>>44386918> Team FlareFunctional but that's about it, they are about as effective as Team Magma/Aqua or Team Galactic hell they're arguably more successful since they actually had their respective legendary under their control while also fucking over other parts of the region through stuff like hijacking the Power Plant, stealing PokeBalls from the factory and whatever they were planning to do with that Abomasnow (admittedly that one just felt like filler).
They certainly weren't interesting if that's what you mean but as an enemy group they work fine.
> Team SkullI'm still confused what exactly their goal was, general chaos is a pretty lame goal if that's what it was supposed to be but if their goal was supposedly interrupting the Island Trials then they should've been more proactive in that they only show up for one of them and Hau never even mentions them in relation to his Island Trials.
If it's their secondary role as underlings of the Aether Foundation then they're not really conveyed that way, it seems like their goal was to get Cosmog but most of the grunts seem blissfully unaware of this and a lot of their actions don't even feed back into either of these possible motives, they're pretty directionless but at least I can see what GF might've been trying to do with them, Aether Foundation was the better antagonist though because they actually had a goal (in SM at least).
> Team YellThey're basically just glorified roadblocks, I get that their goal is helping Marnie but like, all they ever do is block the player and/or Hop from reaching the next town/city, I don't think Bede even mentions them. It would've been more interesting to see them directly intrude on Gym Challenges as well as doing stuff like randomly joining in during battles against Marnie turning the battles into an SOS-esque battle against the player.
Course this would also require Marnie to be fought more than a one-limbed person has digits, but that's just an issue with SwSh in general.
