Showdown: Villainous Teams — Round III: Plans

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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 II: Grunts & Admin have been counted, the polls are now closed! We’re happy to announce that the winner of the second round of our latest Showdown is… Team Skull! The Alolan Team Skull took first place with a 2% lead over Team Galactic.

The full results are as follows…

Round III will focus in the villainous plans of our Teams. Readers will vote and choose the team that they think had the best (or worst?) plan in the respective plans. Remember you’re voting for your favourite overall choice. For teams present in remakes and different generations: a vote for one counts as a vote for all variations of the team. A vote for Team Magma counts as a vote for both Third Generation and Sixth Generation iterations, for example.

Team Rocket

The ultimate goal of Team Rocket is to rule the world using the power of Pokémon. The entire team works together to steal and capture Pokémon that are then experimented on and sold on for profit.

Team Rocket’s oath “Steal Pokémon for profit. Exploit Pokémon for profit. All Pokémon exist for the glory of Team Rocket” is an excellent reminder of just how cruel the team really can be.

Team Magma

Team Magma is a team obsessed with the land. Their ultimate goal is to expand the worlds landmass.

After attempts to achieve their goal by causing a volcanic eruption are halted by a Trainer, they elevate their determination and choose to awake the Legendary Pokémon Groudon, wishing to use its power to grow the landmass of the planet.

In Omega Ruby Team Magma wishes to expand the landmass of the world in order progress the living conditions of humans.

Team Aqua

 

Archie and his team wish for the exact opposite of Team Magma. They wish to expand the amount of water in the world. Their initial plan involved flooding the crater of Mt. Chimney.

After a trainer stopped their plans, Team Galactic awakened Kyogre in an attempt to flood the planet.

In Alpha Sapphire Team Aqua wished to expand the ocean in order to wipeout humanity and provide Pokémon with an ideal environment, without interference from humans.

Team Galactic

Team Galactic is by far the team with the widest vision in their plan. They fight for their ultimate goal of not only recreating the Pokémon World, but the entire Pokémon Universe.

Galactic is perhaps the team capable of harnessing most power from Pokémon, effectively manipulating Dialga and Palkia, Pokémon capable of altering Time and Space respectively.

Team Plasma

 

The original goal of Team Plasma was fairly tame and civil compared to other villainous teams, but their action in order to achieve the goal were not. Plasma wished to liberate Pokémon from their trainers through any means necessary. Plasma were often found stealing Pokémon from their trainers, but occasionally would convince them through other methods. Team Plasma was eventually exploited by their leader Ghetsis who wished to rule Unova as the only person to use Pokémon.

After their initial defeat Team Plasma formed two distinct forces, one loyal to Ghetsis and his goals of ruling Unova and another loyal to N who chose to care for Pokémon in the wild.

Team Flare

Team Flare, found in the Kalos region, wished to create a better and more beautiful world for everyone to live in. While at first their goals seemed simple enough, eventually Lysandre, their leading, became nefarious in his actions and had no qualms about eliminating anyone who stood in the way of his dreams.

Team Skull

 

Team Skull was different to other villainous teams, in that they did not have a larger specific goal. They simply wished to cause chaos and strike fear into those in the Alola region. Because of this, they were not considered a major threat by residents of the region.  The team does however steal Pokémon from the trainers.

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There is it! The third round in our Villainous Teams Showdown has begun! Get voting for your favourites and be sure to comment below with your thoughts and opinions on who deserves to win! Remember you’re voting for your favourite overall team here! Who has the best plan?!

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402 thoughts on “Showdown: Villainous Teams — Round III: Plans”

  2. I’d like to apologize for going way overboard in being random occasionally, sometimes I just get this urge to be random and am in humorous moods like that :P. Also apologizing for the B/W thing and I really didn’t have any good points TBH, I just hated G5.

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  4. So was watchin some hoenn anime and may said to the gang that drew is heading to Johto.
    To which Brock laughed in happiness “Ah what do you know! Johto!” Reminiscing the good old Johto days.
    Man I miss Johto!

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  6. Shout out to the Gen where GameFreak was lazy enough to make literal reskins separate Pokémon (at least the Kami trio got their therian formes to make them more than palette swaps)

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  7. There are 2 conflicting possibilities I would like for Gen 8
    1. It’s like Gen 4 and introduces a bunch of New pokemon related to old ones.
    2. it’s like Gen 5 and the only Pokemon there are new ones.

    A compromise might be only the old ones related to the new mons are included.

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    • If the 2nd one happens I am going to abstain form playing, that reason makes up 75% of the reason why I DESPISED Generation 5. Making a region homogenous to the Pokemon exclusive there is an awful idea and polarizes the other Gens.

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      • I know the feeling. I felt it too in BW but tbh it’s kinda cool having a fresh experience. Plus it does get kinda stale seeing same mons over and over.
        I feel like pokemon is in need of a reboot/or even a fresh gen

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        • Yeah, post game, but it really restricts the diversity of your team. I mean, with a smaller amount of Pokemon available, the higher th chance you’ll share a similar team with someone else. I prefer the ability to have a much more unique team.

