Poké Ball Factory

Poké Ball Factory ボール工場 Ball Factory "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
Map description:	An expansive factory where every Poké Ball used in the Kalos region is produced.
Location:	North of Laverre City
Region:	Kalos
Generations:	VI
Location of Poké Ball Factory in Kalos.
Pokémon world locations

The Poké Ball Factory (Japanese: ボール工場 Ball Factory) is a facility located north of Laverre City in Kalos, responsible for manufacturing all kinds of Poké Balls.

The factory is mostly automated and only a few people reside there to observe the process. They also give tours to show people how Poké Balls are created. The Poké Balls manufactured here are delivered to all Poké Marts in Kalos.

Geography

The Poké Ball Factory area is proceeded by a paved walkway, decorated with Poké Ball statues. The factory area consists of the factory itself and the yards, where two small hedge mazes reside. Inside the factory, two conveyor belts run through the building, allowing the player to move around. The direction of the conveyor belts can be temporarily reversed from a computer at the southwest corner of the facility. Three staircases (one of which is initially blocked) allow the player to enter the second floor, where two small rooms are located. One of them is reserved for the workers of the factory, while the other one is the Poké Ball Factory President's office.

After defeating Valerie at the Laverre Gym, Shauna and Trevor will invite the player to visit the Poké Ball Factory with them. It then turns out that the factory has been taken over by Team Flare, and a Team Flare Grunt is standing at the door, initially preventing the player from entering the factory. If the player talks to Shauna at the walkway, she will go talk to the Team Flare Grunt again, only to get chased away. With the door cleared, the player can enter the factory, where another Team Flare Grunt is standing as a guard. Calem or Serena will stay to battle the Team Flare Grunt while the player makes their way through the factory. When the player reaches the President's office, where a Team Flare Admin is trying to convince him to join them, Calem or Serena will join the player in a Multi Battle against the Team Flare Scientists Celosia and Bryony. Once they are defeated, Team Flare leaves the factory and the President awards the player with a Master Ball and a Big Nugget.

Items

Outside

Item		Location	Games
	Dusk Ball	At the far northwest corner of the factory area, on the back wall (hidden)	X  Y
	Burn Heal	In the west hedge maze, through the middle entrance, at the end of the north branch (hidden)	X  Y
	Poké Ball	In the west hedge maze, through the entrance closest to the factory gates, at the end of the path (hidden)	X  Y
	Max Ether	In the west hedge maze, through the northmost entrance	X  Y
	Hyper Potion	In the east hedge maze, at the end of the dead end nestled in the northeastern corner (hidden)	X  Y
	Max Revive	In the east hedge maze	X  Y

Inside

Item		Location	Games
	Quick Ball	In the far northwest corner of the factory	X  Y
	Metal Coat	On the east side of the middle stairway, at the end of the path between it and the conveyor belt	X  Y
	Timer Ball	In the northeast of the factory, by the conveyor belt	X  Y
	Master Ball	Gift from the President after defeating Team Flare	X  Y
	Big Nugget	Gift from the President after defeating Team Flare	X  Y

Trainers

Trainer	Pokémon
Team Flare Grunt Reward: $1,480	Toxicroak♂ Lv.37 No item
Team Flare Grunt Reward: $1,440	Mightyena♂ Lv.36 No item
	Golbat♂ Lv.36 No item
Team Flare Grunt Reward: $1,440	Scraggy♀ Lv.36 No item
	Mightyena♀ Lv.36 No item
Team Flare Grunt Reward: $1,480	Swalot♀ Lv.37 No item
Team Flare Admin Reward: $3,040	Scraggy♀ Lv.37 No item
	Houndoom♀ Lv.38 No item

Calem/Serena will team up with the player to defeat Celosia and Bryony in a Multi Battle.

If the player chose Chespin:

Pokémon Trainer Calem Poké Ball Factory X and Y Reward: N/A

Type: Psychic Unknown Ability: Keen Eye Held item: None Meowstic♂ Lv.37 Psychic Psychic Special   --       Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Disarming Voice Fairy Special   --       Light Screen Psychic Status   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Super Luck Held item: None Absol♂ Lv.39 Slash Normal Physical   --       Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Types: Fire Psychic Ability: Blaze Held item: None Delphox♂ Lv.39 Mystical Fire Fire Special   --       Psybeam Psychic Special   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Pokémon Trainer Serena Poké Ball Factory X and Y Reward: N/A

Type: Psychic Unknown Ability: Keen Eye Held item: None Meowstic♀ Lv.37 Psychic Psychic Special   --       Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Disarming Voice Fairy Special   --       Light Screen Psychic Status   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Super Luck Held item: None Absol♂ Lv.39 Slash Normal Physical   --       Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Types: Fire Psychic Ability: Blaze Held item: None Delphox♂ Lv.39 Mystical Fire Fire Special   --       Psybeam Psychic Special   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

If the player chose Fennekin:

Pokémon Trainer Calem Poké Ball Factory X and Y Reward: N/A

Type: Psychic Unknown Ability: Keen Eye Held item: None Meowstic♂ Lv.37 Psychic Psychic Special   --       Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Disarming Voice Fairy Special   --       Light Screen Psychic Status   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Super Luck Held item: None Absol♂ Lv.39 Slash Normal Physical   --       Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Types: Water Dark Ability: Torrent Held item: None Greninja♂ Lv.39 Water Shuriken Water Physical   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Pokémon Trainer Serena Poké Ball Factory X and Y Reward: N/A

