Is Geeta the Worst Pokémon Champion?

Personally, what annoys me most about Geeta isn’t how underwhelming her team was. It’s how she doesn’t even use her team even SLIGHTLY optimally. I find it tough to take the line "I am incapable of holding back" seriously when she has a hazard setter, and uses it LAST. Is "incapable of holding back" her way of saying "I slam my head into a brick wall without strategy until it breaks"?

I find it funny that Geeta isn’t liked by everybody due to all the rules and having the other gym leaders restrict themselves in other battles or in their other interests. Like she’s this overwhelming yet subtle presence that keeps the other gym leaders on tight leashes

You could make an argument. Our rival held back on her during their fight. It’s kinda crazy that Geeta is like number three as a Champion of a region. All the other Champs were clear number one until our protagonists defeated them.

I feel like GF just needs to learn that a trainers Ace doesn't ALWAYS have to be their last Pokemon. She could still call Glimmora her Ace and use it first to set up Toxic Spikes or even use it in the middle of her team

If Geeta tried to challenge Lance, Steven Stone, Cynthia, Iris, Diantha, Leon or even Ash, they’d all laugh at her.

It's so weird that Larry's E4 battle left me with one Pokémon and then the Geeta fight I win with all my mons still alive

The way I see it, the E4 and Champion section of the game is this cold, strict, traditional exam in an empty office. There’s no one around to watch the final battle. But then the fight the player has against Nemona right after is this spontaneous, high stakes battle in front of the school they both spent so much time in. So many people are gathered to watch and if you do this at night, the streets are lit up. I think the contrast between these two fights was on purpose. Also, Gimmighoul Coin sounds like some dumb cryptocurrency.

It should be noted that over half the Gym Leaders say they outright don't like Geeta which is interesting. No other champion has ever been really disliked by the characters themselves. Also I'm sure Geeta is a part of the Area Zero plot since down there it says only a few know where Terrastlize pokenalls come from and Geeta is definitely one of them since she's the Chairwoman of the Legaue and Schools. Also she owns Glimmora as her Ace which is fought by you and Nemona in Area Zero despite it not being a paradox poekmon like the others you fight off. And in Violet, Glimmora's dex entry states it has terratlize energy naturally so I defiantly think Geeta will play a big role in the DLC story

SPOILERS AHEAD: I still think there's more to Geeta's story than we've seen. There's hints that the "time machine" might actually be a "dream engine," making the wielder's ideal world a reality, and Geeta makes a pretty prominent point of saying that Paldea in its current state is her ideal world. Add to that the fact that she could very well be an actual modern robot, unlike the Terastilized android in Area Zero, and it starts to make sense that the areas of Paldea she has the most influence on start to seem a little...cold.

A friend of mine told me that she was the worst champion after he battled her, and I genuinely didn't believe anyone could be worse than Diantha. Holy shit, he was right-

Beat her on my first try, but it took me five attempts to beat Nemona.

Imagine if she had a team LIKE THIS: • Glimmora • Arboliva • Armarouge • Gholdengo • Baxcalibur • Kingambit (Edit: All credit goes to the boy SmithPlays Pokemon. Sorry bout that)

I guess I'm weird because I liked the Pokemon League interview with Rika. The whole game's theme is school, so the interview felt like some kind of gym badge capstone. In a vacuum, the interview is weird, but as part of the whole world's theme, it fits.

I think Game Freak tried to make her a Champion like Leon that loves battling and motivate the player to fight and become stronger, but even him has more personality and takes more part in the games story. Glimmora is a Pokémon that appears in the Area Zero, so It was weird for me that she didn't took any participation there (or I haven't seen It at the moment, I haven't ended the post-game). It could have been a great Champion if she had helped in the end of the story and not only be just a Champion in the Pokemon league.

this fight really suffered from the whole ''leave the best Pokemon for last'' thing the AI does recently i've been watching gameplays from gen4 and 5 and it surprises me how some mayor trainers won't hesitate to use their ace mid-match or as early as their second Pokémon

What really sold to me was the fight against the professors... all paradox mons have crazy stats and wierd typing due to their looks.

Nemona is the real final boss of the path, so IMO, SHE is the one that should be looked at as the champion. She's a champion herself AND stronger than Geeta canonly.

My Skeledirge basically swept her team only being taken out by Kingambit due to it not going first and not having enough health. The battle against Nemona was really good and challenging. Honestly I think the best storyline out the three was the Titan path. I originally found Arven annoying, but the more time I spent with him and the more that was revealed of his past he quickly became my favourite new character. That’s a good character growth storyline, introducing a character that is kind of annoying all for you to end up loving them by the end. Pokémon did really well with the final story battle as well. The one against the corrupted AI Sada was really challenging and the final battle between our Koraidon and the alpha one was really well done.

She definitely should’ve had a Ceruledge it fits her color scheme and demeanor so well

Character Design - wide: Very interesting, fits the look of her ace, I like it. Battle - wise: yeah she's weirdly... unoptimized for a Champion. She did beat me at first but that was only because I didn't know the types of some of the Pokemon she had. Beat her soundly the second time. And (sorry if this is spoilers) fighting her again in the School Ace tournament is kind of fun, even if it's kind of the same fight. She's mighty unusual, which I guess represents some new directions for Pokemon in general. Like you said I hope there's DLC that gives her more of an edge.