Silph Co.
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The Silph Company (Japanese: シルフカンパニー Silph Company) is a company in many versions of the Pokémon franchise. They are the manufacturers of many tools, including the Silph Scope—a device that allows the user to view spectral entities—as well as home appliances. Their headquarters are located in Saffron City. They are also speculated to run the Poké Marts in Kanto as well as in Johto and the Sevii Islands.
Company information
Overview
Silph Co. is the leading manufacturer of Pokémon technology. It is this company that develops the most commercially used Poké Balls, constantly looking for ways to improve upon them. Silph is also known to produce several other Pokémon-related items, including medicine and Technical Machines, supplying Poké Marts of their territory. Its president is a kind, old man.
History
Silph's status had made it a target of Team Rocket, which in Generation I and III, orchestrated the takeover of their headquarters in Saffron City. The situation will be resolved by the player, who will take on the mission of driving them out of the city. Team Rocket had also gained the Silph Co.-made Silph Scope to combat ghosts. It is revealed by the company's president that the top-secret development project Team Rocket was after is the Master Ball, which can catch any Pokémon without fail.
Headquarters
The Silph Co. Office Building, based in Saffron City, is an eleven-floor skyscraper that is effectively a giant maze.
The sign outside the building merely reveals its name and has remained consistent throughout the generations.
- Generations I and II
SILPH CO.
OFFICE BUILDING
- Generation III
- Generation IV
Generations I and III
In Generations I and III, the player can navigate on the inside of the building by using warp tiles in order to reach the board room on the top floor. The player must find the Card Key, which unlocks Silph's doors like a hotel key, on the fifth floor of the building in order to do this. All the while, the player must battle through numerous Team Rocket Grunts, including the Rocket Brothers, and one Juggler, who is curiously also part of Team Rocket. The bed at the bottom-left corner of the ninth floor can be used to heal the Trainer's Pokémon without having to leave the building.
Then the player must return to the third floor, open the doors in the center-left of the floor, and use the warp tile to the far left to be taken to the room with a further warp tile that leads to board room. The player's rival waits in that room and the player must face him before continuing on. After he has been beaten, the other person in the room will give the player a Lapras, an extremely rare Pokémon that cannot be obtained any other way in Generation I.
After this, the player may continue on to the board room to face Giovanni and assure that the plans for the Master Ball are not stolen. After rescuing Silph, the player is free to explore the building and talk to the employees.
Generations II and IV
In Generations II and IV, Silph Co. has increased security, and the player is not allowed to enter the upper floors. One of the guards will kindly give the player an Up-Grade for talking to him.
In HeartGold and SoulSilver, the elevator has broken and is unsafe, denying the player access to the upper floors. However, upon defeating Red, the player may obtain one of the Hoenn region's starter Pokémon from Hoenn Champion, Steven Stone. He will also trade his Beldum for a Forretress.
Generation IV introduced a logo for the company that appears on the Pokégear and has a statue based on it in the company's building.
Rotom's Room
- Main article: Rotom's Room
The alternate forms of Rotom may also be accessed here in Generation IV via the broken elevator. When Rotom is in the party, the Silph Co. building will be deserted of all people, including Steven. The notebook present in the room indicates that Charon may have had a past connection to the company.
Discoveries and inventions
Pokémon Reports
- Generation I
It's a POKéMON
REPORT!
4 POKéMON evolve
only when traded
by link-cable.
It's a POKéMON
REPORT!
Over 160 Pokémon
techniques have
been confirmed.
It's a POKéMON
REPORT!
POKéMON LAB
created PORYGON,
the first virtual
reality POKéMON.
