Pewter City

Pewter City ニビシティ Nibi City "Between Rugged Mountains"

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Map description A quiet city nestled between rugged mountains and rocks.

Pewter City Gym - Kanto Gym #1 Brock Rock-type specialist Gym Boulder Badge

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Connecting locations Pewter City Route 3 →   Route 2 ↓

Location File:PewterKantoTownMap.gif Location of Pewter City in Kanto.

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Pewter City (Japanese: ニビシティ Nibi City) is a city located in northwest Kanto. The locale lies between Viridian Forest (via Route 2) and Mt. Moon (via Route 3). The most notable resident of the city is Brock, the Pewter City Gym Leader.

Places of interest

Pewter Museum of Science

Main article: Pewter Museum of Science

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Exterior View of the Museum in FireRed and LeafGreen

A famous museum is located in the northwestern part of Pewter City and is one of the city's main attractions. The main building is open to the public for $50 and features several historical artifacts, including Aerodactyl and Kabutops fossils, and a model of a space shuttle.

There are two floors to explore in the Pewter Museum of Science. The first floor holds the front desk and a fossil exhibit containing the fossils of Aerodactyl and Kabutops. The second floor hosts a space exhibit featuring a Space Shuttle and a large Moon Stone that fell onto Mt. Moon The player is able to explore the museum at any time, after paying the $50 admission fee.

Once the ability to use Cut out of battle is gained, the player can sneak into the back of the museum and acquire the Old Amber from a scientist there, allowing the player to revive an Aerodactyl later in the game. In FireRed and LeafGreen, there is also a move tutor who will teach Seismic Toss.

The museum is closed for renovations during Generation II.

In Generation IV, however, the museum is open for business. There is a scientist in the museum who will revive a player's fossils, much like the scientist at Cinnabar Island's Pokémon Lab in Generation I and FireRed and LeafGreen. This is due to the fact that Fossils can be found under rocks using Rock Smash unlike in Generation II where players were required to transfer Fossil Pokémon from the Generation I games using the Time Capsule.

Pewter Gym

Pewter Gym in FireRed and LeafGreen.

Main article: Pewter Gym

The Pewter Gym is the official gym of Pewter City. It is based on Template:Type2 Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Brock. Trainers that defeat him receive the Boulder Badge.

Other known members include Camper Jerry, Camper Liam, Brock's father, Flint, and Brock's mother, Lola.

Pewter Gym appears in all games set in the Kanto region, appearing much the same in each: a small building with a Japanese rock garden inside, one trainer, and the Gym Leader Brock waiting on a large stone pedestal. In the Generation I games and their Generation III remakes, whenever the player tries to leave Pewter City, a boy will lead him or her to the front of the gym if the player has not earned their Boulder Badge yet.

Demographics

The population of Pewter City is 31.

Poké Mart

Generation I and III Poké Ball $200 Antidote $100 Awakening $250 Burn Heal $250 Parlyz Heal Parlyz Heal $200 Potion $300 Escape Rope $550 Repel $350

Generation II Great Ball $600 Antidote $100 Awakening $200 Burn Heal $250 Parlyz Heal Parlyz Heal $200 Super Potion $700 Super Repel $500

Items

Item		Location	Games

Pokémon

Generation II

Pokémon		Games			Location	Levels	Rate
Gift Pokémon
	Rapidash	G	S	C	Pokémon Center	The same as the Traded Pokémon	Trade Gloom
	Xatu	G	S	C	Pokémon Center	The same as the Traded Pokémon	Trade Haunter
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Generation IV

Pokémon		Games		Location	Levels	Rate
Gift Pokémon
	Xatu	HG	SS	Pokémon Center	The same as the Traded Pokémon	Trade Haunter
	Omanyte	HG	SS	Museum	5	Revive Helix Fossil
	Kabuto	HG	SS	Museum	5	Revive Dome Fossil
	Aerodactyl	HG	SS	Museum	5	Revive Old Amber
	Lileep	HG	SS	Museum	5	Revive Root Fossil
	Anorith	HG	SS	Museum	5	Revive Claw Fossil
	Cranidos	HG	SS	Museum	5	Revive Skull Fossil
	Shieldon	HG	SS	Museum	5	Revive Armor Fossil
Special Pokémon
	Latios	HG	SS	Event	40	Only one
	Latias	HG	SS	Event	40	Only one
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Trainer Tips

Red and Blue

TRAINER TIPS
Any POKéMON that takes part in
battle, however
short, earn EXP!

