Team Skull

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If you were looking for the exploration team in the Mystery Dungeon series, see Team Skull (Mystery Dungeon).

Team Skull
スカル団 Team Skull
Skull-Logo.png
Sun Moon Team Skull Grunt.png
Artwork of Team Skull Grunts from Sun and Moon
Leader Guzma
Region Alola
Admins Plumeria
Major targets Berry fields, Verdant Cavern, Diglett's Tunnel, Aether House
Base locations Shady House
Anime debut Alola to New Adventure!

Team Skull (Japanese: スカル Skull-dan, literally Skull Gang) is the villainous team in the Alola region. They steal Pokémon from people, but unlike previous villainous teams, they do not have a specific goal other than cause trouble.

In the games

In Pokémon Sun and Moon

Team Skull appears in Sun and Moon. As revealed by some of their members, Team Skull is composed of misfits who failed the Island challenge.

In the anime

Team Skull's bikes, their main transportation in the anime

Team Skull makes their first appearance in Alola to New Adventure!, where three Team Skull Grunts were seen harassing Kiawe in front of the Pokémon School. Though the three Grunts outnumbered Kiawe and Ash, they emerged victorious though the combined efforts of Ash's Pikachu and Kiawe's Turtonator. More Grunts appeared in a flashback in SM005, where they were harassing a Popplio on the beach until Lana intervened by freezing them solid with her Ride Pokémon, Lapras.


Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese スカル団 Team Skull From skull
English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese
Team Skull Same as Japanese name
Korean 스컬단 Skull-dan Same as Japanese name
Chinese (Mandarin) 骷髏隊 / 骷髅队 Kūlóu Duì From 骷髏 / 骷髅 kūlóu, skull
Chinese (Cantonese) 骷髏隊 Fūlòuh Déui From 骷髏 fūlòuh, skull
Czech Tým Skull Same as Japanese name
Hungarian Koponya Csapat From koponya (skull)
Polish Zespół Skull Same as Japanese name
Russian Команда Череп Komanda Cherep From череп cherep (skull)


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