game, you actually run into Claire and your Rival where you can challenge them both to a Tag Battle and when you beat them in this Tag Battle, if you go back to New Bark Town and talk to professor Elm he'll straight up tell you that your rival walked into the building, placed his fully evolved starter's pokeball on the table, and then he just walks out and leaves. The in game explanation as to why he did this is because he started his journey stealing a pokemon that was not his and when he was able to form his own team off his own merit and skill he felt like he didnt need his starter anymore saying how it was time to return it Its a lot like how there are 2 sidequests in Gen 2 where random NPC's will let you borrow their pokemon to make them feel safe and you're given the option to keep those pokemon or give them back. Now why the fuck you would give them back is beyond me because even in the remake there is no reward for doing this. I feel like this was an undersight. Its a lot like how in Pokemon Yellow, random NPC's will straight up just give you the 3 starters from Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow if you don't have 2 Gameboys and a Trading Cable.
I love the fact that when we face him in the pokemon league, he has the champion theme, implying that he has that level now. It would have been awesome that he got it too in HGSS!
I like how you stand by at least with your fire starter versing his water starter. That’s destiny battle right there. Not to mention a bit challenging. And tempting lol.
Amazingly enough, Silver is, if I'm correct, the only rival who doesn't set his team up to follow the theme of Grass/Fire/Water based on which starter you chose, unlike the other rivals in the series.
Silver is really a good rival all the time here is the reason: -He is Giovanni son - He is the Green's foster brother( because in Pokemon adventure he always follow Green) - He was one who really fight win against Blue and Red. Green also too. - His goal is KO team rocket and another. - He wants to become stronger is because. He wants to fight win against the God of trainer DaGuan!
Silver is a hypocrite, he mentions that he hates team rocket and mentioned that he would take care of them during the radio tower, but silver is a thief, he stole a starter and sneasel, I really didn’t see him as a “rival” at all, he was a nuisance
What people think we get from Let’s Go Johto: Get non Gen 1 Pokémon into Home from GO, seeing Johto in 3D, great music What we’d actually get from it: Game Freak figuring out how to rewrite this guy as a friendly rival
Hopefully there will be at least one new rival that has similar behavior to Silver. I'm fine with the friendly rivals, but I also miss the old, unfriendly ones, like Poophead27, and of course, Silver.
(Pre-Video Comment) - Really miss this dude. :p He was... interesting as a kid. XD If I remember correctly, he was worse than Gary, got told to treat his pokemon better a lot earlier so character development can stick, and he even has an evil parent like Gladion... I really liked that. :p Anyways, all I remember as a kid is that I used Squirtle as my starter in Kanto, and yet it was Cyndaquil for Johto. :p I don't really know why. ^^; I feel like Feraligatr fits Silver pretty well next to a Typhlosion though, so it was a good starter set up to me. :p
One of my favorite rivals because he was a jerk at the beginning but in the end he realize that what was holding him back is him just caring about winning and not his pokemon abut than he changed talk about character development
When I was a kid I actually called him “???” Cause i thought it was his name. After I saw D&P I’ve called him Paul ever since. I had silver version and named my character that so that’s why I’ve never felt the need to correct it.
Funny how everyone talks about red using the gsc champion theme, some people talk about lance using the champion theme, but literally nobody talks about silver using the champion theme in the final battle
Hey. I have been training my pokemon to level 100 for the Red fight by going through the league over and over again and in about my 50th time going to the league, I got my final battle with him a second time. Is this normal? I've never gotten his final battle again before
You gotta take him on at Mt Moon first. I thought the last battle was right before you make it to the Elite 4 but I was wrong. I missed the last two battles because I never went to MT. Moon
Old comment, but it's because he finally understands what makes a Pokémon Teainer a Pokémon Trainer, now treating them with the love and trust they needed the whole time. Hence why his Golbat evolved into Crobat.
- My name is ???, and I will be the greatest trainer in the world. - So it was you who defeated the infamous Team Rocket? You're not kidding? But you're so much weaker than me! I challenge you! ...hmph. That's why I hate fighting weaklings. It's no sports. Look, you have only managed to win because my Pokemons were a bit weak. Weak... I hate weakness. Pokemons, individuals and the collectives. Same goes for Team Rocket. They seem to be strong as a collective, but individually they're not worth a thing. Get lost! Weaklings like you only stand in my way! - Halt! You're not daring to challenge the Pokemon League, are you? You're a weakling! I challenge you! ...I guess the Dragon Master was right. Love and compassion - do I truly miss those qualities?
