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Nacrene City シッポウシティ Shippou City "A Pearl of a Place"

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Map description A city established in restored storehouses built 100 years ago.

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Connecting locations ← Pinwheel Forest Nacrene City Route 3 →

Location Location of Nacrene City in Unova.

Nacrene City in spring in Black and White

Nacrene City (Japanese: シッポウシティ Shippou City) is a city in southeastern Unova, connected to Route 3 to the east and bordering Pinwheel Forest to the west. In Pokémon Black and White, it is the location for the second Gym that the player visits in the region, led by Lenora.

Nacrene City is described as having a peculiar cityscape, as it reuses its warehouses built about a century ago. According to the Pokémon Adventures manga, the unique cityscape makes it a popular place for avant-garde artists and is usually the place where trends begin. Due to this, Nacrene City is called the "city of art". Castelia City's Gym Leader Burgh is a renowned artist whose hometown is Nacrene City. Nacrene City houses the Nacrene Museum which happens to include the Nacrene Gym.

Slogan

A Pearl of a Place (Japanese: シッポウは　七つの 宝物 Shippou is the Seven Treasures.)

Places of interest

Nacrene Museum

A museum showing various historical treasures is located at the heart of Nacrene City. Upon entering the museum, the player may talk to the woman on the right hand desk to restore Fossils. The ground floor of the Nacrene Museum is where all of its showcases are located, arranged symmetrically along the left and right sides of the walls. The museum's most prominent display is the skeleton of a Dragon-type Pokémon (resembling Dragonite), which is nestled at the center of the main exhibition room. Over to the left of the skeleton is an Armaldo Fossil. There is a meteorite exhibit located above the Fossil that, when examined, can change Deoxys into any of its four forms, depending on which one it is currently in. The Dark Stone^W or Light Stone^B is located here and initially regarded as an "ordinary old stone" before Lenora discovers what it actually is and gives it to the player. On the right side of the museum is an ancient tablet with an unknown script carved into it. Beneath this is a mask that was worn by ancient people at festivals, and three large bones that were once carried as weapons by a certain Pokémon (possibly Cubone or Marowak). By ascending the flight of stairs at the back of the museum, the player can access a library room, which also operates as the Nacrene Gym^BW.

In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, the player can choose to obtain either a Plume Fossil or a Cover Fossil (neither of which are obtainable at Twist Mountain) from Lenora upon visiting the Nacrene Museum for the first time. A replica of the Dark Stone^W2/Light Stone^B2 is now substituted in place of the real ones, which were originally given to the protagonist by Lenora in Black and White.

Nacrene Gym

Main article: Nacrene Gym

The Nacrene Gym is the official Gym of Nacrene City. It is based on Normal-type Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Lenora. The Nacrene City Gym is a Gym consisting of a library that require Trainers to find the right answers to opponents' questions through the readable books, before engaging them in battle. For defeating Lenora, Trainers receive the Basic Badge and TM67 (Retaliate).

In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, Lenora has retired as a Gym Leader to focus on her research and the Gym has been changed into a library.

Café Warehouse

The Café Warehouse is a diner on the westernmost end of the city, just past the Nacrene Museum. They have specials on Wednesday, where the player can receive a free Soda Pop. In Black 2 and White 2, the player may also receive a free Lemonade on Saturdays. On Sundays, a person in the café will give the player a Grubby Hanky, which can be returned to another customer in the same building on Thursdays.

Loblolly's studio

Loblolly's studio is located in the southeast of Nacrene City. After visiting the Dream World at least once, Loblolly will talk about Décor that "people will dream of". Players may choose one of five pieces of Décor that will be unlocked in the Dream World the next time the Game Sync is used. Each day another piece may be chosen.

Dye's house

Dye's house is located in the southeastern side of Nacrene City. In it, Dye will offer to trade the player Petilil for Cottonee in Black, and Cottonee for Petilil in White. After trading with Dye and stopping Team Plasma at N's Castle, Dye will challenge the player to a battle in which she uses the evolved form of the Cottonee^B or Petilil^W that the player traded to her.

In addition, downstairs in Dye's house, a woman will evaluate the friendship of the first Pokémon in the player's party.

Battle item shop

In the house west of the Pokémon Center, a man will sell battle items out of his house.

