[MAJOR MAJOR SM SPOILERS]Favorite villain from each team

[BreezyPonie 2]

Rocket - Giovanni. He's really the only one that stands out.

Aqua - Shelly by a narrow margin, 'cos she's pretty ^^" She and Archie are pretty much tied in my opinion.

Magma - Again a tie between Courtney and Maxie, only Courtney won out because the entire time I was wondering why the heck she acted the way she did. I wish they would've explained it more or fleshed her out beyond just that quirk, though, since she's just kind of a robot for the sake of being a robot.

Galactic - Cyrus, for pretty much all the reasons Viri put. Threatening, ruthless, and scary af. Favorite villain.

Plasma - I feel like I can't really say considering I've only experienced about half the story-- I never played B2/W2. N was definitely the one who stood out to me most, though. Ghetsis isn't far behind, the rest seemed trivial at best.

Flare - I feel like none of them really got to shine too much except Lysandre, and he wasn't that interesting. Xerosic got some neat screentime in the Looker sidequest, so he wins out.

Skull - Again, we haven't experienced the game so I can't really say too much. Guzman gives me a cool "Here to have fun and fuck some bitches" vibe, which I can respect. And maybe give us some over the top "I HAVE THE POWER!!!!!" type stuff too. Plumeria seems too bratty and Gladion seems like he's going to be the tragic, ~misunderstood~ type.

[Lucky98 74]

Team Rocket - Giovanni

Team Magma - Courtney

Team Aqua - Shelly

Team Galactic - Cyrus

Team Plasma - N

Team Flare - Lysandre

Team Skull - Skuntank For now, it's Guzma, but I might change my mind after playing the games

[Ice Cream Sand Witch 1650]

I think my ranking for Team Skull right now is Guzma > Plumeria > Gildeon.

Guzma looks like a boss, especially with those shades. I'm neutral to Plumeria until more of her is shown. I'm more interested in Gildeon's possible overall importance than his personality, which seems like arrogant "cool guy".

[Bluewolf 0]

Rocket: Archer but I just really like his swagger and hair.

Aqua: Damn that's a tough one between Archie and Matt. Probably more towards Archie because I'm a sucker for shirtless guys with beards. yum

Magma: Courtney, duhh. Maxie was simply a nerd and what even was Tabitha?

Galactic: Saturn because he wanted to rebuild and stuff. He hair was pretty neat too. Like if Wolverine used tumblr.

Plasma: Ghetsis because he was evil till the end and I respect that dedication. Also his BW battle theme was hella creepy and very cool.

Flare: Lysandre. Another villain whose shoulder I wouldn't mind resting my head upon ~<3 And I loved his "planetary reset" idea. I too, get frustrated when people are ungrateful SOBs and become dependent on your charity.

Skull: I know it hasn't come out yet but I have a feeling that Plumeria won't just be "You'll never stop our dastardly plans mwahaha!" Those eyes say "I have my own agenda and I will thrash you". Also nice hair.

In conclusion, I really like colorful hair and there's not much reason to be insightful, as you deep thinking people have already addressed whatever the hell I could come up with.

[Ice Cream Sand Witch 1650]

Updated the poll with SM's other villain organization. I know that Wicke isn't a villain, but I added her anyway because she's a named member of the organization.

I put two majors in the title just so people who haven't played yet don't think I added Team Skull, who were already known about and also already on the poll since their reveal.

Spoilers up to postgame in box below.

Lusamine is my favorite of Aether. I really wish we could've got to see her at least once after the Ultra Space incident. When I went to Aether as part of the postgame UB quest I planned to see Lusamine right after meeting with Wicke, but then Wicke dropped the knowledge that Lillie and Lusamine went to Kanto, and I was like "Oh :(". Most people probably figured out that Lusamine went too when she said she wanted to make her mother better, but I just pictured her picking up medicine from Kanto or something like that and bringing it back (which doesn't make much sense now that I think about it). Wicke is second. I thought it was pretty cool that she was genuinely nice despite her name being one letter away from "Wicked". I thought it was going to be a case of "really nice character's niceness is a facade and they're actually extremely ruthless", but I'm glad it wasn't. I wasn't much of a fan of Faba. His reaction to Hau saying he could've just hid and they'd never know where the key is was priceless, but his inflated sense of self-importance just makes you want to punch him in the face (which was intended, I'm not saying he was poorly-written)

[Masquerain 6]

Ya boi Goozma is lit, yo, and so is his battle theme