Talk:Luka/@comment-75.84.183.34-20130921012121/@comment-69.119.180.15-20140322043343

Someone who can match his powers who is a childhood friend just seems silly for the story and many games do it

Especially since most people are stronger then him anyway and even teach him along the way (tamamo) or want to test his strength and watch them grow to be a opponent who can match thier power (granberia)

Throughout the story he basicly always has rivals (heavenly knights)

It just seems the word itself has been used soo many times because people feel like every story with a hero needs one

They think of a rival as someone who the hero has encounters with often and the rival seems to always best the hero because they are a simply rival ( like in Pokemon or in naruto)

But in more deeper stories for example a hero has a older brother who took care of him after they were orphans when their parents died, when thier parents were alive the father taught the oldest son how to use a blade to protect himself and then the oldest son became very skilled in it. The hero starts off like luka he is weak and not very understanding of how the world works the brother worries for his weaker sibling because he cares about him so he then teaches him in his own footsteps testing the hero and then raising the bar higher each time to prepare the hero for challenges to come and spreads his wisdom to him the hero then manages to either equal or surpass his brother in skills  making his brother proud to see his younger brother grow in such a way. Now they are basically equals

This while it might not be the strict definition of a rival it is a mentor who tests the hero and wants to see them grow until both of them are matched which seems better then a silly rival who just fights the hero because they think they are better

A person trying to be better then  the hero is done so much in so many wrong ways and at this point stories use it just Cuz but MGQ manages to make it work by not following everyone else