Secret Base
A secret base (Japanese: ひみつきち secret base) is a special area that the player can create in Hoenn- and Sinnoh-based games to decorate with various accessories, furniture, and Pokémon dolls. While the name is retained as the same between Hoenn and Sinnoh, the only real similarity between the two is in the manner in which they are decorated.
In the games
Generation III
Most routes in the Hoenn region feature several areas which can be converted into a secret base, with small indents in walls being able to be carved out into a cave, tall trees being able to drop down vines, and clumps of grass being able to be moved. These areas become accessible to this conversion only if the Trainer has a Pokémon that can use Secret Power, available via TM43.
Trainers can decorate their secret base in any way they please, being able to put up to 16 decorations into the area. Trainers can run while inside of a secret base, but cannot ride a bike. A boy in Mossdeep City reminds players of where their own secret base is.
If a player mixes records with other Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald game cartridges, secret bases will copy over between them (even those from other players who have previously mixed records). Inside of secret bases that do not belong to the player, an NPC can be found to represent the person that took that secret base as their own. After the Elite Four have been defeated, the player can battle the NPC, who will have the party of the person who owns that secret base as of the time of record mixing. These battles award money, experience, and all other things that normal battles with NPCs do, but they can only occur once per day, with the time resetting at midnight, and items stolen from the NPC's Pokémon using Thief are not kept afterwards.
Generation IV
Unlike in Generation III, the secret bases in Generation IV are found underground, and instead of NPCs being used to represent other players, the other players can be encountered face-to-face using DS wireless communication.
Players cannot battle each other for money underground, however, if a player enters another's secret base while they are not decorating (as that requires the entrance be closed), they can attempt to steal their flag and take it to their own secret base for rewards, from decorations to a Trainer card star.
In the anime
Secret bases first appeared in A Three Team Scheme. While staying in Dewford Town, Ash and his friends stumbled across Keanu's secret base. Later in the episode, Team Rocket also found the secret base and stole Keanu's Pokémon, which Ash and his friends helped him to get back.
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