Team Rocket has been back on Pokémon Go in recent months, constantly becoming a bigger problem in the mobile game as they use their Shadow Pokémon to invade Pokéstops. Players have a chance to defeat the numerous recruits that invade these places, and any player who defeats a Team Rocket Grunt has a chance to receive a Shadow Pokémon reward and a Mystery Component. These components will be used to create a Rocket radar to find Sierra, Arlo or Cliff, the three leaders of Team Go Rocket.
Which Shadow Pokémon you can catch from these grunts depends on the one you're fighting against. During the Luminous Legends Y event, at the end of Season of Legends, Team Rocket Grunts will receive new Shadow Pokémon rosters and new rewards. For those looking for the new Shadow Pokémon to catch, you'll want to fight off as many grunts as you can come across.
Below we will list Team Rocket's recruit squads and their rewards, and this is a list that we are constantly updating.
Team Rocket recruits Pokémon teams and rewards Shadow Pokémon
| Type of team | Team Rocket grunt genre and dialogue | First Pokémon | Second Pokémon | Third Pokémon | Pokémon Shadow Reward |
| Ace | Female: "Winning is for the winners or ... Prepare to be defeated or ... Don't worry, I've already won!" | Snorlax | Polywrath gardevoir |
Dragonite | Snorlax |
| Insect | Male: "Go, my super bug Pokémon!" | Shuckle Snorith crust |
pinsir Venomoth |
scythera Beedrill Scizor |
Anorith crust Shuckle |
| Dark | Woman: “Where there is light, there is also shadow”. | Poochyena Murkrow |
mightyena Sableye |
cacturne Shiftry |
Poochyena Murkrow mightyena Sableye |
| Dragon | Female: “Roar! How does it sound? " | Dratint | Dragonair | Gyarados | Dratint |
| Electric | Woman: "Prepare to be shocked!" | power Electrabuzz |
Electrabuzz Flaaffy |
Electrabuzz pelipper |
power Electrabuzz |
| Pugnacious | Female: "This buff physique isn't just for show!" | mauhita machop |
tired | hitmonchan Hariyama hitmonlee |
mahita machop |
| Fire | Female: "Do you know how hot Pokémon's fiery breath can get?" | vulpix magmar |
Ninetals magmar |
Ninetals Charmeleon |
vulpix magmar Ninetals |
| Flying | Female: "Battle my Flying-type Pokémon!" | starly toothed |
Golbat staravia |
Crobat Dragonite Gyarados |
starly toothed |
| Ghost | Maschio: “I'm never here! ' | dusk Shuppet |
Banette | dusknoir Sableye |
dusk Shuppet |
| Erba | Male: "Don't mess with me!" | Hoppip Tangela strange |
Tangela quota Skiploom |
Vileplum Victreebel Shiftry |
Hoppip Tangela strange quota Skiploom |
| Land | Male: "You will be defeated in the ground!" | Diglett Swinub |
Marowak vibrato |
Gliscor Flygon |
Diglett Swinub |
| Ice | Female: "You will be frozen in your tracks." | spheal Snover |
cloyster Swinub sealeo |
Lapras abomasnow |
spheal Snover cloyster Swinub sealeo |
| Normal | Male: “Normal doesn't mean weak”. | Teddiursa | Porygon2 rationale |
Snorlax Poryzon-Z |
Teddiursa |
| Poison | Female: "Rolled up and ready to strike!" | grinmer crust Nidoran |
Nidorina Nidorino |
I have Weezing muk |
grinmer crust Nidoran (female) |
| Psychic | Male: "Are you afraid of psychics who use invisible powers?" | Slowpoke Wobbuffet |
cadabra Drowzee hypnotic |
exeggutor Kirlia |
Slowpoke Wobbuffet |
| Rock music | Male: "Let's rock and roll!" | nasal Arona |
Lairon Pupitar Larvitar |
Pupitar Tyranitar |
nasal Aron Lairon Pupitar Larvitar |
| Acqua | Female: "These waters are treacherous!" | spheal Horse poliwag |
marshtomp Quagsire |
politoed Polywrath |
spheal Horse Pliwag |
| Acqua | Male: "These waters are treacherous!" | Magikarp | Magikarp | Magikarp Gyarados |
Magikarp |
