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Eh, is Magma, Aqua, Galactic (Galaxy in the original Japanese), Plasma, Flare, and Yell any more original? As long as it's fitting the team its as good as a name as any.
Of course, the problem I more see with it is that, if Cyber wants to keep it's nose low, maybe don't have the villain team you made share the name of your main business. "Gee, I wonder if Team Cyber works with Cyber Industries, there seems to be a connection there but I can't quite put my finger on it". Like, if I was the leader (assuming the leader of Cyber Industries is also the leader of Team Cyber, or even just a higher-up), to try and cover my tracks I would have named the team something like "Team Glitch" and have it appear as cyber terrorists who are attacking Cyber Industries. Cyber Industries looked to have done something sketchy? Cyber Industries PR be like "We're sorry for the misunderstanding. The recent security breach was caused by none other than Team Glitch. We're currently investigating but nothing seems to have been taken or damaged by those hooligans"; meanwhile Cyber Industries stole valuable data.
But overall seems pretty good start of a villain team concept. The "no one investigating them makes it out alive" feels a bit too much, not saying it shouldn't be there but something "lighter" like met with unfortunate accidents that left the lucky ones just incapacitated & scared off (hinting a worse fate for the unlucky without directly mentioning it).
A bit vague on the details, like what exactly makes them a villain team aside people being suspicious of a deeper secret? Working with the other villain team to try and maintain peace? That just sounds like them doing damage control because they can't really do anything else to stop the villain team; just like how the Aether Foundation merely chases off Team Skull instead of using their resources to apprehend the grunts and take them to the police to properly arrest them. I know you're trying to keep things vague, but being this thread is about them being a villain team don't need to be subtle with their true motivations.
Would be a fun twist, Ardos is still out there and their operation in Orre is kaput at this point (and its implied anyway that Cipher had other operations in other regions, Orre was just where they were doing their Shadow Pokemon research). Also, aside from Miror B, the status of the Admins from both games whether they're still part of Cipher is up in the air. Dakim and Venus don't say anything pointing one way or another, & Ein sounds like he's still with Cipher swearing revenge against Wes for ruining their plans; Also note none of these admins appear again in XD. The odd thing about the XD Admins is that the last thing they say to the player is how they've grown to respect them and give them a title not showing hostility (unlike Ardos who labels Michael as "Cipher's Biggest Enemy" and warns Cipher will be tracking him): Lovrina says she's starting a fan club with the player being the first member, Snattle still has goals to become the Governor of Orre and says one he does he'll make the player his secretary (which I can't imagine will happen if he was still part of Orre), and Gorigan just says he respects the player and considers him a friend; they all sorta sound like they quit Cipher though I guess they could have this respect for Michael and still be part of Cipher elsewhere).
Though honestly I'd prefer a third Colosseum game. I've of course came up with my own idea what it's story will be about and how it connects to the previous two, but this isn't the thread for that.
As someone who doesn’t have much access, if any, to the GameCube saga, I feel like my descriptions of these characters could be a lot better. I know who all of those people are you mentioned, but don’t know much about their history outside of a few YouTube videos I’ve watched of each game. This is actually part of why I want to play both games so much, so I can learn more about them all.
As for the Agency and Cyber Industries, my ideas for each group are still wildly up in the air. Every time I try and come up with a new idea, I end up ditching it later on. If this helps anything, my region’s lore is all about multiple realities and the technology that connects them. The Agency’s President turns out to be one of a select few people known as a Creator, someone who is chosen from the real world to monitor the activities of the imagination. The catch is that they’re actually guarding a sort of gateway between realities.
Team Overflow.
Goal is using some electric type legendary to increase power supply without affecting the environment. The catch is that it needs a big place to take over their power supply which means increasing the electricity to dangerous amounts, destroying the city. Early game they are caught trying to steal some houses' electricity.
Leader Bolt (uncreative name ik) A bad tempered yellow haired man that is angry about the increase of pollution who early-mid game talks about power supply problems to the protagonist.
Admin 1: Adhira, she is calm and professional, a contrast to Gale and she even offers the player mercy several times before battling them.
Admin 2: Gale: He is rude and annoying and tends to get on the leader's nerves. He is obnoxious to the player and even taunts the player when the leader is about to kill them after them finding out the secrets of the team.
