Team Plasma Grunt (Trainer class)
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Team Plasma Grunt プラズマだんのしたっぱ Team Plasma Underling | |
Art from Black 2 and White 2 | |
Introduced in | Generation V |
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Appears in | Black and White Black 2 and White 2 |
Gender | Both |
Anime debut | BW112 |
Manga debut | An Odd Speech (Adventures) |
A Team Plasma Grunt (Japanese: プラズマだんのしたっぱ Team Plasma Underling) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that first debuted in the Generation V games. They are members of Team Plasma. There are male and female versions. In Black and White, they dress similarly to knights from the Middle Ages. In Black 2 and White 2, they have switched over to a uniform that is darker and more militaristic in appearance and functionality. However, the older uniform still exists in those games as well.
They tend to usually use Patrat, Sandile, Scraggy, Purrloin, and Trubbish along with their respective evolutions. In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, they are seen with a more diverse pool of Pokémon, using Pokémon from other regions, mainly consisting of Poison-, Steel-, and Dark-type Pokémon. They share a majority of their non-Unova Pokémon with Team Rocket Grunts.
In the games
In Pokémon Black and White, Team Plasma Grunts act hypocritically, as they fight for Pokémon liberation yet keep their own Pokémon to battle with. They defend themselves saying that their purposes are different from those from the regular Trainers, whereas N seems to catch nearby wild Pokémon for battle and release them after, and the Seven Sages refrain from battling and call upon grunts instead. In fact, N, Ghetsis and the Team Plasma Grunts are the only Team Plasma members to even battle the player. Although they preach living in peace with Pokémon, some of them still abuse Pokémon, such as two grunts kicking a Munna for its Dream Mist. They also treat Pokémon as tools, such as when one grunt states that N's Castle was built by overworking the Pokémon they had captured.
In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, Team Plasma is broken into two different forces, each with different purposes. One force still vows loyalty to N. They have seen the error of their ways and have decided to do good in Unova by setting up a safehouse in Driftveil City under the head of Rood and returning the Pokémon they stole to their Trainers as well as taking care of the ones that haven't been claimed. Some individual former members have gone on their own journeys to prove themselves such as Backpacker Mae at Victory Road. Ghetsis is the leader of the newer force, which intends to take over Unova. Many Team Plasma members sided with Ghetsis and hold a grudge against their former leader N for his betrayal, and wear their new uniforms as a sign of rebellion. Some grunts are clueless about the events that took place two years ago, hoping that N will someday return or have joined for the sake of continuing their careers. After the defeat of Ghetsis, Colress disbands the new Team Plasma and some of the members from this faction have decided to follow the new regime.
Appearance
Official artwork from Black and White |
Sprites from Black and White |
Overworld sprites from Generation V |
Sprites from Black 2 and White 2 |
Overworld sprites from Black 2 and White 2 |
Pokémon
Black and White
Patrat |
Watchog |
Purrloin |
Liepard |
Sandile |
Krokorok |
Krookodile |
Scraggy |
Scrafty |
Trubbish |
Garbodor |
Black 2 and White 2
Trainer List
Pokémon Black/White
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $400 | Lv.10 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $400 | Lv.10 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $480 | Lv.12 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $960 | Lv.12 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $960 | Lv.12 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $640 | Lv.16 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $640 | Lv.16 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $640 | Lv.16 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $560 | Lv.14 |
Lv.14 |
Lv.14 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $680 | Lv.17 |
Lv.17 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $720 | Lv.18 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $680 | Lv.17 |
Lv.17 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $720 | Lv.18 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $680 | Lv.17 |
Lv.17 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $800 | Lv.20 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $720 | Lv.18 |
Lv.18 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $920 | Lv.23 |
Lv.23 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $960 | Lv.24 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $960 | Lv.24 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $920 | Lv.23 |
Lv.23 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1040 | Lv.26 |
Lv.26 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1120 | Lv.28 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $1080 | Lv.27 |
Lv.27 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $1040 | Lv.26 |
Lv.26 |
Lv.26 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1080 | Lv.27 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $1120 | Lv.28 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1080 | Lv.27 |
Lv.27 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1360 | Lv.34 |
Lv.34 |
Lv.34 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1400 | Lv.35 |
Lv.35 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $1440 | Lv.36 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1440 | Lv.36 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $1360 | Lv.34 |
Lv.34 |
Lv.34 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1400 | Lv.35 |
Lv.35 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $1400 | Lv.35 |
Lv.35 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $2560 | Lv.64 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1360 | Lv.34 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $1360 | Lv.34 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1360 | Lv.34 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $1320 | Lv.33 |
Lv.33 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1280 | Lv.32 |
Lv.32 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1320 | Lv.33 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1360 | Lv.34 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $1320 | Lv.33 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1360 | Lv.34 |
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Pokémon Black 2/White 2
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Trainer name | Battle | Winnings | Pokémon | |||||
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $560 | Lv.14 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $560 | Lv.14 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂* | Initial battle | $1280 | Lv.16 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂* | Initial battle | $1280 | Lv.16 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1080 | Lv.27 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $1080 | Lv.27 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1200 | Lv.30 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1200 | Lv.30 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂* | Initial battle | $2320 | Lv.29 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂* | Initial battle | $2320 | Lv.29 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂* | Initial battle | $2320 | Lv.29 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂* | Initial battle | $2320 | Lv.29 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂* | Initial battle | $9480 | Lv.39 |
Lv.39 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1760 | Lv.44 |
Lv.44 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀ | Initial battle | $1760 | Lv.44 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1760 | Lv.44 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂ | Initial battle | $1840 | Lv.45 |
Lv.45 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♂* | Initial battle | $3680 | Lv.46 |
Lv.46 |
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Team Plasma Grunt♀* | Initial battle | $3680 | Lv.46 |
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In the anime
Several Plasma Grunts are set to make an appearance in their pirate outfits in BW112, an episode of the upcoming Best Wishes! Season 2: Episode N.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Two Team Plasma Grunts made their first appearance in An Odd Speech where they accidentally disturbed the camping site of Black and White while they were building a stage. After showing them that they have the proper permit to build the stage, Black and White apologize for sleeping there and move to another location to let them finish building.
