“I was a terrible Champion,” Alder admits, laughing over a plate of Casteliacones. “I was grieving. I let my partner die of an illness because I was too arrogant to see the symptoms. The title was a cage.”
In the world of Pokémon battling, there is no higher honor than standing atop the league. The Champion is the final wall, the living legend, the name whispered in every Pokémon Center from Pallet Town to Wyndon. Pokemon Retired Champion
But every reign ends. What happens when the confetti settles, the challengers stop coming, and the Champion hangs up their cape? “I was a terrible Champion,” Alder admits, laughing