Obviously specialises in electric types but they also like to use psychic, ground and steel types due to being good against poison. Also grass because they care for the environment.
Adhiras team: Malamar, Excadrill, Breloom, Mega Ampharos
Hadad's team: Gallade, Whiscash, Ferrothorn, Mega Manetric
Bolt's team: Sigilyph, Toxtricity, Trevenant, Aggron, Krookodile, Mega Vikavolt (which is basically just 135 speed and 155 sp atk vikavolt this is not taking into consideration game balancing or whatever I just wanted him to have an ace as vikavolt)
Quite similar to macro cosmos and too related to irl ik (call this idea stupid or unrealistic or w/e idrc lol)
I have another group of villains for a Pokemon fangame idea I had. I don't have a name for them, but they used to be top dogs in a corrupt region. They'd push people around, rig elections, steal things, and in general make peoples' lives terrible. Unless you're on their good side, of course. And stay that way. They're also pretty competent battlers in their region, so that combined with the corruption made it hard for anyone who cared to stand up to them. However, I said they used to be top dogs. They're now being pushed out by company (that's a front for that conspiracy organization I mentioned on the first page) that has been gaining rapid ground and influence in the region. The team's leader is especially pissed off about this: the political head of the region threw the team's leader under the bus for a "better offer". And this leader has a position of great renown in the region and is really quite the battle. He's eventually defeated at the Gran Championship place of the region and arrested by the company. The player never hears from him again and the team basically is reduced to a single town, if that, by the end.
This would make more sense if I where to explain the customs and the like of the region, but this might not be the place for that. There's no real heroes in the end of this story though. Sure, some of the company's employees might not be corrupt and most are not in on the conspiracy, but still, the company serves an even more nefarious organization.
And I guess I should give the name of the conspiratorial organization now?
Elite Circle. Not the best name, I guess. But I've worked it into their imagery and lore.
This team believes that "clean energy" is a total myth. They believe that it'll never work, and we're already doomed from the start. Thus, since they think Pokemon and humans alike are screwed, they try to get rid of ALL the fossil fuels- by using them.
The male grunts look like miners, while the females look like archeologists. They all tend to use rock, steel, ground, and fossil pokemon.
There is a few of them questioning their motives. If they're caught saying their feelings aloud, no one knows what happens to them...
This team believes that "clean energy" is a total myth. They believe that it'll never work, and we're already doomed from the start. Thus, since they think Pokemon and humans alike are screwed, they try to get rid of ALL the fossil fuels- by using them.
The male grunts look like miners, while the females look like archeologists. They all tend to use rock, steel, ground, and fossil pokemon.
There is a few of them questioning their motives. If they're caught saying their feelings aloud, no one knows what happens to them...
It's been a while since I posted on this thread, but after a long wait, it's finally here. The full team of six Pokémon that the boss of Team Cyber uses... kind of. I've implemented a slight change to my custom evil team, being that Cyber Industries now represents the group as a whole. It might have actually been in this very thread if I recall, but someone told me a little while ago that the two factions sharing a name was a pretty dead giveaway as to Cyber Industries being an evil group, and they are absolutely right about that.
With that out of the way, here's the final team I came up with, using the same theme of Electric, Steel, and Psychic that the rest of Cyber Industries like to take advantage of. And let me warn you in advance: this team... it's actually kind of insane.
We've got fully competitively trained Pokémon here in my fanmade region, but that's not even the hard part of this boss fight. Did you notice something a bit... off about their movesets? That's right, all of them accept the ace Genesect (perfect ace for a technology company president in my opinion) come packing six moves instead of the four move slots we're all used to. This team might seem a bit overkill, and that's because it is. In the context of my region, however, it's still fair game. My region notably introduces a valuable item that I call "+1 Move Candy", which does exactly what you might think, giving the Pokémon extra move slots. For anyone who's curious, I don't know what the new maximum will be just yet. That just leaves Magnezone and Genesect, who help introduce another concept to my region. Basically, some moves like Hidden Power have gotten a massive overhaul and can have multiple different types run at the same time, at the cost of taking up an extra move slot for each extra type of the move. Genesect in particular comes repping all four Drive versions of its signature move Techno Blast, something that I unfortunately wasn't able to perfectly recreate with the Pokémon Showdown team builder.
