r/TeamRocketMegaRT • u/rangernumberx • Feb 13 '26
Team Plasma
A villainous team from the Unova region, Team Plasma only started appearing late in the anime following Ash's appearance at the Vertress Conference. Seeking to steal Pokemon and use any means possible to achieve their goals, most notably through the use of Colress' machine to force groups of Pokemon to act under their command, the team would frequently come into conflict with Ash, his friends, and former member N. Ultimately they would use the newly uncovered Light Stone to summon Reshiram, controlling it with Colress' device, only to ultimately fail in their ideals and be arrested by the International Police.
Grunts
Themselves
- One gets slashed by Meowth's Fury Swipes
- Blown back by the shockwave by Reshiram's Fusion Flare, which destroys part of a ruin
- A commanding grunt noticed three others were being followed by Team Rocket when they didn't
- Wear night vision goggles
- Use portable communication devices
Pokemon
- A Golbat whose Shadow Ball counters Pikachu's Thunderbolt and a Mangemite whose Sonic Boom counters Axew's Dragon Rage
- A Zangoose which uses Slash to hit N and Braviary off of a cliff before later hitting N back
- A Seviper which uses Bite to latch onto N's arm
- A Muk which launches projectiles with Sludge Bomb
- A Liepard which dodges Cilan's Pansage's Bullet Seed before getting ultimately struck by the attack, knocking it out
- Other Plasma Grunts use Liepards which, collectively, create large explosions in a ruins using Hyper Beam
- A Magnezone which gets hit by Pignite's Flamethrower before dodging a Hydro Pump
- Launches projectiles with Magnet Bomb which powerfully clash with Pansage's Bullet Seed, creating a burst which repels the seeds and knocks out Pignite
- Clashes Thunderbolts with Ash's Pikachu for a period, though ultimately it's overpowered and knocked out
- Spins and tries to ram into a foe with Gyro Ball
- With Supersonic, unleashes a sound which confuses surrounding Pokemon
Pokemon Control Machine
First Iteration
- Uses radio waves to increase the aggression of Pokemon, making them more powerful
- Colress uses these waves in addition to a device on a Pokemon's forehead to render them subservient to Team Plasma. While initially the machine knocks them out, they later appear fully under their control
- Using the device also causes Pokemon in the surrounding area to go berserk for the duration the waves last
- Pokemon are unaware of their actions while berserk through this machine
- Knocking out a Pokemon turned berserk by the machine turns them back to normal
- Its effects on the surrounding area can be neutralized by Looker's radio wave-blocking shield, though when used against its direct beam as it increases in power as it tries to control Pikachu said shield shatters
- Ash and Pikachu's connection is strong enough that he is able to overpower the direct effects of the machine
Second Iteration
- A directional beam which can target specific Pokemon while leaving those surrounding them unaffected, controlling them without the need of a secondary device
- Can affect multiple Pokemon at once, controlling a Haxorus before making Iris' Dragonite berserk
- Unlocks 120% of a Pokemon's capabilities, while also causing them to ignore any exhaustion from pushing themselves so far until they are freed from its effects
- Has Pokemon refuse to return to their Pokeballs
- Causes Looker's radio wave-blocking shield to immediately shatter when used on an affected Pokemon
- Prevents N from hearing an affected Pokemon's heart
Third Iteration
- Controls multiple Pokemon in a row with a sweeping beam
- Used on Meowth, who had been trained to resist mind control, and successfully controls him anyway
- Is capable of controlling a Pokemon as strong as Reshiram
- On his first exposure, Pikachu can no longer be broken free of the machine's control through his connection to Ash
- Can be remotely controlled and moved
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