- Generation III
Manufactured items
Below is a list of all the known items that are manufactured by Silph Co.:
Items
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TM36 (Selfdestruct) | 2F; received from a woman in the top-left area | R B Y | |
Ultra Ball | 2F; in a plant in southwest part (hidden) | FR LG | |
Hyper Potion | 3F; near the Scientist | R B Y FR LG | |
Protein | 3F; in a plant in southeast part (hidden) | FR LG | |
Full Heal | 4F; left part of the room, next to the other two items | R B Y FR LG | |
Max Revive | 4F; left part of the room, next to the other two items | R B Y FR LG | |
Escape Rope | 4F; left part of the room, next to the other two items | R B Y FR LG | |
TM41 (Torment) | 4F; on a table near the bottom right room | FR LG | |
Iron | 4F; in a plant in southeast part (hidden) | FR LG | |
Card Key | 5F; on the thin path on the bottom-right | R B Y FR LG | |
Protein | 5F; in the top-left area behind a door | R B Y FR LG | |
TM09 (Take Down) | 5F; in the bottom-left area behind a door and next to a teleporter | R B Y | |
TM01 (Focus Punch) | 5F; in southwest area with boxes | FR LG | |
Elixir | 5F; in a plant west of Juggler Dalton (hidden) | R B Y FR LG | |
PP Up | 5F; in a plant south of stairs (hidden) | FR LG | |
HP Up | 6F; in the bottom-left area behind a door | R B Y FR LG | |
X Special | X Special | 6F; in the bottom-left area behind a door | R B Y FR LG |
Carbos | 6F; in a plant near warp tile (hidden) | FR LG | |
TM03 (Swords Dance) | 7F; in an area on the right with two doors | R B Y | |
TM08 (Bulk Up) | 7F; near laptop in eastern room | FR LG | |
Calcium | 7F; on the bottom-left near the Scientist | R B Y FR LG | |
Zinc | 7F; in a plant south of elevator (hidden) | FR LG | |
Iron | 8F; south of elevator | FR LG | |
Nugget | 8F; in plant near a Scientist who does not battle (hidden) | FR LG | |
Max Potion | 9F; on the bed to the right of the nurse (hidden) | R B Y | |
Max Potion | 9F; near boxes (hidden) | FR LG | |
Calcium | 9F; in a plant near boxes (hidden) | FR LG | |
Carbos | 10F; in the bottom-left, next to the other two items | R B Y FR LG | |
Rare Candy | 10F; in the bottom-left, next to the other two items | R B Y FR LG | |
TM26 (Earthquake) | 10F; in the bottom-left, next to the other two items | R B Y | |
Ultra Ball | 10F; in the bottom-left, next to the other two items | FR LG | |
HP Up | 10F; in a plant in eastern room (hidden) | FR LG | |
Zinc | 11F; in southeastern corner | FR LG | |
Revive | 11F; in a plant south of president's room (hidden) | FR LG | |
Master Ball | 11F; received from Silph Co.'s president | R B Y FR LG | |
Up-Grade | Received from a guard | G S C HG SS | |
Dawn Stone | Held by Iron | HG SS | |
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Layout
Inside design
This section is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this section to add missing information and complete it. Reason: Images from HeartGold and SoulSilver and Gold, Silver, and Crystal |
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In the anime
According to artwork from the Game Freak website, the P1 Grand Prix is sponsored by Silph Co. and held in the Celadon City Hall.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Silph Co. made a brief appearance at the end of Holy Moltres in the Red, Green & Blue arc, where Sabrina was in the office with Giovanni saying that they have captured all the legendary birds. It collapsed, as seen in Ponyta Tale. Two years later, Agatha picked up the Badge Amplifier that was buried in the rubble for usage at Cerise Island.
In Super Smash Bros.
- Main article: Saffron City (stage)
Silph Co. appears in Saffron City as a playable stage in Super Smash Bros.. The battle takes place on the roof of Silph Co. and a few smaller surrounding buildings, along with two small moving platforms. This is the home stage of Pikachu and Jigglypuff in the game.
Certain Pokémon will emerge from the elevator on the Silph Co. building and attack briefly, similar to Pokémon summoned from Poké Balls. Occasionally, Pidgey, Fearow, Butterfree, and other Flying-type Pokémon will appear in the background.
Trivia
- In Generation I and FireRed and LeafGreen, when the player encounters Scientist Taylor before battle, he says that he was shipped off to the Tiksi branch of the company. After being defeated, he claims it to be in Russian no-man's-land. In reality, it is in Russia's Sakha Republic, Siberia. This is another reference to the real world in Pokémon games and proves that Silph has international branches in addition to the ones in locations other than Saffron City. In the original Japanese versions, he instead refers to the branch as being in Ponaya Tunguska (Japanese: ポナヤツングスカ), also in Russia, instead. This is a likely reference to the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Russia.
- On the eleventh floor there is an accessible PC. This is likely here either to allow the player to deposit an extra item to get the Master Ball if their Bag is full or to allow the player to put Lapras straight into their party after obtaining it if their party is full.
- Though a logo for the company was not introduced in-game until Generation IV, several possible logos have been seen in previous games. One appeared on the side of the Silph Co. building in Super Smash Bros. (see above), another appeared on the original Pokégear artwork as a stylized 'S' and a third one can be seen on the Time Capsule; however, none of them is truly confirmed to be the company's logo.
- Silph Co. has the most traversable floors of any building in the Pokémon world.
- According to Maisy, Kurt's granddaughter, her father works for Silph.
Name origin
Silph Co.'s name is a corruption of Sylph, a mythological creature.
In other languages
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