Rose's eyes widened at the sight of the former Team Skull boss, though by the looks of things, he'd mellowed out since the last time she'd met him and his grunts. She wasn't too sure about Shano's choice of starter pokemon either; fletchling was fairly sturdy, but honedge was part steel type, and therefore, had a lot of easily exploitable weaknesses, along with riolu... None seemed particularly good to give to beginners. But then again, Roe had started her journey with a normal-type buneary, who also had an easy weakness to exploit in battle. Though, in her defense, it was either buneary, or a sunkern...
"So, what'd the deal around here?" she enquired, "Gyms? Trials? Or both?"