There's a reason. It's a conceptualizing. When you hear the first 40 seconds of the song, it sounds like a generic villain theme. This is the usual time it takes to beat an average grunt. The thing is what comes after. Is not a song a bad guy should have. It's foreshadowing. If you take the time to look beyond the surface, you'll find out they are not bad afterall. And once you notice, you can't look at them like before, that's why the loop skips the first part. I don't know much about music, but i know about game design theory and it seems they applied it to the music.
I hope they make a suprise return at some point since the dialogue implied they weren't finished with their business in USUM, or who helped Giovanni gather the villains across all the different timelines. Damn cliffhanger lol.
Objectively speaking Sword and Shield is one of the better games. It got 8-9 from major reviwers alongside a 38/40 from Famitsu and a 82 on Metacritics
One interesting design aspect that's very noticeable with all the grunts lined up like this is that each and every one of them has some sort of face covering or shaded aspect to their faces, usually the eyes. Whether it's large hats/hoods/angles blocking some parts of the lighting, or outright face coverings of some sort, not a single one has their face completely unobscured. It goes with either the criminal aspect of wanting to remain anonymous as they perform their crimes, or alludes to the hidden meaning that things are not as they appear with the Team in question, and that there's a hidden story that's in need of uncovering. I love how that, even with a minor design aspect present in even the most basic rank-and-file grunts, the visual storytelling in Pokemon is on point!
In terms of nostalgia, I have to go with team Galactic's and both of team plasma's themes. But composition wise, it's a tie between team yell and star like gah dayum, I didn't expect their themes to freakin slap this hard, buds!
Lmao no Team plasma are better knights, sages, 3 Teleportation Ninjas, A Prince and a King 👑….WITH AMAZING THEMES? Yeah gen 5 has best grunts and themes
Wow Team Yell actually has a banger too. I skipped gen 8, but got gen 9. Was not expecting a grunt theme to hit that hard. A shame though, since most of the time you beat a Team Star grunt before the good parts happen.
Being just essentially rabid fans/hooligans was pretty boring though for Team Yell. You'd probably enjoy Piers and Marnie's respective themes then since they're related to Team Yell.
Team Yell was the most forgettable for me to be honest. Team Star did a lot better of a job as an interesting team with rocking music and being more empathetic.
Gen 5 Plasma has awesome opening but falls off pretty quickly but the 2nd iteration is much better! Gen 6 got a nice one but plasma still better. Gen 7 team skull sounds like a true villain theme they won. Ether foundation was good but team skull just way better. Gen 8 team yell is just banging Gen 9 is unique as they are not really villains, and the theme reflects it. It’s a good theme. Overall gen 7 is the winner runner up to gen 8
Nothing here will ever compare to how fire Plasamas theme was, if you play that song for any video game fan and try to convince them its a grunt pokemons theme they would call you insane
I wish team star would’ve been evil like older teams. I miss that. It would be so intense if it turned out that Pennys evil and had a much bigger plan holding behind. Especially bc she was hacking the league points and stuff, it would’ve fit her so well
The whole power high money to steal team rocket 2:08 Copy as the same one like team rocket them I look like does not trouble make a double it’s the , stars them I look like and 5:19 they called the whole powerful high high its Characters team magma 4:46 and team Aqua 4:28 vs in each, each other not teamed up to other 22:11
Copy as the same one like team rocket does not trouble make a double it’s the , stars of the universe, the stars of destiny we are team galactic Pokémon villains grunts suits up in suiting up them I look like 6:37 male suits up female suits up
Pokemon evil team leaders then: "I will sell pokemon for profit and take control of the most powerful pokemon ever" Pokemon evil team leaders now: "I bully people and I also hate school"
Pokemon evil team leaders then: soyjack “ground good water bad” “noo water good ground bad” Pokemon evil team leaders now: tries to fight the bullies and protests against the school for covering up the bullying and not doing anything about it
The "best" Teams: Team Rocket - no hypocrisy, just world domination Team Skull - very evil, stealing a bus stop Team Star - a wholesome family the rest are hypocrites
Gen 8 and 9 just mixing randomly on their bgm which i didnt like it, they already lost their mixing signature after gen 7. Is just pile of loud sound everywhere.
