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Grimer

Fossil / #48/62

Grimer

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Fossil
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Mitsuhiro Arita
Source reference
base3-48

CARDEX BACKGROUND

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
50
Type (source)
Grass
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
88
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Psychic ×2

Printed card text — English

Quoted source text is retained in the card’s printed language so this exact printing can be identified. The CarDex background above is translated into English.

Description from the source

Appears in filthy areas. Thrives by sucking up polluted sludge that is pumped out of factories.

Attacks

Nasty Goo

Cost: Colorless

Damage: 10

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Minimize

Cost: Grass

All damage done by attacks to Grimer during your opponent's next turn is reduced by 20 (after applying Weakness and Resistance).

Documented variants

Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.

  • Normal
  • First Edition
  • normal · galaxy · standard
  • normal · galaxy · standard · 1st-edition
  • normal · 1999-2000-copyright · standard

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