Viridian City

For the song, see Viridian City (song)

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Template:Infobox town Viridian City (Japanese: トキワシティ Tokiwa City) is a small city located in western Kanto. In the Generation I and Generation III games, Team Rocket leader Giovanni serves as Leader of the Ground-specialist Viridian Gym, but the Gym is locked until the player can gain all seven other League Badges. Blue becomes the Gym Leader in the Generation II games and trains a variety of Pokémon.

Three paths, all major, lead from the city center. To the north is Route 2, as well as Viridian Forest, which lies in the middle of Route 2 south of Pewter City. To the south is Route 1, which leads to Pallet Town. To the west is Route 22, leading to the Indigo Plateau and the Pokémon League.

Places of interest

Pokémon Academy

Main article: Pokémon Academy

Much like the Pokémon Academy in Violet City, this building, located in the center of Viridian in Generation III only, is dedicated to teaching the basics of Pokémon to inexperienced trainers. Many trainers that pass through Viridian fall under this category, making the city an ideal location. In Generation II this school was rebuilt and tuned into the Trainer House.

Trainer House

Main article: Trainer House

A unique attraction in Generation II-era Viridian is the Trainer House, a location where trainers from far and wide can battle one trainer per day. Trainers will face the last trainer they used Mystery Gift with, along with that trainer's party. If they have yet to unlock or use Mystery Gift, the opposing trainer will have a trio of Level 50 Pokémon, namely Meganium, Typhlosion and Feraligatr.

Poké Mart

Generation I

Item	Price ($)
Balls
Poké Ball	200
Recovery items
Antidote	100
Burn Heal	250
Parlyz Heal	200
Potion (in Yellow)	300

Generation II

Item	Price ($)
Balls
Ultra Ball	1,200
Recovery items
Antidote	100
Awakening	250
Burn Heal	250
Full Heal	600
Hyper Potion	1,200
Parlyz Heal	200
Revive	1,500
Other items
Flower Mail	50

Generation III

Item	Price ($)
Balls
Poké Ball	200
Recovery items
Antidote	100
Parlyz Heal	200
Potion	300

Pokémon

Wild Pokémon can be found in a pond located in southeast Viridian City.

Generation I

Name	Games			Location	Levels	Rate
Poliwag	R	B		Fishing		50%
			Y	Fishing		100%
Tentacool	R	B		Fishing		50%

Generation II

Name	Games			Location	Levels	Rate
All times
Poliwag	G	S	C	Fishing (All)	10, 20, 40	80%
	G	S	C	Surfing	5-14	90%
Poliwhirl	G	S	C	Surfing	10-14	10%
Magikarp	G	S	C	Fishing (All)	10, 20, 40	20%

Generation III

Name	Games		Location	Levels	Rate
Psyduck	FR		Fishing (Super)		5%
	FR		Surfing		100%
Poliwag	FR	LG	Fishing (Good)		60%
	FR	LG	Fishing (Super)		40%
Poliwhirl	FR	LG	Fishing (Super)		40%
Slowpoke		LG	Fishing (Super)		5%
		LG	Surfing		100%
Goldeen	FR	LG	Fishing (Good)		20%
Magikarp	FR	LG	Fishing (Old)		100%
	FR	LG	Fishing (Good)		20%
Gyarados	FR	LG	Fishing (Super)		15%

Trainer Tips

FireRed and LeafGreen

• The battle moves of Pokémon are limited by their Power Points, PP. To replenish PP, rest your tired Pokémon at a Pokémon Center.
  
• Catch Pokémon and expand your collection. The more you have, the easier it is to battle.

In the anime

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The outskirts of Viridian City.

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Viridian City's Pokémon Center.

Viridian City is first visited in Pokémon Emergency!, when Ash Ketchum takes his sick Pikachu to the Pokémon Center.

In the Pokémon Special manga

Viridian Ciy is first visited in the Bulbasaur, Come Home! round of the Red, Green & Blue chapter when Red and Professor Oak chase the Pokémon that escaped of his laboratory. They enter the abandoned Viridian City Gym and fight with the only resident of that building, an angry Machoke.

Name origin

Viridian is a blue-green color, the pigment of which is made with chromium (III) oxide. Tokiwa iro (常磐色) refers to the green color of evergreen trees.

References

• Psypoke Psydex - Pokémon catch rates

This article is part of Project Cities and Towns, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on every city and town in the Pokémon world.