Nacrene City

Nacrene City シッポウシティ Shippou City "A Pearl of a Place"

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Map description A city established in restored storehouses built 100 years ago.

Nacrene City Gym - Unova Gym #2 Lenora Normal-type specialist Gym Basic Badge

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Connecting locations ← Pinwheel Forest Nacrene City Route 3 →

Location Location of Nacrene City in Unova.

Nacrene City (Japanese: シッポウシティ Shippou City) is a city in southeastern Unova. It is the location for the second Gym that the player visits in the region, led by Lenora.

Nacrene City is described as having a peculiar cityscape, as it reuses its warehouses built about a century ago. According to the manga, the unique cityscape makes it a popular place for avant-garde artists and is usually the place where trends begin, being called the "city of art". Castelia City's Gym Leader Burgh is a renowned artist whose hometown is Nacrene City. Nacrene City houses the Nacrene Museum which happens to include the Nacrene Gym.

Places of interest

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Nacrene Museum

A museum showing various historical treasures, most prominently a skeleton of a Dragon-type Pokémon (resembling Dragonite), is located in Nacrene City. At the back of the museum there is a library room which also operates as the Nacrene Gym. There is also a meteorite exhibit that will change Deoxys's Forme when examined. By talking to the woman on the right hand desk inside, the player can restore fossils.

Nacrene Gym

Main article: Nacrene Gym

The Nacrene Gym is the official Gym of Nacrene City. It is based on Template:Type2 Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Lenora. The Nacrene City Gym is a Gym consisting of a library that require Trainers to find the right answers to opponents' questions through the readable books, before engaging them in battle. For defeating Lenora, Trainers receive the Basic Badge and TM67 (Retaliate).

Café Warehouse

The Café Warehouse (Japanese: Café Sōko) is a a diner just west of the museum. They have specials on Wednesday, where the player can receive a free Soda Pop.

Loblolly's studio

Loblolly's studio is to the southeast of Nacrene City. After visiting the Dream World at least once, Loblolly will talk about Décor that "people will dream of". Players may choose one of five pieces of Décor that will be unlocked in the Dream World the next time the Game Sync is used. Each day another piece may be chosen.

Dye's house

Dye's house is located in the southeastern side of Nacrene City. In it, Dye will offer to trade the player Petilil for Cottonee in Black, and Cottonee for Petilil in White. After trading with Dye and stopping Team Plasma at N's Castle, Dye will challenge the player to a battle in which she uses the evolved form of the Cottonee^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.} or Petilil^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.} that the player traded to her.

In addition, downstairs in Dye's house, a woman will evaluate the happiness of the first Pokémon in the player's party.

Battle item shop

In the southeastern side of Nacrene City, a man will sell battle items out of his house.

Battle items
X Speed $350	X Attack $500
X Defend $550	Guard Spec. $700
Dire Hit $650	X Accuracy $950
X Special X Special $350	X Sp. Def $350

Demographics

Nacrene City has a population of 50. It is among the Unova region's largest cities in terms of population.

Variable scoring

An accordion track will be added to the background theme if the player is near a street performer west of the gym.

Poké Mart

Poké Ball $200	Great Ball $600
Ultra Ball $1200	Potion $300
Super Potion $700	Hyper Potion $1200
Max Potion $2500	Full Restore $3000
Revive $1500	Antidote $100
Parlyz Heal Parlyz Heal $200	Awakening $250
Burn Heal $250	Ice Heal $250
Full Heal $600	Escape Rope $550
Repel $350	Super Repel $500
Max Repel $700	Greet Mail $50
Favored Mail $50	RSVP Mail $50
Thanks Mail $50	Inquiry Mail $50
Like Mail $50	Reply Mail $50

Items

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Pokémon

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Omanyte	B			W			Revive Helix Fossil	25	Many
Kabuto	B			W			Revive Dome Fossil	25	Many
Aerodactyl	B			W			Revive Old Amber	25	Many
Lileep	B			W			Revive Root Fossil	25	Many
Anorith	B			W			Revive Claw Fossil	25	Many
Cranidos	B			W			Revive Skull Fossil	25	Many
Shieldon	B			W			Revive Armor Fossil	25	Many
Tirtouga	B			W			Revive Cover Fossil	25	Many
Archen	B			W			Revive Plume Fossil	25	Many
Cottonee	B			W			Trade Petilil	15	Trade
Petilil	B			W			Trade Cottonee	15	Trade
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Trainers

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Pokémon Trainer N Nacrene City Black and White Pokémon Trainer and Professor N Oak Nacrene City Black and White Reward: $1300

Types: Normal Flying Ability: Super Luck Held item: None Pidove♂ Lv.13 Gust Flying Special   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Growl Normal Status   --       Types: Fighting Unknown Ability: Guts Held item: None Timburr♂ Lv.13 Low Kick Fighting Physical   --       Focus Energy Normal Status   --       Bide Normal Physical   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Types: Water Unknown Ability: Swift Swim Held item: None Tympole♂ Lv.13 Supersonic Normal Status   --       BubbleBeam Water Special   --       Growl Normal Status   --       Round Normal Special   --

Post-game

After trading with Dye and stopping Team Plasma at N's Castle, Dye will challenge the player to a battle in which she uses the evolved form of the Cottonee^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.} or Petilil^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.} that the player traded to her.

