Team Magma Grunt (Trainer class)
| Team Magma Grunt マグマだんのしたっぱ Team Magma Underling | |
 Art from Ruby and Sapphire | |
| Introduced in | Generation III |
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| Appears in | Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald |
| Gender | Both |
| Anime debut | AG002|A Ruin with a View |
| TCG debut | EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua |
| TCG card | Team Magma Schemer, Team Magma Conspirator |
A Team Magma Grunt (Japanese: マグマだんのしたっぱ Team Magma Underling) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that first debuted in the Generation III games. They are the peons of Team Magma. There are male and female versions, but they all dress in the recognizable red outfits associated with Team Magma.
In Pokémon Ruby, they serve alongside the primary antagonists while in Pokémon Sapphire, they assist the player in stopping Team Aqua. In Pokémon Emerald, Team Magma Grunts share the role of the antagonists alongside the Team Aqua Grunts.
They generally use a combination of Ground-type, Fire-type, Poison-type, and Dark-type Pokémon.
Appearance
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| Sprites from Ruby and Emerald |
Overworld sprite from Generation III |
In the games
- Main article: Team Aqua → In the games
In Ruby, Team Magma grunts first appear in the Petalburg Woods, where the Devon Corporation man is looking for a Shroomish when a grunt assaults him and the player challenges him in battle. The next encounter is in Rusturf Tunnel, where the grunt takes the Devon Goods and Mr. Briney's Peeko. Their third encounter is in the Oceanic Museum, forcing Capt. Stern to fork over the goods. At Meteor Falls, they steal the Meteorite from Professor Cozmo, but are stopped by Archie and Team Aqua. Then at Mt. Chimney, they use its power to expand the world's land mass. After they fail, they move on to the Weather Institute to steal the Pokémon Castform. Then they go to Mt. Pyre to get the Blue Orb. They return to Slateport City for the submarine at they take it to their hideout in Lilycove City. Their final encounter is at Seafloor Cavern, where they plan to use the Blue Orb to awaken Groudon, only to learn that it causes intense sunlight. After Groudon is taken care of, the grunts are never seen again.
In Sapphire, they are the player's ally to stop Team Aqua's plans from succeeding to expand the sea.
In Emerald, they again take over Mt. Chimney. Then, their hideout has been moved to the center of Jagged Pass, where Groudon is sleeping in their new hideout. After that, they are finally fought at the Mossdeep Space Center, in an attempt to steal the fuel to make Mt. Chimney erupt.」 After that fails, they then go after Team Aqua to stop their plans at Seafloor Cavern.
Pokémon
This is a list of Pokémon they use for battle.
In Ruby
 Zubat |
 Poochyena |
 Numel |
In Emerald
| 64 Zubat |
64 Poochyena |
64 Mightyena |
64 Numel |
64 Baltoy |
In the anime
Team Magma grunts have made several appearances in the anime, using their Pokémon to infiltrate a target or to help Tabitha out. A group of Magma grunts made their first appearance in A Ruin with a View, where they tried to find ancient Pokémon in the ruins under Oldale Town. They use Professor Alden to guide them there, and after collecting data from the ruins, escape in their helicopter. In A Three Team Scheme!, they dig into a special shrine underground on Dewford Island, searching for Groudon and the Cave of Origin.
In The Spheal of Approval, two grunts, along with Tabitha, try to steal a curious stone linked with Groudon from the Oceanic Museum. They successfully escape with most of the stone. They appear again in Fight for the Meteorite! where they steal a meteorite from Professor Cozmo and use it to power a machine to disturb Mt. Chimney. They battle Team Aqua and win, but their plans are ruined by Ash and his friends. Their last appearance is in Gaining Groudon! and The Scuffle of Legends!, where the awakening of Groudon and Kyogre causes mass destruction before the two Pokémon calm down. No Team Magma grunts are seen again after this episode, with the exception of Brodie, who appears in The Ribbon Cup Caper.
Pokémon
This listing is of Team Magma Grunts' Pokémon in the Pokémon anime:
| Debut | A Ruin with a View |
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Team Magma grunts have many Houndoom they use in their evil plans. In A Ruin with a View they used them to infiltrate a Pokémon Center so they would not get in their way. Then Team Rocket attack and send out Arbok and Weezing who are too scared to fight and return into their Poké Balls. They make a brief appearance in a flashback in A Three Team Scheme!.
Houndoom's only known move is Roar.
| Debut | A Three Team Scheme! |
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Team Magma grunts have many Mightyena they use in their evil plans. In A Three Team Scheme! they used them to scare away Team Rocket from where they are digging. They appear again in The Spheal of Approval where it uses a Shadow Ball to stop Captain Stern from intervening. It then along with Tabitha's Mightyena tries to stop Ash and his friends including Marius and Stern from taking their briefcase by use Hyper Beam before escaping.
In Fight for the Meteorite! they used them along with their Golbat to battle Team Aqua's Crawdaunt and Walrein. Golbat and Mightyena are able to faint all of their Pokémon. Its final appearances were in Gaining Groudon! where it infiltrated Ash and his friends. Then when Pikachu absorbs the Blue Orb it faints them. In the next episode they battle Team Aqua Walrein.
Mightyena's known moves are Shadow Ball and Hyper Beam.
| Debut | Fight for the Meteorite! |
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Team Magma grunts have many Golbat they use in their evil plans. In Fight for the Meteorite! they used them along with their Mightyena to battle Team Aqua's Crawdaunt and Walrein. Golbat and Mightyena are able to faint all of their Pokémon.
Golbat's only known move is Air Cutter.
Trivia
- In the English-language dub of Gaining Groudon, Tabitha directly addresses one Magma grunt as Derek. This makes him one of the very few villainous team grunts in the franchise to have a confirmed name.
In other languages
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See also
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 Team Magma
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| Team Magma Hideout • Jagged Pass Hideout | ||
| Leader | Administrators | |
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| Maxie (Masters) | Tabitha | Courtney (Masters) |
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| Team Magma Grunts • Butler (Jirachi: Wish Maker) Brodie (Pokémon the Series) • Blaise (Adventures) | ||
| Former members | ||
| Zinnia (Masters) | ||
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