I haven't decided on a name, but they use Electric, and they're kind of like the mafia. The leader guy is this somewhat young guy, brown coat, electric bolt tshirt, always in a perpetual shrug, yellow dyed spiky hair, brooklyn accent, what have you.
So basically they do whatever evil teamly stuff they do, and whenever you meet the leader guy, he's relatively weak, and he seems uncomfortable doing whatever it is they're doing, and somewhat nervous talking to you in particular.
Later on, you meet this old mafia dude, and he's the original team leader, and the guy's dad. Turns out the new leader doesn't really like doing evil teamery, and was pressured into it by the old boss. He's demoted for his incompetence and then the old guy takes over.
At the final interaction with the team, you fight the old guy and the new guy, and they're probably trying to fuck with the electric legend or some shit, and then the younger guy reveals he's your dad, and then when the authorities roll up, he apologizes for not being in your life, and then he vanishes.
Wasn't his fault, he's a chill dude, but he's still considered a criminal, and then that's the last you see of the poor guy.
I haven't decided on a name, but they use Electric, and they're kind of like the mafia. The leader guy is this somewhat young guy, brown coat, electric bolt tshirt, always in a perpetual shrug, yellow dyed spiky hair, brooklyn accent, what have you.
So basically they do whatever evil teamly stuff they do, and whenever you meet the leader guy, he's relatively weak, and he seems uncomfortable doing whatever it is they're doing, and somewhat nervous talking to you in particular.
Later on, you meet this old mafia dude, and he's the original team leader, and the guy's dad. Turns out the new leader doesn't really like doing evil teamery, and was pressured into it by the old boss. He's demoted for his incompetence and then the old guy takes over.
At the final interaction with the team, you fight the old guy and the new guy, and they're probably trying to fuck with the electric legend or some shit, and then the younger guy reveals he's your dad, and then when the authorities roll up, he apologizes for not being in your life, and then he vanishes.
Wasn't his fault, he's a chill dude, but he's still considered a criminal, and then that's the last you see of the poor guy.
It might be a bit of a cliché at this point given how much they've been used in Pokémon media in the past, but this team has "Legendary Bird Trio conquest" written all over it. Maybe change the name to some horrible pun like "Triple Threat" too.
Team Tech
A company that sells advanced robots to get money to do their villanous plans in secret, the grunts are the bots, that,
are the ppl that buyed the bots, the bots just fused with them, cyborg'd them, borg like (pls someone sees star trek here right???) and because what???, because people are a waste of resourses, just using their bodies to do more things, dont need to give food and all of those things
, the admins are computers/the more advanced robots, normally grunts and admins use poison/electric/steel type mons, and all admins have one mon of the porygon line, also, when advancing in the history,
it seems that some random npc talk like bots, and some just, dont talk, and the grunts start having robot version/cyborg'd versions of mons
and welp, the leader is just normal, but well, he is
also cyborg'd, because well,
again, all of the things that the team originaly said, were the things that the leader was gonna do (and thats what cyborgs were like, programmed to do, idk i want to sleep rn xD) , but after a little of time in the main story, the leader founds a comet, a deoxys comet, that well, containd a never seen version of deoxys, deoxys-brain (i wanted to do a more "virus" variant of deoxys), a full special variant of the mon in stats, that entered in one of the machines of the leader, and reprogram it to reprogram all machines, and then control all of the living beings in the planet, to unknown purposes, but welp, he also starts controling your rival at a late point of the main history, and we do with the rival a cool battle, and then all of those villain-like speechs, battle vs the leader, discover all of what i just said, and then enter in his corrupted brain because idk lol, and fight a boosted version of the "normal" deoxys brain
After that all people become happy and all of those things
Team hanoi
They are a bunch of goons who want to take over technology and advance,they throw in a bunch of Poison, steel, and Dark types, with some Electric types, gyaradoses, Centiskorch, braivary, and A Bunch of dragons and a few fire types, also the male grunts look a Lot like knights of Hanoi from YGO VRAINS, The female grunts look like female Knights of hanoi
Admin N-Kish:team is Grimmsnarl, Hydreigon, Toxicroak, Malamar, Skarm, yanmega
Admin Specter:Team is Ninetales, Heliolisk, Trevenant, Torterra, Chandelure, and Aegislash
and the big gun aka Leader Revolver has: Noivern, Salazzle, Scizor, Magnezone, Haxorus, and he got Dragapult as his ace
Remember when I said I had a total of three evil team ideas for my fan region or whatever? Yeah, that's neat and all, but what if I told you guys I had two more ideas that served as a pair? Think Team Magma and Team Aqua, and how they're rivals with one another. But this time... oh, boy. I don't think I'm overreacting when I say this might just be the single most controversial idea I have ever came up with. I wouldn't even be surprised if this very post catches some negative responses. In fact, I expect this to be the case. But if you guys are willing to put up with me for just a second, maybe, just maybe you'll enjoy this idea as much as I did, if not even more so.
