Team Magma Grunt (Trainer class)

A Team Magma Grunt (Japanese: マグマだんのしたっぱ Team Magma Underling) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that first debuted in the Generation III games. They are the peons of Team Magma. There are male and female versions, but they all dress in the recognizable red outfits associated with Team Magma.

In Pokémon Ruby, they serve alongside the primary antagonists while in Pokémon Sapphire, they assist the player in stopping Team Aqua. In Pokémon Emerald, Team Magma Grunts share the role of the antagonists alongside the Team Aqua Grunts.

They generally use a combination of Template:Type2, Template:Type2, and Template:Type2 Pokémon.

Appearance

In the anime

Team Magma Grunts in the anime

Team Magma Grunts have made subsequent appearances in the anime, normally using their Pokémon to infiltrate a target or to help Tabitha out. A group of Magma Grrunts made their first appearance in A Ruin with a View where they are trying to find ancient Pokémon in the ruins under Oldale Town. They use Professor Alden to guide them there are seeing the ruins they escape in their helicopter. In A Three Team Scheme! they help to dig for a special shrine underground.

In A Spheal of Approval two grunts along with Tabitha try and steal a curious stone linked with Groudon from the Oceanic Museum. They successfully escape with most of the stone. They appear again in Fight for the Meteorite! where they surrounded Professor Cozmo for a meteorite. They battle Team Aqua and win but their plans are ruined by Ash and his friends. Their last appearances in Gaining Groudon! and The Scuffle of Legends! is where they have awakened Kyogre which causes mass destruction, but in the end Team Magma are defeated.

Pokémon

This listing is of Team Magma Grunts' Pokémon in the Pokémon anime:

		Houndoom
		Team Magma grunts have many Houndoom they use in their evil plans. In A Ruin with a View they used them to infiltrate a Pokémon Center so they would not get in their way. Then Team Rocket attack and send out Arbok and Weezing who are too scared to fight and return into their Poké Balls. They make a brief appearance in a flashback in A Three Team Scheme!. Houndoom's only known move is Roar.
Debut	A Ruin with a View

		Mightyena
		Team Magma grunts have many Mightyena they use in their evil plans. In A Three Team Scheme! they used them to scare away Team Rocket from where they are digging. They appear again in A Spheal of Approval where it uses a Shadow Ball to stop Captain Stern from intervening. It then along with Tabitha's Mightyena tries to stop Ash and his friends including Marius and Stern from taking their briefcase by use Hyper Beam before escaping. In Fight for the Meteorite! they used them along with their Golbat to battle Team Aqua's Crawdaunt and Walrein. Golbat and Mightyena are able to faint all of their Pokémon. Its final appearances were in Gaining Groudon! where it infiltrated Ash and his friends. Then when Pikachu absorbs the Blue Orb it faints them. In the next episode they battle Team Aqua Walrein. Mightyena's known moves are Shadow Ball and Hyper Beam.
Debut	A Three Team Scheme!

		Golbat
		Team Magma grunts have many Golbat they use in their evil plans. In Fight for the Meteorite! they used them along with their Mightyena to battle Team Aqua's Crawdaunt and Walrein. Golbat and Mightyena are able to faint all of their Pokémon. Golbat's only known move is Air Cutter.
Debut	Fight for the Meteorite!

In other languages

Language Title French Sbire Magma German Team Magma Rüpel Italian Team Magma Recluta

See also

• Team Aqua Grunt

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