Team Skull Grunts are nasty bunch of people that will force people into battling them if you don't watch your words and then try to take their opponents Pokémon as their prize for winning the battle.
Garbodor battled in a forest after Ash and Kaiwe were knocked out of the sky after just after leaving Kiawe's family farm but it was quickly defeated when Pikachu attacked Team Skull with Gigavolt Havoc.