So I live in the United States, okay? I get that there are plenty of forums users who may be from somewhere else, so I figured it would help those users out if I went over some background information first. Here in this country, the people are known for having different political parties to choose from. Hypothetically speaking there can be an infinite amount of these, but throughout most of this country's history there have been two parties that have and still to this day compete in a representative democracy or whatever it's called for people's votes of approval, which ultimately helps decide who our political leaders are.
...You can probably see where this is going when I said a pair of evil teams, I'd bet.
Thankfully, I'm smart enough to know where political discussions aren't wanted. Fortunately for us, such discussion isn't required to explain this concept. So assuming you're still here and reading this, I want to hear your opinions on this idea. So, you know how Pokémon regions are based off of real-world locations nine times out of ten? There's places from the United States that have been turned into Pokémon regions already (Unova was actually kinda where I got this idea from), but one such place that hasn't is this country's capital city, more commonly referred to as Washington, D.C.. Now, it's become common knowledge by this point that Pokémon games are historically split into two versions, and most Pokémon fans nowadays are above the age of 18. You know what else is age 18? That's right, the required age for voting in this country.
So what I was thinking was that some game, or series, or... something designed for older Pokémon fans (more specifically this part of the world's audience to boot) could take place in a new region based on Washington the city, and in this game or series or whatever, the evil team you go up against would be either the "Blue Team" or the "Red Team" depending on your "game version" (i.e. your political party choice). Obviously those names are placeholders for something else... but the whole point is, the game's storyline would be all about decision making, compromises, and if possible, becoming friends/allies with both Teams aside from just "the good guys" in your chosen version.
I still get the fact that making evil teams based off this concept might be a terrible idea, but I truly do think there could be an important moral lesson for our country's young people in here, which does make up a decent chunk of the Pokémon fandom's population. Would such an idea ever happen in real life? No, absolutely not. Heavens no. I wouldn't wish for this in my wildest dreams. I just wanted your opinions, that's all. Feel free to respond however you please. I will take no offense to anyone's reactions. I just want everyone to get along, that's all.
Recently I've been thinking about creating a Villain Team which are the remnants of Team Rocket who separated from the Original Ones, thinking that Team Rocket has gone senile and weak. These guys having learned from the repeated beatings it took from Red and Gold decided that stealing is no good. I haven't thought of a name yet for this Villain Team tbh. Their main base is in Johto and their main goal is separating Kanto and Johto, create their own league and ultimately controlling the entire Region from the shadows. If Team Rocket is a Mafia then this Villain Team is a Yakuza. These guys think that they are actually good guys and are reformed. Although not as evil as the others, their hunger for power is just as strong. Also these guys would clean up all the remnants of Team Rocket and be hailed as a hero. Their influence is even more stronger than the original Team Rocket with the Johto Gym Leaders as their supporters. Their ambitions might make Kanto and Johto escalate to a War if no one is able to stop them.
While I'm not sure of the specifics, my idea for an Evil Team would be them acting as a sort of rebel group. While I enjoy the previous ones I feel a break from the more mafia or cultish evil teams would be a nice change of pace. And unlike the games where people are either against the evil team or part of it, we could see a divided region, where many important people like gym leaders openly support the government/league or the insurgency.
We could add a lot of depth for the team itself. They could have real reasons to oppose the league, while at the same time possibly growing dissatisfied with themselves. And there could be different factions run by each Admin, each with their different methods of running things. Eventually, after failing to overthrow the league for so long, the Team would looking into finding the Box Mascot, a Pokemon sealed away for being too destructive, thus splitting the team into 2 opposed groups.
Of course, this is still a Pokemon game, so unless we can get a more interesting protagonist like the one in Colosseum, I'd say the best way to end this would for the player to defeat the leader, who begins to doubt his cause, but then a rogue Admin would release the Legendary. It would go on a rampage and threaten to destory the entire region, so you, the League, and the various factions of the Team are forced to work to together to stop it. After seeing the destruction their fighting caused, and realized they can do good together, they 2 sides would agree to compromise.
