Showdown: Villainous Teams — Round II Grunts & Admin

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Showdown is back and better than ever! For those that don’t know what our Showdown series is, or need a reminder: Showdown is where we hold a series of polls on our site and ask readers to vote for their top choice until we found our champion.

 

Voting periods will run for one week at a time and new rounds will begin on the following dates:

Round I: Leaders — December 2nd
Round II: Grunts & Admin — December 11th
Round III: Plans — December 16th
Round IV: Overall — December 23rd
Winner Announcements — December 30th

The results for Round I: Leaders are in! We’re happy to announce that the winner of the first round of our latest Showdown is… Cyrus, Leader of Team Galactic! Cyrus ended up with only a slight 2% lead over Giovanni of Team Rocket. Full results can be found below!

Note: Ghetsis and Colress have been combined into one percentage and will be counted as such for final vote counts.

In Round II everyone will be voting on their top Grunts and/or villains of teach team. Grunts are often some of the most commonly met trainer types in our Pokémon adventures. Admins provide support to Team Leaders and can prove quite a challenge in battle. Remember you’re voting for your favourite overall choice and a vote for Team Magma counts as a vote for both Third Generation and Sixth Generation iterations, for example.

Team Rocket

Admin members: Archer, Ariana, Petrel and Proton

Team Rocket’s admin staff are classified as Executive Trainers. These trainers all do their best to stop trainers in their attempts to foil the plans of Team Rocket, with challenging battle and no limit to the execution of their plans.

Grunts of Team Rocket are often considered fairly easy opponents, with a limited set of Pokémon used on their teams they rarely pose a true threat to trainers. Rocket Grunts seemed to have their appearance based on that of a typical cartoon criminal.

Team Magma

Admin members: Courtney and Tabitha

The two Admin members of Team Magma both play large roles in assisting Maxie to achieve his plans for Team Magma and the Pokémon world. Team Magma Grunts and Admin are mostly themed around the colour red, with no other obvious influences.

Team Aqua

Admin members: Matt and Shelly

Matt and Shelly play the same roles as Courtney and Tabitha: assisting their team leader in achieving their goals. The entirety of Team Aqua has their aesthetics themed around pirates, particularly their outfits.

Team Galactic

Admin members: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Charon

Admin members of Team Galactic fall under the Commander trainer class. Each Commander of Team Galactic is named after an object within our solar system. All members of Team Galactic wear outfits that are visually like spacesuits, this results in people who unaware of the team to refer to them as spacemen.

Team Plasma

Admin members: Seven Sages, Zinzolin, Shadow Triad

Team Plasma is the only villainous group to have two groups of individuals who act as the higher members of their team. Both groups are loyal to their leader. Plasma member are themed around two distinct themes: in Black and White they appear to have had their appearance influenced by Medieval Knights, whilst in Black 2 and White 2 they have strong classical pirate influences.

Team Flare

Admin members: Aliana, Bryony, Celosia, Mable, Xerosic, Team Flare Admins

Team Flare Admins are extremely relentless in their attempts to halt the player in foiling the plans of their leader Lysandre. Each of these members are likely named in reference to classification of solar flares. All members of Team Galactic are seen as highly fashionable and well dressed.

Team Skull

Admin members: Plumeria

Plumeria is the single admin member of Team Skull and the only character with the Team Skull Admin trainer class. Team Skull is formed of members who failed the Island Challenge in the Alola region. They are the only villainous team to now have a distinct goal other than causing trouble.

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There is it! The second round in our Villainous Teams Showdown has begun Get voting for your favourites and be sure to comment below with your thoughts and opinions only who deserves to win! Remember you’re voting for your favourite overall team here (admins and grunts combined)

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1,713 thoughts on “Showdown: Villainous Teams — Round II Grunts & Admin”

  2. Guys! Corocoro announces Arceus distribution! Sinnoh confirmed? xD Also, if this was gen 4 we’d have an a little “episode” to give some story to the distribution… They could maybe establish some Silvally Arceus parallels and involve Aether. but unfortunately we’re in The age of incredibly boring mystery gift downloads.

    ALSO I’m boycotting this showdown since it doesn’t include the Aether Foundation. Lusamine is my favorite villian just for how crazy she is.

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  3. IMO they should just take the time they need. They can maybe release DLC for USUM (honestly, DLC is a great idea to keep fans occupied for long stretches of time) and at other times they could just have LOOONG dry spells where we temporarily forget pokemon exists in our lives or isn’t dead yet and use all that time to make a great game and a sensible marketing campaign xP

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  5. I don’t feel good… my mind is hazy, my gut and chest feel like indigestion and chest pains and all of my co-workers remind me that my face is flushed…

    I was fine all morning…

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  6. I’m already getting emotional over these Last Jedi reviews ;-;

    I’m not ready for whatever tribute they have planned for Carrie Fisher

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  7. Pokemon USUM is nominated for best RPG by IGN heres their reason
    “Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon not only have everything you loved about Sun and Moon, but augment them in important ways by making small but meaningful changes to the story, expanding the selection of available Pokémon, and even making some small tweaks to the world. Unless you played through both Sun and Moon extensively and have already collected every Legendary Pokémon, it’s easy to recommend to any Pokémon fan.”

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  9. As the only Pokemon game we could get in 2018 would be a Spin off, what kind of Spin off would you like to see on the Switch?

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  11. Finally got around to watching the second episode of the trip home to Kanto for Ash and co. Such a fun and awesome episode! So exciting to see Brock and Misty use mega evolution. I REALLY hope them promising to visit Ash in Alola means they’ll make another appearance. They’re such great characters. I want Ash to go to the gen 8 region and travel with them again…………

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    • Brock sure but I think it’s better if they just have a new female companion instead of Misty, no offence to her but I liked how they had done from Gens 2-4, with Brock staying but a new companion coming each time.

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      • I guess….But what id they did this! How about Ash travels with both Misty and Brock, but the female character from the game was his RIVAL. That way they could still have it be thing where the female character is in it, but she has a cool new dynamic with Ash.

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  12. If you were in a world similar to the Pokémon anime, do you think you’d ever be able to enter a league? How well would you do?

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  13. When Ultra Warp ride shiny hunting are there certain wormholes that have better chances of having shinies than others? Like are the ones with 2 rings better than the ones with a single ring?

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      • Well I don’t mean the color. I mean the rings around the holes. I’d imagine the wormholes with rings have Pokemon that are more special or have a better chance at being more special (ie shiny )

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        • Yeah i know what you mean but the rings dont determine shinieness, they do determine legendary encounter tho. Type 4 wormholes have the highest chance of getting a legendary

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          • I guess I kind of knew that already….was just wondering if the rings had any other additional tells that may apply to shinies. Thanks for the info tho

  14. Much better a Ice mono is a refreshing change of pace (Just get control of the weather and Excadrill slays)

    Granted this guy had like 4 focus sashes maybe 6

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  15. Whelp Cyrus just wrecked my team with his Palkia. Every other person in Team RR has been not bad, but then Palkia comes in and destroys my team…….ok…..Guess I’ll try again and just use a Z move or something…..

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  20. I really like Colress so much. His role in USUM is pretty on point. Love it so much. Him as a good guy (or at the very least a neutral person) is cool. I’d very much like him to continue showing up in the series similar to how Looker has became a staple

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  22. I should warn you all that if I’m being very
    aggressive tonight its not you, I had a 3 hour chorus rehersal and next a 2 robotics meeting and even though I just ate am still super hungry

    So just putting it out there, pls. take nothing personally

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