Ballonlea

Ballonlea アラベスクタウン Arabesque Town "A charming town where the people make their homes among the trunks of the towering trees."

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Ballonlea Gym - Galar Gym #5 Opal Fairy-type specialist Gym Fairy Badge

Ballonlea Gym - Galar Gym #5 Bede Fairy-type specialist Gym Fairy Badge

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Connecting locations Ballonlea   Glimwood Tangle ↓

Location Location of Ballonlea in Galar.

Ballonlea (Japanese: アラベスクタウン Arabesque Town) is a small, secluded town situated in a dense forest in the northwestern Galar region. The town's sole access route via land is through Glimwood Tangle, which is located to the south. The town is surrounded by towering trees and its paths are lined by many glowing mushrooms. The houses in Ballonlea resemble the design of common half-timbered cottages in traditional Tudor architecture. Due to being nestled within a forest, Ballonlea is quite dark; the glowing mushrooms provide most of the light outside.

Opal serves as Ballonlea's Gym Leader in Pokémon Sword and Shield, specializing in Fairy-type Pokémon. Bede later becomes the town's Gym Leader after being hand-picked and trained by Opal.

Slogan

A charming town where the people make their homes among the trunks of the towering trees. (Japanese: 巨木の　内側を　くりぬいた　形の　居住区がある　町 A town where the residential area is in the shape of hollowed-out giant trees.)

Places of interest

Ballonlea Stadium

Main article: Ballonlea Stadium

Ballonlea Stadium is the official Pokémon Gym of Ballonlea, specializing in Fairy types. It is initially led by Opal, who inherited the Gym Leader position from her mother 70 years earlier. She eventually chooses Bede as her successor and makes him the new Fairy-type Gym Leader.

Pokémon Center

The Pokémon Center is located in the southeastern corner of Ballonlea, and is the first building that the player arrives at upon entering the town from Glimwood Tangle to the south.

The man behind the left counter in the Pokémon Center performs the duties of the Name Rater, memory reader, Move Reminder, and Move Deleter. Unlike in previous games, making a Pokémon remember a move does not require the payment of a Heart Scale. The Pokémon Storage System can be accessed from the Rotomi on the left side of nurse’s counter. This PC also enables access to the Loto-ID, as well as Poké Jobs and the League Card Maker.

Poké Mart

This Poké Mart is located at the right counter in the Pokémon Center.

Left clerk
Poké Ball $200	Great Ball $600
Ultra Ball5 Badges $800	Potion $200
Super Potion $700	Hyper Potion $1,500
Max Potion7 Badge $2,500	Full Restore8 Badges $3,000
Antidote $200	Burn Heal $200
Ice Heal $200	Awakening $200
Paralyze Heal $200	Full Heal6 Badges $400
Revive $2,000	Repel $400
Super Repel5 Badges $700	Max Repel7 Badges $900
Poké Doll $300

Demographics

Pokémon Sword and Shield

Ballonlea comprises a Pokémon Center, two houses, and the Ballonlea Stadium. In total, the town has a permanent population of 26, the majority of which are female.

Items

Item		Location	Games
	TM78 (Acrobatics)	From the man next to the southern house, if the player wears the Fire-type Tracksuit Jacket	Sw  Sh
	Choice Scarf	From the old man named Frank in the southern house after delivering him the Old Letter from Hammerlocke	Sw  Sh
	Big Mushroom ×2	In front of orange mushrooms between the two houses (hidden)	Sw  Sh
	TM77 (Hex)	From the old lady in the northern house	Sw
	TM42 (Revenge)	From the old lady in the northern house	Sh
	Eviolite	From Pokémon Breeder Elena in the northern house after defeating her	Sw  Sh
	TM21 (Rest)	Near the tall green mushrooms northeast of the Pokémon Center	Sw  Sh
	Balm Mushroom	Next to the pink mushrooms on the ledge east of the Pokémon Center (hidden)	Sw  Sh

Trainers

Trainer	Pokémon
Pokémon Breeder Elena エレナ Elena Reward: $2,880	Dottler♀ Lv.30 Eviolite

In the anime

Ballonlea in the anime

Ballonlea first appeared in The Tale of You and Glimwood Tangle!, where Ash and Goh wound up there while wandering around Glimwood Tangle. Soon after arriving, they encountered Opal, who challenged them to a series of quizzes and made them and their Pokémon wear pink clothes for each wrong answer they got. They were eventually joined by Chloe, who arrived to the town with a Galarian Ponyta and Rapidash she had befriended.

