Po Town

Po Town ポータウン Pō Town "You're in Team Skull Territory Now!"

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Map description A town barricaded with tall walls that seem to reach the sky. It is occupied by Team Skull.

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Connecting locations Po Town   Route 17 ↓

Location Location of Po Town in Alola.

Po Town (Japanese: ポータウン Pō Town) is a town situated on Ula'ula Island of the Alola region. It is occupied by Team Skull and houses their base of operations, the Shady House.

Places of interest

Shady House

Main article: Shady House

Shady House is the base of Team Skull, a dilapidated mansion at the far end of Po Town, where Guzma also stays from time to time.

Pokémon Center

As the Pokémon Center, like the rest of Po Town, is occupied by Team Skull, no operational Poké Mart, Pokémon Center Café, or PC can be found there. A Team Skull Grunt will, however, offer to heal the player's Pokémon for $10 whenever she's asked to. After the player has become Champion, the Grunt, along with her cohort, will offer to sell them a Skull Tank and Team Skull Cap^USUM. If the player purchases the clothing, the two Grunts will leave the Pokémon Center, leaving it with no more functional use.

Demographics

Pokémon Sun and Moon

The population of Po Town is 23. Team Skull primarily inhabits the Shady House and the main road leading to it, with all other buildings being abandoned and inaccessible.

Items

Item		Location	Games
	Max Repel	In the southeast corner of the town	S  M  US  UM
	Rare Candy	In front of the second house north of the Pokémon Center	S  M
	Full Restore ×2	In front of the second house north of the Pokémon Center From the Team Skull Grunt by the pool, after defeating Guzma	US  UM
	Smoke Ball	On the north side of the third house north of the Pokémon Center, through a hole in the hedge	S  M  US  UM
	Ice Stone	On the north side of the pool, accessed from the southwest door on 1F of the Shady House	S  M  US  UM
	Rare Candy	Southeast of the pool, accessed from the southwest door on 1F of the Shady House (hidden)	US  UM
	Big Nugget	From Office Worker Royce for $5,000 after defeating him, after defeating Guzma (daily)	US  UM
	Skull Tank	From the female Team Skull Grunt in the Pokémon Center for $10,000, after becoming Champion	S  M  US  UM
	Team Skull Cap	From the female Team Skull Grunt in the Pokémon Center after buying the Skull Tank, after becoming Champion	US  UM

Zygarde Cube

Item		Location	Games
	Zygarde Cell	By the red truck southwest of the Shady House in the northNight	S  M
	Zygarde Cell	By the yellow truck southeast of the Shady House in the northDay	S  M

Totem Stickers

Item		Location	Games
	Totem Sticker	On the side of the house on the left side closest to the Po Town entrance	US  UM
	Totem Sticker	On the side of the Pokémon Center	US  UM
	Totem Sticker	Inside the Pokémon Center, on a box to the left of the counter	US  UM
	Totem Sticker	On the Shady House, to the right of the door	US  UM
	Totem Sticker ×3	On the Shady House, to the right of the pool, accessed from the southwest door on 1F of the Shady House (requires Tauros Charge)	US  UM

Trainers

After defeating Guzma in the Shady House, none of the Team Skull Grunts will battle the player (unless mentioned otherwise), acting as if they had already been defeated.

Pokémon Sun and Moon

Trainer	Pokémon
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,088	Spinarak♂ Lv.34 No item
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,088	Grimer♂ Alolan form Lv.34 No item
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,120 Double Battle with the following Grunt	Raticate♀ Alolan form Lv.35 No item
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,120 Double Battle with the previous Grunt	Golbat♀ Lv.35 No item
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,088	Fomantis♂ Lv.34 No item
	Salandit♂ Lv.34 No item
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,120	Wimpod♀ Lv.35 No item

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

Office Worker Royce can be battled once per day.

Trainer	Pokémon
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,152	Spinarak♂ Lv.36 No item
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,152	Trubbish♂ Lv.36 No item
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,184	Drowzee♂ Lv.37 No item
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,184 Double Battle with the following Grunt	Raticate♀ Alolan form Lv.37 No item
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,184 Double Battle with the previous Grunt	Golbat♀ Lv.37 No item
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,184	Ekans♂ Lv.37 No item
	Salandit♂ Lv.37 No item
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,184	Fomantis♀ Lv.37 No item
	Mareanie♀ Lv.37 No item
After defeating Guzma
Team Skull Grunt Reward: $1,280	Scraggy♂ Lv.40 No item
Office Worker Royce ノブユキ Nobuyuki Reward: $1,600	Elgyem♂ Lv.40 No item
	Metang Lv.40 No item

Layout

Game	Before defeating Guzma	After defeating Guzma
Sun
Moon
Ultra Sun
Ultra Moon

In the spin-off games

Pokémon Masters EX

Artwork depicting Po Town is seen in Nanu's mindscape.

Nanu & Alolan Persian

In the anime

Po Town in the anime

Po Town first appeared in The Dealer of Destruction!, where Team Skull watched a television broadcast of the press conference announcing the Alola League at the Shady House. The Shady House made several further appearances in later episodes.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Po Town in Pokémon Adventures

Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc

Po Town debuted in Flash and Cosmog's Secret. Gladion traveled there after being made a Team Skull Enforcer by Guzma. Shortly after arriving, Gladion was attacked by Plumeria and a group of Team Skull Grunts, who wanted to see if he was skilled enough for the job. Though Gladion proved himself during the battle, his negative attitude angered Plumeria to the point where she refused to accept him as a true member of Team Skull. When Plumeria told Gladion to follow her, Gladion complied, but was momentarily distracted when a Zygarde Core jumped past him.

