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Revision as of 23:05, 10 October 2012
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Height
2'11" Imperial
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0.9 m Metric
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2'11"/0.9 m Red-Striped
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0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped
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0'0"/0.0 m
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Weight
66.1 lbs. Imperial
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30.0 kg Metric
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66.1 lbs./30.0 kg Red-Striped
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0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped
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0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
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EV yield
HP 1
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Atk 0
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Def 0
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Sp.Atk 0
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Sp.Def 0
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Speed 0
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Base Exp.: 90
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Battle Exp.: 901*
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Grimer (Japanese: ベトベター Betbeter) is a Poison-type Pokémon.
It evolves into Muk starting at level 38.
Biology
Physiology
Grimer is a purple pile of poisonous sludge with two arms that have hands with three fingers. 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 due to the billions of malodorous bacteria contained within its sludge. Since Grimer's body lacks a solid form, it can slip through the smallest of openings. Grimer's germ-infested entrails can also 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 Ghost-type 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, such as in very murky water and drains for example. 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 his friends 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.
A Grimer was among the Pokémon controlled by Cassidy and Butch in Pikachu Re-Volts.
A Grimer was one of the sick Pokémon in a Pokémon Center in Carrying On!.
Four Grimer appear in a flashback in The Joy of Water Pokémon as former inhabitants of Lake Lucid before becoming the clean lake it is now.
Pokédex entries
Episode
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Pokémon
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Source
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Entry
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DP088
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Grimer
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Dawn's Pokédex
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Grimer, the Sludge Pokémon. It was born when sludge in a dirty stream was exposed to X-rays from the moon.
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In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures 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 Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga
Koga owns a Grimer in the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga.
In the TCG
- Main article: Grimer (TCG)
Game data
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation I.
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Generation I
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Red
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Appears in filthy areas. Thrives by sucking up polluted sludge that is pumped out of factories.
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Blue
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Yellow
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Made of hardened sludge. It smells too putrid to touch. Even weeds won't grow in its path.
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Stadium
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Sludge that was transformed when exposed to X-rays from the moon. Loves sludge, industrial waste and other refuse.
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Generation II
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Gold
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As it moves, it loses bits of its body from which new Grimer emerge. This worsens the stench around it.
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Silver
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Wherever Grimer has passed, so many germs are left behind that no plants will ever grow again.
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Crystal
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When two of these Pokémon's bodies are combined together, new poisons are created.
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Stadium 2
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As it moves, it loses bits of its body from which new Grimer emerge. This worsens the stench around it.
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Generation III
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Ruby
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Grimer's sludgy and rubbery body can be forced through any opening, however small it may be. This Pokémon enters sewer pipes to drink filthy wastewater.
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Sapphire
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Grimer emerged from the sludge that settled on a polluted seabed. This Pokémon loves anything filthy. It constantly leaks a horribly germ- infested fluid from all over its body.
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Emerald
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Born from polluted sludge in the sea, Grimer's favorite food is anything filthy. They feed on wastewater pumped out from factories.
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FireRed
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Sludge exposed to X rays from the moon transformed into Grimer. It loves feeding on filthy things.
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LeafGreen
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Appears in filthy areas. It thrives by sucking up polluted sludge that is pumped out of factories.
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Generation IV
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Diamond
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It was born when sludge in a dirty stream was exposed to the moon's X-rays. It appears among filth.
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Pearl
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Platinum
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HeartGold
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As it moves, it loses bits of its body from which new Grimer emerge. This worsens the stench around it.
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SoulSilver
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Wherever Grimer has passed, so many germs are left behind that no plants will ever grow again.
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Generation V
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Black
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It was born when sludge in a dirty stream was exposed to the moon's X-rays. It appears among filth.
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White
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Black 2
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Born from sludge, these Pokémon now gather in polluted places and increase the bacteria in their bodies.
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White 2
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Game locations
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation I.
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In side games
Held items
Stats
Base stats
Stat
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Range
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At Lv. 50
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At Lv. 100
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80
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140 - 187
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270 - 364
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80
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76 - 145
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148 - 284
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50
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49 - 112
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94 - 218
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40
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40 - 101
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76 - 196
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50
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49 - 112
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94 - 218
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25
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27 - 84
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49 - 163
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Total: 325
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Other Pokémon with this total
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- Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and (if applicable) a hindering nature.
- Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and (if applicable) a helpful nature.
- This Pokémon's Special base stat in Generation I was 40.
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Pokéathlon stats
Type effectiveness
Under normal battle conditions in Generation V, this Pokémon is:
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Learnset
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Grimer
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Grimer
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see level-up moves from other generations
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Special moves
Side game data
Evolution
Sprites
Trivia
- Grimer and Gastly are the only Pokémon who don't change weight during evolution.
- 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 from 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 3D 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-Ghost-type Pokémon to learn this move.
- 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.
Origin
It appears to be a pile of living sludge. Grimer may also be based on the imagined fear that heavy pollution, caused by the leakage and/or improper disposal of toxic/radioactive waste, may result in the creation of new and undesirable life.
Name origin
Grimer is derived from grime (dirt or filth).
Betbeter may be derived from べとべと betobeto and べたべた betabeta, both meaning sticky.
In other languages
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Title
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Meaning
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Japanese
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ベトベター Betbeter
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From べとべと betobeto and べたべた betabeta, both meaning sticky
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French
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Tadmorv
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From tas de morve
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Spanish
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Grimer
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Same as English name
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German
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Sleima
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A tweaking of Schleim
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Italian
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Grimer
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Same as English name
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Korean
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질퍽이 Jilpeogi
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From 질퍽하다 Jilpeoghada
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Mandarin Chinese
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臭泥 Chòuní
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Means "Foul sludge"
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Cantonese Chinese
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爛泥獸 Laahnnàihsau
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Means "Ooze beast"
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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 species, as well as Pokémon groups and forms.
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