GS Ball
The GS Ball (Japanese, Pokémon Crystal: ジーエスボール, anime: ＧＳボール GS Ball) is a special and mysterious Poké Ball. It is colored gold and silver and has the letters "GS" inscribed upon it. GS may stand for Gold and Silver, as those were the first two games of Generation II.
In the games
In Pokémon Crystal
In the Japanese version of Pokémon Crystal, players could use the Pokémon Mobile System GB to obtain a GS Ball as an event item which they could take to Ilex Forest. Using it at the forest's shrine would prompt an encounter where a wild Celebi could be captured. However, no equivalent event was ever offered to players of the English version of the game. Some game-enhancing devices, however, such as the GameShark, can be used to generate the GS Ball right in the player's bag in both languages. A modified version of the Celebi egg trick will also spawn a GS Ball as a held item.
In Pokémon Gold/Silver
While the GS Ball itself was not programmed into Pokémon Gold and Silver, a player may get a Teru-sama using a modified version of the Celebi egg trick or a GameShark. The Teru-sama can be held by a Pokémon that is traded to Pokémon Crystal where it will become a GS Ball.
In the anime
In the anime, Professor Ivy was the first character to possess the GS Ball. She called upon the help of Professor Oak to study it, but couldn't figure out how to open it or transmit it via PC. Professor Oak asked Ash to go to the Orange Archipelago and get it from Professor Ivy, which he did in Poké Ball Peril. This prompted Ash's participation in the Orange League.
At one point, Ash tried simply calling a Pokémon to be released but this did not work.
When Professor Oak couldn't do anything with it, Ash was once again asked to deliver it to Kurt, a Poké Ball researcher and manufacturer living in Johto's Azalea Town. It presumably still resides there to this day, and its purpose was, before 2008, unknown.
In an interview with Masamitsu Hidaka in 2008 by the webmaster of PokéBeach, it was explained that the GS Ball was meant to contain a Celebi that was to be the star of a large arc of the Johto saga. However, it was decided that Celebi would be the star of the fourth movie, so the story arc was viewed as redundant and shelved. The ball was left with Kurt with the hopes that viewers would eventually forget about it.
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
According to the Pokémon Adventures manga, the GS Ball was created by the Masked Man from the feathers of Lugia and Ho-Oh to capture Celebi. Only the feathers of the two legendary Pokémon could contain Celebi, and prevent their holder from suffering the ill effects of time travel. Gold was able to use his Pichu to destroy it and set Celebi free.
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