Grimer cards
Every Grimer card we could find. The priciest one we price is the one from 151 at $0.25, and the cheapest is $0.18.
- The Sludge Pokemon. Grimer is #88 in the National Pokedex.
- First English card. Fossil, October 10, 1999.
- Type. Poison in the video games, which is printed as Darkness on a card. The eleven card types.
- Generation 1, Kanto. One of the 151 species that generation introduced.
- Size. 0.9m (2ft 11in) and 30.0kg (66lb).
- Capture rate 190 of 255. Higher is easier to catch. This is about as easy to catch as the games get.
Artwork and Pokedex data from pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. Pokemon and Pokemon character names are trademarks of Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and GAME FREAK inc.
Priciest first
Every Grimer we price
3 of the 47 printings we can name are in sets we hold prices for. Tap a card to see it full size.
Prices are pricecharting.com's price guide value for an ungraded copy, read August 31, 2026. A guide value is computed across the sales PriceCharting tracks, which is a wider set of venues than any one marketplace. 2 cards of the 5,396 priced here are not listed by PriceCharting and keep their TCGplayer market price via TCGdex instead. Where a card comes as a normal, holo and reverse holo at different prices, the figure is the priciest of them. Prices move daily, so treat these as a ballpark. Search every card.
Evolution
The Grimer line
Grimer, which becomes Muk. Each one has its own page and its own cards. The evolution chart draws every line in the Pokedex.
- Grimer#88 • 47 cards
Muk#89 • 63 cards
Evolution line from the National Pokedex, pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. What each evolution actually takes differs between generations, so it is not stated here. Card counts are every printing we can name, in every language.
See these packs opened
We have filmed 18 rips of the 2 sets that print Grimer
Garbage Rips 585 is a Pokemon card pack opening channel out of Rochester, New York. We film every pack we open, hit or no hit.
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- Only Garbage Rips? 😬 | Destined Rivals Pack #9
- Destined Rivals Pack #8 ⚡ | Can We TOP The Mewtwo?! 😳
Everywhere else
Every other Grimer printing we could name
44 more from sets we do not price, English and Japanese. 34 have a scan and are pictured below. The other 10 we can name but not show. No price on these: we only quote what we can source. Printings whose name we could not translate are left out rather than shown under a name we guessed at.
Named, with no scan to show
- Team Aqua's Grimer Double Crisis • 7 Common
- Grimer GXバトルブースト • 034 Japanese
- Alolan Grimer Promos-A • 072 One Diamond • TCG Pocket, digital
- Grimer マグマ団VSアクア団 ダブルクライシス • 007 Common • Japanese
- Grimer まぼろしの森 • 004 Common • Japanese
- Grimer ロケット団 • 004 Common • Japanese
- Grimer ロケット団の逆襲 • 003 Common • Japanese
- Grimer 化石の秘密 • 003 Common • Japanese
- Grimer 地図にない町 • 003 Common • Japanese
- Grimer 闇からの挑戦 • 007 Common • Japanese
Card list from the TCGdex card database, read September 1, 2026. A snapshot, not a live feed.
In the video games
What beats Grimer
Damage taken by a Poison Pokemon, computed from the type chart. Everything not listed does normal damage.
- x2Ground and Psychic
- ½xGrass, Fighting, Poison, Bug and Fairy
This is the video game chart, not the card game. The Pokemon TCG has eleven types and no type chart at all: Weakness and Resistance are printed on each individual card, and two cards of the same Pokemon can print different ones. What the card actually says. Type relations from pokeapi.co, read August 17, 2026.