{"id":127915,"date":"2022-09-07T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-137272"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T14:20:00","slug":"team-star-is-pokemon-scarlet-and-violets-new-set-of-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/team-star-is-pokemon-scarlet-and-violets-new-set-of-villains\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Star Is Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet And Violet&#8217;s New Set Of Villains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e0f4e4e8674fc\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e0f4e4e8674fc\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Team Star\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e0f4e4e8674fc\/team-star.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNDg3Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"487\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e0f4e4e8674fc\/team-star.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Team Star\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-trailer-introduces-us-to-rival-team-victory-road-and-more\">new trailer<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a>, it was revealed that the games will once again feature a new villainous team in the form of &#8216;<strong>Team Star<\/strong>&#8216;, which consists of the in-game schools&#8217; &#8220;most rebellious students&#8221; and will be made up of several squads.<\/p>\n<p>Each squad will be headed up by a unique boss character, with the team&#8217;s bases dotted around the game&#8217;s Paldea region, so it&#8217;ll be up to you to determine which one you tackle first. As you head into the bases, Team Star will send out a barrage of Pok\u00e9mon to stop you in your tracks, but you&#8217;ll be able to make use of the game&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/auto-battle-pokemon-with-lets-go-scarlet-and-violets-newest-feature\">auto-battling system<\/a> to dispatch these and head to the big honcho.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>When you reach the boss, you&#8217;ll go face-to-face with them in a battle, but there&#8217;s a twist &#8211; each boss will come equipped with their own &#8216;Starmobile&#8217;, a huge car that they will use in conjunction with their Pok\u00e9mon to take you down. One of the characters revealed in the trailer is called Mela, who is the head of Team Star&#8217;s fire crew, the Schedar Squad. She is described as the team&#8217;s &#8220;best all-rounder&#8221; and utilises methods that may be a tad heavy-handed. We can&#8217;t wait to find out more!<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Team Star04\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/af2bb86dc4761\/team-star04.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjUwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/af2bb86dc4761\/team-star04.445x.jpg\" alt=\"Team Star04\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Team Star 5\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1138f7231fa6d\/team-star-5.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjUyIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"252\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1138f7231fa6d\/team-star-5.445x.jpg\" alt=\"Team Star 5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet itself launch on November 18th and can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/where-to-pre-order-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-on-switch\">pre-ordered right now<\/a>.<em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What do you make of Scarlet and Violet&#8217;s new villainous team? Rocket down into the comments and let us know!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo During the new trailer for Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet, it was revealed that the games will once again feature a new villainous team in the form of &#8216;Team Star&#8216;, which consists of the in-game schools&#8217; &#8220;most rebellious students&#8221; and will be made up of several squads. Each squad will be headed up by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}