Viridian City: Difference between revisions

{{Samename|song|Viridian City (song)}}

{{Samename|chapter in [[Pokémon Zensho]]|PZ09}}

{{Town infobox

|name=Viridian City

|jptrans=Tokiwa City

|image=Viridian City HGSS.png

|colorlight=9FC0B5

}}

Three major paths lead from the city center. To the north is {{rt|2|Kanto}}, as well as [[Viridian Forest]], which lies in the middle of the route, leading to [[Pewter City]]. To the south is {{rt|1|Kanto}}, which leads to [[Pallet Town]]. To the west is {{rt|22|Kanto}}, leading to [[Indigo Plateau]] and the [[Pokémon League]].

==Places of interest==

{{main|Old man (Kanto)}}

[[File:Old man.png|thumb|left|The old man lying down in the middle of the road]]

Once the task is complete, the old man lightens up and teaches the player how to catch a Pokémon using a [[Poké Ball]]. This is a guide for novice players in {{game2|Red|Blue|Yellow}}, and {{game|FireRed and LeafGreen|s}}. He will also give the player a {{key|III|Teachy TV}} in {{game|FireRed and LeafGreen|s}}, which teaches the player a variety of things about battling and catching Pokémon.

In {{2v2|HeartGold|SoulSilver}}, the player will initially encounter only {{tc|Ace Trainer}} {{ga|Cal}}. When the player meets someone in the Pokéwalker and re-syncs it back to the player's game, the Trainer and their Pokémon will appear in the basement. Up to 10 additional Trainers may be encountered in this way. Like Generation II, these Trainers' teams will consist of whatever Pokémon were in their parties at the time of re-syncing with the Pokéwalker, including [[held item]]s, [[move]]s, [[level]]s, and stats. Unlike Generation II, if a Pokémon's level is above 50, its level is reduced to 50 like a battle under the [[Flat Battle]] rules. Players will earn no experience or money, but will receive 1 [[Battle Point|BP]] for each victory.

{{sign|DPcity|title|Trainer House}}

===Viridian Gym===

{{main|Viridian Gym}}

The Viridian Gym is the official [[Gym]] of Viridian City. It specializes in {{type|Ground}} {{OBP|Pokémon|species}}. The [[Gym Leader|Leader]] is [[Giovanni]], the head of [[Team Rocket]]. {{pkmn|Trainer}}s who defeat him receive the {{Badge|Earth}}. Viridian Gym appears in all games set in the [[Kanto]] region. In [[Generation I]] and {{Gen|III}}, the Gym is locked due to its Leader's absence; the gym will not re-open until the player has collected seven other badges.

In [[Generation I]], a {{DL|Revive|Revive}} can be found in the gym, while a {{DL|EV-enhancing item|Macho Brace}} replaces it in [[Generation III]]; it is the only gym to boast items. This is the only Gym to be based on 3 different types throughout the games and anime and the only one to ever have no type specialty. In all generations aside from [[Generation III]], at least one Trainer in the Viridian Gym owns a {{p|Rhydon}}, while in [[Generation III]], all of Giovanni's Pokémon know {{m|Earthquake}}.

===Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen===

In {{game|FireRed and LeafGreen|s}}, the population of Viridian City is 30.

The [[Poké Mart]] is located south of the [[Viridian Gym]]. In Generation II and IV, it is to the right of the Trainer House.

