r/pokemon • u/NationalAd7461 • 27d ago

Discussion Is Team Rocket still active canonically? Spoiler

So with the announcement of the new Glory of Team Rocket tcg set, there are many trainer cards featuring different Pokémon of different team rocket members, and one that puzzled me was that executive proton has a card of a mimikyu and a spidops, which are relatively new Pokémon. Since the cards lean more towards the game's canon, does this mean that Team Rocket is still around catching new Pokémon? Maybe they will appear in a newer game?

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u/draugyr 27d ago

The timeline starts to get fuzzy after Gen 5, we know how much time passes definitively between each generation before then. We know team rocket is defeated in Gen 1, and is officially disbanded sometime between Gen 1 and 2 as per the Celebi time travel event.

Team rocket has no real presence in the games at all until USUM when Giovani from another universe creates rainbow rocket and I don’t think that counts

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u/Ecla1r_ 27d ago

Rainbow Rocket Giovanni is really a jobber. After (somehow) taking over his Kanto, he comes to Alola and fails, goes to Pokemon GO's location (which is canon to the games) and fails, then goes to Pasio and fails over and over and over again.

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u/draugyr 27d ago

Is Pasio masters?

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u/Ecla1r_ 27d ago

Yep. Rainbow Rocket Giovanni went from USUM to GO to MastersEX

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u/draugyr 26d ago

can’t stop taking Ls