Giacomo

Giacomo ピーニャ Piña
Artwork from Violet
Gender	Male
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Paldea
Trainer class	Team Star
Generation	IX
Games	Scarlet and Violet
Specializes in	Dark types
Member of	Team Star
Rank	Boss, Segin Squad

Giacomo (Japanese: ピーニャ Piña) is the boss of Team Star's Dark crew, the Segin Squad and serves as the overall leader of the team due to the absence of the founder of the team. He specializes in Dark-type Pokémon. Giacomo is a wannabe DJ and the creator of Team Star's theme songs, also going by the name "DJ Vice" (Japanese: ＤＪ悪事 DJ Bad Deeds) when on stage.

In the core series

Giacomo is relied on by the rest of Team Star for bringing the team together and enacting plans with care. He is reportedly known to hold one-man surprise DJ concerts.

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Before the formation of Team Star, Giacomo was elected the president of the Naranja Academy^S/Uva Academy^V student council, but the student conduct policies he proposed were so unintuitive and strict that he lost all support. After only a short time in office, he was forced out by the students, who elected Nemona as his replacement. Humiliated and alone, Giacomo found solace and companionship among a group of students who were similarly victims of bullying and ostracism at the school, and they went on to create Team Star. Despite his doubts, the other bosses of Team Star encouraged him to codify Team Star's current code of conduct, which the group follows to this day.

Giacomo awards the player with Team Star's Dark Badge and TM062 (Foul Play) upon his defeat. Additionally, his defeat allows the player to craft the following TMs using the TM Machine:

Pokémon

Giacomo keeps his Pokémon in Timer Balls.

First battle

Giacomo of Team Star Segin Squad's Base Scarlet and Violet

Types: Dark Steel Tera Type: Unknown Ability: Defiant Held item: None Pawniard♂ Lv.21 Metal Claw Steel Physical   --       Fury Cutter Bug Physical   --       Aerial Ace Flying Physical   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Type: Dark Unknown Tera Type: Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Segin Starmobile Lv.20 Wicked Torque Dark Physical   --       Snarl Dark Special   --       Metal Sound Steel Status   --       Swift Normal Special   --

Rematch

Giacomo of Team Star Segin Squad's Base Scarlet and Violet Reward: 11,880

Types: Grass Dark Tera Type: Unknown Ability: Sand Veil Held item: None Cacturne♀ Lv.65 Bullet Seed Grass Physical   --       Sucker Punch Dark Physical   --       Spiky Shield Grass Status   --       Thunder Punch Electric Physical   --       Types: Dark Flying Tera Type: Unknown Ability: Insomnia Held item: None Honchkrow♂ Lv.65 Hurricane Flying Special   --       Dark Pulse Dark Special   --       Psychic Psychic Special   --       Tailwind Flying Status   --       Type: Dark Unknown Tera Type: Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Mabosstiff♂ Lv.65 Play Rough Fairy Physical   --       Crunch Dark Physical   --       Payback Dark Physical   --       Ice Fang Ice Physical   --       Types: Ground Dark Tera Type: Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Krookodile♀ Lv.65 Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Crunch Dark Physical   --       Dragon Claw Dragon Physical   --       Fire Fang Fire Physical   --       Types: Dark Steel Tera Type: Unknown Ability: Defiant Held item: None Kingambit♂ Lv.66 Kowtow Cleave Dark Physical   --       Iron Head Steel Physical   --       Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --

In the TCG

Special Illustration Rare Giacomo

Main article: Giacomo (Paldea Evolved 182)

Giacomo was introduced as a Supporter card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the English Scarlet & Violet Series (the Japanese Scarlet & Violet Era). It was first released in the Japanese Snow Hazard expansion and the English Paldea Evolved expansion, with artwork by Akira Komayama. A Full Art version with artwork by kantaro, and a Special Illustration Rare version of the card with artwork by KIYOTAKA OSHIYAMA were released in the same sets. It lets players discard a Special Energy card from each of their opponent's Pokémon.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ピーニャ Piña	From piña (Spanish for pineapple)
English	Giacomo	From Ananas comosus (scientific name of pineapple). It is also the Italian form of the name James.
German	Pinio	From piña (Spanish for pineapple)
Spanish	Anán	From ananás (pineapple)
French	Brome	From Bromeliaceae (family that contains the pineapple)
Italian	Romelio	From Bromeliaceae
Korean	피나 Pina	Similar to his Japanese name
Chinese (Mandarin)	皮拿 Píná	Transcription of his Japanese name
Chinese (Cantonese)	皮拿 Pèihnàh
Indonesian	Nanio	From nanas (pineapple)

DJ Vice

Language Title Japanese ＤＪ悪事 DJ Bad Deeds Chinese Cantonese ＤＪ惡事 DJ Evil Mandarin ＤＪ惡事 / ＤＪ恶事 DJ Evil French DJ Darkness German DJ Evil Italian DJ Crudelio Korean DJ 악동 DJ Bad Boy Spanish DJ Vil

References

Team Star Big Boss: Cassiopeia Bosses: Giacomo • Mela • Atticus • Ortega • Eri Lower members: Team Star Grunts

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