Veilstone City

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Veilstone City (Japanese: トバリシティ Tobari City) is a port city in eastern Sinnoh. It is situated near the sea to the north, with Route 214 and Pastoria City to the south, and Route 215 to the west. It houses Maylene, the Veilstone City Gym Leader, along with the headquarters for Team Galactic.

Veilstone is carved out of steep and rocky mountains, giving the city rock walls that project a cold atmosphere. It is fairly isolated and has little contact with other cities. Team Galactic also constructed the Galactic Warehouse and their headquarters, the Galactic Veilstone Building there. This city is also home to the Sinnoh region's department store, Veilstone Department Store, much like Celadon City in Kanto, Goldenrod City in Johto, and Lilycove City in Hoenn. The Veilstone Game Corner also has slot machines that people can play to try to win coins to buy TMs. Veilstone is famous for its stone, including its meteorites, which can change Deoxys between its many forms.

In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, as the player leaves the Gym, Dawn/Lucas will be waiting outside and will tell the player that Team Galactic stole her/his Pokédex. The player has to team up with her/him to defeat two Galactic Grunts.

Places of interest

Veilstone Department Store

Main article: Veilstone Department Store

The Veilstone Department Store is located in the mids of Veilstone City, west of the Pokémon Center. It is the main shopping district in the city. Veilstone lacks a regular Poké Mart, but its department store sells all the usual items and more. This department store is similar to the Celadon Department Store, the Goldenrod Department Store, and the Lilycove Department Store. The store offers a wide variety of items on its five floors. When players enter the Dept. Store, there is a lady to the left of the entrance who will give away a mask to be put in the Fashion Case. The people at the reception counter sell items commonly found in Poké Marts. On the second floor a man behind the counter will give away the Counter Pokétch app. Battle items and vitamins are sold here as well. TMs are sold on the third floor. Secret Base decorations are sold on the fourth floor. Inexpensive healing items--Lemonade, Soda Pop, and Fresh Water--can be bought on the top floor. There is also a base floor only in Pokémon Platinum that sells contest tools. The ground floor acts just like a Poké Mart:

Galactic Veilstone Building

Main article: Galactic Veilstone Building

The Team Galactic HQ is a large multi-level building in northern Veilstone City. It, along with the Galactic Eterna Building, is one of the main centers for Team Galactic's operations. It housed the legendary Pokémon Uxie, Azelf, and Mesprit for a brief time. At first, the player cannot enter the Team Galactic HQ without a Storage Key, which can only be found in the Galactic Warehouse and must be obtained there first. Once inside, the player must make their way to the top, where they meet and battle Cyrus. The Team Galactic HQ itself is an unusual place. Or though, there are large machines and devices, there is also a Team Galactic TV Room and Kitchen, with a state-of-the-art audio and video system, and a refrigerator, promoting free drinks, filled with murky, sinister drinks and nothing else. There is a Team Galactic Nap Room, filled with beds to heal Pokémon. The members of the Team Galactic HQ also get around by using portals that lead to different rooms across the building. This is also the location of the only Master Ball in the game.

Veilstone Game Corner

Main article: Veilstone Game Corner

The Veilstone Game Corner is located in the southern Veilstone City near the gym. The woman behind the counter to the left of the slots sells coins to the player - 50 coins for $1000, or 500 coins for $10000. There are sixteen slot machines in the Game Corner, with four of them having people already seated at them. Each spin of the machine takes 3 coins, which are inserted by pressing the X button. Reels will start spinning either when the D-pad is pressed down or the X button is pressed again. Y stops the left reel, B stops the middle, and A stops the right. Bonus Round can happen when a Clefairy will pop out of the Poké Ball on the touch screen, and can be either a normal one, a Template:Shiny2 one, or one that appears to be a Transformed Ditto. Once the Clefairy appears, players must continue spinning the reels until they get a 100-coin bonus. The odds of getting the bonus seem to improve if the slots are activated to the beat of Clefairy's clapping. Prizes are sold in the house to the right of the Game Corner.

Galactic Warehouse

Main article: Galactic Warehouse

Galactic Warehouse is a small storage facility that is connected to Team Galactic's HQ, found on the north-west side of Veilstone City. Once the player obtains the Storage Key, the player can enter the HQ through closed-off stairs. Only one Galactic Grunt stays here, keeping his guard status throughout the game. HM02 (Fly) can be found here along with a rare Dusk Stone.

