Sootopolis City

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Sootopolis City ルネシティ Rune City "The mystical city where history slumbers."

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Map description This city, which rises from the crater of a great meteoroid crash, can only be reached through the sea or from the sky.

Sootopolis City Gym - Hoenn Gym #8RSORAS Wallace Water-type specialist Gym Rain Badge

Sootopolis City Gym - Hoenn Gym #8E Juan Water-type specialist Gym Rain Badge

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Connecting locations   ↑ Cave of Origin   Sootopolis City   Route 126 ↓

Location Location of Sootopolis City in Hoenn.

Sootopolis City (Japanese: ルネシティ Rune City) is a city located off the eastern mainland of Hoenn.

Sootopolis City is located inside a crater formed by a volcano. Many years ago, an underwater volcano erupted and forced itself up from the depths creating a crater, the hollowed volcano. Its crater emerged from the sea and became filled with rainwater. People soon began to dwell in the crater for its warm, fresh water and a city soon came forth. To get around the city, people have to climb many flights of stairs and Dive under the sea. This made many of the locals get into good shape. Sootopolis City has a fantastic nighttime view. The stars peer in through the top of the crater.

Sootopolis City plays a major part in the games, as it is the location where the player has their first encounter with a legendary Pokémon, and obtains their final Badge.

In the Pokémon games, Sootopolis City can only be reached by diving through an underwater cavern or by Flying. Sootopolis is surrounded by Route 126.

In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, it has been reveled that Sootopolis City was in fact created from a giant meteor that crashed into the oceans of the Hoenn region.

Places of interest

Sootopolis City in Ruby and Sapphire

Cave of Origin

Main article: Cave of Origin

The Cave of Origin is located in Sootopolis, in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire it contains Groudon and Kyogre respectively, while in Pokémon Emerald, Wallace is there, wondering where Rayquaza could be.

Residential houses

Barboach and Shroomish can be shown to a pair of residents, who will calculate their size and reward prizes of Ethers and Elixirs accordingly. In Pokémon Emerald, they will calculate the sizes of Seedot and Lotad instead.

In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, instead of size, they're arguing over which is cuter. Showing them a Barboach or Shroomish with an affection level of at least 4 will award you with a Max Elixir once for each species.

Sootopolis Gym

Main article: Sootopolis Gym

Wallace was the Gym Leader in this city. He uses Water-type Pokémon, and is the one who handed out the eighth Gym Badge of Hoenn. However, his former teacher Juan resumed his role as the Gym Leader in Pokémon Emerald, with the student moving on to become Champion of the Hoenn League and replacing Steven from previous versions.

Move Tutor

In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, in the north-eastern part of Sootopolis City there is a house with an elderly gentleman within it. If you speak to him with a Dragon-type Pokémon of high happiness, he will teach it the special move, Draco Meteor.

Demographics

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the population of Sootopolis City is 39. This is a large population considering the city being settled inside a dormant volcano and its isolation from the other Hoenn cities.

Poké Mart

Generation III
Ultra Ball $1200	Hyper Potion $1200
Max Potion $2500	Full Heal $600
Revive $1500	X Attack $500
X Defend $550	Max Repel $700
Shadow Mail $50

Generation VI
Poké Ball $200	Great Ball $600
Ultra Ball $1,200	Potion $300
Super Potion $700	Hyper Potion $1,200
Max Potion $2,500	Full Restore $3,000
Revive $1,500	Antidote $100
Paralyze Heal $200	Awakening $250
Burn Heal $250	Ice Heal $250
Full Heal $600	Escape Rope $550
Repel $350	Super Repel $500
Max Repel $700

Items

Item		Location	Games
	TM31 (Brick Break)	Given by the Black Belt with the Kecleon in the northwestern house	R  S  E  OR  AS
	Wailmer Doll	Given by girl in the house just east of the Pokémon Center	R  S  E  OR  AS
	Super Potion	North of Kiri (hidden)	OR  AS
	Protein	Behind house south-east of Pokémon Center (hidden)	OR  AS
	HM07 (Waterfall)	Gift from Wallace in front of the Gym after calming Groudon and Kyogre	E
	Max Elixir ×2	Show Fisherman a Barboach with affection level of at least 4 Show Hiker a Shroomish with affection level of at least 4	OR  AS
	TM83 (Infestation)	From a Collector in the Poké Mart	OR  AS
	Sablenite	Southeast from the entrance to the Cave of Origin	OR  AS
	Magma Suit	From Maxie before entering Cave of Origin	OR
Red Orb VI	Red Orb	From Maxie after confronting Groudon	OR
	Aqua Suit	From Archie before entering Cave of Origin	AS
Blue Orb VI	Blue Orb	From Archie after confronting Kyogre	AS
	Eon Flute	From Steven after confronting GroudonOR/KyogreAS	OR  AS

Berries from Kiri

Kiri will give the player two Berries each day.

