I always thought that the reason all the evil teams used zubat is because they are easy to catch and everywhere. It sorta implies that catching and evolving pokemon is hard and the grunts aren't very good at being trainers

My evil is bubbling

Guzma being a bug specialist, while his team prefers dark types makes sense. He plays the big scary guy, who crushes all opposition, so if a grunt rebels against him, he has an easy time to put them in their place. I know the big tough guy persona is mostly a facade, but it still fits thematically.

A good idea for a pokemon the evil team uses is a line based on experiments with a history of unethical testing on animals

Personally, as a Dragon-type specialist with a massive thing for villains, I'm just waiting for the day the grunts can get some dragons to work with, and I think GameFreak has started to lean that route lately with two-stage Dragons like Applin and Noibat

I still think it's interesting that Cyrus out of all people has Crobat, a pokémon that evolves with high friendship. EDIT: I have my own theories. I'm just making a blanket statement. I know the most likely reason why.

I would actually argue that Maschiff and Mabosstiff were actually designed to be the *anti*-evil team mon. You think that it would be used by the evil team, being a Dark-type and based on a mafia boss at all, but instead it's not only the ace Pokemon of one of your rivals, but said rival's story revolves around his bond with his Mabosstiff and his desire to nurse it back to health. I think it's a really nice and cute subversal :3 There is a very obvious evil team mon in Gen 9 that you missed, though, and that's the Varoom line. It was very clearly designed primarily with the Starmobiles in mind, and as such, is technically the ace Pokemon of all five Team Star bosses. And if we want to get *real* spoilery, you could also argue that the Paradox mons were also meant to be mons designed for villains, as Sada and Turo's goals before getting fucking murdered were to fill Paldea with Pokemon from the past (Sada) and future (Turo) respectively. Roaring Moon and Iron Valiant especially feel tailor made to be AI Sada and AI Turo's aces respectively - they even have slightly higher BSTs *and* are placed after the other Paradox mons in the dex to highlight that they are more important. Also I really like Levestress and its evos! I particularly like its evo methods - not only do they fit perfectly with the inspiration, but it also explains why the evil team grunts that use them never evolve them - they *can't* evolve them, because while they do always participate in battles, they never win them! So they're not fighting or flying! It's brilliant!

I love the little animation showing the Run Away ability lol

Villain Pokémon usually have really cool designs!

I feel like levelstress is gonna be like abra of the stema region you either get it in your first ball or you need to find another one

I really like how the runaway ability flashes a peace sign

Redundancy aside, poison and dark actually have pretty good synergy with each other defensively, -poison is weak to psychic, but resists fighting, fairy and bug -dark is weak to fighting, fairy and bug, but is immune to and strong against psychic, -the mixed-in flying types cover in the ground weakness of poison

I remember trying to search for Team Galactic’s Pokémon in Platinum only to never find them. Murkrow, Misdreavus, Glameow, and Skunky were all not available in that game so when I picture unique “evil team” mons, I always picture those 4

Dark also isn‘t really „evil“ type in Japan like most of us would understand „evil“, it is more underhanded, unfair as well. Edit: japanese people pls correct, of I am wrong

The aether foundation is varied on purpose, after all their whole place is bassicly a zoo with many different pokemon they help restore to the wild...well allegedly want to restore to the wild anyways, but still, place with varied mons? Varied grunt mon choices, makes sence

Wow, so impressed with your mon. Can’t believe I’ve never put together “fight or flight” and fighting/flying types

There's this game Cassette Beasts that definitely had villian / early route villian mon. Their designs are less "magical pets" and more "cereal mascots" as one npc in game says it The mon is called Springheel it looks like a little vampire and it's based off spring heeled Jack, a nigh legendary Victorian stalker. It has a branched evolution. It can become a trickster and later a vampire, or into an assassin and then (my favorite) a Jack the Ripper beast. The evil team later uses another villian looking mon which is a chess pawn that evolves into a bishop and finally gets a branch of either a queen or a king

A future design based on the parasympathetic nervous system could be inspired on Snorlax, with its relaxed appearance, and also tying it to digestion

Hilariously I never encountered an evil grunt that uses Scraggy and Scrafty. Despite being dark/fighting. Team yell doesn't count. They're football hooligans not an evil team.

The fact that Brock owns both a Zubat and a Croagunk 🤨

the 'Run Away' animation at 15:19 is hilarious! but i loved the line and the explination of all the teams so far. Another great video!

