Cipher is easily the best. They have the best uniform (The sleek white armor from XD, the Colosseum outfits are meh) Their peons aren't really any more competent than those of any other team, but they do have ninja hiding on the ceiling skills. Their admins are undeniably cooler than any of the leaders in terms of personality (people like Mirror B. and Lovrina) and in the fact that they have actual strategies they're associated with. They're easily the most sucessful team, before the games even start they manage to create their army of stolen shadow Pokemon and in XD take control of a legendary Pokemon (Something which only one other team has managed at all). They're the only team the rest of the world seems to give a **** about; In XD there's an entire institute devoted to fighting them and they still manage to preform better than the others (taking over cities, kidnapping people, actually completing objectives every once in a while).
Plasma is also pretty good. Their armor isn't as good as Cipher's, but it's still pretty awesome. Their motivations actually make sense, and the fact that they're a jab at all the people who are like "Pokemon is just like cockfighting lololololol!" just makes them better. Their huge castle is easily the most awesome lair of any of the teams. Unlike Magma/Aqua and Galaxy, they actually manage to capture the legendary Pokemon they summon and even manage to defeat the champion, which on its own is a more impressive feat than pretty much the entire careers of any of the remaining teams. They do lose some points for how stupid and pointless the sages are, though.
Magma and Aqua are pretty average, they manage to summon the legendary Pokemon they were after, but not much else. Their goals are kind of stupid, but at least they're memorable.
One of Team Galaxy's crimes is literally stealing honey. That should pretty much be all the reason you need for them being this low, but they also have the stupidest uniforms out of anyone and they're so forgettable I can't even remember what their motivations were other than that they had an insane leader who wanted to remake the world in his image. On the plus side, they do manage to blow up a few lakes, which is just one notch lower than blowing up the ocean, and manage to chain the 3 pixies.
Rocket is just really lame, they seriously accomplish nothing besides temporarily occupying a few buildings.
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