Well Wally IS deemed as a rival officially. On the Bulbapedia rivals page, Wally is listed as one of the Hoenn rivals. As for the starter thing, true N did not receive a starter in the games but neither did Wally. In the manga however, N is in possession of White's Tepig. So unless that changes, I think the manga deems N as one of those "non-Pokedex rivals". As for the people saying N can't be a rival because he's a villainous team leader, that's not true. Ghetsis was the true evil. N defected at the end anyway. And besides, we have a rival that's the SON of a villainous team leader (although he's not a part of it, just by relations). Btw are any of the officials looking at this? Would it be automatically taken off if someone edits N as one of the Unova rivals on the main page? It looks like more people are supportive of listing N as one of the rivals than not.
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