FireRed and LeafGreen

TRAINER TIPS
All POKéMON that appear in battle,
however briefly, earn EXP Points.

In the anime

Episodes in Pewter City commonly focus on the Pewter Gym. While its legacy is of a strong Gym "as rough and tough as the stones themselves" was kept under Brock, his mother has recently added a brighter color scheme. The Gym Leader's family lives in a house by the side of the Gym, in which Brock's nine siblings and parents currently reside.

Around the outskirts of the city, there is a Contest Hall and one of the locations of the Battle Pyramid. Pewter City is also the hometown of Solidad, the winner of the Kanto Grand Festival.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Pewter City is first visited in Wanted: Pikachu! and Onix is On! in the Red, Green & Blue arc. The citizens are business people that have tents in the streets where they sell principally fruits and vegetables which a roaming Pikachu tried to steal. After Red caught it, the citizens of the city gave Red a big feast. They also enjoy to watch the battles of the trainers who challenge the Pewter Gym. The city has a Pokémon Center, but during this time, it is closed due to vandalism, later revealed to be caused by the "bad" Gym Leaders in an effort to make Brock give up his gym badge for their plans.

It later made a brief appearance in Make Way For Magmar in the Red, Green & Blue arc when the Pewter Museum of Science had been set on fire by Two Magmar.

Trivia

• Its Japanese motto is ニビは はいいろ いしのいろ .
• In Generation I, the Pewter Museum of Science housed a model of the Space Shuttle Columbia. However, due to the shuttle's fatal accident in 2003, it is simply called "Space Shuttle" in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen.
• Goldenrod City and Rustboro City are very similar to Pewter City. Their geographic locations in their respective regions are remarkably similar, as well as being only accessible through a forest during the beginning of the game. Rustboro is, however, the most like Pewter in that both cities are the second city visited with a gym, but first to be beat by the player. Both Pewter and Rustboro's Gyms specialize in Template:Type2 Pokémon, and play a role in the player obtaining fossil Pokémon.
• Pewter City is the only city in which a legendary Pokémon can be caught, with Latias or Latios appearing in Pewter City in HeartGold and SoulSilver if the player has the Enigma Stone.
• In Generation I, the young man who prevents the player from leaving via Route 3 before defeating Brock will walk off to the right hand side of the screen upon showing the player to the Pewter Gym. How he accomplishes this and returns to his original position is unknown, given the presence of a fence preventing the player from doing the same.
• The French name of the city is the same as the English name of Hall Matron Argenta.
• Prior to Generation IV, its motto was "A Stone Gray City".

In other languages

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ニビシティ Nibi City	鈍色 (nibi iro) refers to a dull gray color.
English	Pewter City	Pewter is a metal alloy of copper, tin, and, traditionally, lead that has a gray color.
Danish (Season 10 only)	Tin by	Tin is the Danish word for Pewter.
French	Argenta	From argent, silver.
Czech	Cínové město	Cín means tin, město means city (or town).
German	Marmoria City	From Marmor, marble.
Italian	Plumbeopoli	From plumbeo, of the color of lead, and the suffix -poli, meaning city.
Polish	Marmoria	From German Marmoria.
Spanish	Ciudad Plateada	Means silver city.
Korean	회색시티 Hoesaek City	회색 (hoesaek) means gray.
Chinese (Mandarin)	尼比市 Níbǐ Shì	Transliteration of the Japanese name.
Chinese (Cantonese)	深灰市 Samfui Si	深灰 (samfui) means dark gray.

