The Internet Reacts To Pokémon Go's Team Leaders

We don’t actually know much about Pokémon Go’s team captains, but it doesn’t matter. Players have run with the newly revealed team leader artwork, and are now creating all sorts of personality quirks, backstories, and hilarious jokes.

Among the surge of reactions, you’ll notice a few common threads, such as:

Candela is understood to be the hot one

Candela and Blanche may or may not be in a romantic rivalry

Candela and Blanche are basically babysitting, or acting as moms to Spark

People are latching on to Blanche’s non-binary appearance, with many memes referencing the classic Pokémon question of ‘are you a boy or girl’

Blanche is the cool and commanding one

Everyone is roasting Spark. Poor Spark

Spark is often depicted as the obnoxious one

Spark probably loves memes and isn’t very smart according to the internet. Uh, sorry Team Instinct

Somehow, though, Spark has become one of the most endearing of the three. He’s going through the Popplio effect.

Here’s how the internet is reacting to the new Pokémon Go leaders:

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CANDELAAAA 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/a1y8ZlbXVK

— CINNA☆ (@moecinna) July 25, 2016

spark: can we go get mcdonalds
candela: no blanche is cooking us a nice dinner at home
spark: *wipes tears* i hate this fukcin family

— now at @syukashuu!! (@shukanchan) July 24, 2016

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they chill together pic.twitter.com/HICtmTJpKy

— gwenn (@gwenndigo) July 25, 2016

WHAT TEAM pic.twitter.com/UWyrgVRaiW

— ☀️ Houdi 🌸 (@houdidesu) July 25, 2016

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#TeamInstinct pic.twitter.com/syPmIp2vru

— Steve Kim (@Fobwashed) July 24, 2016

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hey team instinct people who feel bad rn
I defended Popplio in front of thousands of people
This too shall pass.

but come get your boy tho

— austin walker (@austin_walker) July 24, 2016

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https://www.tumblr.com/blue-mouse-artbox/147915889114/

https://www.tumblr.com/jununy/147918580223/

https://www.tumblr.com/oiichyo/147917857522/

https://www.tumblr.com/shikispalace/147924719405/

https://www.tumblr.com/narcoticandroid/147928696128/

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blanche is cool pic.twitter.com/bciBkZ19tx

— ling (@L1NG_) July 25, 2016

Pokemon nicknames
Candela: this is my Charizard inferno
Blanche: I refer to them by their proper names
Spark: this is donglord my jolteon

— Chase is back at it in FFXIV (@VaultedVagabond) July 24, 2016

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https://www.tumblr.com/radtone/147941716536/

so I saw they finally revealed the pokemon GO leaders;;; #TeamMystic #TeamValor pic.twitter.com/mCyP0DLEAE

— @luckycavity 🐻 Read Love Bullet !!! (@luckycavity) July 25, 2016

blanche: ppl come up to me & say
blanche: r u a boy or a girl?
blanche: & i always tell them the same thing;
blanche: how dare u speak 2 me

— ✦ kou 🔞 working on cms 🌸 (@0vv0b) July 25, 2016