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Team Rocket Grunt

1 team across all documented encounters, including rematches and partner appearances. Choose a location below to find the team used there.

Conditions can depend on story progress; see the quest guide for prerequisites. Teams are numbered by level for reference, not encounter order.

Encounters and locations

Where you battle this trainer
LocationBattle and conditionsTeam
Silph Co. 5F (R&D Center)trainer on the mapTeam 1 · Lv. 63–65

Muk · Girafarig · Sableye

Slowpoke Well B1Ftrainer on the mapTeam 1 · Lv. 63–65

Muk · Girafarig · Sableye

Full teams

A trainer’s held items are not necessarily obtainable; item pages list how to get them.

Team 1 · Lv. 63–65

Team Rocket GruntMuk 65 · Girafarig 63 · Sableye 64
Team Rocket Grunt’s team
PokémonLvAbilityItemNatureIVsMoves
65StenchBlack SludgeRash20 HP / 18 othersToxic, Minimize, Protect, Sludge Bomb
63AdaptabilitySitrus BerryImpish20 HP / 18 othersNasty Plot, Dazzling Gleam, Psychic, Signal Beam
64PranksterLeftoversSassy20 HP / 18 othersNight Shade, Fake Out, Confuse Ray, Protect

IVs show HP separately when it differs; “others” means each of the other five stats. No EV investment.

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