like I said, I can only think of one game were the opposite gender option turned into your rival(ruby/sapphire) and now with black and white coming out I had got my hopes up, sadly I always have liked both options and kind of wish you could encounter them more often but a lot of times the opposite gender PC never make an appearance if your not that gender, I just wish you could fight them as your rival. now the first generations have an excuse, in R/B/Y, and G/S there was no other gender to chose so the rival had to me a different character altogether, but that isn't so in B/W and D/P/PL. your thoughts?