In A Raid and Po Town, Ilima, Lana, Kiawe, Mallow, Acerola, and Hau arrived in Po Town to have a talk with Team Skull. Guzma, appearing on the Shady House's balcony, seemed amused by the suggestion, and accepted the offer to talk, if the group could get into the house first. At that moment, the Trial Captains and Hau found themselves surrounded by a group of Ultra Beasts.

The Ultra Beasts proceeded to easily best their opponents, but when Guzma noticed that the Captains' Pokémon were still hanging on, he revealed a Cosmog that he had in his possession and had it open more Ultra Wormholes to summon more UBs. The group was saved by Gladion, who used his Type: Null to fight the Ultra Beasts, which it did with ease due to its status as a Pokémon specifically created to fight them. He demanded Guzma to tell him who had given him the Cosmog, but Guzma refused to answer. Afterward, Guzma was kidnapped by a Nihilego, which dragged him into an Ultra Wormhole with it. The other UBs subsequently broke out of Po Town's barrier, proceeding to cause havoc on the rest of Ula'ula.

While the Captains and Gladion headed out to help the people of Ula'ula and stop the Ultra Beasts, Sun and Moon, who had followed the Captains to Po Town, stayed behind to collect Zygarde Cells. The two were soon approached by Looker and Anabel from the International Police, who wanted to ask them questions regarding the Ultra Beasts. After they had agreed to pay Sun six million yen for his information, he told them everything about the Ultra Beasts he saw. Not much after Anabel had sent Looker out to identify and locate the Ultra Beasts, the three Trainers were attacked by a Blacephalon. Their attempt at catching it failed, but they were saved by the appearance of Tapu Bulu, who blew it away. While Sun completed his job of delivering a Mirage Berry to Tapu Bulu, Anabel thought about a certain man hiding somewhere in Alola, who could be able to create a Poké Ball capable of catching Ultra Beasts.

In the TCG

The following is a list of cards mentioning or featuring Po Town in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Related cards Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Po Town	St	Burning Shadows		121/147	Darkness that Consumes Light		051/051

Trivia

• The Pokémon Center in Po Town is the only one in the core series where healing one's Pokémon is not free of charge, as the Team Skull Grunt behind the desk will charge the player $10.
• Po Town is the only city or town in Alola where the background music doesn't change depending on the time of day.
• In Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, one of the Team Skull Grunts found here mentions that he's from Kalos.

Names

Name origin

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ポータウン Pō Town	From pō (Hawaiian for night)
English	Po Town	Same as Japanese name
German	Po'u	Same as Japanese name
Spanish	Pueblo Po	Same as Japanese name
French	Kokohio	Possibly from hoʻokokōhi (Hawaiian for "dark and threatening")
Italian	Poh	Same as Japanese name
Korean	포마을 Po Maeul	Transcription of its Japanese name
Chinese (Mandarin)	魄鎮 / 魄镇 Pò Zhèn	From the transcription of Japanese name and 魄 pò / bok (poetic term for moon)
Chinese (Cantonese)	魄鎮 Bok Jan
Brazilian Portuguese	Vila Pô	Same as Japanese name

Related articles

Team Skull
Po Town • Shady House
Boss	Administrator	Enforcer
Guzma (Masters)	Plumeria (Masters)	Gladion (Masters)
Other members
Team Skull Grunts Pokémon the Series: Tupp • Zipp • Rapp • Okazaki Manga: Borosue (I Choose You! Remix)
Former members
Punk Guy • Punk Girl
See also: Aether Foundation

Alola
Islands Melemele Island • Akala Island • Ula'ula Island • Poni Island • Aether Paradise Settlements Iki Town • Hau'oli City (Outskirts) • Heahea City • Paniola Town • Konikoni City • Royal Avenue • Malie City Tapu Village • Po Town • Seafolk Village • Pokémon League Trial sites Verdant Cavern • Brooklet Hill • Wela Volcano Park • Lush Jungle • Hokulani Observatory Thrifty Megamart (Abandoned Site) • Exeggutor Island • Vast Poni Canyon • Seafolk Village Routes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 Landmarks Mahalo Trail • Trainers' School • Hau'oli Cemetery • Berry fields • Melemele Meadow • Seaward Cave • Kala'e Bay • Ten Carat Hill Tide Song Hotel • Paniola Ranch • Melemele Sea • Diglett's Tunnel • Battle Royal Dome • Memorial Hill • Akala Outskirts • Ruins of Life Hano Grand Resort • Hano Beach • Malie Garden • Mount Hokulani • Blush Mountain • Ula'ula Beach • Aether House • Haina Desert Ruins of Abundance • Ula'ula Meadow • Lake of the Moone • Lake of the Sunne • Shady House • Poni Wilds • Ancient Poni Path Poni Breaker Coast • Ruins of Hope • Altar of the Sunne • Altar of the Moone • Mount Lanakila • Ruins of Conflict Poni Grove • Poni Plains • Poni Meadow • Resolution Cave • Poni Coast • Poni Gauntlet • Battle Tree Festival Plaza • Poké Pelago • Big Wave Beach • Sandy Cave • Heahea Beach • Pikachu Valley • Dividing Peak Tunnel Kantonian Gym • Poni Beach • Plains Grotto • Team Rocket's Castle Ultra Space Ultra Deep Sea • Ultra Megalopolis • Megalo Tower • Ultra Jungle • Ultra Desert • Ultra Plant Ultra Forest • Ultra Crater • Ultra Ruin • Ultra Space Wilds

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