Battle items
X Speed $350	X Attack $500
X Defend $550	Guard Spec. $700
Dire Hit $650	X Accuracy $950
X Special $350	X Sp. Def $350

Move Tutor

In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, a Move Tutor in the city will teach the player's Pokémon moves in exchange for six, eight, ten, or twelve Green Shards. In these games, he is the only Shard Move Tutor to not teach a special move, or to teach a move for less than 6 Shards.

Nacrene Gate

The Nacrene Gate connects Route 3 to Nacrene City. In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, a Pokémon Breeder in the Gate gives the player a Happiny Egg.

Demographics

Black and White

Nacrene City has a population of 51. It is among the Unova region's largest cities in terms of population.

Black 2 and White 2

Nacrene City's population increases to 54.

Variable scoring

An accordion track will be added to the background theme if the player is near a street performer west of the Gym, on the patio of the Café Warehouse.

Poké Mart

Upper cashier
Poké Ball $200	Great Ball $600
Ultra Ball5 Badges $1200	Potion $300
Super Potion $700	Hyper Potion3 Badges $1200
Max Potion7 Badges $2500	Full Restore8 Badges $3000
Revive3 Badges $1500	Antidote $100
Parlyz Heal $200	Awakening $250
Burn Heal $250	Ice Heal $250
Full Heal5 Badges $600	Escape Rope $550
Repel $350	Super Repel3 Badges $500
Max Repel5 Badges $700

Lower cashier
Heal BallBW $300	Net BallBW $1000
BridgeMail SB2W2 $50	Greet Mail $50
Favored Mail $50	RSVP Mail $50
Thanks Mail $50	Inquiry Mail $50
Like Mail $50	Reply Mail $50

Items

Item		Location	Games
	Chesto Berry ×3	Gift from Cheren when first entering the city	B  W
	Revive	Over the railway, to the right of the fence (hidden)	B  W
	Miracle Seed	From a girl in the west-most house if the player answers "Snivy"	B  W
	Mystic Water	From a girl in the west-most house if the player answers "Oshawott"	B  W
	Charcoal	From a girl in the west-most house if the player answers "Tepig"	B  W
	Cheri Berry	Held by LillilB/FluffeeW, a PetililB/CottoneeW the player can receive in a trade	B  W
	Ultra Ball	Near the Café Warehouse, to the right of the accordionist (hidden)	B  W
	Soda Pop	From the Waitress in the Café WarehouseWe	B  W  B2  W2
	Lemonade	From the Waitress in the Café WarehouseSa	B2  W2
	Grubby Hanky	From a person inside the Café WarehouseSu	B2  W2
	Fluffy Tail	From the customer in the Café's lower levelSu, after returning the Grubby HankyTh	B2  W2
	Dowsing MCHN	Gift from Bianca after earning the Basic Badge	B  W
	Light Stone	Gift from Lenora after clearing Relic Castle	B
	Dark Stone	Gift from Lenora after clearing Relic Castle	W
	Cover Fossil	From Lenora at the museum if the first option is chosen	B2  W2
	Plume Fossil	From Lenora at the museum if the second option is chosen	B2  W2
	PP Up	At the western end of railroad tracks (hidden)	B2  W2

Pokémon

Pokémon Black and White

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Gift Pokémon
Omanyte	B			W			Revive Helix Fossil	25	Fossil
Kabuto	B			W			Revive Dome Fossil	25	Fossil
Aerodactyl	B			W			Revive Old Amber	25	Fossil
Lileep	B			W			Revive Root Fossil	25	Fossil
Anorith	B			W			Revive Claw Fossil	25	Fossil
Cranidos	B			W			Revive Skull Fossil	25	Fossil
Shieldon	B			W			Revive Armor Fossil	25	Fossil
Tirtouga	B			W			Revive Cover Fossil	25	Fossil
Archen	B			W			Revive Plume Fossil	25	Fossil
Special Pokémon
Cottonee	B			W			Trade Petilil	15	One
Petilil	B			W			Trade Cottonee	15	One
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.

Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Gift Pokémon
Happiny	B2			W2			Egg	1	One
Omanyte	B2			W2			Revive Helix Fossil	25	Fossil
Kabuto	B2			W2			Revive Dome Fossil	25	Fossil
Aerodactyl	B2			W2			Revive Old Amber	25	Fossil
Lileep	B2			W2			Revive Root Fossil	25	Fossil
Anorith	B2			W2			Revive Claw Fossil	25	Fossil
Cranidos	B2			W2			Revive Skull Fossil	25	Fossil
Shieldon	B2			W2			Revive Armor Fossil	25	Fossil
Tirtouga	B2			W2			Revive Cover Fossil	25	Fossil
Archen	B2			W2			Revive Plume Fossil	25	Fossil
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.

Special encounters

Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

A Uxie appears here after speaking to Professor Juniper in the Cave of Being. If defeated or run from, it respawns after entering the Hall of Fame.

Type: Psychic Unknown Ability: Levitate Held item: None Uxie Lv.65 Future Sight Psychic Special   --       Amnesia Psychic Status   --       Extrasensory Psychic Special   --       Flail Normal Physical   --

Trainers

Pokémon Black and White

PKMN Trainer N Nacrene City Black and White Reward: $1300

Types: Normal Flying Ability: Super Luck Held item: None Pidove♂ Lv.13 Gust Flying Special   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Growl Normal Status   --       Type: Fighting Unknown Ability: Guts Held item: None Timburr♂ Lv.13 Low Kick Fighting Physical   --       Focus Energy Normal Status   --       Bide Normal Physical   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Type: Water Unknown Ability: Swift Swim Held item: None Tympole♂ Lv.13 Supersonic Normal Status   --       BubbleBeam Water Special   --       Growl Normal Status   --       Round Normal Special   --

Post-game

Trainer	Pokémon
After trading CottoneeB
Lass Dye アヤ Aya Reward: $1040	Whimsicott♂/♀ Lv.65 No item
After trading PetililW
Lass Dye アヤ Aya Reward: $1040	Lilligant♀ Lv.65 No item

In the anime

Nacrene City in the anime

Nacrene City was shown to be a very colorful and artistic city with water fountains, stained glass windows and an unused railway track. The buildings and warehouses are painted in a variety of different colors. It was also shown to have a Battle Club. The famous Nacrene Museum houses many rare exhibits and also includes the city's library and Gym.

In Minccino-Neat and Tidy!, Team Rocket arrived there, intending to go to the Nacrene Museum to steal the Meteonite under Giovanni's orders. They successfully hacked into the museum's security to steal the artifact in The Battle According to Lenora! and replaced it with a replica.

In A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!, Ash and his friends arrived at Nacrene City and visited the museum while looking for the Nacrene Gym. There, they found it to be closed due to it being haunted. The Museum's vice-curator Hawes revealed that the supernatural occurrences began last night. Lenora showed up in time and was able to calm down the Yamask that was causing havoc in the museum after its mask had been sealed away in a glass case.

In The Battle According to Lenora!, Ash battled Lenora in the Gym, but was defeated. After doing some special training with Don George at the local Battle Club, Ash returned for a rematch in Rematch at the Nacrene Gym!. He defeated Lenora with the help of his Pokémon's improved speed and some newly learned attacks, earning himself the Basic Badge.

In Scraggy-Hatched to be Wild!, Team Rocket received orders from Pierce to visit Dr. Zager. They went there, and he examined the Meteonite, which was found to contain materials of an extraterrestrial origin.

Gallery

Pokémon Center	Nacrene Museum & Gym	Battle Club

In the manga

Nacrene City in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Black & White arc

Nacrene City first appeared in Wheeling and Dealing when Black and White arrived there. After White had advertised her company, the BW Agency, at Café Warehouse, and Black had solved the case of a stolen accordion, the latter went to challenge Lenora at the Nacrene Gym in Battle at the Museum. While Black battled, White and the director of the BW Agency had a Xtransceiver call with the mayor of Nimbasa City, who was worried of his city's lowering tourism rates, and wanted White to help in inventing new attractions to solve the issue. White suggested establishing a Pokémon Musical, which the mayor thought to be an excellent idea.

In Defeating Stoutland, Black managed to defeat Lenora and earn himself the Basic Badge. As Black left, Lenora received a phone call from Clay, who told her about the mysterious item he had recently discovered at the Desert Resort, which was revealed to be the Dark Stone. In The Mystery of the Missing Fossil, the Nacrene Museum's Dragon Fossil was stolen by Team Plasma, but Black and Burgh were able to get it back.