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          • i dont see the issue with only using natives in the main story. Black and White did that and they are one of the best games of the series

          • Yeah but that’s also what caused it to be the most divisive games.. I personally dislike being forced to use limited Pokemon, especially when at least half of them are clearly ripoffs or fake evolutions of other Pokemon.

          • Uh I kinda liked that, they made the region more unique and fresh because you don’t encounter the same old Pkm over again. And for diversity, is not bad, there’s still over 150 Pkm after all.

          • Too bad lots of them weren’t ‘original’ pokemon if you know what i mean. Patrat? Unovan Rattata. Pidove? Unovan Pidgy.

      • … the combined Kalos Dex has 454 Pokemon, the original Alola Dex has 300, and the Ultra One has 400, without Mythical Pokemon. And the New Unova Dex had 297 without Mythics too.

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        • I meant that they introduced very little (Sylveon only) Pokémon properly related to old ones, mainly because of Megas and Alolan forms. Those two can die in a fire, I want some more evolutions.

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          • I mean, it’s nice that they wanted to do something different for a change and Megas are not that bad, but they’re still mostly “What if X, but with spikes” and they robbed some borderline Pokémon off a proper evo that will keep on being supported a few years down the line. Alolan forms will likely never even return again I’m afraid.

    • I’m presonally hoping Gen 8 will emulate Gen 4 as there are a LOT of pokemon that could use a second or third form. from more recent generations and older generations. Personally hoping for some love for my main man dunsparce. ;w;

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    • Eh at this point gen 4 really, we’ve already gotten enough gen 5s so I think it’s time now for some old Pkm to get love.

      But maybe GF doesn’t want genes anymore cuz they haven’t done them in a long time

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    • I’m kinda hoping for #2. Things have been happening to old Gen Mons for 2 generations that I’m kinda getting sick of old Pokemon.
      TBH I just want it like Gen 3. A lot of new Pokemon, but still some old ones. But I am very sick of Kanto pokemon
      There’s too much pandering to them

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        • I’d like that I guess if its not too repetitive. Im just saying Im sick of seeing Gastly’s, Machops, Zubats, Geodudes, Beldums, Salamences,flygons, wingulls, caterpie, feebas’s, snorlax, magikarps, every single game.

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  8. How do i remove pokemon from a battle team? I have a couple i wanna transfer to usum but dont know how cos they’re locked

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  9. The Last Jedi was amazing! Jarjar, the USS Enterprise, finding the Lost Ark, finally defeating Ra’s al Ghul, I enjoyed every minute of it!

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  10. I feel just horrible rn

    Monkeyfuzz I am sooooooo sorry I couldn’t get back to you because my family started a movie and they don’t allow phones during and couldn’t

    I’m headed to bed, but tomorrow I promise I will get online to trade

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  11. Okay Junglers, we need to talk.
    It’s OK to not vote everytime for Team Galactic. After all, their plan was they didn’t have a plan. What were they going to use the new universe for? They had like no concrete idea to improve on what already existed, they were trying to grab power just to have power. So their plan is A for possibilities and F for execution and ideas. Not to mention their sideplans. Stealing the energy from six windmills? That’s enough to power medium sized factory, how would it even help you create a new universe? Bombing the safari zone?

    Also, Team Magma and Aqua had some very good intents (actually making a peaceful world) but they failed somewhere on high school geography:
    https://orig00.deviantart.net/8744/f/2013/207/9/c/water_cycle_by_epifex-d64rx49.png

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  14. I can’t vote twice?

    But seriously. Having Team Skull around was a fresh breath of air. It was clear from the very beginning you weren’t supposed to take them seriously and that’s fine with me.

    I voted team Plasma because unlike the other groups on this list, they probably have the most diversity that came with their group. They are currently the only group in which they function akin to an actual cult. There are separate factions that broke off from the originals, there are some members that got spread out. Hell, the Unova region didn’t forget them in B2W2 either! I replayed the games recently and they are mentioned everywhere. Way to leave an impression! I really prefer seeing more of the aftermath of these types of groups other than they just disappear forever like a certain other leader….

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  16. So I just found out Facebook is getting a snooze button. My first thought was that I can snooze all the Pokémon pages once the switch games are revealed and we see the starters lol yeah I will probably leave this site once that happens. I want to go into the gen 8 pokemon games completely blind unlike the past few gens. I want to decide my starter and not know how it’s going to evolve and to be shocked at all the new Pokémon I find. The last time this happened for me was diamond and I desperately want that experience again!

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      • It isn’t going to be easy that’s for sure. I am hoping to go in completely blind minus the starters and cover legends obviously and go from there. Pick the starter I like best and be surprised at how it evolves.