My team: Shiny Feraligator Shiny pikachu evolved from pichu from odd egg Shiny Snorlax Took me a week to hunt all those before actually training them all Guranteed shiny grados I only use him for waterfall Pidgey for flying Tokepi for flash.
In Leaf Green and Fire Red, there’s a guy on one of the islands that says Giovanni’s son has red hair. Then in the remakes, there’s a special event with Celebi where you see that he interacts with Giovanni
![Final Battle vs Red [Pokemon Gold]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jpdy9pZyGH4/mqdefault.jpg)
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List of all Rival Silver :
0:59 : Rival - 1st Battle (Cherrygrove City)
3:55 : Rival - 2nd Battle (Azalea Town)
7:32 : Rival - 3rd Battle (Burned Tower)
13:00 : Rival - 4th battle (Goldenrod Underground)
19:01 : Rival - 5th battle (Victory Road)
26:33 : Rival - 6th battle (Mt. Moon)
31:49 : Rival - Final battle (Indigo Plateau)
Thanks
I never attend the 6th battle
hello Mixeli
Owh it seems battle at silc scope not have.. I think I never face it
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I like how in the rematches he has a crobat that means he finally cares about his pokemon
@*LA SHORE* You don't sound too different from Silver himself saying something like that, LOL. XD
But he's still a bigger douchebag than blue!!!! HE STOLE A STARTER!!!!!!!!!!!
@@waterwraith3334 he is giovanni's son thats why he stole
As someone who spent 2 straight days training his golbat so that it could evolve, silver definitely cared
Maybe he traded for one...
Can we all agree Silver is criminally underutilized in the franchise?
Very
Hes one of the rivals that gets true character development
And an actual criminal as well remember he stole his starter also he stole a sneasle
"Criminally"
@@stepjoe7041 I thought he caught it.
Fun Fact : Silver Final battle use the Champion battle theme from GSC! ;)
Ok
Yeah, but why doesn’t hgss?
Does he challenge you at the Indigo Plateau at a certain time, or when you defeat the Elite Four a certain amount of times?
PKMN Trainer Red IDK either
People only put the starter Pokémon against the rival’s starter, and the rest is random. I’m not saying that the player should have only Pokémon that’s the counterpart of the rival’s team (mechanic and story wise), but people should at least try to use Shuckie the Shuckle against Silver’s Sneasel, who are both originally from the same trainer.
>gets his ass beat
>calls you a weakling
I will never understand why.
Vegeta vibes
He's twelve and thinks like a twelve year old going through an edgy phase
he calls you a weakling because he thinks you actually caring about your pokemon makes you weak. later on in the story he realises he was wrong
Good/Bad boy Silver. Possible the rival with most backstory of all. Son of Giovanni, Slow Learner, Long Red Hair, He's got all. Oh, and the Music. Good Lord that music is sick
Wait who said he is son of Giovanni I had no idea lol
@@williamhalpert7487 In HeartGold, there is a Celebi event where you time travel to the time where Giovanni Retired, leaving Silver alone
It was also mentioned in the passing by one of the Rocket Grunts in FR/LG post game
Agree. His Battle Theme is fucking phenomenal.
I feel like Gladion comes a little close, but other than that, I'd have to agree. :p I can't think of any other rival that has as much depth...
19:17 when Rival acknowledges you by saying your name. That's how you know he's come far and realized the real meaning of loving his Pokemon.
I like that he finally grows into the champion theme as well
He was an awesome rival, because he actually felt like a rival. Very determined and hated the protagonist. The battles with him felt like there was a lot on the line, just like against blue
Yes! A rival that literally stole a starter pokemon was a lot to gasp about. The character development pulled into his character was short lines of text, but very engaging. I was so invested in fights against him as a kid.
I’m surprised Silver wasn’t introduced into the show when Ash and co. went to Johto. It would’ve definitely added more depth to the mythos and give Ash an opponent that makes Gary look like a saint.
It’s a criminal act that they never included him in Ash’s journey
Especially since team rocket and giovanni was already a presence in the show... revealing Silver as the son of GIOVANNI would've made me go insane as a kid
@@ono_o_o that's probably why we got Paul in diamond and pearl since he was based off him from what I understand
There is a cameo :>
Paul was a representation of silver in the anime
One of my favorite little details in the remake is in the post game, you actually run into Claire and your Rival where you can challenge them both to a Tag Battle and when you beat them in this Tag Battle, if you go back to New Bark Town and talk to professor Elm he'll straight up tell you that your rival walked into the building, placed his fully evolved starter's pokeball on the table, and then he just walks out and leaves.