In The Sweet Taste of Battle!, Ash, Goh, and Chloe revisited Ballonlea after receiving an invitation from Opal for a competition she was holding at her Gym, with Leon and Raihan attending it as well. While visiting a local pâtisserie before going to the Gym, Goh caught himself a Milcery, which he inadvertently ended up evolving into an Alcremie almost immediately afterwards.

Opal's competition turned out to be a cake-decorating contest dubbed the All-Alcremie Decoration Challenge. She loaned each of the contestants one of her Alcremie to provide them cream for the contest. To everyone's surprise, Ash's overly decorated cake ended up winning. Afterwards, Opal challenged Ash to a battle, using her Gigantamax Alcremie against Ash's Pikachu. The battle ended up being called off when Alcremie's G-Max Finale caused Pikachu to grow too fat and full to continue battling.

Gallery

Ballonlea Stadium	Pâtisserie

In the manga

Ballonlea in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Sword & Shield arc

Ballonlea first appeared in Chomp!! Defeat Drednaw, where Opal was informed of the new Gym Challengers endorsed by Leon.

In Shocking!! Reunion in the Forest, Henry arrived at Ballonlea for the next leg of his Gym Challenge. In Rising!! Opal of Ballonlea, while waiting for Hop to finish his battle with Opal, Henry trained with Marvin and his newly evolved Drizzile outside the Gym stadium. Once Hop had won his battle, Henry challenged and defeated Opal as well. In PASS18, it was Casey's turn to challenge Opal, but she lost, ending her run in the Gym Challenge.

In PASS20, Opal invited Bede to visit her at Ballonlea. Taking a liking to his personality, she chose him as a worthy successor for her as the Ballonlea Gym Leader and started training him in order to prepare him for taking on the position.

Trivia

Origin

Name origin

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	アラベスクタウン Arabesque Town	From arabesque (a ballet position)
English, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese	Ballonlea	From ballon and -lea (British town suffix for woodland clearing)
German	Fairballey	From fair, fairy, ballet, and -ley (British town suffix for woodland clearing)
Spanish	Pueblo Plié	From plié (smooth and continuous bending of the knees in ballet)
French	Corrifey	From coryphée (dancer of a higher rank in corps de ballet), fey, and -ey (British town suffix for enclosure)
Italian	Piquedilly	From piqué (ballet movement involving the pricking of the floor before rebounding) and possibly Piccadilly
Korean	아라베스크마을 Arabesque Town	From its Japanese name
Chinese (Mandarin)	舞姿鎮 / 舞姿镇 Wǔzī Zhèn	From 舞姿 wǔzī / móuhjī (dancer's posture and movement)
Chinese (Cantonese)	舞姿鎮 Móuhjī Jan

Galar
Settlements Postwick • Wedgehurst • Motostoke • Turffield • Hulbury • Hammerlocke Stow-on-Side • Ballonlea • Circhester • Spikemuth • Wyndon Routes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 Landmarks Slumbering Weald • Galar Mine • Galar Mine No. 2 • Motostoke Outskirts Glimwood Tangle • Route 9 Tunnel • Rose Tower/Battle Tower • Energy Plant • Tower Summit Wild Area Meetup Spot • Rolling Fields • Dappled Grove • Watchtower Ruins • East Lake Axewell • West Lake Axewell Axew's Eye • South Lake Miloch • Giant's Seat • North Lake Miloch • Motostoke Riverbank • Bridge Field Stony Wilderness • Dusty Bowl • Giant's Mirror • Hammerlocke Hills • Giant's Cap • Lake of Outrage Isle of Armor Fields of Honor • Master Dojo • Soothing Wetlands • Forest of Focus • Challenge Beach • Tower of Waters • Brawlers' Cave Challenge Road • Tower of Darkness • Courageous Cavern • Loop Lagoon • Training Lowlands • Warm-Up Tunnel Potbottom Desert • Workout Sea • Stepping-Stone Sea • Insular Sea • Honeycalm Sea • Honeycalm Island Crown Tundra Slippery Slope • Max Lair • Freezington • Frostpoint Field • Giant's Bed • Rock Peak Ruins • Iron Ruins • Old Cemetery Snowslide Slope • Iceberg Ruins • Tunnel to the Top • Path to the Peak • Crown Shrine • Giant's Foot • Roaring-Sea Caves Frigid Sea • Three-Point Pass • Split-Decision Ruins • Ballimere Lake • Lakeside Cave • Dyna Tree Hill

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.