Team Aqua Grunt (Trainer class)

A Team Aqua Grunt (Japanese: アクアだんしたっぱ Team Aqua Underling) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that first debuted in the Generation III games. They are the peons of Team Aqua. There are male and female versions, but they all dress in the recognizable blue pirate style outfits associated with Team Aqua. Both male and female grunts have orange hair. They generally act as footsoldiers and guards for Team Aqua.

In the games

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

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

Appearance

Pokémon

Sapphire

Zubat

Poochyena

Carvanha

Emerald

In the anime

Team Aqua Agent

Team Aqua Grunts in the anime

Team Aqua Grunts have made subsequent appearances in the anime, normally using their Pokémon to infiltrate a target or to help Shelly out. One grunt is voiced by Darren Dunstan in English.

The first Aqua Grunt is introduced in Stairway to Devon where he infiltrated the Devon Corporation by disguising himself as a scientist and stole two capsules of "Creation Fluid". His plans were stopped by Team Rocket's Jessie and James, who intended to steal the same thing, all parties involved not realizing that "Creation Fluid" was nothing more than water. The same grunt appears again in the next episode where he uses his Crawdaunt to capture Mr. Briney's Peeko. Later Team Rocket appear and try and take Peeko of him but is sent blasting off by Crawdaunt. He tries to escape with Peeko, but in the end is stopped and he has to escape.

They appear again in Fight for the Meteorite! where they surrounded Professor Cozmo for a meteorite. They battle Team Magma and win but their plans are ruined by Ash and his friends. In A Three Team Scheme! three grunts appeared with Shelly to collect information on Team Magma. In Unfair-Weather Friends they infiltrated the Weather Institute, but their plans fail and they escape. Their last appearances in Gaining Groudon! and The Scuffle of Legends! is where they have awakened Groudon which causes mass destruction, but in the end Team Aqua are defeated.

Pokémon

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

		Crawdaunt (multiple)
		Team Aqua grunts have many Crawdaunt they use in their evil plans. In Stairway to Devon a grunt used one to battle Ash and his Pikachu Pikachu attacks with Quick Attack, but Crawdaunt retaliates with Crabhammer, before using BubbleBeam to escape. It appears again in the next episode where it is used to capture Mr. Briney's Peeko. Later it uses its BubbleBeam to send Team Rocket blasting off. Ash and Pikachu try and go on his boat to try to stop him, but Crawdaunt uses Water Pulse and sends the boat flying, in the end they have to escape without Peeko. Many appear in Fight for the Meteorite! where they take over Mt. Chimney and battle Team Magma's Mightyena and Golbat alongside Walrein and are defeated. In Unfair-Weather Friends one was used to infiltrate the Weather Institute along with Ash and his friends and two to battle Brodie. Crawdaunt's last appearance was in Gaining Groudon where they are guarding the submarine, but are defeated by James's Cacnea's Pin Missile. Crawdaunt's known moves are Crabhammer, BubbleBeam and Water Pulse.
Debut	Stairway to Devon

		Walrein (multiple)
		Team Aqua grunts have many Walrein they use in their evil plans. In Fight for the Meteorite! they used them along with their Crawdaunt and Shelly's Walrein to battle Team Magma's Mightyena and Golbat. Golbat and Mightyena are able to faint all of the Pokémon. Walrein's last appearance was in The Scuffle of Legends where they battled Team Magma's Mightyena. Walrein's only known move is Water Gun.
Debut	Fight for the Meteorite!

In other languages

Language Title French Sbire Aqua German Team Aqua Rüpel Italian Team Idro Recluta

See also

• Team Magma Grunt

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Leader	Administrators		Grunts
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Archie (Masters)	Matt	Shelly	Team Aqua Grunts		Zinnia (Masters)
Manga
Amber

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