Type: Psychic Unknown Ability: Keen Eye Held item: None Meowstic♀ Lv.37 Psychic Psychic Special   --       Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Disarming Voice Fairy Special   --       Light Screen Psychic Status   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Super Luck Held item: None Absol♂ Lv.39 Slash Normal Physical   --       Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Types: Water Dark Ability: Torrent Held item: None Greninja♂ Lv.39 Water Shuriken Water Physical   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

If the player chose Froakie:

Pokémon Trainer Calem Poké Ball Factory X and Y Reward: N/A

Type: Psychic Unknown Ability: Keen Eye Held item: None Meowstic♂ Lv.37 Psychic Psychic Special   --       Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Disarming Voice Fairy Special   --       Light Screen Psychic Status   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Super Luck Held item: None Absol♂ Lv.39 Slash Normal Physical   --       Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Types: Grass Fighting Ability: Overgrow Held item: None Chesnaught♂ Lv.39 Seed Bomb Grass Physical   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Pokémon Trainer Serena Poké Ball Factory X and Y Reward: N/A

Type: Psychic Unknown Ability: Keen Eye Held item: None Meowstic♀ Lv.37 Psychic Psychic Special   --       Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Disarming Voice Fairy Special   --       Light Screen Psychic Status   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Super Luck Held item: None Absol♂ Lv.39 Slash Normal Physical   --       Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Types: Grass Fighting Ability: Overgrow Held item: None Chesnaught♂ Lv.39 Seed Bomb Grass Physical   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Team Flare and Team Flare Celosia Bryony Poké Ball Factory X and Y Reward: $11,480

Type: Electric Unknown Ability: Lightning Rod Held item: None Manectric♀ Lv.41 Spark Electric Physical   --       Thunder Fang Electric Physical   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Odor Sleuth Normal Status   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Unburden Held item: None Liepard♀ Lv.41 Hone Claws Dark Status   --       Assurance Dark Physical   --       Slash Normal Physical   --       Taunt Dark Status   --

In the anime

The Poké Ball Factory in the anime

The Poké Ball Factory's interior in the anime

The Poké Ball Factory appeared in A Frenzied Factory Fiasco!. Ash and his friends came to visit the factory, but were tricked by a disguised Team Rocket, who were pretending to be factory workers. They tricked Ash and his friends into handing them all their Pokémon, including Pikachu in a container and Pikachu's Poké Ball. After trapping the group into an empty room and believing to have successfully caught Pikachu, Team Rocket started stealing the Poké Balls of the factory, only to notice that Pikachu had managed to avoid being returned to his Poké Ball and was still on the loose. Meowth gave chase to Pikachu while Jessie and James loaded the stolen Poké Balls into their truck.

Thanks to one of Clemont's inventions, the group managed to break out of the room, forcing Team Rocket to flee. However, before they could get away, Ash stopped their truck with Pikachu's Thunderbolt. Meowth then challenged Pikachu to a battle, during which he made one last-ditch effort to catch Pikachu, but failed, and Ash managed to recover Pikachu's Poké Ball. After Team Rocket had been sent blasting off by a falling Poké Ball statue, all the stolen Pokémon and Poké Balls were recovered, and the trapped factory workers were freed. As a reward, the group was offered a tour around the factory.

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Poké Ball Factory in Pokémon Adventures

The Poké Ball Factory was first mentioned in the X & Y arc when Tierno accidentally encountered a Team Flare Admin at Route 5. From the files she dropped, he found out that Team Flare was planning to infiltrate the facility, their intention being to stop the production of Poké Balls in Kalos and prevent those they deemed unworthy from being capable of catching Pokémon.

The factory was mentioned again in Quilladin Stands, where Valerie revealed how she and the other Kalos Gym Leaders, aside from Viola and Korrina, had first learned about Team Flare when she had noticed its members entering the facility.

In Scizor Defends, Team Flare was revealed to have successfully stolen Poké Balls from the factory, with their scientists working on modifying them. These very Poké Balls were presumably later used to transport Pokémon from the Pokémon Village to Route 10 in Team Flare's second attempt to use the ultimate weapon.

Trivia

• Poké Ball Factory shares several similarities with the Silph Co. office building in Saffron City: both places are involved in creating Poké Balls, are located in the same city or town as the sixth Gym of the region, get taken over by a villainous team at some point, and both companies' presidents reward the player with a Master Ball after driving the villainous team out of the building.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 精靈球工廠 Jīnglìhng Kàuh Gūngchóng Mandarin 神奇寶貝球工廠 Shénqí Bǎobèi Qiú Gōngchǎng Danish Poké Balls-fabrikken Finnish Poképallotehdas French Usine de Poké Balls German Pokéball-Fabrik Italian Fabbrica Poké Ball Korean 볼공장 Ball Gongjang Norwegian Pokéball-fabrikken Polish Fabryka Pokéballi Brazilian Portuguese Fábrica de Poké Bolas Spanish Fábrica de Poké Balls Swedish Poké-Ball fabriken

Kalos
Settlements Vaniville Town • Aquacorde Town‎ • Santalune City • Lumiose City • Camphrier Town • Cyllage City Ambrette Town • Geosenge Town • Shalour City • Coumarine City • Laverre City • Dendemille Town • Anistar City Couriway Town • Snowbelle City • Pokémon League • Kiloude City‎ Routes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 Landmarks Santalune Forest • Chamber of Emptiness • Parfum Palace • Battle Chateau • Berry fields • Connecting Cave • Glittering Cave • Reflection Cave Tower of Mastery • Azure Bay • Sea Spirit's Den • Kalos Power Plant • Poké Ball Factory • Lost Hotel • Frost Cavern • Lysandre Labs Team Flare Secret HQ • Terminus Cave • Pokémon Village • Victory Road • Battle Maison • Friend Safari • Unknown Dungeon

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