Weather Institute
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Location: | Route 119, West of Fortree City | |||
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Region: | Hoenn | |||
Generations: | III | |||
Location of Weather Institute in Hoenn. | ||||
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The Weather Institute (Japanese: てんきけんきゅうじょ Weather Research Institute) is a weather research building located on Route 119 in the land of Hoenn in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire and Pokémon Emerald.
The Weather Institute is like a bureau for the Hoenn region. It checks and keeps track of weather conditions throughout Hoenn. Its main project is the weather control machine which allows them to change the weather in areas. The Weather Institute has created a Pokémon named Castform which can do this.
In the Game
The Weather Institute has two accessible stories, both with many desks and computers. On the far left side of the bottom floor is a PC and bed to heal your Pokémon.
On your first trip through Route 119, Team Aqua or Team Magma have invaded the Institute, after information about Kyogre or Groudon, respectively and the rare Pokémon, Castform. The respective team has also blockaded the bridge, preventing you from going any farther. Enter the building and defeat the grunts to receive Castform with the item Mystic Water.
In Emerald
In Emerald, this facility is used to find Groudon and Kyogre after defeating the Elite Four. Simply speak to the meteorologist inside, and he will tell you of unusual weather patterns in certain routes. If he says there is a drought, Groudon slumbers in the Terra Cave. If downpours are coming down, Kyogre awaits you in the Marine Cave. Go quickly to the route the meteorologist specifies, and you'll find yourself in a battle with one of the two legendary Pokémon (note that you can't catch both at the same time; the meteorologist will specify one weather condition and won't say the other one until the Pokémon causing the weather is captured or defeated).
Castform
Once the player defeats Team Magma or Team Aqua (depending on which version) and saves the Weather Institute, the professor of the institute will give you a Castform.
In the Anime
In AG083, Unfair Weather Friends, Ash and company travel to the Weather Institute where they get caught up in takeover by Team Aqua. Team Aqua plan to steal all of the weather data but their plan is stopped by a disguised Team Magma member who escapes with the data.
In anime, the Weather Institute contains many rooms with many different machines. A weather data machine stores data like temperature and weather patterns on a large computer so they can do tests and experiments later. There is a huge satellite outside the institute called the Weather Control Machine that can control the weather. There is also a study filled with books and scrap paper.
Trivia
- A woman west of Pastoria City in Sinnoh says she used to work at the Weather Institute of Hoenn. She will trade TMs of weather-changing moves for shards.
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