Team Skull

Team Skull is a street gang that appears in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon. The group was founded by Guzma. It started out as an antagonistic group until it became a reformed allied gang during since the incident of Team Rainbow Rocket in the update Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.
==Appearance==
Team Skull wears gang clothes which were made and owned by the grunts themselves. The clothes are mainly black, and white with a skull helmet and their emblem hanging from a necklace/chain. Male grunts have blue hair and female grunts have pink hair.
==Story==
Team Skull is encountered many times in the course of the story. They are mostly bugging people and stealing rare Pokémon. They try to steal berries from a man, but the player character stops the two grunts. Two grunts are also encountered at the Verdant Cavern trial and turn out helping the player character by blocking the two other holes where the wild Pokémon hides in.
Gladion is encountered at Akala Island. He is battling Hau but says that he wasn't really a challenge. He battles the player character instead and loses. Two grunts appear and almost challenge the player character, but Gladion tells them that the player character is too strong and that the grunts don't stand a chance. They are later encountered in Diglett's Tunnel. The player character and Hau defeat these grunts and continue to the Ruins of Life. Before the Ruins of Life, the player character will encounter an Aether Foundation Employee, Faba, and some grunts. Faba asks if the player character can fight them. Afterward, Plumeria arrives and initiates a battle. She also warns to not mess with Team Skull again.
At Ula'ula Island, two Team Skull grunts are at the Bus Stop in Route 10. They battle the player character and leave. After the Electric trial, two grunts are at Malie Garden confronting Professor Kukui. He tells them that he would battle them at a Battle Royal until Guzma appears. He starts talking about not being made a trial captain and then notices the player character's Z-Ring. He battles the player character and loses. He leaves and everyone starts praising the player character. When arriving at Route 13 and meeting up with Hau, Gladion will warn to protect Cosmog. He leaves and leaves both the player character and Hau mystified. One grunt is later confronted when noticing that Lillie's bag moved. One has to battle him and he leaves afterward.
After the Ghost trial, Plumeria and two grunts steal a girl's Yungoos and tell the player character to go to Po Town alone. The player character goes to Po Town, which is taken over by Team Skull, and battle a lot of grunts. The grunts mention that they couldn't pay the taxes (Pokémon Center) and that they are only trying to get money. Eventually, the player character gets to the big house and battles Guzma, after giving the passwords found throughout the house and then saying no instead of yes, who gives back Yungoos after being defeated. Unfortunately, when going back to the Aether House, it is told that Lillie has been taken to Aether Paradise. Gladion will take the player character there to save Lillie and will help throughout the infiltration of Aether Paradise.
Before getting to the mansion where Lillie is being held, a lot of grunts are waiting to battle. Gladion will battle Guzma, who is at the end of the road, but loses. The player character will advance after defeating the grunts and then beat Guzma. Guzma was just blocking the way so one wouldn't bother Lusamine, whom he had been working with. He will enter Ultra Space with Lusamine to capture some Ultra Beasts after the wormhole opens.
Team Skull is encountered at Poni Island and say that they want to get Guzma back. Plumeria apologizes to Lillie for stealing Cosmog before continuing. When entering Ultra Space, Guzma reveals that he tried to capture an Ultra Beast, but failed and got possessed. He was scared for the first time in his life. He will later exit the Ultra Space with the player character, Lillie, and Lusamine.
===History===
As revealed by a female Team Skull Grunt in a trailer on Route 13. Apparently, Team Skull was formed out of an old group once formed by one of the old kahunas but apparently fell apart after they got smacked down by the wrath of the Tapu.
===Anime===
Team Skull first appears in Alola to New Adventure!, where they attack the Pokémon School and almost all environments around Alola.
The foundation started back in the day when Team Skull leader Guzma was once one of the two apprentices of a Kahuna Hala, alongside his rival Kukui in "League Offenders and Defenders!". Unfortunately one tragic night, Guzma began to rebel the traditions of Alola region's Kahuna Trials and Island Challenges, even rejecting the custom ideas like international Pokémon league, claiming that he can surpass everything without Z-Moves. This cause Hala and Kukui blamed themselves for not being there to fully supported Guzma to the righteous path.
===Manga===
==Sprites==
==Members==
*Guzma (leader and founder)
*Plumeria (Admin/possible second-in command)
*Tupp
*Rapp
*Zipp
*Okazaki
*Borosue
* At least nine other unnamed members
==Pokémon==
*Guzma's Golisopod
*Guzma's Scizor
*Tupp's Salandit (x3)
*Rapp's Zubat (x3)
*Zipp's Yungoos (x3)
*Zipp's Garbodor
*Team Skull's Drowzee
*Team Skull's Raticate
*Team Skull's Spinarak
*Team Skull's Ekans
*Team Skull's Scraggy
*Plumeria's Salazzle
==Trivia==
*Unlike past villain teams, which were either terrorist organizations or underground crime syndicates, Team Skull act as petty street thugs.
** Unknown to the lower members, Guzma was hired by Lusamine, whose team is more formally organized, which effectively makes Team Skull scapegoats for the Aether Foundation's actions.
*The grunts’ hair and eyes are gender specific; the men have blue hair and eyes, while the women have pink hair and eyes.
*There was actually a Team Skull comprised of a Koffing, Stunky, and a Zubat in the manga years prior to the release of SM.
*As of the Team Rainbow Rocket arc in USUM, Team Skull is the first known reformed villainous team. 
**Team Skull also begin the trend where the primary villain team advertised in each region isn't actually an evil organization, but rather a misunderstood gang of troublemakers who ultimately have sympathetic motives for their actions and are redeemed towards the story's end, allowing another antagonist to take over as the true villain of the game 
==Gallery==
Guzma.png|Guzma leader of team skull
Plumeria.png|Plumeria
Gladion.png|Gladion
Rapp.png|Rapp
Zipp by masterchristian-dbc8239.jpg|Zipp
Tupp.jpeg|Tupp
Akitoshi.png|Okazaki
Borosue.png|Borosue
Team Skull Grunt concept art.jpg
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