Item		Location	Games
	Pomeg Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E
	Kelpsy Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E
	Qualot Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E
	Hondew Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E
	Grepa Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E
	Tamato Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E
	Cornn Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E
	Magost Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E
	Rabuta Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E
	Nomel Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E
	Figy Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E
	Iapapa Berry	Obtained from Kiri in the southwest part of city	R  S  E

Pokémon

Generation III

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Surfing
Magikarp	R		S		E		Surfing	5-35	100%
Fishing
Tentacool	R		S		E		Fishing Old Rod	5-10	30%
Magikarp	R		S		E		Fishing Old Rod	5-10	70%
Magikarp	R		S		E		Fishing Good Rod	10-30	100%
Magikarp	R		S		E		Fishing Super Rod	30-35	80%
Gyarados	R		S		E		Fishing Super Rod	5-45	20%
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.

In the anime

Sootopolis City in the anime

In the anime, the volcano Sootopolis is built upon opens up at one side, giving access to ferries. It appeared in the episodes The Great Eight Fate! and Eight Ain't Enough!. Ash had his battle with Juan here, obtaining his final Hoenn League Badge.

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Sootopolis City in Pokémon Adventures

Sootopolis City was first mentioned in Stick This in Your Craw, Crawdaunt I by Mr. Briney when his Whiscash, Whisko, was sensing earthquakes with its whiskers and that many earthquakes have happened there.

The fight between Groudon and Kyogre mainly took place in Sootopolis City.

Trivia

• Sootopolis's Japanese motto is れきしが ねむる しんぴの まち "The mystical city where history slumbers".
• Sootopolis City appears to be based on the Greek island of Santorini, also known as Thera.
• The background music used in this city is a remix of music from Pokémon Pinball, specifically that which plays during the "Name Entry" screen.
• In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, if the player goes to the highest house on the right side of the city (the side with the Pokémon Center), stands on the stairs outside, and hits the "left" direction on the d-pad, it is possible to use a glitch to walk on part of the rock wall. This was corrected in Pokémon Emerald.
• This is the only city in the Pokémon world which requires the use of Dive in order to be reached for the first time.
• Junichi Masuda named an NPC in Sootopolis after his then new-born daughter, Kiri.
• Sootopolis City is the most recent place where Groudon and Kyogre have battled each other in the wild.
  • In addition, it is the last location where the weather trio met at once.
• Sootopolis City is the only city or town located in the middle of a single route, and also surrounded completely by one.

Name origin

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ルネシティ Rune City	Possibly from ルネサンス (Renaissance), 流 ru (flow), 瑠璃 ruri (lapis lazuli or its blue color), and 涅 netsu (underwater soil containing alum that is traditionally used in dying black or dark colors)
English	Sootopolis City	From soot, which is expelled when a volcano erupts, and polis, Greek for city
French	Atalanopolis	Possibly from Atlantis and polis, Greek for city. May also be derived from Vanessa atalanta, whose French name (Vulcain) is derived from volcano.
German	Xeneroville	Possibly from xeno- (foreign), cenere (Italian for ash), or nero (Italian for black) and ville
Italian	Ceneride	From cenere, ash
Spanish	Arrecípolis	From arrecife (coral reef) and polis, Greek for city
Korean	루네시티 Rune City	Same as the Japanese name
Chinese (Mandarin)	琉璃市 Liúlí Shì	Rough transliteration of its Japanese name. Can be taken as "Colored glaze city" or "glass city".

Hoenn
Settlements Littleroot Town • Oldale Town • Petalburg City • Rustboro City • Dewford Town • Slateport City • Mauville City • Verdanturf Town Fallarbor Town • Lavaridge Town • Fortree City • Lilycove City • Mossdeep City • Sootopolis City • Pacifidlog Town • Ever Grande City Battle Frontier • Battle Resort Routes 101 • 102 • 103 • 104 • 105 • 106 • 107 • 108 • 109 • 110 • 111 • 112 • 113 • 114 • 115 • 116 • 117 • 118 119 • 120 • 121 • 122 • 123 • 124 • 125 • 126 • 127 • 128 • 129 • 130 • 131 • 132 • 133 • 134 • Underwater Landmarks Petalburg Woods • Rusturf Tunnel • Island Cave • Granite Cave • Abandoned Ship • Sea Mauville • Oceanic Museum Seaside Cycling Road • Trick House • Mauville Game Corner • New Mauville • Trainer Hill • Desert Ruins • Mirage Tower • Fiery Path Jagged Pass • Mt. Chimney • Desert Underpass • Meteor Falls • Weather Institute • Scorched Slab • Ancient Tomb • Safari Zone • Mt. Pyre Lilycove Museum • Shoal Cave • Team Aqua Hideout • Team Magma Hideout (Lilycove • Jagged Pass) • Mossdeep Space Center • Seafloor Cavern Cave of Origin • Mirage Island • Sky Pillar • Victory Road • Pokémon League • Sealed Chamber • Artisan Cave • Altering Cave • Southern Island Marine Cave • Terra Cave • Contest Hall • Battle Maison • Battle Tower • Battle Tent • Secret Islet • Secret Meadow • Secret Shore Mirage spots Mirage Caves • Mirage Forests • Mirage Islands • Mirage Mountains Crescent Isle • Fabled Cave • Gnarled Den • Nameless Cavern • Pathless Plain • Trackless Forest Access to Birth Island • Faraway Island • Navel Rock • Sky

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