Tbh, team star is the second most mid evil team. Rocket was the literal Mafia Aqua/Magma nearly doomed the earth Galactic nearly doomed the Galaxy Plasma threatened the relationship between people and Pokémon Neo Plasma nuked a city and would've nuked Unova as a whole if given the chance Flare nearly doomed Kalos Skull and the Aether Foundation threatened Alola and reality Yell sucked, they weren't even evil at all Macro Cosmos had good intentions, so also not evil Star are just misfit students. Like, fight off the bullies and be done with it
After about two decades of genuine malicious evil teams, i'm fine with the evil teams of now being scaled back to just being troublemakers without ill intentions. Allows for something else to set itself up as the plot instead of the same old "evil team wants to use a legendary pokemon to rule the world".
Following the stories of the games Team Star are the least 'evil' of the teams. The only time they bothered others is when they were recruiting people, team Yell was generally known to be a pain in the ass to have around. And that's absoutely fine, as Noah above me stated, I rather have groups that have a reason for who/what they are apart from being evil just for the sake of being evil/ruling the world.
Yes they actually are because of their president Lusamine who was in cahoots with Guzma, the boss of Team Skull. So the Aether Foundation was an evil team in Gen 7!
@@RayceTBaker Not even just in cahoots, Lusamine was literally using Skull as a way to keep Aether's reputation positive. Basically used Guzma's hatred to suit her needs.
Team Rocket: A World Terrorist Organization Team Magma/Aqua: Global And Animal Activists Team Galactic: Astrologists with access to bombs apparently. Team Plasma: A Cult Team Flare: The Fashion Police Team Skull: Bunch of Bullies Living In 90s HipHop. Aether Fountation: An Evil Organization In Sheep's Clothing. Team Yell: Obnoxious Team Star: What The Hell Is Game Freak Thinking?
Star grew on me as I found out more about their backstory. Rather interesting subversion of expectations actually. Though neither they nor Team Yell are actual proper villains.
Someone hasn't played the game yet/doesn't understand the story behind Team Star. Not every game needs to have a team of big baddies hellbent on world domination.
1. gen 5 2. gen 7 3. gen 6 4. gen 3 5. gen 1 6. gen 9 7. gen 8 8. gen 4 sorry i know everyone in these comments likes the new song it just didn't hit as hard to me 😭maybe if it didn't take so long to get better
I was not expecting the team star theme to hit so incredibly hard for no reason. I'm so excited to play these games
Sounds like a Sonic the hedgehog level
You really need to stop and listen though since otherwise you just blitz them in like 30 seconds lol
There's a reason. It's a conceptualizing. When you hear the first 40 seconds of the song, it sounds like a generic villain theme. This is the usual time it takes to beat an average grunt. The thing is what comes after. Is not a song a bad guy should have. It's foreshadowing. If you take the time to look beyond the surface, you'll find out they are not bad afterall. And once you notice, you can't look at them like before, that's why the loop skips the first part. I don't know much about music, but i know about game design theory and it seems they applied it to the music.
The graphics are not the best but the story is in the same level of bw or eben a little bit better
@@Time-traveller719absolutely not
Team Rainbow Rocket is still one of my favorites to this day but gen 9 is way up there as well.
I hope they make a suprise return at some point since the dialogue implied they weren't finished with their business in USUM, or who helped Giovanni gather the villains across all the different timelines. Damn cliffhanger lol.
Was not expecting Rainbow Rocket to come back and hit so hard while keeping the soul of the original theme's sound.
Team plasma and team skull are so good, but team star has gotta be a new fave for sure. Also aether foundation has always been good too
Sword and Shield weren't the best games, but they weren't horrible. But the music, especially the gym leader music.... chef's kiss
Objectively speaking Sword and Shield is one of the better games. It got 8-9 from major reviwers alongside a 38/40 from Famitsu and a 82 on Metacritics
I heard team star for the first time and damn that hit hard. Gen 9 definitely best out of all the grunts
Lmao yeah no
The lame, weak, garbage actually.
