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The Team Rocket trio inside a typical mecha

Team Rocket's mechas usually refers to mechas used by Jessie, James, and Meowth in one of their wild schemes. Throughout the anime, Team Rocket has had many robots and machines. It is unknown how they get them, since they usually have little money, and how they are transported to the location it is to be used at. Most of the time, the robots fail to accomplish their functions and are destroyed, some even before getting a chance to be used. They first appeared in Pokémon Emergency! with the debut of the Meowth Balloon.

In the anime

Recurring mechas

Meowth Balloon

The Meowth Balloon has often been Team Rocket's main mode of transportation, first used in Pokémon Emergency!. It can be given many attachments including rockets, vacuums, nets, fists, and cages. The balloon has been changed on certain occasions as well. It was changed to other Pokémon, such as Wobbuffet or Gliscor, and even items, as in a Poké Ball. As such any of the Pokémon's most powerful attacks (usually Pikachu's Thunderbolt) may successfully destroy it. It appeared regularly until Pokémon the Series: Black & White.

The original balloon design was a Meowth head with a raised paw and tail at the back. The basket was green and had two beige sandbags.

In Enter Iris and Axew, they used a new football-shaped purple balloon with the new Team Rocket logo on it and a gray basket. The balloon was extended from their briefcase, but was destroyed by Ash's Oshawott. It hasn't been seen ever since. They later started to use Meowth design again in New Places... Familiar Faces!, where it was redesigned; the new design incorporates a blue basket with the new Team Rocket logo and a pair of engines on it, plus a new Meowth portion with no arm and a larger engine on its back.

In The Dream Continues! and then Pokémon the Series: XY, the Meowth head now has two arms on the balloon and has propeller engines on its blue basket. In addition, it was redesigned to have its mouth open on its portion unlike the previous generations. The balloon portion now also has a ribbed surface.

It was redesigned again in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, where the basket is now colored green similar to the original balloon but with a yellow stripe and the new red Team Rocket logo. It also has sandbags like the original balloon, replacing the propeller engines from the balloon in Pokémon the Series: XY. It still retains the Meowth head design from Pokémon the Series: XY, with the only differences being that the head once again has a smooth surface and there is a propeller on the back. As Team Rocket doesn't travel around the region to follow Ash, it is seen much less frequent than in previous series. This balloon design was retained in Pokémon Journeys: The Series. It was also featured in Pokémon GO along with the trio.

In the credits of I Choose You!, Team Rocket is seen using the original balloon, which had last been seen in Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl.

Team Rocket's submarines

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The most commonly seen Team Rocket submarine is the Magikarp submarine. Powered by pedaling, it serves as underwater transportation, has arms that can be extended, and legs that can also be extended on land. Its weapons include nets and extendable fists. This is often used by Team Rocket as an alternative mode of transportation while they pursue Ash and Pikachu. In combat, traps are used to capture pokémon. Any of the Pokémon's most powerful attacks (usually Pikachu's Thunderbolt) could destroy it. It was first used in the Orange Archipelago, making its debut in Fit to be Tide!. After a long absence, it reappeared in Pokémon the Series: XY, where it was slightly redesigned, although the golden version was destroyed by Pikachu in Going for the Gold!. The submarine was given another redesign in The Sinnoh Iceberg Race!.

Occasionally, during the Kanto arc, a Gyarados-based submarine was used. Much like the Magikarp submarine, it is powered by pedaling and is equipped with a net launcher, extendable arms, and wheels. Its first Japanese appearance was in Beauty and the Beach, followed by its English debut in Sparks Fly For Magnemite!.

In The Mystery of the Missing Cubchoo!, they used a generic submarine that wasn't designed after a Pokémon.

During the Decolore Islands arc, Team Rocket used an updated Basculin submarine designed by Dr. Zager.

In the Alola region, Team Rocket used a Bruxish submarine, which debuted in Balloons, Brionne, and Belligerence!.

Magikarp submarine

Gyarados submarine

Black & White submarine

Basculin submarine

Bruxish submarine

Rocket Prize Master

Main article: Rocket Prize Master

List of mechas

Mechas were occasionally used in the Kanto arc. However, they became more common in the Johto arc.

Mecha First Appearance Capabilities Picture Name Unnamed The Dream Continues! Combines all of the balloon attachments into one Meowth balloon. This balloon was quickly shot down by a group attack from Ash's Pikachu, Charizard, Unfezant, Oshawott, Pignite, Snivy, Scraggy, Leavanny, Palpitoad, Boldore, and Krookodile.

Mecha First Appearance Capabilities Picture Name Unnamed JN035 A Pikachu-themed van equipped with a hose designed to suck Pikachu and Raichu into an electric-proof glass cage. The glass cage is equipped with a claw machine that can grab a Pikachu contained in it and drop it outside. It also has hover engines at its bottom, allowing it to fly. The hose was destroyed when Goh's Pikachu evolved while going through it, and the machine itself was destroyed by a group Thunderbolt from the rest of the Pikachu.

In the manga

In the Ash & Pikachu manga

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In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga