Grimer

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#088    Grimer

Type(s)

Poison

Generation

  I  

Abilities
Ability 1
Stench		 Ability 2
Sticky Hold		 Hidden Ability
Poison Touch

Rarity Tier

  Common  

Catch rate

  190/255 (24.84%)  

Base stats

HP
80

Atk
80

Def
50

Sp.Atk
40

Sp.Def
50

Spd
25

Base-stat total: 325
EV Yield

HP
1

Atk
0

Def
0

Sp.Atk
0

Sp.Def
0

Spd
0

EV-yield total: 1

Base Experience

  90  

Gender Ratio

    50%  
  50%    

Height

  0.9m  

Weight

  30kg  

Grimer is a Poison-type Pokémon.

It evolves into its only evolutionary outlet in Muk as early as level 38.

Obtainability

Wild

Land

Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Amazon Forest 10-14 Morning Day Night Black Sludge Common
Cinnabar Mansion 1 43-45 Morning Day Night Black Sludge Common
Cinnabar Mansion 2 43-45 Morning Day Night Smoke Ball Common
Cinnabar Mansion 3 43-45 Morning Day Night Black Sludge Common
Cinnabar Mansion B1F 43-45 Morning Day Night Common
Fiery Path 15-17 Morning Day Night Nugget Common
Power Plant 21-24 Morning Day Night Black Sludge Common
Route 16 22-24 Morning Day Night Black Sludge Common
Route 17 26-32 Night Black Sludge Common
Trainers Valley 45-50 Morning Day Night Black Sludge Common
  • Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly members-accessible
  • Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Water

Surfing
Location Levels Times Held Item Rod Rarity Tier
Celadon City 15-33 Morning Day Night Smoke Ball Common
  • All table rows with a fishing rod indicate that its corresponding Pokémon can also be fished with the rod tier shown
  • Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly members-accessible
  • Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Moves

Level-up

Level Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
— Poison Gas Poison Status — 90 40
— Pound Normal Physical 40 100 35
4 Harden Normal Status — — 30
7 Mud-Slap Ground Special 20 100 10
12 Disable Normal Status — 100 20
15 Sludge Poison Special 65 100 20
18 Mud Bomb Ground Special 65 85 10
21 Minimize Normal Status — — 10
26 Fling Dark Physical — 100 10
29 Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100 10
32 Sludge Wave Poison Special 95 100 10
37 Screech Normal Status — 85 40
40 Gunk Shot Poison Physical 120 80 5
43 Acid Armor Poison Status — — 20
46 Belch Poison Special 120 90 10
48 Memento Dark Status — 100 10
  • Emboldened moves denote this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • All moves subsumed on this list are relearnable via the Move Relearners if lost.

TMs/HMs

TM Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
TM6 Toxic Poison Status — 90 10
TM8 Body Slam Normal Physical 80 100 15
TM21 Mega Drain Grass Special 40 100 15
TM24 Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 15
TM25 Thunder Electric Special 110 70 10
TM28 Dig Ground Physical 80 100 10
TM34 Bide Normal Physical — — 10
TM38 Fire Blast Fire Special 110 85 5
TM44 Rest Psychic Status — — 10
TM48 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 10
TM60 Hidden Power Normal Special 60 100 15
TM61 Sunny Day Fire Status — — 5
TM62 Taunt Dark Status — 100 20
TM67 Protect Normal Status — — 10
TM68 Rain Dance Water Status — — 5
TM80 Shadow Ball Ghost Special 80 100 15
TM85 Flamethrower Fire Special 90 100 15
TM86 Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100 10
TM89 Rock Tomb Rock Physical 60 95 15
TM92 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 20
TM96 Thief Dark Physical 60 100 25
TM138 Sleep Talk Normal Status — — 10
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move’s obtainability.