The in game explanation as to why he did this is because he started his journey stealing a pokemon that was not his and when he was able to form his own team off his own merit and skill he felt like he didnt need his starter anymore saying how it was time to return it
Its a lot like how there are 2 sidequests in Gen 2 where random NPC's will let you borrow their pokemon to make them feel safe and you're given the option to keep those pokemon or give them back. Now why the fuck you would give them back is beyond me because even in the remake there is no reward for doing this. I feel like this was an undersight. Its a lot like how in Pokemon Yellow, random NPC's will straight up just give you the 3 starters from Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow if you don't have 2 Gameboys and a Trading Cable.
He TRIED to return it, to clarify. Elm saw how much the two trusted one another and gave it back.
Tl dr
He probably had the chance of becoming the league champion (in HGSS), but they decided not to give him Weavile for some reason.
Question : What name do you give to your rival?
When You first battle him, did you win or lose?
I named him ???
Welp, the first time i named him ??? Because... Welp i was an Amateur, It was the smartest thing i could think of.
I won because I had a cyndaquil totodile and a chikorita as my starter
My team was Megainium, Typhlosion, Feraligatr, Sudowoodo, Lugia, and shiny Gyarados
The first time I named him ??? because that was what he said his name waz
That awkward moment when you actually name him "???".
I did it as a joke.
@@TehJMastuh Welp now you’re stuck with his name being “???” 😂😂😂
@@Kaydenbyer07 haha! Thanks to today’s technology that i did it on an emulator, I can always change it back using a Pokémon editor.
High ho silver
I was in middle school.
i like how during the last two battles his pose changes
It was one of those dumb things where I thought I stumbled upon some well-hidden secret of the game lol. I still remember the feeling
I love the fact that when we face him in the pokemon league, he has the champion theme, implying that he has that level now. It would have been awesome that he got it too in HGSS!
I like how you stand by at least with your fire starter versing his water starter. That’s destiny battle right there. Not to mention a bit challenging. And tempting lol.
Amazingly enough, Silver is, if I'm correct, the only rival who doesn't set his team up to follow the theme of Grass/Fire/Water based on which starter you chose, unlike the other rivals in the series.
Silver is really a good rival all the time here is the reason:
-He is Giovanni son
- He is the Green's foster brother( because in Pokemon adventure he always follow Green)
- He was one who really fight win against Blue and Red. Green also too.
- His goal is KO team rocket and another.
- He wants to become stronger is because. He wants to fight win against the God of trainer DaGuan!
Sounds like bs to me
Silver is a hypocrite, he mentions that he hates team rocket and mentioned that he would take care of them during the radio tower, but silver is a thief, he stole a starter and sneasel, I really didn’t see him as a “rival” at all, he was a nuisance
Damn pokemon is still tight after all these years.
GSC: Silver punches Gold in new bark town
HGSS: Gold jumps away from Silver
Ehhhh, he kind of boots Gold with tremendous force rather than punches him.
He Actually Pushes Gold Away.
I’m assuming it’s because you can play as a girl in HGSS, probably didn’t feel right.
@@Gratiosyou can play as a girl in Crystal
@@mkccv oh😝
I love how this trainer stated consistent keeping Smokescreen and easily knocking out his water type
Best rival and best written character. Him having a Crobat in the final battle was the cherry on top.
The son of Giovanni needs more attention in the series. Even if he made a few mentions or cameos like Red does in other games
Ngl when the champion theme kicked in I got chills
That’s one thing I hated HGSS didn’t include.
I really wish they still had the champion theme play during your final battle with him.
4:49 rival has a Lv. 16 Croconaw. But I thought Totodile evolves at Lv. 18?
Gameshark: Hello.
Well,Pidgey Evolved Into Pidgeotto At Level 18,But Falkner Has A Pidgeotto That's Level 9
Nerf reasons
You can fight him every Monday and Wednesday at the Indigo Plateau
@calebhopkins3588 Silver Is The Solo/Rogue Of Pokemon!As A Kid I Had The Most Trouble With The Azalea Town Battle!
Who loves his theme? Comment here.
