>>58218546
Winona was never a great Sapphire mentor anyway because she barely teaches Sapphire anything besides how to get divorced. In fact Winona could even represent the failure of bureaucracy to be effective when it matters, and how Sapphire not caring about laws and rules made her more effective. The Wallace/Ruby parallel doesn't map perfectly onto the Winona/Sapphire parallel either even though Kusaka pretends it does. In RS Ruby actually has a dozen mentors while Sapphire didn't need anywhere as much guidance, probably since she wasn't a PokeAtheist to begin with.

That said Brawly both trained Sapphire and when she was having a tsundere fit, he actually told her to open up emotionally to her friends. Sadly he stopped being relevant after his gym fight. But maybe this just says a lot about how Sapphire's RS character arc was executed in a clunkier more unorganized way compared to Ruby's.

I also barely remember FRLG desu but Blue (f) deserves a win for once. Kind of like how Luckyshipping seems to be winning.

>>58219181
Dia and Pearl, bros before hoes (unless they go bankrupt)