Team Plasma Grunt (Trainer class)
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| Team Plasma Grunt ギンガだんのしたっぱ Team Plasma Underling | |
 Art from Black and White | |
| Introduced in | Generation V |
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| Appears in | Black and White |
| Gender | Both |
| Manga debut | An Odd Speech (Adventures) |
A Team Plasma Grunt (Japanese: プラズマだんのしたっぱ Team Plasma Underling) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that first debuted in the Generation V games. They are the grunts of Team Plasma. There are male and female versions and they all dress similarly to knights from the Middle Ages. Many of them use Patrat, Sandile, Scraggy, Purrloin, Trubbish along with their respective evolutions.
Team Plasma Grunts are hypocritical, as they fight for Pokémon liberation yet keep their own Pokémon to battle with, unlike N, who seems to catch nearby wild Pokémon for battle and release them after, as well as the Seven Sages, who refrain from battling and call upon Grunts instead. In fact: N, Ghetsis and Grunts, are the only Team Plasma members to even battle the player. Although they preach living in peace with Pokémon, some of them still abuse Pokémon, such as two grunts kicking a Munna for its Dream Mist. They also treat Pokémon as tools, such as when one grunt states that N's Castle was built by overworking the Pokémon they had captured.
Appearance
Black and White
The uniforms of Team Plasma's Grunts appear to include armor or parts of clothing that merely look like armor. The black cords on the top front of their hoods either function to hold it together (a two-piece hood) or are simply an aesthetic addition.
Black 2 and White 2
The new Team Plasma has switched over to a uniform that is darker and more militaristic in appearance and functionality. However, the old knight uniform Team Plasma still exist as well.
 
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In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
Two Team Plasma Grunts made their first appearance in An Odd Speech where they accidentally disturbed the camping site of Black and White while they were building a stage. After showing them that they have the proper permit to build the stage, Black and White apologize for sleeping there and move to another location to let them finish building.
Three female Plasma Grunts make an appearance at the Dreamyard in Battle at the Dreamyard where they capture Black's Munna, Musha. After tracking them down, Black faces the Grunts in battle and defeats them, retrieving his Musha in the process.
The same three Grunts return in The Mystery of the Missing Fossil where they steal the Template:Type2 Fossil held in the Nacrene Museum. Using a Cofagrigus to manipulate the skeleton, they were able to make it walk around as if it was alive. They were stopped by Black and the Gym Leader Burgh when they defeated the Cofagrigus.
A Plasma Grunt takes Bianca's Litwick in Big City Battles with the help of his Amoonguss. Black, Iris, White and Burgh help Bianca retrieve her missing Pokémon by defeating the Amoonguss in which Black was able to do so by using Nite as he had the type-advantage against Amoonguss.
Three other Plasma Grunts make an appearance in At Liberty on Liberty Garden at an island called Liberty Garden. They were after the Victini that was in there. However, the Grunts were stopped thanks to Black and his team.
Pokémon
| Debut | An Odd Speech |
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These Timburr were used to build a stage for an upcoming speech in Accumula Town. Mistaking them for attackers, Black stopped one of them but apologized once he realized his mistake.
None of their moves are known.
| Debut | Battle at the Dreamyard |
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Watchog was used to attack Black so the three Grunts could steal his Musha. Because Black only saw its striped pattern when he was attacked, he mistook the pattern as the face of a much larger Pokémon. Later, Watchog battled Black again but was defeated when Black exposed its true form which allowed him to know where to attack.
None of Watchog's moves are known.
Cofagrigus was used to manipulate the Template:Type2 Fossil to make it appear to move. It was eventually found out by Black and was defeated with the help of Burgh.
None of its moves are known.
| Debut | Big City Battles |
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Amoonguss appeared when it knocked out Bianca in order for a Plasma grunt to take away her Litwick. In the next chapter, it was revealed that it put Bianca to sleep with its spores. Black had a battle with it using his newly evolved Pignite at the time and defeated Amoonguss.
Amoonguss's only known move is Spore.
While Team Plasma were at Liberty Garden to catch Victini, one of the grunts had Gothitelle create a psychic force field to prevent anyone from leaving the island. Later, it hypnotized the people (except for Black, White and Team Plasma themselves) to drive them away. Afterwards, Gothitelle went after the Victini with Black's Brav on the trail. Gothitelle was able to dodge most of Brav's attacks and severely hurt him after he stood in front of Victini to protect it. However, Gothitelle ended up getting hit by Brav when he received a power-up from Victini earlier and finishes Gothitelle off with Brave Bird, defeating it. With Gothitelle defeated, the psychic force field wears off and the hypnosis wears off as well. With everything back to normal, Team Plasma withdraw from Liberty Garden.
Gothitelle's known moves are Hypnosis, Teleport, Psyshock and Psychic.
| Debut | Sandstorm |
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A Team Plasma Grunt in disguise as a worker used a Maractus after Elite Four member Grimsley found out that he was not one of the actual workers. Grimsley was able to take out Maractus using his Bisharp's Fury Cutter.
Maractus's known moves are Petal Dance and Cotton Guard.
 Team Plasma
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| P2 Laboratory • N's Castle • Plasma Frigate | |||||
| King | Mastermind | Acting leader | |||
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| N (Masters) | Ghetsis (Masters) | Colress (Masters) | |||
| Seven Sages | |||||
| Zinzolin • Gorm • Bronius • Ghetsis • Giallo • Ryoku • Rood | |||||
| Other members | |||||
| Anthea and Concordia • Shadow Triad • Team Plasma Grunts | |||||
| In other media | |||||
| Pokémon the Series: N • Aldith • Barret • Schwarz and Weiss Pokémon Adventures: N • Whitley • Whitley's mom Other manga: Togari (Fire and Thunder) | |||||
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