Build Your Own Pokémon Region: A Step-by-Step Guide

The Villainous Team

➡ Example: Team Rocket Grunts, Team Yell supporters.

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Does your villainous team have a strict military-style order or a more chaotic, loose structure?

What special roles exist in your team? (Spies, assassins, infiltrators?)

➡ Example: A team where only the strongest Grunts can rise in rank, leading to internal battles and betrayals.

3. Their Influence on the Region

A villainous team doesn't just exist—they affect the world around them. Some openly terrorize towns, while others work in secret, pulling the strings behind major events.

➡ How Villainous Teams Shape a Region:

Controlling Cities – Team Rocket took over the Silph Co. building and forced businesses to work for them.

Disrupting Nature – Team Magma & Aqua tried to awaken Legendary Pokémon to change the world.

Spreading Propaganda – Team Plasma convinced people that Trainers were harming Pokémon.

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How does the villainous team impact daily life in your region?

Do they have public support, or is everyone afraid of them?

➡ Example: A team that controls all Pokémon Centers, secretly using them to experiment on Pokémon.

4. Their Connection to Legendary Pokémon

Many villainous teams seek to control a Legendary Pokémon to achieve their goals. Others fear them, worship them, or try to erase them from history.

➡ Examples:

Team Galactic – Wanted to use Dialga and Palkia to reshape time and space.

Team Plasma – Sought control over Reshiram or Zekrom to prove their ideology.

Team Flare – Attempted to use Xerneas/Yveltal to "cleanse" the world.

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Does your villainous team seek to capture a Legendary Pokémon, or are they trying to destroy, worship, or awaken one?

What will happen to the world if they succeed?

➡ Example: A team that worships a slumbering Legendary Pokémon, believing it will bring paradise—but the truth is much darker.

5. The Team's Downfall: How Will They Be Defeated?

Every great villainous team eventually falls—but how? Some collapse due to internal conflict, while others are stopped by the player before they achieve their goals.

➡ Examples of Villainous Team Downfalls:

Team Rocket – Disbanded after Giovanni's defeat, but later reformed.

Team Galactic – Fell apart when Cyrus abandoned them.

Team Flare – Their plan failed, and their leader disappeared.

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Will your team be completely destroyed, or will remnants remain?

Does the leader disappear, get arrested, or have a change of heart?

➡ Example: The villainous team's Admins turn against the leader, realizing they were deceived.

Your Turn: Creating Your Villainous Team

Now, bring your villainous team to life by answering these questions:

1️⃣ What is your team's goal? (Money, power, revenge, world domination?)
2️⃣ Who is the leader, and what is their personality? (Cold, charismatic, misguided?)
3️⃣ Who is the lieutenant, and what is their role? (Strategist, enforcer, traitor?)
4️⃣ How many Admins are there, and what are their personalities?
5️⃣ Are there Elite Members with unique skills? (Scientists, spies, infiltrators?)
6️⃣ How do Grunts function in the team? (Loyal followers, mercenaries, forced recruits?)
7️⃣ How does the team affect the region? (Control cities, spread lies, cause destruction?)
8️⃣ What is their connection to Legendary Pokémon? (Worship, control, destroy?)
9️⃣ How do they fall? (Defeated, betrayed, abandoned?)

"Fantastic! Now your region has its own villainous team, ready to challenge Trainers and shape the story. Next, let's focus on the most exciting part—creating the Pokémon of your region!"