I love all of them, but GODDAMN Gen 9 has the best grunt theme by far!!! 😍😍😍
Gotta hear it soon. Have yet to actually touch the game
I have scarlet and theme hits so hard bro
And Team Star final boss theme hits way too hard
Disagreed.
Most definitely not
yeah team star is good but team plasma just hits so different, it’s just too good to even be considered a GRUNT’S theme.
Team Magma/Aqua, Team Plasma & Team Skull for ever!!!!!!
Team skull??? Lol
@@jeansnow1116 Yes, Team Skull & Guzma lore
@@40windcrowrang u have my respect
Soul silver team rocket is hella underrated if you ask me, so good
and underleveled XD
One interesting design aspect that's very noticeable with all the grunts lined up like this is that each and every one of them has some sort of face covering or shaded aspect to their faces, usually the eyes. Whether it's large hats/hoods/angles blocking some parts of the lighting, or outright face coverings of some sort, not a single one has their face completely unobscured. It goes with either the criminal aspect of wanting to remain anonymous as they perform their crimes, or alludes to the hidden meaning that things are not as they appear with the Team in question, and that there's a hidden story that's in need of uncovering.
I love how that, even with a minor design aspect present in even the most basic rank-and-file grunts, the visual storytelling in Pokemon is on point!
In terms of nostalgia, I have to go with team Galactic's and both of team plasma's themes. But composition wise, it's a tie between team yell and star like gah dayum, I didn't expect their themes to freakin slap this hard, buds!
My personal favourites are Neo Team Plasma, Team Flare and Æther Foundation themes
Star, Neo Plasma and Flare are my favourites.
Neo team plasma still goes hard
Aqua and Magma are so heavily slept on. Best grunt theme, best evil team theme, just..the best. It made me want to be one of them growing up lol
Lmao no Team plasma are better knights, sages, 3 Teleportation Ninjas, A Prince and a King 👑….WITH AMAZING THEMES? Yeah gen 5 has best grunts and themes
Team plasma all day, gen 5 has some of my favorite music by far
1. Hasta la vistar ⭐
2. Flare
3. Neo Plasma
4. Rocket
5. Plasma
6. Aqua/Magma
7. Yell
8. Skull
9. Aether
10. Galactic
yell above skull?
@@raidev_ yeah. I think Guzma's theme is great, but the grunts and Plumeria's are weak. Team Yell's grunt and leader themes are all equally good.
@@sidneystotch in the spanis version is astro la vista, astro-star in spanish and hasta la vista
Que bueno que se español
I like both team Auqa/Magma and Team star grunt theme , they are both awesome
Please don't forget Villainous team admins and bosses along with their signature pokemon for each and every one
team star is by far the bst but gen 3 brings the hardest nostalgia boner
Aqua/Magma continues to be my GOAT for villain grunt themes. That's not to say some of these themes aren't bangers, but they just can't compare.
Æther foundation and team star got a place in my heart
10:42 *immediately gets flashbacks*
16:58 ok….that sounded like when you encounter monsters in Miitopia
TRUE XD
Take a shot every time there's a comment saying "gen 9 hits so hard".
Gen 4, 5, and 8s are my favorite grunt themes.
gen 9 team star sounds like an anime opening theme than a evil organization theme.
If only team cypher was in a mainline game. They have amazing music.
No one ever adds the Cipher theme, it's the best
Wow Team Yell actually has a banger too. I skipped gen 8, but got gen 9. Was not expecting a grunt theme to hit that hard. A shame though, since most of the time you beat a Team Star grunt before the good parts happen.
Being just essentially rabid fans/hooligans was pretty boring though for Team Yell. You'd probably enjoy Piers and Marnie's respective themes then since they're related to Team Yell.