Black only

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Lass Dye アヤ Aya Reward: $1040	Whimsicott Lv.65 No item
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White only

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Lass Dye アヤ Aya Reward: $1040	Lilligant Lv.65 No item
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In the anime

Nacrene City in the anime

Nacrene Museum in the anime

Nacrene City is shown to be a very colorful and artistic city in the anime with water fountains, stained glass windows and an unused railway track. The buildings and warehouses are painted in a variety of different colors. It is also shown to have a Pokémon Center and Battle Club. Weird things are also shown to be sold here.

In Minccino-Neat and Tidy!, Jessie, James and TRMeowth ([[{{{2}}} (move)|{{{2}}}]]) arrived there, planning to go to the Nacrene Museum.

In A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!, Ash and his friends visited the Nacrene Museum looking for the Nacrene Gym which is closed. The Museum is quite a historical building and features a range of exhibits such as fossils, skeletons, knight's armor and tombs. Hawes is the vice-curator of the museum. Near the back is a library where the gym's entrance is. There was a Yamask causing havoc in the museum.

In The Battle According to Lenora!, Ash battled Lenora in the gym, but was defeated; Team Rocket stole a meteorite from the museum, replacing it with a dummy.

In Rematch at the Nacrene Gym!, Ash had rematch against Lenora and finally won. Its last appearance was in Scraggy-Hatched to be Wild! where Team Rocket got orders by Flint to visit Professor Seger. They went there and he examined the meteorite which was shown to have materials found nowhere on earth.

Trivia

• Nacrene's Japanese motto is シッポウは　七つの 宝物.
• Nacrene City has a train track running through the south side of the city.
  • However, it is nonfunctional, as there is no train visible and the track ends abruptly in the Pinwheel Forest.
• Nacrene City shares its Japanese name, Shippou, with Sevault Canyon in the Sevii Islands.

Name origin

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	シッポウシティ Shippou City	七宝 shippō, both the seven treasures (gold, silver, pearls, agate, crystal, coral, and lapis lazuli) and a mon that uses interlocking circles in such a way that the intersections resemble flowers (example).
English	Nacrene City	From nacreous cloud, polar clouds that have iridescent luster. Also from nacre (mother of pearl).
French	Maillard	Possibly a reference to Maillard reaction, a type of nonenzymatic browning process that produces a diverse range of odors and flavors.
German	Septerna City	From the Latin septem (seven).
Italian	Zefiropoli	From zefiro, an Italian name for Poniente.
Spanish	Ciudad Esmalte	From esmalte, vitreous enamel.
Korean	칠보시티 Chilbo City	From 七宝 chilbo, "seven treasures".
Chinese (Mandarin)	七寶市 Qībǎo Shì	From 七宝 shippō. Literally means "seven treasures", possibly referencing the seven treasures in Buddhist scripture.

Unova
Settlements Nuvema Town • Accumula Town • Striaton City • Nacrene City • Castelia City • Nimbasa City • Anville Town Driftveil City • Mistralton City • Icirrus City • Opelucid City • Pokémon League • Lacunosa Town • Undella Town Black City • White Forest • Aspertia City • Floccesy Town • Virbank City • Lentimas Town • Humilau City Routes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 Bridges and tunnels Skyarrow Bridge • Driftveil Drawbridge • Tubeline Bridge • Village Bridge • Marvelous Bridge • Marine Tube Landmarks Dreamyard • Wellspring Cave • Pinwheel Forest • Liberty Garden • Desert Resort • Relic Castle • Battle Subway • Lostlorn Forest Cold Storage • Mistralton Cave • Chargestone Cave • Celestial Tower • Twist Mountain • Dragonspiral Tower • Moor of Icirrus Challenger's Cave • Victory Road (BW • B2W2) • N's Castle • Royal Unova • Giant Chasm • Undella Bay • Abyssal Ruins Abundant Shrine • Poké Transfer Lab • P2 Laboratory • Entralink • Unity Tower • Floccesy Ranch • Pledge Grove • Virbank Complex Pokéstar Studios • Castelia Sewers • Join Avenue • Cave of Being • Pokémon World Tournament • Reversal Mountain • Plasma Frigate Clay Tunnel • Underground Ruins • Strange House • Relic Passage • Seaside Cave • White Treehollow • Black Tower Access to Nature Preserve Other Blueberry Academy • Terarium

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