Team Halo: This evil team has a lot to do with Hoopa and its rings. The leader of Team Halo made a wish when he was lucky enough to meet the wish Pokemon, Jirachi. He asked for the powers of Pokemon and ultimately ended up with the Ghost and Psychic typing. He quickly established his dominance over others and brought together Team Halo. Their main goal is to use up all of Hoopa's ring energy and energy in general to swallow up the earth using a large ring while it uses earth material to create a new world in which there is a clear Lord and Savior of that world. The boss' name is: Seishi Shinchaku, meaning: "still new arrival."
Team Vagabond.
A group of those ostracised by society or just lonesome drifters. Lead by a person who dresses right out of the depression era and speaks like it too.
They preach understanding at all costs. But they way they go about it is rather… off. Fear mongering or preying on the less fortunate. They will do anything for people to see their way Even if it means manipulating their members and abusing legendaries like Dialga and Reshiram.
So, if the embodiment of of Truth won’t work, the God of Time will.
Their leader (Lucille “Lucy” Ballwin), wants unhindered power to boost their goals. They want to understand the unknown; why people do what they do.
Hell, they’d even use two mega stones in one battle.
Their team is as follows:
Crobat
(Mega) Tyranitar
Goodra
Umbreon
(Mega) Metagross
Decidueye with Z-Move
They do love their Pokémon, they just don’t like how people are always against each other, and want the power of unthinkable Pokemon to boost their goal of mass ideals. Only for it to be futile, and the legendaries to turn on them. Much like a cosmic horror story.
As it dawns on all of us, we aren’t alone, and our ideals mean nothing unless held by gods.
Until now, I think of a hypothetical land of royal Kingdom like in fairy tales.
... Except this may have powerful order. A secret ops, fancier name for Secret Police. Royal Ops, or in underworld called Team Royal / Royal-dan like other villain groups. Not too far off from Team Plasma, although more fairy tale-ish. With the ruling kingdom having quite a grip in the local League gyms and even E4 (though not all nepotism as accused in-universe as the princes[ses] are indeed elite trainers) and even have pedigree Vee breeding monopoly.
Opposed by rebellious gangs of social outcasts similar to punks of Team Skull or Yell. This will be like Magma Vs Aqua.
....
I haven't seen this for a long time too, so.... This, in the land of semi-monarchic Loyar Region
Their motivation, depending on the version:
Light version: Mysterious Prince, the enigmatic masked leader of Team Royal, is revealed to be her close friend and 8th Gym Leader, Canis (セイン Sein). Seeing humans' dark nature toward others and Pokémon in "tyranny of the strong" that even his royal family can't stop, he wanted to awaken the "royal" Legendary to enforce harmony.
Uses Water type as prodigious gym leader before he switched to Psychic type in public, but keeps Water specialty under the mask.
Dark version: Team Rebel Boss Zeke (ゼーラ Zeera), secretly a noble's son having grudge towards royalties that he thought was responsible for his father's death and downfall and his broken life witnessing "oppression of the powerful" toward common people and Pokémon, wants to dismantle the government as anarchist in name of true freedom by awakening the "chaos" Legendary and psychically removes people's inhibition.
Uses Dark type.
The opposite villainous team takes similar role to the opposite team in ORAS. Third version, if any, turns both into your enemy like in Emerald.
At one showdown before the finale, you and your girl traveling friend reaches the altar to summon the local Legendary, where the team boss is waiting to perform the ritual, which includes the battle between "order and chaos" at high stakes (explicitly said to be scarring the battling mons and trainers as the ritual absorbs their mental energy).
In Hard mode, last Mon uses (fakemon) Mega evolution.
Royal Prince Canis:
Vaporeon (Z), Kingdra, Slowking, Jellicent, Milotic
(Note the regal themes)
Team Rebel Boss Zeke:
Umbreon, [Dark regional forme], Grimmsnarl, Zoroark (Z), Hydreigon
And then after the Legendary "answers the prayers" the treacherous advisor hijacks it and warps to royal castle to make use of its brainwashing power to the people. Both team leaders follows him through the warp.
