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Grimer

Plasma Freeze / #45/116

Grimer

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Plasma Freeze
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Hajime Kusajima
Source reference
bw9-45

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The Pokémon’s story

Grimer slips through the smallest openings and travels through sewer pipes in search of stagnant water. The Pokédex links its origin to polluted sludge and its gelatinous body's survival to its microbes. In a place that is too clean, it wastes away. As toxic discharges decrease, some entries even describe it as short of food. Its existence thus reveals an unsettling link between human-made pollution and a Pokémon dependent on it.

Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Ultra Moon presents the decline in toxic waste released by factories as a threat to Grimer. Pokémon Ultra Sun notes that its bacteria cannot thrive in an environment that is too clean. An improvement for residents can therefore weaken this species born from pollution.

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Card details

HP
70
Type (source)
Psychic
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
88
Retreat cost
2 Energy
Weakness (source)
Psychic ×2

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

Born from sludge, these Pokémon now gather in polluted places and increase the bacteria in their bodies.

Attacks

Lure Poison

Cost: Psychic

Flip a coin. If heads, switch 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon with the Defending Pokémon. The new Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Sludge Toss

Cost: Psychic · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 30

Documented variants

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  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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