>>45738360By focusing in their 'toxic fan' theme
>First meet stays the same>After your first badge you meet with your 3 rivals Hop, Bede and Marnie>Bede smugly says that even you all got easily the grass badge he is the best of the 4 newbies>Then they agree to meet in bridge to everyone fight each other to see who's the best>You get there late. Hop tells you that he defeated Marnie, Marnie defeated Bede and Bede crushed Hop>Bede lefts annoyed, and you only fight Marnie there>Once you defeat her a group of angry Yell grunts is rounding you and Hop>They are really mad and call you and Hop cheaters>Once you defeat a bunch of them Marnie calm them down and you flee along HopFrom here their goal is not cheer on thing, is to harass on you and Hop like the toxic fans they are.
They could lure you to dark places (dark alleys, caves, desolated places etc) where they ambush you several vs 1.
They start rumors about you, making difficult for you to get things gifts and some vendors sells you things more expensively because your bad fame. Part of the game could be dispel those rumors.
The roadblocks could be on purpose and done by Team Yell.
They even could appear inside gyms to hinder things to you. 1 grunt could appear in the path to the field after you pass the gym test.