Team Skull

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Alola's bargain-bin villain organization — a gang of failed trial-goers led by Guzma, headquartered in a rained-out ruin town, secretly bankrolled by Lusamine.

Team Skull is what happens when the island challenge system fails too many kids. Guzma founded it as a clubhouse for the trainers who washed out; Plumeria made it organized enough to function; Lusamine, through intermediaries, paid for it. The grunts do petty crimes — Pokémon theft, extortion, turf graffiti — and generally lose to anyone who stands up to them. During the Ultra Beast crisis, Team Skull's role was largely unwitting: Lusamine paid them to cause chaos, cover Aether's tracks, and test security. Guzma, pulled into Ultra Space alongside Lusamine, returned with a conscience and disbanded the organization. Plumeria supervised the dissolution. Most of the grunts eventually found honest work or apprenticeships. The name remains notorious. The team no longer exists.

Appearance

Uniform black-and-white hoodies with skull-motif chest emblems, gold chains, bandanas, ripped jeans. Dance-heavy posturing. Logos spraypainted over every wall in Po Town. Most members have bleached or dyed hair. The team's public face is loud, graffiti-bright, cartoonish. Its private face is tired and sad.

Also known as: Team Skull, The Skulls

What They Know

• Alolan gang organization founded by Guzma as a clubhouse for failed island-challenge trainers
• Headquartered in Po Town's Shady House on Ula'ula Island
• Secretly bankrolled by Lusamine's Aether Foundation as a deniable disruption asset
• Disbanded by Guzma after his rescue from Ultra Space, with Plumeria supervising the dissolution
• Its grunts were largely teenagers who washed out of their island challenges; most found honest work post-disbandment

Connections

• led_by — guzma
• funded_by — aether_foundation
• home_of — po_town

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