Team Skull (Mystery Dungeon)

:Not to be confused with a street gang that appears in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon with the same name
Team Skull 	Team Skull
 	
Information 	Information
Name: 	Team Skull
Team Leader: 	Skuntank
Base of Operations:	Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
Team Skull is an antagonist group in the Pokemon games Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness and Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. The team is made up of a Skuntank, Koffing, and Zubat.
== Personalities ==
===Koffing===
Koffing is one of Skuntank's sidekicks. He and Zubat are first seen on the beach, terrorising the player and the player's partner. Koffing teams up with Skuntank to produce 'the noxious gas combo.'
===Zubat===
Zubat, like Koffing is one of Skuntank's sidekicks and is first seen on the beach.
===Skuntank===
Skuntank is the leader of Team Skull, that comes up with all Team Skull's evil plots. He is stronger than Koffing and Zubat and is one half of the noxious gas combo.
== Games==
In all the games, the Team is encountered a lot, particularly before the credits. Koffing and Zubat are first encountered on the beach, and steal the player's partner's Relic Fragment. They then flee into the depths of Beach Cave. The player's team defeats Koffing and Zubat at the end of the cave, and recover the Relic Fragment when the beat the duo.
Skuntank is first seen when entering the guild. It is revealed to the player that he is Team Skull's leader. He blasts a cloud of putrid stench at the player and player's partner. 
Team Skull learns of the guild's expedition to Fogbound Lake and talk to Wigglytuff to join the expedition. Their first night in the guild, they sneak into the pantry and devour the guild's stock of food, particularly the supply of Perfect Apples. When the Player and Partner are sent to retrieve more Perfect Apples, Team Skull reaches the tree that grow Perfect Apples first and knock them out with their noxious gas combo. That night, as a punishment for failing the mission, Chatot makes them go without dinner and sends them to Wigglytuff's chamber. Before Wigglytuff can throw a tantrum when he learns are no more Perfect Apples, Team Skull comes in and gives him one they save in order to further gain his and Chatot's trust. Afterward, they scheme to take all the treasure from the expedition right out from under the guild's nose.
== In the guild==
Team Skull join the guild briefly to steal the treasure found on an expedition. They quickly earn Wigglytuff's trust and are allowed to come on the expedition with the guild. However, they plan to knock Wigglytuff out with their noxious gas combo, but to their surprise, Wigglytuff is immune to the attack. Wigglytuff quickly defeats them and they are not seen in the guild again.
A couple days after the expedition, Team Skull, still seething about their defeat at the hands of Wigglytuff, plots their revenge. Knowing they can't take Wigglytuff, they plot to take their vengeance on the Player and Partner. They steal a Water Float that Azurill and Marill have been searching for and leave a note saying it is Amp Plains. They set the Water Float there, because they knew the hostile tribe of Electric Pokémon that lived there would attack them. However, Dusknoir intervenes, negotiates with the tribe to retrieve the Water Float, and discovers Team Skull hiding and chases them off.
Much later in the game, Team Skull overhears Torkoal talking to himself about the guild's attempt to reach the Hidden Land and take him aside to learn what he knows. When the Player, Partner, and Chatot reach the midpoint of Brine Cave, they are ambushed by Team Skull, who steal the Relic Fragment from the Partner in order to reach the Hidden Land first. Chatot, who never knew of Team Skull's crooked nature, becomes furious and goes after them. 
Later, the Player and Partner discover Team Skull lying on the ground and the reveal they were attacked by the vicious gang that resides in Brine Cave. After they were defeated, Chatot came along and chewed them out before going on ahead. Skuntank admits that even though he is seeing red over the things Chatot said to him, it gave him the motivation to keep going. He "accidentally" drops the stolen Relic Fragment and encourages the two to keep going while they leave the cave, but before promising they will be back to their old tricks soon enough.
==Super Mystery Dungeon ==
The members of Team Skull are met again in Super Mystery Dungeon and can be recruit via the connection orb. 
==Special abilities==
===Noxious Gas Combo===
The noxious gas combo is a move performed by Koffing and Skuntank. They both release clouds of putrid gas onto other Pokemon.
==Trivia==
*Skuntank and Koffing's 'noxious gas combo' is powerful, and has once knocked out Zubat.
*Team Skull are all types.
*Surprisingly, the full Team Skull can never be battled, despite numerous confrontations with the player. However, Koffing and Zubat are battled at the end of Beach Cave as the first boss battle of the game. After this, Team Skull is never battled again.
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