{{shop|Generation I}}

{{shopfooter|multiple=yes}}

{{shop|Generation II}}

{{shoprow|{{shopitem|Awakening|250}}|{{shopitem|Burn Heal|250}}}}

{{shopfooter|multiple=yes}}

{{shop|Generation III}}

{{shopfooter}}

{{shoprow|{{shopitem|Poké Ball|200}}|{{shopitem|Great Ball|600}}}}

{{shoprow|{{shopitem|Super Potion|700}}|{{shopitem|Hyper Potion|1200}}}}

{{shoprow|{{shopitem|Max Potion|2500}}|{{shopitem|Full Restore|3000}}}}

{{shoprow|{{shopitem|Full Heal|600}}|{{shopitem|Escape Rope|550}}}}

{{shoprow|{{shopitem|Repel|350}}|{{shopitem|Super Repel|500}}}}

{{shopfooter|multiple=yes}}

{{shoprow|{{shopitem|Steel Mail|50}}|{{shopitem|Net Ball|1000}}}}

{{shopfooter}}

==Differences between generations==

===Generation I and III===

===Generation II and IV===

==Trainer Tips==

===Generation I===

{{sign|RBY|title|TRAINER TIPS}}

{{sign|RBY|title|TRAINER TIPS}}

===Generation III===

{{sign|FRLG|title|TRAINER TIPS}}

{{sign|FRLG|title|TRAINER TIPS}}

==In the spin-off games==

===In Pokémon Pinball===

In {{g|Pinball}}, Viridian City appears on the Blue table; catchable Pokémon include {{p|Bulbasaur}}, {{p|Squirtle}}, {{p|Nidoran♀}}, {{p|Nidoran♂}}, {{p|Poliwag}} and {{p|Tentacool}}.

==In the anime==

[[File:Viridian City anime.png|thumb|200px|Viridian City in the anime]]

Viridian City was first seen at the end of ''[[EP001|Pokémon - I Choose You!]]'', and is later visited in ''[[EP002|Pokémon Emergency!]]'', when [[Ash Ketchum]] took his injured {{AP|Pikachu}} to the [[Pokémon Center]] here. When entering the town, Ash was stopped by Viridian City's [[Officer Jenny]], who found him suspicious, due to the fact he was carrying Pikachu in his arms and not a [[Poké Ball]]. While staying overnight at the Pokémon Center, Ash had his first encounter with the [[Team Rocket trio]]: [[Jessie]], [[James]], and {{MTR}}. Ash and Pikachu foiled their plot to steal all the {{OBP|Pokémon|species}} in the Pokémon Center, thus beginning Team Rocket's obsession with capturing Ash's Pikachu.

Ash later passed through Viridian on the way home in ''[[AG132|The Scheme Team]]'', after the [[Ever Grande Conference]]. Visiting the site of the rebuilt Viridian Gym, circumstances ended up bringing him to the battlefield for a friendly one-on-one challenge with the temporary Gym Leader, [[Kanto]] [[Elite Four]] member [[Agatha]]. It is also here that Ash met up with [[Scott]], the owner of the {{Gdis|Battle Frontier|III}} and decided to take the Battle Frontier challenge.

==In the manga==

===In the Pokémon Adventures manga===

Viridian City made a brief appearance at the end of ''[[PS022|A Hollow Victreebel]]'' and at the beginning of ''[[PS023|Make Way For Magmar!]]'' in the {{adv|Red, Green & Blue chapter}} where citizens where asking about where {{adv|Giovanni}} had gone.  

In the {{chap|FireRed & LeafGreen}}, Yellow first visited the Viridian City Gym to see Blue, but he had not yet returned. Upon stepping out of the Gym, she met {{adv|Silver}}, who came to Viridian searching for his roots. Not long afterwards, two Team Rocket members came and told Silver that he was their leader's son, and took him away. Yellow gave chase on her Butterfree, [[Kitty]].

==Trivia==

* An {{pkmn|anime}} song {{so|Viridian City|of the same name}} is centered on its status as the location of the final [[Gym]] in [[Kanto]].

* It is the only town that is the first visited in the game that has a [[Gym]] after the starting location, though the Gym is closed until the other seven [[Badge]]s have been obtained.

==Name origin==

|- style="background:#FFF;"

| Russian ({{wp|Channel One (Russia)|ORT}})

|- style="background:#FFF;"

| Spanish

| Means ''green city''.<br>Same as English name.

|- style="background:#FFF;"

| 常青 (''soengceng'') means evergreen.

|}

{{-}}

{{Kanto}}<br>

[[Category:Pokémon Pinball locations]]

[[Category:Cities]]

[[de:Vertania City]]

[[es:Ciudad Verde]]

[[fr:Jadielle]]

[[ja:トキワシティ]]

[[pl:Wertania]]

[[zh:常磐市]]