Throughout the entire game, he’s marveling at your ability to know that an electric attack is going to do a whole lot of damage to his flying-type Corviknight. And no, I don’t mean something like having to send out a poor monster matchup, I’m talking about how homeboy just seems to not have the knowledge necessary to anticipate when he’s about to be on the receiving end of a “super effective” attack that weakens his Pokemon. Hop is already reaching meme status for his apparent lack of Pokemon battling knowhow. But the dude is just not cut out for this Pokemon training business, and I’m still sussing out whether or not this truth is intentional as part of an actual genius melding of game mechanics and story on developer Game Freak’s part or just an example of Pokemon: Sword & Shield having terrible AI. He’s one of the best, most consistent players in a story that frankly can’t say that for several of its cast.
This isn’t to say that Hop isn’t a well-realized character. If you haven’t beaten either of the games yet, do yourself a favor and do that first.
The following contains spoilers for Pokemon: Sword & Shield. In retrospect, it makes perfect sense that I would be writing this, because one of the first decisions we see Hop, the rival trainer of Pokemon: Sword & Shield make is choosing the starter Pokemon that is weakened by the one he just saw you choose.įolks, let’s talk about how Hop sucks as a Pokemon trainer.