In The Battle Within, most of Unova's Gym Leaders set up an ambush on Team Plasma in Nacrene City as they attempted to steal the Dark Stone from the museum. However, in Museum Showdown, the Gym Leaders were caught off-guard when the Shadow Triad unleashed the Forces of Nature upon them, completely overwhelming them. In Finding Truth, Ghetsis tricked Black into revealing the Dark Stone's hiding place in the museum's basement, allowing him to steal it. The Gym Leaders who had tried to defend the museum were subsequently taken captive by Team Plasma, except for Brycen, who had managed to replace himself with an ice duplicate before being caught. It was then revealed that the museum had also been hiding the Light Stone, which Team Plasma had not been aware of. As Brycen saw the Light Stone rolling towards Black and thus choosing him as the Hero of Truth, he decided to take him to the Tubeline Bridge for a training session.

Black 2 & White 2 arc

In Pink Slip, Nacrene City was revealed to be one of the settlements frozen over by the Plasma Frigate.

In the TCG

This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Nacrene City in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Related cards Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Lileep		Plasma Blast		3/101	Megalo Cannon		003/076
Tirtouga		Plasma Blast		27/101	Megalo Cannon		021/076
Drifloon		Plasma Blast		34/101	Megalo Cannon		026/076
Archen		Plasma Blast		53/101	Megalo Cannon		044/076

Trivia

• Nacrene City has a train track running through the south side of the city.
  • However, it is nonfunctional, as there is no train visible and the track ends abruptly in Pinwheel Forest.
• Nacrene City shares its Japanese name, Shippou, with Sevault Canyon in the Sevii Islands.
• A boy in Nacrene City mentions that Dire Hit is called Dire Hit in Unova. This is a reference to the change in the Japanese name of Dire Hit from クリティカッター Criticutter to クリティカット Criticut, in order to make room for the number-level reference of Wonder Launcher items. Because "Dire Hit" is much shorter than the 12-character limit on English item names, this issue does not come up in the translated games.
• Due to having a variable level, Lass Dye's Whimsicott^B/Lilligant^W can potentially be the highest-leveled Trainer-owned Pokémon outside of a battle facility. Depending on the level of the Cottonee^B/Petilil^W traded to her, the resulting Pokémon may be higher than Red's Pikachu in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver and Cynthia's Garchomp in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (both of whom are at level 88) and can potentially reach all the way to level 100. This trait is shared with Youngster Kyle in the same games and Lass Diana in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.
  • In addition, if the player nicknames the Cottonee^B/Petilil^W that is traded to her, the nickname will carry over into the battle, making her the only Trainer to use a nicknamed Pokémon in battle, excluding the Pokémon World Tournament's Mix Tournament.
• Among the exhibits of the museum, there is an African mask, referring to a place in the real world, in addition to being different from other exhibitions, which are related to the history of the Pokémon.

Name origin

Unova
Settlements Nuvema Town • Accumula Town • Striaton City • Nacrene City • Castelia City • Nimbasa City • Anville Town Driftveil City • Mistralton City • Icirrus City • Opelucid City • Pokémon League • Lacunosa Town • Undella Town Black City • White Forest • Aspertia City • Floccesy Town • Virbank City • Lentimas Town • Humilau City Routes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 Bridges and tunnels Skyarrow Bridge • Driftveil Drawbridge • Tubeline Bridge • Village Bridge • Marvelous Bridge • Marine Tube Landmarks Dreamyard • Wellspring Cave • Pinwheel Forest • Liberty Garden • Desert Resort • Relic Castle • Battle Subway • Lostlorn Forest Cold Storage • Mistralton Cave • Chargestone Cave • Celestial Tower • Twist Mountain • Dragonspiral Tower • Moor of Icirrus Challenger's Cave • Victory Road (BW • B2W2) • N's Castle • Royal Unova • Giant Chasm • Undella Bay • Abyssal Ruins Abundant Shrine • Poké Transfer Lab • P2 Laboratory • Entralink • Unity Tower • Floccesy Ranch • Pledge Grove • Virbank Complex Pokéstar Studios • Castelia Sewers • Join Avenue • Cave of Being • Pokémon World Tournament • Reversal Mountain • Plasma Frigate Clay Tunnel • Underground Ruins • Strange House • Relic Passage • Seaside Cave • White Treehollow • Black Tower Access to Nature Preserve Other Blueberry Academy • Terarium

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