#team lugia

So I've been getting a lot of message about "Niantic putting Team Harmony in Poémon GO" and I'd like to make things clear for everyone :)

There are a lot of articles running around the internet right now about Niantic putting my Team Harmony in the game because of the legendary pokémon addition (including Lugia). However, Niantic's officials never said they were putting Team Harmony in the game. They once were interviewed and got asked for their opinion about a 4th Team and said they were "open to the idea", but never said they would add or use Team harmony.

You need to understand that all of these rumors are FAN-MADE THEORIES, not official statements. You should only believe what Niantic's official websites/pages say. Anybody on internet can write an article on unfounded information and then spread rumors that are not actually true. So please always check your sources before assuming :)

I wasn't approached by Niantic nor Nintendo about the use of my Team Harmony design, and to avoid legal actions I highly doubt they would use my logo for their game unless permission was given from me to use my artworks. So legally they cannot use mine. I would definitely be open to the idea of letting them use Team Harmony as an official team for the game, however I'd like to be asked by the devs themselves.

What's most likely going to happen here is Niantic will make a 4th team, but it will be their own original one and not mine. I am all for people making their own version of a Team Lugia or Harmony (after all I do not own Lugia itself, and as long as it's not copying/tracing mine I'm pretty ok with it ^^ (but I do have rights over the team image I've created)) so if Niantic was to make a Team Lugia I think it would be awesome! They might also make a 4th team with another Pokémon (which would be a little weird in my opinion considering the link between Lugia, Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos) but I still see it as a possibility.

Well the other night while playing, I was thinking about who one could actually play to represent Lugia, and try to bring harmony between the teams and stop the fighting.

The team would ofc be represented by white, as per Lugia, and because White is the default color of unclaimed Gyms, and the team, as disciples of Lugia would dismantle every gym the see and bring it back to it’s pure and unclaimed form, with no team dominating another.

I guess kinda in the vain of that one guy who never choose a side in WoW and stayed unaligned til max level, if you ever played WoW.

Ofc you’d pick a team, but it wouldn’t matter, cause you would never raise a banner for that team, you only need it so you may fight against the other teams.

Well,

then i realized that if a group were to do this, it would not promote the peace we’d want,

but be more like a chaotic evil, cause mad scrambles for the other teams as they try and rush to claim the unclaimed Gym.

Which,

I might add,

also seems like an alluring idea.

My best friend and I decided to go out on a Poke-Adventure last night. We live in a relatively nice neighborhood, largely mid to upper class religious individuals with younger kids.

So we find a pokestop that has a lure set up, and we decided to chill there. Largely to help my friend level up since she’d only just started playing, but also cause I was running empty on pokeballs and needed to collect a ton.

It’s about 8:30 pm, we are two 27 year old 5′3 112 lb girls hanging out behind a little mall that has a Ralphs in it. These two guys come over and it’s clear they’re playing Pokemon Go too. We hear them say ‘Oh hey lets go hang by that lure’. So they come over, and we start chatting, they seem nice.

They then ask what team we’re on. So we say “Oh we’re on Valor”. Suddenly they go from being friendly to being angry and condescending. They proceed to flick us both off while glaring, (I won’t say which team they were on because I don’t want to perpetuate team hate) and then decide that this lure wasn’t worth their time before walking off.

We were so taken aback.

Then once the lure ended we started heading back over to my friends house, and we saw our gym was taken. It’s the only gym I keep because it’s literally the temple I grew up going to my entire life. So we take it back and I put my Arcanine cp1326 on it, my friend puts her Ponyta. 

These three guys across the major street see that we took it back, and then we lock eyes. We give a friendly little gesture of “hey good game! hope you have a happy hunting!”. They proceed to aggressively yell out ACROSS the busy major street, “I’M GONNA KICK YOUR FUCKING ASSES!”

Like... woah... what the hell?

Behavior like this is so beyond not okay. You don’t behave like that towards an absolute stranger just because of what FICTIONAL TEAM THEY ARE ON!!!

I was concerned about those hate memes that were flying around... and rightfully so. Words have power. And while people laugh and say it’s all friendly... clearly it’s not for everybody. 

We are all nerds running around living a childhood dream to catch all the fiction creatures.

Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice or lightning, lest these titans wreak destruction upon the world in which they clash. Though the water's great guardian shall arise to quell the fighting, alone its song will fail, and thus the earth shall turn to ash. O Chosen One, into thine hands bring together all three. Their treasures combined tame the Beast of the Sea.

--

Shamouti Prophecy (Bulbapedia)

Now that the tree teams symbolized by Moltres, Articuno, and Zapdos have their harmonies thoroughly disturbed does this mean we get a Team Soul/Potential/Lugia?

I mean, i certainly want to be on team with Lugia as the legendary for it. Not only could it be included with pokemon from Jhoto, but it would also also as a symbolic quelling of the fighting especially if team switching was introduced as a feature.

probably not, but its still a fun thought.