Much like the title suggests, this book is all about Pokemon from game reviews, theories, fun pictures, opinions and more. I'm a diehard Pokemon fan, been playing Pokemon since before I could read!!! Hope you can join me on this fun book!
Today, I'm going over Team Star, a new evil group introduced within Pokemon Scarlet & Violet.
I won't deny, I did not like Team Star all that much...
To put it simply, Team Star was founded in order for a group of victims to stand up to their bullies. Once Team Star successfully stood up to their Bullies, Team Star BECAME the bullies. Their leader wanted to disband the Team once they became the bad guys, but the other Team Star members went against her wishes and continued the group without their leader anyways. The Leader turned herself in, got nearly two years of suspension, and while she was gone Team Star grew out of control to the point the Academy is threatening to expel them from school. When the leader comes back from suspension, she enlists the player in order to help her disband Team Star. That's where the Starfall Street Plotline starts in Scarlet & Violet.
Now that I've written down the plot, it makes much more sense😅 I still don't like Team Star and their Leader anyways...
So here's a ranking of Team Star's Members worst to best
6. Eri
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Eri was a let down. We got little to nothing about Eri when she was defeated in battle. She got emotional and ran away. We did thankfully get some exposition out of a close friend of Eri's where we learn that this friend used to bully Eri. When said bully became the victim, Eri stood by her and they've been inseparable since. It takes ALOT of courage and bravery to shake off the past. Besides that really, Eri is a pro-wrestler and the strongest of Team Star. To me, Eri stood out the least of Team Star and contributes the least as well. She definitely fell flat compared to everyone else in quite literally this entire game.
5. Penny
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It was obvious from the player's first interaction with Penny that she had SOMETHING to do with Team Star. The game made no attempt to hide it either as the person who hires the Player to disband Team Star was a tech-savy person who went by a feminine code name of Cassiopea. Surely enough, Penny is a tech wizard with a talent for hacking who just so happens to work for Cassiopea. Yeah, I connected the dots a little too easily... Penny being the Leader of Team Star was seen from a mile away and the game tried extremely hard to hide it despite it being one of the most obvious things in the universe. I thought Penny was a cute character who reminded me all so heavily of Futaba from Persona 5. Penny's battle on the otherhand was extremely disappointing... I figured she was gonna have an Eevee or Eeveelution on her team considering she loves Eevees and has an adorable Eevee backpack but I wasn't expecting her to have an entire team of Eeveelutions. The second I figured out she was gonna have an entire team of Eeveelutions it took all the fun out of her fight as I knew what Pokemon was gonna be on the team. Part of the fun of Pokemon battles is that you never know what Pokemon the opponent has up their sleeve. Based on Penny's clothing alone, I 100% knew she would have an eeveelution on her team but I thought she would have a Plusle, Minun or Magnezone based on her clothing and color theme. I further thought Penny would have someone in the Porygon family due to her love for technology and coding as Porygon are cybernetic code Pokemon. It was stated multiple times that Penny was from Galar, why don't you give her a Galar Pokemon? Orbeetle would've been a perfect choice since it's a Galarian Pokemon, is high tech and fits her color scheme. Ugh... Pokemon did Penny so dirty. I WISH bare minimum, her Pokemon team was different.