Massage Lady

Main article: Massage Lady

The Massage Lady lives in southern Veilstone City, in the house nearest the gym. Once a day, the Massage Lady massages the player's Pokémon for free and finds accessories for dressing up in Pokémon Contests. It is said massages make the massaged Pokémon happier. The Massage Lady lives with her brother and a Pachirisu. Her boyfriend is the Scarf Guy in Pastoria City, whom she keeps in contact with through mail, which she lets Pokémon deliver.

Meteorites

Four meteorites can be seen from the east side of Veilstone City. They are mysterious meteorites that fell from the stars. If the player goes up to one with a Deoxys in their party, that Deoxys will be changed to a different forme, freely. Unlike other games, in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, Deoxys can freely be changed in-game.

Prize Exchange

A man in the Prize Exchange will tell the player what type Hidden Power will act as for any Pokémon he is shown.

Veilstone Gym

Main article: Veilstone Gym

The Veilstone Gym is the official gym of Veilstone City. It is based on Template:Type2 Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Maylene. Trainers who defeat her receive the Cobble Badge. The Veilstone Gym is a dojo comprised of several smaller rooms intersected with mobile walls. Trainers wait in the tiny cubicles. To get to Maylene, the walls must be shifted in and out of the cubicles so that the empty spaces in the walls line up with each other and a path is clear. Maylene's students are four brothers who call themselves the "Karate Quads" and insist they fight "for LOVE!" "for COURAGE!" "for HOPE!" and "for TEARS!". In Platinum, the player must push around punching bags, in order to knock over obstacles in the player's path. The Black-belts await the player in roped-off boxing arenas. After Leader Maylene is defeated, she will give the player the Cobble Badge, TM60 (Drain Punch), and the ability to use Fly outside of battle.

Demographics

The population of Veilstone City is 54 people, putting it only one person behind Hearthome City, meaning it is the third largest city in the Sinnoh.

Items

• HM02 (Fly): Inside the Galactic Warehouse.
• Tinymushroom: Hidden in the tiled area west of the Warehouse.
• PP Up: Hidden behind one of the spikes behind the Galactic Veilstone Building.
• TM63 (Embargo): Man on southern Veilstone.
• Full Incense Requires HM08 (Rock Climb).

In Platinum

• Star Piece: Empty area west of the Warehouse.

Key Item

• Coin Case: Clown in a house, west of Veilstone Game Corner.

Pokémon

Pokémon		Games			Location	Levels	Rate
	Porygon	D	P	Pt	A person in one of the northern-most houses	25
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Trainers

In Diamond and Pearl

Trainer	Pokémon
Galactic Grunt Galactic Grunt Reward: $????	Beautifly♂ Lv.25 No item
	Stunky♂ Lv.25 No item
Galactic Grunt Galactic Grunt Reward: $????	Dustox♂ Lv.25 No item
	Croagunk♂ Lv.25 No item
Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

In Platinum

Trainer	Pokémon
Galactic Grunt Galactic Grunt Reward: $1040	Zubat♂ Lv.24 No item
	Stunky♂ Lv.26 No item
Galactic Grunt Galactic Grunt Reward: $1040	Zubat♂ Lv.24 No item
	Croagunk♂ Lv.26 No item
Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

Trivia

• Veilstone's Japanese town motto is いしに かこまれた くうかん.
• On the way to Veilstone Gym, the player will run into Professor Rowan's assistant. If the player is playing as Lucas, Dawn will respond that she has been shopping at the department store. Conversely, if the player is playing as Dawn, Lucas will respond that he has been playing at the Game Corner.
• In the Japanese version of Pokémon Platinum, there is an NPC who speaks to the player in English. He is next to the pillar where Rock Climb can be used. In the English version, the NPC speaks in French instead.
• Veilstone City is Paul's hometown.
• Veilstone City has many similarities to Celadon City in Kanto, as it has a Department Store, a Game Corner, a Gym and a villainous team's hideout.
• The clown that gives the player the Coin Case says one of the famous internet phrases, "A winner is you", provided that the player answers correctly to his question.

In other languages

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