Team Yell was the most forgettable for me to be honest. Team Star did a lot better of a job as an interesting team with rocking music and being more empathetic.
my favorite grunts will always be Team Skull. Best leader and best grunts
Argreed. Shoutout to that one grunt who won't fight you because he doesn't want to battle if he can't win
My favorite team grunt battle themes are Neo Plasma and Team Star
Gen 5 Plasma has awesome opening but falls off pretty quickly but the 2nd iteration is much better!
Gen 6 got a nice one but plasma still better.
Gen 7 team skull sounds like a true villain theme they won. Ether foundation was good but team skull just way better.
Gen 8 team yell is just banging
Gen 9 is unique as they are not really villains, and the theme reflects it. It’s a good theme.
Overall gen 7 is the winner runner up to gen 8
Sword & Shield true villians were Macro Cosmos with Chairman Rose as the leader.
Which is still the dumbest plot twist to this day in Pokémon.
At 1st time I fight team star, the music is so kickass I thought it suits for a boss music. 😂
1. star
2. neo plasma
3. aqua/magma
4. skull
5. rocket
6. yell
7. paradise
8. plasma
9. galactic
Nothing here will ever compare to how fire Plasamas theme was, if you play that song for any video game fan and try to convince them its a grunt pokemons theme they would call you insane
"Otsukaresama de-Star!!"
Team Plasma is the Goat 🗿
Is it just me or does the Team Star Grunt Battle Theme kind of sound like Final Boss Music?
Why do Team Skull and Team Star’s themes GO SO HARD?
Team Aqua. The piratey theme is awesome!
Hasta la vistarrr ⭐⭐
☆★HASTA LA VISTAR ★☆
I wish team star would’ve been evil like older teams. I miss that. It would be so intense if it turned out that Pennys evil and had a much bigger plan holding behind. Especially bc she was hacking the league points and stuff, it would’ve fit her so well
Team Star has some Deoxys vibe
I joined the pokemon fandom when I firstly started playing white version so Team Plasma is the only tune I know lol
goat neo plasma
I think Plasma in b&w 2 is the best
i like how aether paradise was the last threat in the in the game
my favorite team rocket and team flare and team plasma
8:44 based James
The one and only Team Rocket🤙🏽🙌🏽
1. Yell
2. Star
3. Plasma
4. Rocket
5. Skull
6. Rainbow Rocket
7. Neo Plasma
8. Magma/Aqua
9. Flare
10. Galactic
11. Aether
Yell is underrated
Team Galactic always will be my top
For the weakest and most pointless team in all of Pokemon...Team Yell got a pretty dope theme.
Team Skull: yeah
And Cipher Peon ? And the Team Snagem ?
Yes!!
There are such troublemakers, including two 2️⃣
Why did you skip the originals of team rocket, team aqua/magma, and team galactic?
Read the description
because they suck
Bad joke bro
hasta la vistar
Hasta la vistar! ☆
You forgot Macro Cosmos and the Miss Fortunes
The whole power high money to steal team rocket 2:08 Copy as the same one like team rocket them I look like does not trouble make a double it’s the , stars them I look like and 5:19 they called the whole powerful high high its Characters team magma 4:46 and team Aqua 4:28 vs in each, each other not teamed up to other 22:11
Copy as the same one like team rocket does not trouble make a double it’s the , stars of the universe, the stars of destiny we are team galactic Pokémon villains grunts suits up in suiting up them I look like 6:37 male suits up female suits up
My favorite is Team Star 21:13
ua-cam.com/video/nHnvutt3hmI/v-deo.html Does this count as a macro cosmos theme?
Aether foundation went to work and do science work to help the Pokémon 16:57
Team skull they say, bully and power 14:57
Also, where the ultra recon squad?
Team Skull 4Lufe
gen 2,3,4,5 >>>>>>>>
King grunts team plasma as king 8:48
Plasma
Team rocket best
Team yell who always cheats and also cheers Paul testers not real ones fake ones 19:54
While all (except the Aether Foundation Employee's theme) are good, I like Team Flare's the best.
