Grimer
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Names
- English: Grimer
- Japanese: ベトベター (Betbeter)
- German: Sleima
- French: Tadmorv
Number(s)
- National: 88
- Hoenn: 106
- Johto: 116
Gender
♂ 50% - ♀ 50%
Egg Group(s)
Inteterminate
Evolution
| Basic | Stage One |
|---|---|
Size
- Height: 0.9 m / 2’11”
- Weight: 30.0 kg / 66.1 lbs.
Damage Taken
- ×½: Fighting, Poison, Bug, Grass
- ×2: Ground, Psychic
Ability effects are not included.
Base Stats
| Stat | Rank | E.P. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sum | 325 | ||
| HP | 32 | 1 | |
| Attack | 33 | 0 | |
| Defense | 58 | 0 | |
| Sp.Atk | 62 | 0 | |
| Sp.Def | 55 | 0 | |
| Speed | 65 | 0 | |
Ability
- Stench
- Game's description
- The stench helps keep wild Pokémon away.
- Map effect
- If the Pokémon is in the lead spot, chance of encountering a wild Pokémon decreases to 50%. In Battle Pyramid, it decreases to 75%.
- Sticky Hold
- Game's description
- Protects the Pokémon from item theft.
- Battle effect
- This Pokémon’s item cannot be taken.
- Map effect
- If the Pokémon is in the lead spot, when fishing, Pokémon are easier to catch.
Wild Item
- Diamond/Pearl
- Nugget (5%)
Pal Park
- Area: Field
- Points: 50
- Encounter rate: 30
Miscellaneous
- Species: Sludge Pokémon
- Steps to hatch: 5,120
- Color: Purple
- Catch Rate: 190
- Base Tameness: 70
- Growth Group: Medium Fast
1,000,000 exp. points to Lv100
Location
- Diamond
- Route 212 [Rare, (Pokédar)]
- Pearl
- Route 212 [Rare, (Pokédar)]
Pokédex Flavour (description)
- Red/Blue
- Appears in filthy areas. Thrives by sucking up polluted sludge that is pumped out of factories.
- Yellow
- Made of hardened sludge. It smells too putrid to touch. Even weeds won't grow in its path.
- Gold
- As it moves, it loses bits of its body from which new GRIMER emerge. This worsens the stench around it.
- Silver
- Wherever GRIMER has passed, so many germs are left behind that no plants will ever grow again.
- Crystal
- When two of these POKéMON's bodies are combined together, new poisons are created.
- Ruby
- 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.
- Sapphire
- 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.
- Emerald
- Born from polluted sludge in the sea, GRIMER's favorite food is anything filthy. They feed on wastewater pumped out from factories.
- Fire Red
- Sludge exposed to X rays from the moon transformed into GRIMER. It loves feeding on filthy things.
- Leaf Green
- Appears in filthy areas. It thrives by sucking up polluted sludge that is pumped out of factories.
- Diamond
- It was born when sludge in a dirty stream was exposed to the moon’s X-rays. It appears among filth.
- Pearl
- It was born when sludge in a dirty stream was exposed to the moon’s X-rays. It appears among filth.