I created a list of types names based around some of the names you already created: Bug - Ento (Entomology) Dark - Scoto (Scotobiology) Electric - Electro Fairy - Mytho Fighting - Hoplo (Hoplolgy) Fire - Pyro Flying - Aero Ghost - Ecto (Ectoplasm) Grass - Dendro Ground - Geo Ice - Cryo Normal - Anthro (Anthropology) Psychic - Neuro Poison - Toxo (Toxicology) Steel - Allo (Alloy) Water - Hydro They all end with -o to create a sort of theme and some are more abstract or lazy than others but I just wanted to share a fun idea! :D

Gardevoir and Glaceon would actually work for an evil mastermind. A deceptively beautiful plant lady that controls minds/puts people to sleep and a small Lap-dog type of animal that literally puts any unnecessary witnesses on ice. And Glaceon kinda reminds me of Blofeld's lap cat.

When the world needed him most, he returned with a banger.

I like how you include fight, flight, and freeze. I do think "fawn" would probably be a hard one to design, as one who is... stuck constantly fawning with my stress responses. So i can't really picture something other than some smarmy classic starscream looking piece of shit.

The sympathetic nervous system is responsjble for the four 'F's of animal behaviour: Fighting, Fleeing, Freezing, and Mating

Love your designs! My theory on why gen 6 had such few new pokemon, and how the evil team/gym leaders mostly use old Pokémon, is that when gen 5 came out, there was a HUGE outcry from fans because of the limited dex. The Pokémon company wanted to make their newer games for a wider audience, which means including more Pokémon and sort of focusing on those old ones to be able to get more people interested in the games

Villain pokemon are some of my favorites. I've done a lot of evil themed teams when replaying pokemon haha

I would argue both Fire and Fairy types would be fitting the theme of Team Flare

scraggy is my absolute favorite pokemon. so glad to see the little guy finally get some rep in a thumbnail

YOU CRAZY SON OF A BISHARP YOU DID IT! YOU MADE SCRAGGY ART IN YOUR STYLE

Iirc, poison type in generation one is so terrible because it was initially designed to be this "villain" type. They didn't take type balance too much into account. Oh yeah. Gen 1 only has three ghost types but also has a big focus on said type. (what)

Now we just need an evil Nortist

talks about having mental health while simultaneously putting the CALCULUS mon on screen but for real I've been watching through this whole STEMA playlist so far and I am very, very excited to see what comes of it :D

I wish they added Light types Also i assume Galactic uses the wurmple line because of the symbolism how they want to create a new universe and evolve so to say and the wurmple also becomes something new when it evolves into a butterfly/moth

As a person with a freeze response, I hope they do add more types to the fright/fear/stress response

The funny thing about team star is that, the four star grunts you actually get to fight use a Shroodle, yungoos, murkrow and houndour. Poison, normal and dark types are all here.

I’m extremely excited for the launch of this game with all the scientific knowledge and breakdowns you do just in the videos talking about Pokémon it has me extremely hyped for what you are cooking.

I love this idea! Your science concept choices always make such solid designs!

I’m not sure if you’ve covered it before but I think it’d be cool to do a line or lines that are based on model organisms. My idea I came up with in my lab would be something like “Cellagen” which is a portmanteau of C. Elegans. Maybe it could have regenerating moves or something… i just love my little wormies

Really love your art style and the editing on this video 😍🫶🏽

I love your design at the end, such a cool evolution idea

I love the literal take on the fight or flight response, the designs are so cool I want to try them

your style is so cool, great vid, i actually love when dark type are used cuz they feel taylored for enemy teams

I love Flight Lagomight. I love monster designs/real animals that go really fast, and especially one that can also fly.

Your art style is so cute, it adds such a nice feel to your videos c:

I discover this channel two days ago and I love it. Good luck on making that game. I will play it for sure. Love from France.

What's really interesting is that even in B2W2, Ghetsis is one of the first bosses that doesn't use Crobat. His ace is a Hydreigon with Frustration, a move that's more powerful if the pokemon hates its trainer

Dude, why and how is your art style so good and satisfying to look at?! And how is nobody talking about it?!

With such an extensive explanation, it kinda feels like a lockstin&gnoggin video

OHMYGOD!!! This is one of my favorite concepts in pokemon ever!!!!! I love your videos so much 💖💖 ^^

Nice vid, thanks for making and sharing

I love the graphics you used. It looks so nice

I really like the small little images of each Pokémon. They’re charming.