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  17. I’m once again going to voice my opinion on how flawed this polling is in not including the aether foundation since Team Skull ended up being a puppet in Lusamine’s plan to obtain cosmog and open the Ultra Wormwhole which imo is a great plan was well orchestrated by utilising another team as a front and using the facade of the foundation’s work of conserving Pokemon. Sigh, but I’m going to vote anyway and of course it’ll go to team galactic.

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    • Aether foundation isn’t evil though…the workers werent in on lusamines plans and were just told to stop intruders. They’re a legit conservation group, hence why the only people who leave it in SM at least are Lusamine and Faba

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      • Are you forgetting all the grunts we battled the second visit to the Aether foundation? not to mention Faba and the three scientists. THEN we battle Team Skull and Guzma. I think that whole sequence pretty much illustrates how the organisation pretty much functions for Lusamine and her plans and that she also employs Team Skull as a puppet organisation in her schemes.

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  18. Ultra sun journey update. Just finished up the ghost trial and this is my team as of now! I am really enjoying this game for the most part! Next step kick team skull around and get ready to head to poni island! I am so excited to my final member! Got a nickname and everything picked out for it! Btw thank you monkeyfuzz for helping me nickname jellicent! I went with something. Little more unknown for gliscor though! A Godzilla character I didn’t know about until now! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f1db63178df53e3a61c83bf9c4b625aa81d2f1bd312ce867f221b8895410d7d8.jpg

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          • Who told you that? If you spoiler tag it should be perfectly fine. People need to grow up, nobody forces you to read a clearly flagged spoiler tag.

          • I do agree, but I didn’t want to upset anyone.

            SERIOUS SPOILERS FOLLOW, DO NO READ UNLESS YOU’VE SEEN THE MOVIE.

            I’ll touch on a few things:
            1. The subplots didn’t lead anywhere or achieve anything. The resistance was useless, and literally bank their entire worth on someone who’s been in hiding for years. I don’t see the purpose of Finn and Rose, or even Poe in the film. They literally achieve nothing.

            2. I think Luke’s arc was done decently, but I dislike that they merely touched on the whole good vs evil debate but didn’t think to explore it further. Fair enough the movie wasn’t supposed to be action packed but at least hit home with the philosophical stuff.

            3. They didn’t answer any of the mysteries from the TFA. Fair enough I didn’t expect them to answer everything, but surely the point of the second part is to answer some, slightly explore others and create further questions for the next movie.

            I know people argue that this is Rey’s story and nothing to do with the Skywalkers or whatever but they literally spent two entire films banking on Luke Skywalker to save the day. I think certain characters were wasted, the dialogue was poor for Star Wars standards and nothing of any real consequence happened other than Kylo Ren becoming supreme leader, and becoming even more unhinged. Even the deaths I didn’t care about, cos I knew nothing about Snoke, had no connection to him, and Luke’s lacked any kind of emotion

          • Okay since you didn’t bring this up and I thought this was the worst part of the movie
            thoughts on snoke and his poorly timed death?

          • Thing is he was built up so much in TFA that I expected more from him. I wanted to know where he was from, how he came to be what he was, not like a full biography but something. Instead he is a tool for Ren to become more evil which doesn’t really work. It’s a shame as I really like the fight after he kills him. When his top half is seen on the floor his face is hilarious to me.

          • I felt nothing since I had absolutely no connection to him is the the honest answer. We are given no informtion about who he is or his importance in the story. He is literally one of the many Storm Troopers that die daily in the First Order.

          • The thing is I didn’t really see any potential that was different to what we’ve seen before with Palpatine and Vader. I’m ok with them getting rid of the character to avoid it becoming a rehash of the original trilogy, but like I said it just wasn’t executed well

          • It will be the focus of IX, for sure. I guess he will come back in some form or the other, the Luke/Kylo sequence will likely get explained more too.

          • Luke will probably turn up near the end as a force ghost. His astral projection proves how blinded by rage Ren is that he doesn’t notice Luke isn’t really there.

          • To be fair they still need a third movie to sell. I’ll write my thoughts after dinner but I really really liked it. Mostly because of the fact that nothing really succeeded, which is a good refresher from the standard movie plots. Also the lightspeed ship crash has to be one of the best cinematographic scenes in film ever.

          • True, I agree that the movies have to be seen as part of a trilogy, so we will see what the finished product looks like.

            Also there is a fine line between the heroes not succeeding and them coming across as complete jokes.

            And yes, that scene was indeed fantastic.

  22. Reposting this From last night with clarification since a lot of people didn’t seem to get it…

    There are 2 conflicting possibilities I would like for Gen 8
    1. It’s like Gen 4 and introduces a bunch of New pokemon related to old ones.
    2. it’s like BLACK AND WHITE and the only Pokemon there are new ones(No, this has not happened for 3 Gens Dae.)

    A compromise might be only the old ones related to the new mons are included.

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  23. So in my hacked Crystal
    Feraligatr 37
    Donphan 32
    Ursaring 34
    Golbat 34
    Pupitar 31

    And i discovered that i can make any pokemon shiny via input for Lake of Rage’s Gyarados, and i got a Shiny Scizor

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