In both games, the liberation team is led by an experienced official Netbattler, with a NetNavi with a sword for an arm. In "Team ProtoMan", the team is led by Electopian official Netbattler Chaud, Lan's recurring rival and operator of the swordsman NetNavi ProtoMan.EXE. His equivalent in "Team Colonel" is the new character Baryl, a Netopian official visiting Lan's home country of Electopia. Baryl is the operator of Colonel.EXE, a NetNavi who can adapt any chip to connect to his arm and adapt any object to fight as a soldier for him.