Three female Plasma Grunts make an appearance at the Dreamyard in Battle at the Dreamyard where they capture Black's Munna, Musha. After tracking them down, Black faces the Grunts in battle and defeats them, retrieving his Musha in the process.
The same three Grunts return in The Mystery of the Missing Fossil where they steal the Dragon-type Fossil held in the Nacrene Museum. Using a Cofagrigus to manipulate the skeleton, they were able to make it walk around as if it was alive. They were stopped by Black and the Gym Leader Burgh when they defeated the Cofagrigus.
A Plasma Grunt takes Bianca's Litwick in Big City Battles with the help of his Amoonguss. Black, Iris, White and Burgh help Bianca retrieve her missing Pokémon by defeating the Amoonguss in which Black was able to do so by using Nite as he had the type-advantage against Amoonguss.
Three other Plasma Grunts make an appearance in At Liberty on Liberty Garden at an island called Liberty Garden. They were after the Victini that was in there. However, the Grunts were stopped thanks to Black and his team.
Pokémon
Debut | An Odd Speech |
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These Timburr were used to build a stage for an upcoming speech in Accumula Town. Mistaking them for attackers, Black stopped one of them but apologized once he realized his mistake.
None of Timburr's moves are known.
Debut | Battle at the Dreamyard |
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Watchog was used to attack Black so the three Grunts could steal his Musha. Because Black only saw its striped pattern when he was attacked, he mistook the pattern as the face of a much larger Pokémon. Later, Watchog battled Black again but was defeated when Black exposed its true form which allowed him to know where to attack. Afterward, it was adopted by Fennel and Amanita.
None of Watchog's moves are known.
Cofagrigus was used to manipulate the Dragon-type Fossil to make it appear to move. It was eventually found out by Black and was defeated with the help of Burgh.
None of Cofagrigus's moves are known.
Debut | Big City Battles |
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Amoonguss appeared when it knocked out Bianca in order for a Plasma grunt to take away her Litwick. In the next chapter, it was revealed that it put Bianca to sleep with its spores. Black had a battle with it using his newly evolved Pignite at the time and defeated Amoonguss.
Amoonguss's only known move is Spore.
While Team Plasma were at Liberty Garden to catch Victini, one of the grunts had Gothitelle create a psychic force field to prevent anyone from leaving the island. Later, it hypnotized the people (except for Black, White and Team Plasma themselves) to drive them away. Afterwards, Gothitelle went after the Victini with Black's Brav on the trail. Gothitelle was able to dodge most of Brav's attacks and severely hurt him after he stood in front of Victini to protect it. However, Gothitelle ended up getting hit by Brav when he received a power-up from Victini earlier and finishes Gothitelle off with Brave Bird, defeating it. With Gothitelle defeated, the psychic force field wears off and the hypnosis wears off as well. With everything back to normal, Team Plasma withdraw from Liberty Garden.
None of Gothitelle's moves are known.
Debut | Sandstorm |
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A Team Plasma Grunt in disguise as a worker used a Maractus after Elite Four member Grimsley found out that he was not one of the actual workers. Grimsley was able to take out Maractus using his Bisharp's Fury Cutter.
Maractus's known moves are Petal Dance and Cotton Guard.
Debut | ABW31 |
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Vanillite was sent out to attack Black at the Cold Storage. By creating a wall of ice that acted like mirrors, Vanillite managed to confuse Black. By using Berries to focus Nite's flames, Black managed to melt the ice and quickly knocked Vanillite out.
None of Vanillite's moves are known.
Debut | ABW31 |
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Two Beartic were sent out to attack Black at the Cold Storage after Vanillite was defeated. By using their ice attacks, they prevented Black's Nite from attacking. After Black and Cheren rescued Cheren's Snivy, the Beartic were defeated by a combination of Grass and Fire Pledge.
Beartic's only known move is Icicle Crash.
Team Plasma | |||||
P2 Laboratory • N's Castle • Plasma Frigate | |||||
King | Mastermind | Acting leader | |||
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N (Masters) | Ghetsis (Masters) | Colress (Masters) | |||
Seven Sages | |||||
Zinzolin • Gorm • Bronius • Ghetsis • Giallo • Ryoku • Rood | |||||
Other members | |||||
Anthea and Concordia • Shadow Triad • Team Plasma Grunts | |||||
In other media | |||||
Pokémon the Series: N • Aldith • Barret • Schwarz and Weiss Pokémon Adventures: N • Whitley • Whitley's mom Other manga: Togari (Fire and Thunder) |
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