Team Yell

Team Yell エール団 Team Yell

Artwork of Team Yell Grunts from Sword and Shield

Leader Piers Region Galar Admins Unknown Major targets Budew Drop Inn, Route 5, Galar Mine No. 2, Route 6, Circhester Bay, Wyndon Base locations Spikemuth Anime debut Battling Turned Up to Eleven! Adventures debut Zap!! A Rising Beam of Light

Team Yell (Japanese: エール団 Yell-dan, literally Yell Gang) is the villainous team living in the Galar region. They are fans of Marnie who want her to become Champion and get more publicity for their hometown Spikemuth. However, despite their good intentions to form a fan club of sorts, the grunts begin to take things too far by rudely obstructing Marnie's rivals in their Gym Challenges and doing anything to prevent them from becoming Champion instead, without their leader Piers knowing.

In the core series games

Pokémon Sword and Shield

Team Yell obstructs Marnie's rivals by taking over hotel lobbies, preventing challengers from accessing transportation, and even shouting and distracting opponents during battle. When the player reaches Spikemuth, it is revealed that Team Yell Grunts are actually Spikemuth Gym Trainers in disguise, and that their leader is Piers.

Team Yell are first encountered in the lobby of the Budew Drop Inn in Motostoke, preventing Gym Challengers from signing in to the hotel. After Hop and the player defeat them in battle, a Trainer named Marnie appears and tells them off, explaining that they're her belligerent fans who often go too far in their support of her.

The player next encounters Team Yell on the bridge in Route 5, harassing a man in an attempt to force him to give them his Rotom Bike, claiming they need it to cross the bridge and chase down Gym Challengers. Once the player defeats them, they run off and the man gives the player the bike as a reward.

In Galar Mine No. 2, the player runs into Team Yell again. Two Grunts ask the player if they’re a Gym Challenger and ask to battle. However Hop shows up, which irritates the two, especially when he claims that he will be the next Champion of Galar. Hop then offers to battle them to prove that he’s serious, asking the player to help him in a Multi Battle. After the grunts are defeated, they leave quietly.

The player next finds Team Yell at the beginning of Route 6, admiring a sleeping Silicobra and blocking the entrance to the rest of the route. They tell the player that it is their duty to ensure the Silicobra can sleep peacefully. When an old woman asks to walk past, claiming she’ll make sure not to wake the Pokémon, they allow her through. However, when Hop arrives and asks to let through, the Grunts state that Hop and the player are too loud and will wake up the Silicobra and refuse to let them pass. The player then battles both Grunts, who run off once defeated.

On Route 7, a pair of Grunts can be encountered, blocking the eastern entrance to Route 9.

Team Yell are next encountered on Route 9, near a Drednaw and the man who gave the player the Rotom Bike earlier. They attempt to prevent the player from riding on the Drednaw and crossing the water to Spikemuth. The man claims he can make Rotom Bikes ride on water, however, the Team Yell Grunts ignore him. He asks the player to battle Team Yell for him. Once the player defeats one of the grunts, they both get on the Drednaw and ride away.

The player arrives at Spikemuth’s entrance only to learn that Team Yell is blocking Gym Challengers from entering the city. However, Marnie leads the player to an opening in the side of the city and leads them inside after the player defeats her in battle. During Spikemuth's Gym mission, the player fights several Team Yell Grunts. However, one of the Grunts the player fights forgets to put on his disguise and it is revealed that the Team Yell Grunts are actually Spikemuth Gym Trainers, who are trying to help Marnie become Champion in the hopes of it improving their hometown's run-down condition. The player then battles Team Yell's Captain and the Spikemuth Gym Leader, Piers, and earns the Dark Badge from him.

In Wyndon, when the player is attempting to gain entrance to Rose Tower, Piers and Marnie lead a group of Team Yell Grunts to assist the player in finding and defeating the League Staff member with the key they need to do so.

In the spin-off games

Pokémon Masters EX

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In the anime

Main series

Team Yell Grunts in the anime

Team Yell debuted in Battling Turned Up to Eleven!, where they were revealed to have fooled Ash and Goh into going to Spikemuth for Ash's World Coronation Series match against Marnie instead of Wyndon, intending for him to be late for the match and have Marnie win by default. Thanks to Piers, however, Ash was brought to the match in time. After being berated by Marnie, Team Yell proceeded to cheer for her throughout the battle. Even though Ash won the battle, Team Yell was happy to learn that Marnie's battling skills had attracted attention and visitors to the Spikemuth Gym.

Team Yell reappeared with Marnie and Piers in A Flood of Torrential Gains!, watching Ash's battle with Leon.

Pokémon: Twilight Wings

Team Yell Grunts in Pokémon: Twilight Wings

In The Gathering of Stars, two Team Yell Grunts were present when Marnie received an invitation to the Galarian Star Tournament.

In the manga

Team Yell Grunts in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Team Yell debuted in the Sword & Shield arc. Two Grunts attacked Henry and Casey in an attempt to destroy their Gym Challenge uniforms. Their plot was foiled when Henry and Casey dragged the Grunts into a nearby Pokémon Den, forcing the four to team up in a Max Raid Battle against a Dynamax Gurdurr. In later rounds, they appeared to cheer for Marnie during her Gym battles.

In the TCG

The following is a list of cards mentioning or featuring Team Yell in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Team Yell Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Team Yell Grunt	Su				V Starter Sets		019/023
		Sword & Shield		184/202	Shield		058/060
		Sword & Shield		202/202	Shield		067/060
		Sword & Shield		210/202	Shield		071/060
					S-P Promotional cards		085/S-P
		Champion's Path		067/073
Piers	Su	Darkness Ablaze		165/189	Infinity Zone		095/100
		Darkness Ablaze		187/189	Infinity Zone		109/100
		Champion's Path		058/073
		Champion's Path		078/073	Infinity Zone		115/100
					Shiny Star V		173/190
		Shining Fates		069/072	Shiny Star V		194/190
Yell Horn	I	Darkness Ablaze		173/189	Infinity Zone		089/100
Team Yell Towel	I	Shining Fates		063/072	Shiny Star V		156/190
Team Yell's Cheer	Su	Brilliant Stars		149/172	Start Deck 100		388/414

Trivia

• Team Yell is the first villainous team with no specific evil intentions or goals. Instead, their only desire is for Marnie to become Champion.
  • They also have the fewest notable members out of all villainous teams in the core series, with only one — Piers.
• According to Shigeru Ohmori, Team Yell are based on soccer fans, but adapted to be focused on a single Trainer, like the followers of a Japanese idol.^[1]
  • Team Yell's methods seem to resemble football hooliganism, a real-life phenomenon in England and Scotland.
• In the anime, if Team Plasma's original debut had aired as intended, Team Yell would hold the distinction of debuting later in their respective series than any other villainous team to date, first appearing 99 episodes into Pokémon Journeys: The Series.

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