I love your oc! I really like your hat! ❤️ And your videos are amazing!

I really like crowbat's design, even more after finding out they evolve through friendship They looks mean and tough but are really your best bud and you get to know what's good about them behind that rough exterior

I like how the dark type based on fight or flight response literally gain the fighting or flying type.

The noir entrance is chefs kiss

I think that the Aether grunts don´t have a theme because many of them are just random employees at the Aether Paradise, who are just doing a normal, non-evil 9 to 5 job there. My headcanon is that, when you arrive, Faba tells them that you´ve come to rob the place or something, so everyone just grabs the stongest Pokemon they can find and prepare to defend.

Just gotta say i love your artstyle!

15:23 Perfect animation for Run Away, thank you

this episode has some atmosphere, i love it

My man Nort always coming out with absolute banger designs

It would be cool if u made an evolution based on hiding that was dark/rock type

I love your videos. liking & Sharing rn.

this is art my homie

this guys art style is so cute

Nortist's cute voice makes this not evil

The Wailmer on Mt.Pyre and Baltoy in Magma Hideout will always stay in my memory for how unique they seemed

that thumbnail is actually perfect oh my gosh

I've always had a concept for a pokemon game where you play as the evil team and the region isn't based on any one real place and the pokemon have a theme of good versus evil tropes mad scientist, robot soldiers, damsel in distresses, knights vs dragons ect. And some of the pokemon mentioned here would be in my region.

I like the psychology based mon at the end, It reminds me of how I always thought of Freud's superego, ego and id theory to be like kyogre rayquaza and groudon.

you can't tell me not to be stressed

Missed opportunity to call it a Darketype

I love this guy's art style

as someone with cptsd i would love to see 2 more additions: fawn and freeze. fawn could be like “encore” and “cheer” and freeze could be paralyzed or smth. idk it would be fun to see ur take on those

15:56 I love this concept. It stays on all fours if its flight form because its too scared to *stand up* to its opponent.

As a Purrloin and Liepard user and dark type lover of all, im all in favor of videos like this. I also love the fact that you covered this topic, its a interesting one

I think the reason all of team flare have past Gen mons is related to their goal of "preserving beauty" and so their team picks are stuck in the past

Prewatch: viruses as dark type?

That Pokemón draw design is so beautifull 😍

I am going to take inspiration for this

Thanks for another amazing video! :D

Team Sky uses any mons that soars through the skies

2:11 *We Sandshrews we're never innocent*

If Levestress is the main line for grunts, then I think a mon based on the amygdala would be cool for the admins and/or leader. Amygdala has a whole range of functions, but its most well known one is creating emotional responses, especially fear, anxiety, and aggression. It'd be a cute thematic detail that the line based on the acute stress response takes orders from the line based on the fear centre. Its evolutions could incorporate other elements of the limbic system, like the hypothalamus

Scraggy is the Burt dude from yoshi that drops his pants

Awesome pokemon you made

I wonder if he is going to do a story video series for his fakemon/creature collector game later down the line?

My favorite Pokémon of the ever was on thumbnail so I immediately knew this was gonna be a good one

Lol, i love the noir black white intro

I just thought about it, but team star would have been so much more fun if it was a stealth mission instead. First off, the whole pact that you would win the base after beating them was a little silly. And having to actually avoid grunts or barreling through them would have been more fun than just running around spamming the R button.

I never saw the dark type as evil. It was more like a "night type" for me. Dark type always was one of my favourite types. Umbreon evolves from friendship and Absol just want to warn others of katastophies. Dark type is just great and just fits with the dark themes of the evil teams.

You Made my evening ❤

I think an interesting reason Zubat is so widely used is because there are so many of them they are easily accessible. If you've ever gone into a cave in pokemon you know exactly what I mean

Great topic

Rabbit with anxiety

The ather foundation having many different mons fits with the fact they are supposed to be like a wild life org like the WWA that is corrupted so they are using offspring of mons they have captured for their "own protection" (experiments) or pokemon they have just experimented on directly or just captured for researched when they had to get info to make type: null and sivally.

Idk if anyone else has said something similar but what I love about Levestress’ concept is it not only represents fight or flight, but it also can represent freeze (staying in one place), or faun (having big dilated pupils to seem helpless)

zubat be putting in the work for them