I ****ing love Gladion but it's kinda disappointing how you only fight him three times
Even then, and with only 4 Pokemon, his team manages to be varied and challenging(maybe also because I'm still on ~Lv46), 3 of them even evolve through happiness and I feel like that should have been the entire theme of his team but I'll take Weavile because Weavy is too ****ing cool
Really wish he would have gotten more screentime though, but I guess the focus was always Lillie, but with what he got, he still managed to become one of my favorite pokemon characters
And the most important part, which also shows his development
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PROTECT THAT SMILE
You guys don't even know how big MY smile was when I saw this
Gladion being able to smile like this shows how things turned out for the better and even that's why his team evolved, because they too are happy everything's back to normal
Honestly, Gladion reminds me a lot of Silver, but done way better and the technology of facial expressions help demonstrate his development a lot better
Gen 7 keeps giving me reasons to make it my favorite and I couldn't be any happier about this turns of events after XY disappointment in a lot of areas
Also, somewhat unrelated but I can't wait for when we finally get Gen 5 remakes and we get to see N smiling