Team Instinct Essay

Team Instinct is one of the three teams in the mobile game, Pokémon GO. Despite the game's popularity, a shockingly (no pun intended) low amount of players chose to join Team Instinct. Like the other two teams, Team Mystic and Team Valor, Team Instinct has its own leader, is represented by a color, and has a mascot.

Although Team Instinct is basically the same as the other two teams, it is far less popular than the others. Because of this, there is actually benefit to joining Team Instinct over Mystic or Valor. While there are several quite asinine reasons as to why people don't like Instinct, there are plenty of logical reasons why you should join.

Firstly, Team Instinct is far less popular, making up only 25% of the game's total users, according to an infographic made by The Pokémon Company in 2016. Needs Citation Instinct is clearly not the most liked choice, and there are several reasons for this, on of which is the fact that it is represented by the color yellow. According to several charts, data shows that blue is the most liked color, and red falls a bit behind blue, and unfortunately for Instinct, the color yellow falls way behind blue and red. This is just for people who chose their teams based on color.

Another reason why people don't choose Instinct is because of the bandwagon effect, where people tend to follow the majority. This is how trends work. Let's put the popular Vans shoes for example. In the case of the shoes, a few kids wear them to school, and then other kids see their peers wearing them and decide that they want a pair too. Then, those kids wear their Vans to school, and more and more kids want to wear Vans, and all because of the bandwagon effect. This is the same with Pokémon GO teams. Since the majority of users joined Mystic, other people followed them and joined Mystic too, and since less people joined Instinct, not as many people followed them, joining Instinct as well. In both the example with the shoes and the Pokémon GO teams, people tended to do what they saw others doing.

This brings us to the final point; why should you join Team Instinct? Well, I'll explain just that right now. Now imagine that you are a member of Team Mystic, and you are going around town looking for a gym to put your Pokémon in, but you can't find any! Well, not that you can go into. You can find plenty of gyms that your fellow Mystic members are already holding, but they are already full, and since you are not on Valor or Instinct, there is no way that you can kick anyone out to put your own Pokémon in. All you can do is wait for Valor or Instinct to kick that gym out, just so it can fill up again really quickly. You know why this is. Because Team Mystic has so many members, you will have a harder time finding a gym with any open spaces.

By joining Team Instinct, this issue can be solved. Since Team Instinct is smaller, they tend to hold less gyms, and the gyms that they do hold tend to be less full, although Instinct gyms do fill up, it's just not as often as Mystic gyms. But besides that, there isn't really that much more benefit in joining Team Instinct over Mystic or Valor.

While Team Instinct is mostly the same as Team Mystic and Team Valor, it is not as popular. While unpopular, Instinct is a team that you should put your trust into. Despite its unpopularly, there are still reasons why you should go for Team Instinct.

I hope you decide to join Team Instinct, because that is something you should do instinctively. (once again, no pun intended.)