>>47887285i feel like people don't appreciate that skull and aether can't be counted separately. the whole point was to parody the established evil team formula. One was an addition to the superficial pokemon gang aesthetic, and the other was all the functional villainous conspiracy. Skull was the new evil pokemon team, and they were a good game and story element, but they were good at both of those specifically because they weren't actually filling evil team role, aether was.
