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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 Poké 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

On most routes in the Hoenn region, several places can be discovered that are perfect to hold a secret base for a Pokémon Trainer. Among these are clumps of grass that can be moved, tall trees that can drop vines, and small indents that can be dug out and transformed into miniature caves.

In the games

Generation III

Spread across the Hoenn region are caves, trees, and bushes which are perfect to hold a secret base for any Pokémon Trainer. These locations can be opened when a Pokémon uses the move Secret Power at a wall with a small indent, a tree with vines, or where a clump of grass may be moved.

A Trainer may decorate their secret base with big and small dolls, mats, desks, chairs, plants, cushions, posters and ornaments, filling the base with up to 16 decorations inside. Some of the items may also be used in the player's room.

A Trainer can run in any secret base, but cannot ride a bike.

A boy in Mossdeep City reminds a player of where their own secret base is located, in case one forgets.

Mixing records

If two or more players mix records, their secret bases copy over, as well as the bases of anyone else they've mixed records with. The exact position of the secret base and the furniture arrangement of the recorded player's game will be put into the player's. Entering one of these bases reveals a Trainer who represents the other player, including their Trainer name, secret base decorations, and Pokémon team at the time of record mixing (without nicknames). Once the player has beaten the Elite Four this Trainer can be challenged to a battle once a day. Unlike a Battle Tower battle, items can be used and Pokémon seen will be registered on the Pokédex. Experience and money gained will be kept as well, however stolen items will not be kept.

Generation IV

In Sinnoh, there is a vast underground system of tunnels where players can, among other things, build a secret base by drilling into the wall. Instead of mixing records and challenging an NPC with the other player's team, however, players can find each other in the underground itself and race to capture each other's flags, if they are near enough to each other for DS-to-DS wireless communication. Capturing several flags will award players with upgrades, such as the ability to clear rocks found inside secret bases and various radars for locating traps, spheres and treasure in the underground.

Also, in Pokémon Platinum, when the player arrives at the Resort Area, he/she will be shown into a house of his/her own. It can be then used as a secret base. It will, however, also be visited by others like the Sinnoh Gym Leaders, Professor Rowan, his assistant, the player's rival, and the player's mom.

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. They haven't been seen since.

Related articles

• Secret Power
• The Underground
• Digger Drill