Game locations of Legendary and Mythical Pokémon

Kanto Seafoam Islands • Power Plant • Victory Road • Cerulean Cave Route 10 • Route 25 • Pewter City • Roaming Pokémon Sevii Islands Mt. Ember • Navel Rock • Birth Island Johto Ilex Forest • Bell Tower • Whirl Islands • Mt. Silver Cave Burned Tower • Embedded Tower • Roaming Pokémon Hoenn Desert Ruins • Island Cave • Ancient Tomb • Cave of Origin • Marine Cave Terra Cave • Sky Pillar • Southern Island • Sea Mauville • Scorched Slab Pathless Plain • Nameless Cavern • Fabled Cave • Gnarled Den Trackless Forest • Crescent Isle • Sky • Roaming Pokémon Sinnoh Acuity Cavern • Valor Cavern • Spear Pillar • Turnback Cave Rock Peak Ruins • Iceberg Ruins • Iron Ruins • Snowpoint Temple Stark Mountain • Newmoon Island • Flower Paradise • Hall of Origin Ramanas Park • Floaroma Town • Roaming Pokémon Unova Guidance Chamber • Trial Chamber • Rumination Field • N's Castle • Abundant Shrine Giant Chasm • Dragonspiral Tower • Liberty Garden • Route 11 • Route 13 • Route 22 Route 23 • Celestial Tower • Nacrene City • Underground Ruins • Twist Mountain Dreamyard • Marvelous Bridge • Reversal Mountain • Coastal Biome • Roaming Pokémon Kalos Sea Spirit's Den • Team Flare Secret HQ • Terminus Cave Unknown Dungeon • Roaming Pokémon Alola Route 16 • Altar of the Sunne • Altar of the Moone • Mount Lanakila • Mahalo Trail Ruins of Conflict • Ruins of Life • Ruins of Abundance • Ruins of Hope Aether Paradise • Ancient Poni Path • Lake of the Sunne • Lake of the Moone Ten Carat Hill • Resolution Cave Galar Tower summit • Battle Tower • Master Dojo • Crown Shrine • Max Lair Rock Peak Ruins • Iceberg Ruins • Iron Ruins • Split-Decision Ruins • Giant's Bed Frigid Sea • Lakeside Cave • Ballimere Lake • Freezington • Roaming Pokémon Hisui Seaside Hollow • Temple of Sinnoh • Acuity Cavern • Valor Cavern • Verity Cavern Lava Dome Sanctum • Moonview Arena • Snowpoint Temple • Turnback Cave • Bonechill Wastes Cobalt Coastlands • Ramanas Island • Scarlet Bog • Coronet Highlands • Floaro Gardens Paldea Grasswither Shrine • Icerend Shrine • Groundblight Shrine • Firescourge Shrine Poco Path • Area Zero • Area Zero Underdepths • Glaseado Mountain South Province (Area One) • Asado Desert • West Province (Area One) • East Province (Area Three) Casseroya Lake • North Paldean Sea • South Province (Area Four) • North Province (Area Two) Alfornada Cavern • Great Crater of Paldea • Tagtree Thicket • East Province (Area One) South Province (Area Five) • Dalizapa Passage • Pokémon League • Socarrat Trail Kitakami Paradise Barrens • Wistful Fields • Oni Mountain • Dreaded Den • Loyalty Plaza Other Faraway Island • Distortion World • Sinjoh Ruins • Ultra Space Wilds

Kanto
Settlements Pallet Town • Viridian City • Pewter City • Cerulean City • Vermilion City • Lavender Town Celadon City • Saffron City • Fuchsia City • Cinnabar Island • Indigo Plateau Routes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 Landmarks Professor Oak's Laboratory • Viridian Forest • Diglett's Cave • Pewter Museum of Science • Mt. Moon (Square) • Cerulean Cave Underground Path (Kanto Routes 5–6) • Underground Path (Kanto Routes 7–8) • S.S. Anne • S.S. Aqua • Sea Cottage • Rock Tunnel Power Plant • Cycling Road/Pokémon Road • Team Rocket Hideout • Silph Co. • Magnet Train • Pokémon Tower • Safari Zone/Pal Park GO Park • Seafoam Islands • Pokémon Mansion • Cinnabar Lab • Pokémon League Reception Gate • Victory Road • Tohjo Falls Access to Sevii Islands • Johto

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