As you and not-Lillie storm the city and castle, now full of "Lost <trainer class>", you arrive to the hall to see the leaders, now brainwashed and going to stop you in multi battle with your traveling friend.
They get boosts like Motherbeast Lusamine's Totem Boost (two +1 stats in Hard) with angry eyes. This will be brutal in Hard mode as even their lead Mon are frustratingly thick and have partner Eevee moves of their type (you won't laugh at Baddy Bad as they destroy you with +1 Bouncy Bubble and Protect play.)
In normal mode it's "just" Scald and Foul Play
And then you have to tame the Legendary and stop the not-Gcis.
Will be even longer lore for the Big Bad. He's responsible for everything wrong, like grooming the prince like GCis does N, masterminding the political assassination of Zeke's father, etc..
Actually, a lot of fakemon/moves ideas kinda inhibits me from telling very much of this....
Yes this villain will work for both teams. They want to eternally rule a world that is boring, where death doesn't exist.
Their ace Pokémon, you may ask? Well, They could use Minimize Eviolite Chansey and Eternamax Eternatus in their final team. Oh yeah, and he uses battle items too.
But their ace will be the one, the only, the forbidden-even-in-Anything-Goes, the abominable, the eldritch, the pure evil:
Funbro, the funnest Slowbro you'll ever meet!
Now that is nightmare fuel.
Sorry for double posting though I think this is different enough from my top post it could be its own (though if a mode disagrees they can combine the two posts together).
Thought this would take longer but turns out I typed this quicker than I thought. Here's my next villain team I mentioned was sort of in the same vain as DreamPrince's Team Belle, but instead of trying to make Pokemon Contest the popular activity to overshadow Battles they've already overshadowed Battles with their sport of choice: the Pokeathlon.
GAME/REGION THEME: So the main theme behind the game is that it's a region where Pokemon Battling isn't the big thing, but rather the Pokeathlon. Infact, the Pokeathlon is HUGE where the Pokemon League is more of an underground thing, even referred to as "The Underground League".
How does "The Underground League" (TUL) work? Well it's not well-funded, each "Gym Leader" has a normal job (they also specialize in two Types), and when you battle them the battle takes place outside in the nearest public battlefield. But that's the "Gym Leader's" day job, because each Gym Leader also has a PokeTuber persona which they battle you as and they officialize battles by recording them; the "Badges" being icons on a simple TUL app in your mobile phone that shows a recording of your battle as proof you won. They don't even have an Elite Four, rather you just re-battle four of the "Gym Leaders" who just put on fancy robe/cloak and (fake) crown.
STORY: Infact the player & Rival aren't initially interested in TUL, they're both going to try and join the official club of the hottest Pro Pokeathlon Team: Team Star.
On the way to the tryouts you and your Rival bump into the organizer of TUL, a nerdy older teen who works for the Pokemon Fan Club as a meeting coordinator, who notices none of you have a Pokemon. He says you have to bring your own Pokemon to the tryouts worrying the Rival, but it just so happens he has some Pokemon he can give us: The Starters of the region! Since we're the one that got bumped into we get to pick first, the Rival choosing the Starter STRONG against the player's, and we have the first Rival battle to see how well we work with our new partner. After the battle TUL organizer congratulates you both for a good match and asks if you'll like to try TUL. Before you can answer your Rival is quick to turn down the offer and both of you rush to the tryouts.
At the tryouts you meet the members of Team Star, notably their captain who is prideful and egotistical. Both you and your Rival (who compliments the captain upon meeting him; the captain is also quick to judge the player) tryout; your Rival gets in but you do not (hinted the captain snubbed you out of spite no matter if you won or lost). The Rival says he'll meet us later and you leave the tryouts, once again running into TUL organizer. He saw what happened and gives you his sympathy, which is when either you ask or are invited to try TUL, the organizer excitedly saying come to the Pokemon Can Clubhouse tomorrow before walking off.
You go home and next day have a quick meeting with your Rival who's in a rush to the Pokeathlon Stadium. With nothing better to do, you go to the Pokemon Fan Clubhouse and meet TUL organizer... and the professor the of region! The professor looks at your Pokemon and says you've made a quick bond with it, asking you to help him with the Pokedex. After he's done and leaves TUL organizer explains what TUL is and signs you up. From there you start your Pokemon journey, tracking down the "Gym Leaders" and climbing your way up TUL... if only it was that simple.