Aryan Pandey Yes, it’s better than the remake.
I’ve been thinking of doing a Silver party play through on ultramoon but I’m still thinking on it
What people think we get from Let’s Go Johto: Get non Gen 1 Pokémon into Home from GO, seeing Johto in 3D, great music
What we’d actually get from it: Game Freak figuring out how to rewrite this guy as a friendly rival
I actually downloaded Pokémon Gold on my 3DS two days ago. What a coincidence.
I HATE LOSING LIKE WINNING HATES ME
1. Silver’s Pokémon: Totodile, Chikorita or Cyndaquil
2. Silver’s Pokémon: Gastly, Zubat and Croconaw, Bayleef or Quilava
3. Silver’s Pokémon: Haunter, Magnemite, Zubat and Croconaw, Bayleef or Quilava
4. Silver’s Pokémon: Golbat, Magnemite, Haunter, Sneasel and Feraligatr, Meganium or Quilava
5. Silver’s Pokémon: Sneasel, Golbat, Magneton, Haunter, Kadabra and Feraligatr, Typhlosion or Meganium
6. Silver’s Pokémon: Sneasel, Golbat, Magneton, Gengar, Alakazam and Feraligatr, Meganium or Typhlosion
7. Silver’s Pokémon: Sneasel, Crobat, Magneton, Gengar, Alakazam and Feraligatr, Meganium or Typhlosion
the only time the rival fights you post game… and also the biggest gangster in all of pokémon
Hopefully there will be at least one new rival that has similar behavior to Silver. I'm fine with the friendly rivals, but I also miss the old, unfriendly ones, like Poophead27, and of course, Silver.
What about that Bead or whatever his name was guy from SwSh?
Actually, good point. Bede roughly has a similar arc to Silver.
(Pre-Video Comment) - Really miss this dude. :p He was... interesting as a kid. XD If I remember correctly, he was worse than Gary, got told to treat his pokemon better a lot earlier so character development can stick, and he even has an evil parent like Gladion... I really liked that. :p
Anyways, all I remember as a kid is that I used Squirtle as my starter in Kanto, and yet it was Cyndaquil for Johto. :p I don't really know why. ^^; I feel like Feraligatr fits Silver pretty well next to a Typhlosion though, so it was a good starter set up to me. :p
5:57
You wont be disappointed by its ember
Rival Battle: Silver
Steel: Totodile + Croconaw + Feraligatr
Gastly + Haunter + Gengar
Zubat + Golbat + Grobat
Magnemite + Magneton
Kadabra + Alakazam
Sneasel
... I'm going back to Cristal/Gold/Silver...
*Crystal
What, just so you can fight Silver? ^^; Well, I guess that's a good of a reason as any, LOL. :p I hope you have or have had fun with it. ^^;
One of my favorite rivals because he was a jerk at the beginning but in the end he realize that what was holding him back is him just caring about winning and not his pokemon abut than he changed talk about character development
When I was a kid I actually called him “???” Cause i thought it was his name. After I saw D&P I’ve called him Paul ever since.
I had silver version and named my character that so that’s why I’ve never felt the need to correct it.
I wonder how blue and silver would react to each other
Silver: get out of the way
Blue: Smell you later loser
Gold was my very first Pokemon game and for some reason, Silver really scared me in the beginning lol
Wait so when the person pushed you that was silver
Yes
Why did i not know that
I have a friend who has a flipnote based on the fact that Silver is outside the window (it's pretty funny)
*When your rival is literally a criminal*
The fact that his sneasel did one damage against dragonite
*one damage*
Dragonite, buddy, *How much rare candies have you eaten?*
I used Typhlosion,Crobat,Ampharos,dragonite,Lapras,and gyradoes.
I Used Feraligatr, Dragonite, Umbreon, Weezing, Crobat And Electrode.
What a stacked team
@@garchompgamer1874 my team is gengar alakazam ampharos tyranatar typhlosion and dragonite
When I first played through Crystal, I named him Lee amp for some reason. I don't have a reason why.
Greatest rival theme of all time.
I beat his father Giovanni so bad in FireRed, and I beat his bastard kid Silver in Crystal. Inflicting generational trauma and owning their bloodline.
Name him ???
Just because 1st Battle he's name is ???
Why did silver keep water gun as an attack?
Ah yes. I named him "Jerky".
