Team Rocket Grunt

Team Rocket Grunt fields 2 Pokémon between level 30 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: DarkNormalPoison

	Pokémon	Ability & item	Moves	Base stats
	Raticate Lv 33 Normal	Also has Growing Tooth, Defensive Maneuver, Plague Spreading — innates are always active · Picks one of Run Away, Guts, Hustle	Hyper Fang Crunch Quick Attack Super Fang	HP55Attack81Defense60Sp. Atk50Sp. Def70Speed97Total413
	Golbat Lv 30 PoisonDark	Also has Levitate, Leech Fangs — innates are always active · Picks one of Inner Focus, Infiltrator	Crunch Poison Fang Roost Wing Attack	HP75Attack80Defense70Sp. Atk65Sp. Def75Speed90Total455

How to beat this team

Shared weaknesses. Fighting hits 1 of 2, Ground hits 1 of 2.

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

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

• Croagunk — Route 118
• Crabrawler — Route 115, Lv 4
• Machop — Fiery Path
• Pancham — Route 112
• Sawk — Fiery Path
• Throh — Fiery Path
• Timburr — Fiery Path
• Heracross — Lagoon of Fury, Lv 10

Open in the interactive guide Build a team for this point