Silph Co.

Silph Company

The Silph Corporation (Silph Co.) is a company in many versions of the Pokémon franchise. They are the manufacturers of many tools, including the Silph Scope, which allows the user to view spectral entities, and have headquarters in Saffron City. They are also speculated to run the Pokémarts in Kanto and possibly Johto & the Sevii Islands as well.

Overview

Silph Co. is the leading manufacturer of Pokémon technology. It is this company that produces the Pokéballs used by trainers to capture Pokémon, and they are constantly looking for ways to improve upon them. Their status made them a target in the Red/Blue/Yellow /Fire Red and Leafgreen games, in which Team Rocket orchestrated the takeover of their headquarters in Saffron City. However, in Red/Blue/Yellow /Fire Red and Leafgreen, the player has the mission of driving them out of the city, and the President of Silph will reveal afterwards the top-secret development Team Rocket was after: the Master Ball, which can catch any Pokémon without fail.

Silph Headquarters

The Silph Co. Head Office Building is an eleven-floor skyscraper that is effectively a giant maze. In Red/Blue/Yellow /Fire Red and Leafgreen, the player must navigate using teleporter tiles in order to reach the board room on the top floor. The player must find the Card Key, which unloks Silph's doors like a hotel key, on the fourth floor of the building in order to do this. Then the player must return to the third floor, open the doors in the center-left of the floor, and use the warp panel to the far left to be taken to the room with the warp tile to the board room. The player's rival waites in that room and you must face him before continuing on. After you beat him the other person in the room will give you a free Lapras, an extremely rare Pokémon. Then you may continue on to the board room to face Giovanni for the Master Ball. After rescuing Silph, the player is free to explore the building and talk to the employees.

In Gold/Silver/Crystal, Silph Co. has increased security, and the player can not see the upper floors. One of the guards, however, will kindly give the player an Up-Grade item for talking to him, which will allow a Porygon to evolve through a trade to Porygon 2.

In the Animé

Although the Silph Co. head office building plays a major part in the the games, it is not mentioned nor seen in the Pokémon Animé. This is interesting, and leaves open the possibility that they may be featured in the future, perhaps heavily. It may also be that the Devon Corp. produce everything in the Animé.

HQ Items

Here is a list of the items found inside Siplh in FR/LG by the floor they are found on:

2nd-Thunder Wave(Move tutor). 3rd-Hyper potion. 4th-Full heal, Max revive, Escape rope, TM41 (Torment), Card key. 5th-Protein, TM01 (Focus Punch). 6th-HP Up, X special. 7th-TM08 (Bulk Up), Calcium. 8th-Iron. 10th-Carbos, Rare Candy, Ultra Ball. 11th-Zinc, Master Ball.

Manufactured Items

Below is a list of all the known items that are manufactured by Silph Co.:

• Pokéball
• Great Ball
• Ultra Ball
• Master Ball
• Potion
• Super Potion
• Hyper Potion
• Max Potion
• Full Restore
• Silph Scope
• Most of the TMs
• Repel
• Super Repel
• Max Repel
• Escape Rope
• Many Pokemon-Hold items

Name Origin

It is speculated that Silph Co.'s name is derived from the sylph, a mythological creature.

See Also

Kanto Saffron City Team Rocket