Team Rocket Grunt (5)

Team Rocket Grunt (5) fields 2 Pokémon between level 32 and level 33 in Team Rocket Hideout.

This is around Beat Norman — Petalburg City Gym, badge 5 in the story — that page lists everything you can have caught by this point.

Types on this team: Bug ×2Poison ×2

	Pokémon	Ability & item	Moves	Base stats
	Ariados Lv 32 BugPoison	Also has Technician, Merciless, Weakness Exploit — innates are always active · Picks one of Petrifying Gaze, Infiltrator, Spider Lair	Neurotoxin Infestation Silk Trap Leech Life	HP70Attack90Defense70Sp. Atk60Sp. Def70Speed40Total400
	Scolipede Lv 33 BugPoison	Also has Swarm, Let It Rip!, Speed Force — innates are always active · Picks one of Poison Point, Speed Boost	Rollout Bug Bite Poison Tail Steamroller	HP60Attack100Defense89Sp. Atk55Sp. Def69Speed112Total485

How to beat this team

Shared weaknesses. Fire hits 2 of 2, Flying hits 2 of 2, Psychic hits 2 of 2, Rock hits 2 of 2.

Level to be ready for. Lv 33 — Scolipede, the highest on the team.

Fire Pokémon you can have caught by this point. From this guide’s own encounter tables, by Beat Norman — Petalburg City Gym, badge 5:

• Carkol — Magma Hideout
• Magmar — Magma Hideout
• Turtonator — Magma Hideout
• Charcadet — Jagged Pass, Lv 5
• Growlithe — Route 113
• Heatmor — Route 113
• Houndour — Route 113
• Litleo — Route 114

Open in the interactive guide Build a team for this point