Team Rocket executives and administrators

Team Rocket executives and administrators are, as their title suggests, high-ranking members of Team Rocket. In some cases, they are subordinates of Giovanni, but upon his absence, they become the leaders themselves.

In the games

Like Team Rocket Grunts, the Rocket Executives and Admins are considered a Trainer class. They are the leaders of Team Rocket when Giovanni is gone.

Yellow

There aren't any distinct Rocket Executives in Generation I, however, both Jessie and James appear in Pokémon Yellow as "something higher than grunts", guarding the room where Giovanni waits in the Rocket Hideout and Silph Co..

Pokémon

Jessie and James

First Battle

• Level 14 Ekans
• Level 14 Meowth
• Level 14 Koffing

Second Battle

• Level 25 Koffing
• Level 25 Meowth
• Level 25 Ekans

Third Battle

• Level 27 Weezing
• Level 27 Arbok
• Level 27 Meowth

Fourth Battle

• Level 31 Weezing
• Level 31 Arbok
• Level 31 Meowth

Gold, Silver, and Crystal

In a money-making scheme, the Rocket administrators send grunts to the Slowpoke Well to harvest the tails of Slowpoke to sell. Later, the Rockets build a base near the Lake of Rage that utilizes a high-frequency sound that influences Pokémon evolution, then in one last try to contact Giovanni they and the grunts take over the Goldenrod Radio Tower. Players fight and defeat administrators at both the Mahogany Town Hideout and the Goldenrod Radio Tower. When the final Rocket executive is defeated, he announces that he will disband Team Rocket, as Giovanni did three years before.

Pokémon

Rocket Hideout

Male executive

• Level 22 Zubat
• Level 24 Raticate
• Level 22 Koffing

Female executive

• Level 23 Arbok
• Level 25 Murkrow
• Level 23 Gloom

Radio Tower

Male executive

• Level 30 Koffing (5x)
• Level 32 Weezing

Male executive

• Level 36 Golbat

Female executive

• Level 32 Arbok
• Level 32 Vileplume
• Level 32 Murkrow

Male executive

• Level 33 Houndour
• Level 33 Koffing
• Level 35 Houndoom

FireRed and LeafGreen

In the Sevii Islands, the Rocket administrators face players before they battle Gideon for the Sapphire. After defeating the male administrator, he sees the player's Earth Badge and realizes that the Viridian-based Team Rocket has disbanded; he then tells the player that he will find Giovanni and revive Team Rocket.

It is very likely that the Rocket administrators are the same people as the Rocket executives in Generation II, as hinted by the similarly in their teams. Further clues include the male administrator's determination to revive Team Rocket after he is defeated, as well as the information given on the computer screen which the Rocket administrator was working on (it says "The influence of magnetic waves on Pokémon evolution"). This is linked to what happened in Generation II, when Team Rocket used magnetic waves to drive Pokémon, such as the Red Gyarados, insane.

Pokémon

Female admin

• Level 52 Muk
• Level 52 Arbok
• Level 54 Vileplume

Male admin

• Lever 53 Golbat
• Level 54 Weezing
• Level 55 Houndoom

In the anime

It is unknown whether or not there are executives as present in the games and manga, as Giovanni is still in control of the organization. Instead, the anime tends to focus much more on higher-ranking Team Rocket members such as Domino, Vicious, Annie and Oakley, who are field agents rather than administrators.

In the manga

Pokémon Special

Red/Blue/Green saga

Lt. Surge, Koga, and Sabrina are Team Rocket executives. Blaine, previously an executive, left the organization because of problems with Mewtwo. In the Yellow saga, the executives were recalled by Giovanni after he saw a battle between Lance and Yellow and realized he still had much to learn.

Gold/Silver/Crystal saga

Executives are replaced by two sub-leaders, Charmaine and Keane, while the real Leader is the Mask of Ice. Their designs are based on Executives from games.