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Grumpig
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326
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Spoink
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Spinda
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111
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Spoink
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Sandshrew
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ブーピッグ - Būpiggu
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Spoink
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Third
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Manipulate Pokémon
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Stage 1
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Psychic
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2 ft 11 in
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09
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158
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715
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Purple
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Its purple skin turns yellow
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Own Tempo or Thick Fat
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(ブーピッグ '''Būpiggu''' in
Japan , '''Groink''' in
Germany and '''Groret''' in
France ) is a
Fictional Character from the
Pokémon franchise.
Its name is clearly a
Portmanteau of the words "grumpy" and "pig". However, it does not seem that all Grumpig in the Pokemon world share this emotional trait.
Grumpig is a purple, bipedal pig-like Pokémon which wields powerful psychic powers. It uses the valuable black pearls on its body to harness and amplify its psychic powers. It can gain control over the movements and actions of its foes by expulsing psychic waves upon them, hence its designation as the Manipulate Pokemon. It appears to grow tired as it does this; its nose-snorting grows loud and tired-sounding.
It dances bizarrely when using its psychic energy. Its style of dancing is hugely popular in many foreign countries. It is also capable of bouncing great heights with its spring-like tail, which it inherited from its younger evolutionary stage,
Spoink .
The design of Grumpig is evidently inspired by the western expression "pearls before swine," only here the pearls are on the swine and are employed by it.
In order to be obtained, Grumpig must be evolved from Spoink at level 32.
Grumpig is used as a ''Trickbander''. A ''Trickbander'' is a Pokémon which, in battle, holds a ''Choice Band'' item and has the ''Trick'' attack in its movelist. The ''Trickbander'' uses ''Trick'' to give the foe ''Choice Band'', hence only allowing the foe to use 1 attack. This can be particularly destructive if the targeted Pokémon ends up using a move like ''Swords Dance'' or ''Iron Defense'' that increases the user's ability to attack or resist attack instead of dealing damage, as the victim will be forced to use only that non-offensive move until the opponent switches that Pokémon out for different Pokémon.
Before the release of
''Pokémon FireRed'' And ''LeafGreen'' , a variation of Grumpig known as "Subpiggy" was used as a defense against
Regice . Regice's few attacks could not overcome Grumpig's defenses and Thick Fat trait (which halves damage from fire or ice attacks), especially when Grumpig used "Substitute," a move that protects it from Regices relatively ineffective attacks. (Hence the name, "Subpiggy.") After the release of ''Pokémon FireRed'' and ''LeafGreen'', other Pokémon with higher statistics and a greater variety of available attacks gained access to Substitute, rendering "Subpiggy" obsolete.
In the U.S. version of the anime, Grumpig first appeared in episode #366, "Pokéblock, Stock & Berry!". The Grumpig in question belongs to a Pokémon coordinator named Kanata. The same Grumpig also appears in the next episode titled "Lessons in Lilycove", where the Lilycove Pokémon Contest begins and proceeds like all the other coordinator contests in
Hoenn . The contest ends with May's
Combusken and Kanata's Grumpig in a battle, which May wins, thus winning the contest and the prize ribbon.
Being of
The Latest Pokémon Generation , Grumpig has only recently been featured in the ''
Pokémon Trading Card Game ''. It has appeared in the following sets, all as stage 1 Psychic-types:
- ''EX Dragon''
- ''EX Deoxys''
- ''EX Emerald''
- ''EX Emerald''