VILLAIN ROLE: For whatever reason, Team Star doesn't like TUL. Not soon after getting your first "Badge" your asked by your Rival to meet with them at the Pokeathlon Stadium. At the stadium you meet your Rival, but also the Team Star Captain who checks your phone to confirm you've joined TUL. The Captain says you can join the Official Team Star Fan Club, but you got to give up TUL Challenge. Either rejecting his offer or asking why, the captain is at first offended but says "whatever" and leaves. You have an argument with you Rival who follows after the captain... and when he's gone you're then jumped by two other Star Club members and have a battle. You beat them though warn you to give up TUL challenge or else there would be more coming after you.
As you progress through TUL, which starts bringing attention to TUL, you encounter Star Club Members (and Team Star members who act as the admins) more and more who try to sabotage TUL challenge; you even start having heated encounters with your Rival. At one point they even frame the "Gym Leaders" you faced for a crime that you have to go around and clear their names. Though oddly after getting the final "Badge" Team Star seems to vanish and you're able to face the "Elite Four" without interruption.
After defeating the "Elite Four", you're lead through a building. The attitude among the "Gym Leaders" are somber and they say they can't say anything. You're led to a door leading out to a private park... and it's swarmed by the Team Star Official Fan Club. You're told to go to the center but as you do you have to battle through waves of Star Club members, the "Gym Leaders" try to stop it but are told they're allowed to "by the Champion" so they stand back. You get to the center of the park and there is the Team Star Captain who reveals he's the Champion of TUL!
The captain explains how Pokemon Battling is so archaic and requires little thinking or talent while Pokeathlon is the superior successor as it requires smarts and skills to be a top player. However TUL refused to go away, so instead of trying to force them to give up he instead conquered TUL and became it's Champion. Without a Champion to support them, something he tried to keep secret as long as he could as not to draw attention to TUL, TUL would ever remain an underground thing. But then YOU came along and started climbing TUL ranks, drawing attention from all over the region. For once and for all, the captain is going to defeat you and prove the Pokeathlon is superior to both TUL & Pokemon battling.
At first everyone (except for the "Gym Leaders") is of course behind the Team Star captain, but as the battle progresses and you knock out his Pokemon he starts losing it and reveals the REAL reason he hates TUL & Pokemon Battling: In Pokemon battles everyone is equal and one can easily win/lose. The captain was an incredibly talented trainer, but realizing he can't make a name for himself from battling as even if he climbs to the top he could still be defeated & knocked down, instead worked to suppress Pokemon Battling so everyone paid attention to the Pokeathlon where he is able to reign supreme and no one can beat him. With the secret revealed, everyone starts turning on the captain and rooting for the player, the first to turn being the Rival.
Of course you beat the captain who refuses the loss, however that's when the Chairman of the Pokeathlon walks in. The Chairman thought Pokemon Battling was a thing of the past as no one was interested, but to learn the captain and manipulated everyone into ignoring Battling and TUL had made him reconsider some things. First he declares you as Champion of TUL, then he says he's going to work with TUL to make them the official Pokemon League of the region, and finally and effective immediately the captain is kicked off Team Star.
GOT IDEA FROM: I got this idea for this whole region and villain team by thinking "what would the opposite of the Galar region be?". In Galar Pokemon Battling is THE big thing with seemingly no other activity. So I thought what if something else was THE big thing, what would happen to Pokemon Battling? And so I thought of an "underground league" where the ones in charge of the big sport was keeping them under their heel.
I also thought the "Gym Leaders" wouldn't be popular celebrities, so I thought what people would be well known but not "celebrity" famous and I immediately thought of web reviewers, figuring the Pokemon version of Youtube would probably be called Poketube thus made them "Poketubers".
WHY POKEATHLON?: I was originally thinking Pokemon Contests. But then I thought if something else was to become a big sport in Pokemon that would make people forget about Pokemon Battling. Pokemon Contests uses Moves, thus a direct connection to Pokemon Battling so would be hard to make people forgot. So I thought what other activity did Pokemon have that could fit the purpose I need it for? Certainly not Musicals, those are too simple. But then I thought of the Pokeathlon and how it had some deep mechanics but nothing really relating back to Battling. And it really works with my idea of what would make people forget about Battling being a big SPORT and the one keeping The Underground League down was a jock-like character, well now it can be a jock character!