TM-tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Frustration Normal Physical — 100 20
Zap Cannon Electric Special 120 50 5
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Move tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Dynamic Punch Fighting Physical 100 50 5
Explosion Normal Physical 250 100 5
Fire Punch Fire Physical 75 100 15
Giga Drain Grass Special 75 100 10
Gunk Shot Poison Physical 120 80 5
Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100 15
Pain Split Normal Status — — 20
Shock Wave Electric Special 60 — 20
Swagger Normal Status — 90 15
Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100 15
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Egg Moves

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Acid Spray Poison Special 40 100 20
Curse Ghost Status — — 10
Haze Ice Status — — 30
Imprison Psychic Status — — 10
Lick Ghost Physical 30 100 30
Mean Look Normal Status — — 5
Scary Face Normal Status — 100 10
Shadow Punch Ghost Physical 60 100 20
Shadow Sneak Ghost Physical 40 100 30
Spit Up Normal Special — 100 10
Stockpile Normal Status — 100 —
Swallow Normal Status — — 10
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • For more information on egg-move-tutors, refer to: Egg Moves.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:
 2×  Weak to  1×  Neutral to  ½×  Resistant to  0×  Immune to
Ground
Psychic
Fire
Water
Flying
Electric
Rock
Normal
Ghost
Ice
Dragon
Dark
Steel
Grass
Bug
Fighting
Poison
Fairy
None

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience Grimer requires to advance per level, as well as a comparative overview of how much less experience is needed to level up at the same levels than its evolution would require; this is informative for ascertaining how much experience can be saved if you were to delay its evolution to a later level.

Level XP Level-Up Differential Grimer-Muk Differential
1 72 8 61
2 79 7 66
3 113 34 119
4 202 89 239
5 372 170 447
6 650 278 761
7 1063 413 1204
8 1638 575 1795
9 2402 764 2553
10 3383 981 3500
11 4607 1224 4654
12 6101 1494 6036
13 7892 1791 7667
14 10008 2116 9567
15 12475 2467 11755
16 15320 2845 14251
17 18571 3251 17076
18 22254 3683 20250
19 26396 4142 23793
20 31025 4629 27726
21 36167 5142 32067
22 41850 5683 36838
23 48100 6250 42058
24 54945 6845 47748
25 62411 7466 53928
26 70526 8115 60617
27 79316 8790 67837
28 88809 9493 75607
29 99032 10223 83948
30 110012 10980 92879
31 121776 11764 102420
32 134351 12575 112592
33 147764 13413 123415
34 162042 14278 134909
35 177212 15170 147095
36 193302 16090 159992
37 210338 17036 173621
38 228347 18009 188002
39 247358 19011 203155
40 267396 20038 219100
41 288490 21094 235859
42 310666 22176 253449
43 333951 23285 271893
44 358373 24422 291212
45 383960 25587 311424
46 410737 26777 332549
47 438734 27997 354610
48 467976 29242 377625
49 498493 30517 401617
50 530310 31817 426604
51 563456 33146 452608
52 597958 34502 479649
53 633845 35887 507749
54 671143 37298 536927
55 709881 38738 567206
56 750087 40206 598605
57 791790 41703 631146
58 835017 43227 664851
59 879797 44780 699740
60 926160 46363 735837
61 974134 47974 773163
62 1023749 49615 811740
63 1075035 51286 851591
64 1128024 52989 892740
65 1182745 54721 935209
66 1239231 56486 979024
67 1297514 58283 1024211
68 1357630 60116 1070797
69 1419613 61983 1118807
70 1483501 63888 1168272
71 1549332 65831 1219222
72 1617148 67816 1271693
73 1686995 69847 1325722
74 1758922 71927 1381347
75 1832984 74062 1438617
76 1909242 76258 1497582
77 1987765 78523 1558304
78 2068636 80871 1620856
79 2151951 83315 1685324
80 2237826 85875 1751813
81 2326404 88578 1820456
82 2417862 91458 1891423
83 2512429 94567 1964931
84 2610400 97971 2041270
85 2712168 101768 2120826
86 2818260 106092 2204130
87 2929406 111146 2291926
88 3046631 117225 2385273
89 3171407 124776 2485713
90 3305900 134493 2595551
91 3453372 147472 2718315
92 3618882 165510 2859566
93 3810515 191633 3028350
94 4041657 231142 3239931
95 4335377 293720 3521167
96 4733352 397975 3921692
97 5315200 581848 4538720
98 6243660 928460 5576519
99 7880364 1636704 7503197
100 11119158 3238794 11516389

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

  • Original counterpart

  • Shiny Grimer

  • Jabba the Grimer

External Links

  • Grimer’s Bulbapedia
  • Grimer’s Serebii