Grimer (Pokémon)
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Grimer (Japanese: ベトベター Betbeter) is a Template:Type2 Pokémon.
Biology
Physiology
Grimer is a purple pile of poisonous sludge. It has saucer-like eyes and a gray mouth. Grimer may be distantly related to Koffing, another Pokémon that is associated with pollution.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Grimer emits a very pungent, noisome odor. Since Grimer's body lacks a solid form, it can slip through the smallest of openings. Grimer's germ-infested entrails cause the ground that it passes over to be unable to bear any plant life.
As far as Grimer's skills in battle are concerned, Grimer mainly attacks by flinging poisonous Sludge (or mud) at its foes. Grimer can also wield fire, electricity, and various Template:Type2 attacks. Grimer is part of one of the four Pokémon evolutionary lines that can use Gunk Shot.
Behavior
As it moves, it loses bits of its body from which new Grimer emerge. This is said to worsen the stench around it.
Habitat
Grimer thrive anywhere there is pollution. They are most common in Kanto and Hoenn, but sightings have been recorded in Sinnoh.
Diet
- Main article: Pokémon food
Grimer tend to feed on sludge, sewage, and other filthy things.
In the anime
Major appearances
Ash and co. first encountered Grimer in Sparks Fly for Magnemite. A Muk and a large group of angry Grimer were gumming up the turbines in the power plant in Gringey City causing a city-wide power loss.
Dawn temporarily trained a Grimer in Camping It Up!.
Minor appearances
In Pokémon Scent-sation!, Celadon City Gym Leader Erika told a story about when she was a youngster, she got lost one day and ran into a Grimer. However, a Gloom chased the Grimer off and saved her.
Pokédex entries
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In the manga
Koga wears a Grimer on his shoulder in the form of a ninja outfit in Pokémon Adventures. He used it extensively to smother Blue, preventing him from breathing and restrict his movement so that he would be unable to call on his Pokémon. He again used it in the battle with the evil Elite Four Agatha, to little effect.
His daughter, Janine, is later seen with a Grimer. She uses it against Falkner during the Gym Leader faceoff, using its Minimize attack to outwit his Noctowl.
In the TCG
- Main article: Grimer (TCG)
Game data
Pokédex entries
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Game locations
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In side games
Game | Location |
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Pokémon Snap | Cave |
Pokémon Pinball | Cinnabar Island |
Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire |
Cave |
Pokémon Trozei! | Phobosphere Endless Level 35 Trozei Battle Mr. Who's Den |
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red/Blue Rescue Team |
Magma Cavern (15F-21F) Stormy Sea (20F-29F) Silver Trench (20F-29F) Wish Cave (80-85F) Murky Cave (3F-5F) Joyous Tower (80F-85F) Far-off Sea (20F-29F) Marvelous Sea (B20) Fantasy Strait (B20-B29) |
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time/Darkness |
Waterfall Cave (B1-B8) |
Pokémon Ranger | Waterworks |
Pokémon Rumble | Eternal Tower |
Held items
Game | Held Item(s) | ||
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Red* | Blue* | Berry (100%) | |
Yellow* | |||
Gold | Silver | Nugget (8%) | |
Crystal | |||
Ruby | Sapphire | Nugget (5%) | |
Emerald | |||
Diamond | Pearl | Nugget (5%) | |
Platinum |
Stats
Base stats
Stat | Range | ||
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At Lv. 50 | At Lv. 100 | ||
HP: 80
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140 - 187 | 270 - 364 | |
80
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76 - 145 | 148 - 284 | |
50
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49 - 112 | 94 - 218 | |
40
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40 - 101 | 76 - 196 | |
50
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49 - 112 | 94 - 218 | |
25
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27 - 84 | 49 - 163 | |
Total: 325
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Other Pokémon with this total | ||
Pokéathlon stats
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Type effectiveness
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Learnset
By leveling up
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By TM/HM
By breeding
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Father | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr. | Acc. | PP | ||||
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Acid Bomb | Poison | Special | 40 | 100% | 20 | |||||
Curse | Ghost | Status | — | —% | 10 | |||||
Haze | Ice | Status | — | —% | 30 | |||||
Imprison | Psychic | Status | — | —% | 10 | |||||
Lick | Ghost | Physical | 20 | 100% | 30 | |||||
Mean Look | Normal | Status | — | —% | 5 | |||||
Scary Face | Normal | Status | — | 100% | 10 | |||||
Shadow Punch | Ghost | Physical | 60 | —% | 20 | |||||
Shadow Sneak | Ghost | Physical | 40 | 100% | 30 | |||||
Stockpile | Normal | Status | — | —% | 20 | |||||
Spit Up | Normal | Special | — | 100% | 10 | |||||
Swallow | Normal | Status | — | —% | 10 | |||||
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By tutoring
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Game | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr. | Acc. | PP | |||||||
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Special moves
Shadow moves | <span style="color:#{{{2}}};">Level 23+ | Purified moves | ||
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Shadow Blitz | File:Box xd 088.png | Helping Hand | Normal | |
Shadow Hold | Sludge Bomb | Poison | ||
-- | Shadow Punch | Ghost | ||
-- | Minimize | Normal | ||
Side game data
Pokémon Pinball
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Pokémon Pinball RS
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Pokémon Trozei!
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky
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Pokémon Ranger
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Evolution
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Level 38 → |
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Sprites
Gen | Game | ||||||
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I | Red | Blue | Yellow | Red (Ja) | Green | Back | |
II | Gold | Silver | Crystal | Back | |||
III | Ruby | Sapphire | Emerald | FireRed | LeafGreen | Back | |
IV | Diamond | Pearl | Platinum | HeartGold | SoulSilver | Back | |
V | Black | White | Black 2 | White 2 | Back | ||
Trivia
- Grimer and Gastly are the only Pokémon who don't change weight during evolution.
- Coincidentally, both are Template:Type2s from Generation I.
- In Sparks Fly for Magnemite, Grimer's anime debut, Grimer had a very strong odor that made most people around the Grimer to cover their noses form the smell. However, in recent episodes, Grimer's smell has seemingly ceased to exist. This is most obvious in Camping It Up! where Dawn is given a Grimer to train, and it immediately hugs her, but no one complains about any smell.
- In the recent 3-D games, Grimer is black instead of purple.
- Grimer is the only Pokémon to learn Shadow Punch through breeding. Coincidentally, Grimer and Muk are the only non-Template:Type2 Pokémon to learn this move.
- It also can learn Shadow Sneak through breeding, but it has no relation to a Template:Type2 Pokémon or shadows.
- In all of its Pokédex entries, it says how gross or dirty Grimer is. It shares this quality with Magikarp, whose Pokédex entries all tell how weak it is.
- All of Grimer's sprites from Generation III depict it with it's right hand held up high. However, both of its arms are held up in it's FireRed and LeafGreen sprites.
Origin
It appears to be a pile of living sludge.
Name origin
Grimer's name seems to be a corruption of grime, dirt. Its Japanese name may be derived from べとべと betobeto and べたべた betabeta, both meaning sticky.
In other languages
- German: Sleima - A tweaking of Schleim (slime).
- French: Tadmorv - From tas de morve (heap of mucus).
- Korean: 질퍽이 Jilpeogi
- Chinese (Taiwan): 臭泥 Chòu Ní - "Foul Sludge"
External links
Notes
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This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon as a species. |