I love how he calls the player a weakling after losing every single time. Can’t get on our level even if you rare candy overdose, chump.
the biggest thug in all of Pokémon
Funny how everyone talks about red using the gsc champion theme, some people talk about lance using the champion theme, but literally nobody talks about silver using the champion theme in the final battle
Huh... I don't remember Shuckie the Shuckle at all. o.O I wonder if I got that back then...
Rival of lgp and lge: normal and happy
Rival of red and blue: actually jealous
Rival of gold and silver: hates you alot
Hey. I have been training my pokemon to level 100 for the Red fight by going through the league over and over again and in about my 50th time going to the league, I got my final battle with him a second time. Is this normal? I've never gotten his final battle again before
Yes it happens twice a week
I never got the final battle until I fought and defeated red :/
@@toast2980 weird
Nah it's cause the fight only spawns on monday's and wednesday's
I don't remember him challenging the player before the league, i probably didn't paid attention ._.
You gotta take him on at Mt Moon first. I thought the last battle was right before you make it to the Elite 4 but I was wrong. I missed the last two battles because I never went to MT. Moon
A GREAT RIVAL 🎩
4:54 wait...
HE HAS ALL 3 JOHTO STARTERS
@@errorgaming1181 is bug in the original, then let you get all the three starters, for me, make a little sense, like, prof elm dont use all the three
Anyone ever wondered why he uses a different sprite in the last 2 battles?
Old comment, but it's because he finally understands what makes a Pokémon Teainer a Pokémon Trainer, now treating them with the love and trust they needed the whole time. Hence why his Golbat evolved into Crobat.
How did you got Chikorita
dinesh lama and totodile
- My name is ???, and I will be the greatest trainer in the world.
- So it was you who defeated the infamous Team Rocket? You're not kidding? But you're so much weaker than me! I challenge you! ...hmph. That's why I hate fighting weaklings. It's no sports. Look, you have only managed to win because my Pokemons were a bit weak. Weak... I hate weakness. Pokemons, individuals and the collectives. Same goes for Team Rocket. They seem to be strong as a collective, but individually they're not worth a thing. Get lost! Weaklings like you only stand in my way!
- Halt! You're not daring to challenge the Pokemon League, are you? You're a weakling! I challenge you! ...I guess the Dragon Master was right. Love and compassion - do I truly miss those qualities?
26:24 geez
Is Don short for Donna?
34:29
My team
Typhlosion
Feraligatr
Meganium
Crobat
Ampharous
Tyranitar.
Mans using the duplication glitch
How did you get all the starters
He is definitely a cool rival with a great character development, sucks how his team isn’t strong though…
Awesome!
Wait how did U get dratini so damn fast?
How did you get a chickorita
How did you get all the initial pokemon?
How did you get the other starter pokemon in your game?
trading it in
The Pokemon Version of Shadow The Hedgehog and Vegeta.
My team :Quillava, Hypno, Raichu, Togekiss and sudoowudo
32:55 goes hard
I use tododile.... Only cause i was too lazy to farm exp for other pokemon
+1 for gold and silver in pokemon masters
why does silver remind me soooo much of knuckles from sonic
My final team Tyranitar, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Rhydon, Ampharos,Gyrados.
Love dis gen 2 origin.
Mixeli i view all champion battles is My Video fav My champion fav is blue
DraCOOL is really cool!!
Silver, the son of Giovanni
How you were able to have the 3 starters in this game.
With the all three starters cheat
Maybe trading with other copies?
HIS NAME IS "???" NOT SILVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice
So in gen 2 have sneasel but in gen 3 they didn't but in gen 4 they have sneasel WHAT?!?!?!
When I first played gold I actually named the rival ??? for some reason
Rival Vaati appears
Well at least it is in the new intro/song showed by nintendo.
My team:
Shiny Feraligator
Shiny pikachu evolved from pichu from odd egg
Shiny Snorlax
Took me a week to hunt all those before actually training them all
Guranteed shiny grados I only use him for waterfall
Pidgey for flying
Tokepi for flash.
I was late again :'v
silver never say that his father is giovanni
In Leaf Green and Fire Red, there’s a guy on one of the islands that says Giovanni’s son has red hair. Then in the remakes, there’s a special event with Celebi where you see that he interacts with Giovanni
he does in the ds remakes in an event, although he only calls him father in the Japanese version
Wrong! Wrong! WRONG!! The rivals name was ??? Not "SILVER!" LMFAOO
It's silver ach an Amanda 😅😅😅😅😅