But the switch said no they did 16:57
might wanna correct the title
What the fuck version of Team Galactic's Grunt theme is that?? It sounds so neutered.
Shinning pealrl and Relucient diamond
Pokemon evil team leaders then: "I will sell pokemon for profit and take control of the most powerful pokemon ever"
Pokemon evil team leaders now: "I bully people and I also hate school"
Pokemon evil team leaders then: soyjack “ground good water bad” “noo water good ground bad”
Pokemon evil team leaders now: tries to fight the bullies and protests against the school for covering up the bullying and not doing anything about it
@@what.are.you.doing.stepbro yeah I made the comment before I got the game lol, thanks for correcting my comment
Team Star I will be the bully 21:37
Bro team yell ain’t evil, they’re just a bunch of marnie simps.
The "best" Teams:
Team Rocket - no hypocrisy, just world domination
Team Skull - very evil, stealing a bus stop
Team Star - a wholesome family
the rest are hypocrites
Gen 8 and 9 just mixing randomly on their bgm which i didnt like it, they already lost their mixing signature after gen 7. Is just pile of loud sound everywhere.
Tbh, team star is the second most mid evil team.
Rocket was the literal Mafia
Aqua/Magma nearly doomed the earth
Galactic nearly doomed the Galaxy
Plasma threatened the relationship between people and Pokémon
Neo Plasma nuked a city and would've nuked Unova as a whole if given the chance
Flare nearly doomed Kalos
Skull and the Aether Foundation threatened Alola and reality
Yell sucked, they weren't even evil at all
Macro Cosmos had good intentions, so also not evil
Star are just misfit students. Like, fight off the bullies and be done with it
After about two decades of genuine malicious evil teams, i'm fine with the evil teams of now being scaled back to just being troublemakers without ill intentions. Allows for something else to set itself up as the plot instead of the same old "evil team wants to use a legendary pokemon to rule the world".
Following the stories of the games Team Star are the least 'evil' of the teams. The only time they bothered others is when they were recruiting people, team Yell was generally known to be a pain in the ass to have around.
And that's absoutely fine, as Noah above me stated, I rather have groups that have a reason for who/what they are apart from being evil just for the sake of being evil/ruling the world.
Imagine call team star evil team, ratio
The aether paradiset isn’t a evil team. Just like Micro cosmos.
Yes they actually are because of their president Lusamine who was in cahoots with Guzma, the boss of Team Skull. So the Aether Foundation was an evil team in Gen 7!
@@RayceTBaker They aren’t aware of her brain infected by parasitism thing going on though right?
@@RayceTBaker Not even just in cahoots, Lusamine was literally using Skull as a way to keep Aether's reputation positive. Basically used Guzma's hatred to suit her needs.
RR rainbow rocket better than team rocket, but they’re trash all of them Pokémon villains
Team Rocket: A World Terrorist Organization
Team Magma/Aqua: Global And Animal Activists
Team Galactic: Astrologists with access to bombs apparently.
Team Plasma: A Cult
Team Flare: The Fashion Police
Team Skull: Bunch of Bullies Living In 90s HipHop.
Aether Fountation: An Evil Organization In Sheep's Clothing.
Team Yell: Obnoxious
Team Star: What The Hell Is Game Freak Thinking?
Star grew on me as I found out more about their backstory. Rather interesting subversion of expectations actually. Though neither they nor Team Yell are actual proper villains.
Someone hasn't played the game yet/doesn't understand the story behind Team Star. Not every game needs to have a team of big baddies hellbent on world domination.
@@ry_jayy I havent 🙃
Team Star is great though, their cause are more realistic than most of the other Villain group
@@Arthion and Team Skull
1. gen 5
2. gen 7
3. gen 6
4. gen 3
5. gen 1
6. gen 9
7. gen 8
8. gen 4
sorry i know everyone in these comments likes the new song it just didn't hit as hard to me 😭maybe if it didn't take so long to get better
Newer gen are just annoying bgm.
Plasma