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The Fast Ship S.S. Aqua (Japanese: こうそくせんアクアごう High-Speed Vessel S.S. Aqua), commonly referred to as simply the S.S. Aqua (Japanese: アクアごう S.S. Aqua), is a ferry service that runs between Johto and Kanto.
It is one of the methods of transportation between Johto and Kanto in the Generation II and IV games, alongside the Magnet Train, walking, and flying or teleporting. It travels between Olivine City and Vermilion City. A player can only travel on this ship after defeating the Johto League.
Voyages
The S.S. Aqua in Generation II
When the player first rides the ship to Vermilion City, a man will bump into them as they board and explain that he lost his granddaughter. When the player first enters the lower deck, a crewman will deny them access to the rest of the ship, asking them to locate a co-worker who is slacking off on the floor above. The crewman is a Sailor in a previously empty room (in Generation IV, the Sailor is found sleeping in a cabin before the player is asked to find him), and once he is defeated in a Pokémon battle, the crewman below will let the player pass. After traversing through the lower deck, the player will find the man's granddaughter trying to get the captain to play with her. The player takes her back to her grandfather, at which point the S.S. Aqua will arrive in Vermilion City and the player can disembark.
After the initial trip to Kanto (which can happen on any day of the week), the S.S. Aqua can be sailed from Kanto to Johto every Sunday and Wednesday and from Johto to Kanto each Monday and Friday. Trips after the initial one will end when the player sleeps in the bed in their cabin, which heals their party.
Trainers can also be encountered and battled on the ship each voyage. In Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, if the player defeats one or more Trainers on the ship and then boards it again for the same voyage (even on the same day), the Trainers can be battled and defeated again, and the player can keep re-boarding and re-battling the Trainers an unlimited number of times. However, in the Generation IV remakes, once an individual Trainer is defeated, that Trainer can never be battled again, regardless of when or how often the player re-boards the S.S. Aqua.
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Location
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Games
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Metal Coat
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Gift from gentleman for finding his granddaughter
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G S C HG SS
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Plate
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Gift from the captain on the first voyage of each day after obtaining all 16 Badges
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HG SS
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Nugget
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Gift from the captain on the first voyage of each day after receiving all 16 Plates
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HG SS
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Trainers
Generation II
First voyage
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Upper deck
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Hiker Noland ヒロカズ Hirokazu Reward: $1056
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Twins Meg & Peg マコとミコ Mako & Miko Reward: $620
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Sailor Stanly シゲロウ Shigerō Reward: $1040
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Lower deck
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Upper deck
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Muk♂
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Lv.33
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No item
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Psychic Rodney シュンぺイ Shunpei Reward: $1056
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Beauty Cassie アヤコ Ayako Reward: $2992
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Lower deck
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Fisher Jonah ダイスケ Daisuke Reward: $1160
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Sailor Garrett ミツル Mitsuru Reward: $1360
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Trainer
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Pokémon
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Upper deck
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Lower deck
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Sailor Kenneth コウへイ Kōhei Reward: $1120
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Generation IV
First voyage
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Upper deck
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Hiker Noland ヒロカズ Hirokazu Reward: $1344
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Twins Meg & Peg マコとミコ Miko & Mako Reward: $1248
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Slacking-off sailor
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Sailor Stanly シゲロウ Shigerō Reward: $1088
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Lower deck
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Olivine City to Vermilion City
Trainer
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Pokémon
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Upper deck
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Psychic Rodney シュンペイ Shunpei Reward: $1312
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Beauty Cassie アヤコ Ayako Reward: $2352
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Lower deck
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Sailor Garrett ミツル Mitsuru Reward: $1344
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Fisher Jonah ダイスケ Daisuke Reward: $1184
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Vermilion City to Olivine City
Trainer
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Pokémon
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Upper deck
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Lower deck
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Sailor Kenneth コウヘイ Kōhei Reward: $1152
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Layout
Trivia
- In both the Generation II games and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, if the player goes to sleep, wakes up, and hears the announcement about docking, checking the Pokégear map will still show the player in the ocean between Johto and Kanto. This is because "S.S. Aqua" is actually a location on the map, and thus cannot change.
- Along the S.S. Anne and S.S. Tidal, the S.S. Aqua has one non-player character on-board who mentions being seasick.
- In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, there is a girl in the Olivine Port building who claims that the player has been in Kanto before regardless of if it being their first time there or not.
- In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, the captain of the ship implies that the S.S. Aqua travels to Sinnoh, as he mentions finding Plates there. However, the ship does not appear in any of the games that take place there.
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