Petalburg City

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Petalburg City トウカシティ Touka City "Where people mingle with nature."

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Map description A whiff of salt is always in the air in this city, which is skirted by the ocean shore.

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Connecting locations ← Route 104 Petalburg City Route 102 →

Location Location of Petalburg City in Hoenn.

Petalburg City (Japanese: トウカシティ Touka City) is located in southwestern Hoenn. Despite Petalburg being the first city with a Gym, the Gym is not accessible until after obtaining four Badges. Norman, the father of the players, is also the Petalburg Gym Leader.

East of Petalburg City is Route 102 and Oldale Town. To the west is Route 104 where Mr. Briney's Cottage and the Petalburg Woods are found.

When a player first arrives at this city, they are prevented from heading out into Route 104 until they go to the Gym and talk to Norman. A boy named Wally will come in asking for help to catch a Pokémon. Using Zigzagoon, a Pokémon Norman lends, and the player's support, Wally catches his first Pokémon: a Ralts.

In Generation III, the Pokémon Center has a man near the PC who will let players put key words on their Trainer Cards.

Slogan

Where people mingle with nature. (Japanese: しぜんと　ひとが　ふれあう　まち The city where people mingle with nature.)

Places of interest

Wally's house

Wally's house is located in the west section of the town, next door to the Gym. Wally, the main rival of Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald, and his family live here. It cannot be visited until after the player has helped Wally catch a Pokémon. After defeating Petalburg Gym, Wally's family will give the player HM03 (Surf).

Petalburg Gym

Main article: Petalburg Gym

The Petalburg Gym is the official Gym of Petalburg City. It is based on Normal-type Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Norman. Norman is the father of the player in Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. He uses Normal Pokémon and gives out the Balance Badge. Between the entrance and Gym Leader Norman are a series of rooms, each containing a Trainer. The Trainers have special ways to battle, as displayed on the doors leading to their rooms. Once three rooms in a row are completed, they can access the Gym Leader Room with Norman. When defeated, Norman will give the player the Balance Badge as well as TM42 (Facade)^RSE or TM67 (Retaliate)^ORAS as a reward.

Role

Delta Episode

During the Delta Episode, after Zinnia has stolen the neighbor Brendan/May's Mega Bracelet from them in their house, Courtney^OR/Matt^AS is here trying to steal Wally's Key Stone from him outside his house, despite Wally insisting he doesn't have it anymore. Upon seeing the player, the villainous team admin decides to battle the player in order to take their Key Stone instead. Upon defeating villainous team admin, they say they are going to head to Meteor Falls.

After the battle, the player receives an Entry Call on their PokéNav Plus from Steven, and requests that the player meet him at the Devon Corporation in Rustboro City to discuss some urgent business.

Demographics

Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald

In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire and Pokémon Emerald the population of Petalburg City is 30. Compared to other Hoenn towns and cities Petalburg City is an average-sized city.

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Petalburg City has a total population of 26.

Poké Mart

Generation III
Poké Ball $200	Great Ball4 Badges $600
Potion $300	Super Potion4 Badges $700
Antidote $100	Parlyz Heal $200
Awakening $250	Escape Rope $550
Repel $350	X Speed $350
X Attack $500	X Defend $550
Orange Mail $50

Generation VI
Poké Ball $200	Great Ball1 Badge $600
Ultra Ball3 Badges $1,200	Potion $300
Super Potion1 Badge $700	Hyper Potion2 Badges $1,200
Max Potion4 Badges $2,500	Full Restore5 Badges $3,000
Revive2 Badges $1,500	Antidote $100
Paralyze Heal1 Badge $200	Awakening1 Badge $250
Burn Heal1 Badge $250	Ice Heal1 Badge $250
Full Heal3 Badges $600	Escape Rope2 Badges $550
Repel1 Badge $350	Super Repel2 Badges $500
Max Repel3 Badges $700

Items

Item		Location	Games
	HM03 (Surf)	Obtained from Wally's father after defeating Norman	R  S  E  OR  AS
	Max Revive	North of the northeast pond (requires Surf)	R  S  E  OR  AS
	Ether	South of the southwest pond, on the southwestern shore (requires Surf)	R  S  E  OR  AS
	Rare Candy	South of the southwest pond, on the southeastern shore (requires Surf) (hidden)	R  S  E  OR  AS

Pokémon

Generation III

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Surfing
Marill	R		S		E		Surfing	5-35	100%
Fishing
Goldeen	R		S		E		Fishing Old Rod	5-10	30%
Magikarp	R		S		E		Fishing Old Rod	5-10	70%
Goldeen	R		S		E		Fishing Good Rod	10-30	20%
Magikarp	R		S		E		Fishing Good Rod	10-30	60%
Corphish	R		S		E		Fishing Good Rod	10-30	20%
Corphish	R		S		E		Fishing Super Rod	20-45	100%
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.

Generation VI

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Surfing
Marill	OR			AS			Surfing	15	50%
Azumarill	OR			AS			Surfing	20, 25	31%
Surskit	OR			AS			Surfing	15	15%
Masquerain	OR			AS			Surfing	25	4%
Fishing
Goldeen	OR			AS			Fishing Old Rod	5	35%
Magikarp	OR			AS			Fishing Old Rod	10, 15	65%
Goldeen	OR			AS			Fishing Good Rod	25	35%
Magikarp	OR			AS			Fishing Good Rod	25	60%
Corphish	OR			AS			Fishing Good Rod	25	5%
Corphish	OR			AS			Fishing Super Rod	30, 35, 40	100%
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

Pokémon Omega Ruby

Magma Admin Courtney Petalburg City Omega Ruby Reward: $5,300
Types: Fire Ground Ability: Solid Rock Held item: None Camerupt♀ Lv.53 Rock Slide Rock Physical   --       Yawn Normal Status   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Eruption Fire Special   --

Pokémon Alpha Sapphire

Aqua Admin Matt Petalburg City Alpha Sapphire Reward: $5,300
Types: Water Dark Ability: Rough Skin Held item: None Sharpedo♂ Lv.53 Poison Fang Poison Physical   --       Crunch Dark Physical   --       Agility Psychic Status   --       Skull Bash Normal Physical   --

Appearance

Ruby	Sapphire	Emerald	Omega Ruby	Alpha Sapphire

Music

Games	Situation	Song name (Japanese)	Song name (English)	Composition	Arrangement
R  S  E	Overworld	トウカシティ	Petalburg City	Morikazu Aoki	Morikazu Aoki
OR  AS	Overworld	トウカシティ	Petalburg City	Morikazu Aoki	Minako Adachi
	When Norman and Wally's dad are chatting	いつか来た道	A Path We All Must Walk	Shota Kageyama	Shota Kageyama
	When encountering CourtneyOR/MattAS	一触即発！～赤やら、青やら	Explosive Encounters! Red and Blue	Shota Kageyama	Shota Kageyama
	When battling CourtneyOR/MattAS	戦闘！アクア団・マグマ団	Battle! (Team Aqua / Team Magma)	Junichi Masuda	Shota Kageyama
	After defeating CourtneyOR/MattAS	アクア団・マグマ団に勝利！	Victory! (Team Aqua / Team Magma)	Go Ichinose	Minako Adachi

In animation

Petalburg City in Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire

Pokémon the Series

In Pokémon the Series, Petalburg City is the hometown of Norman and Caroline, and their children May and Max. It has a sister city to the north of it, called North Petalburg, where the citizens are obsessed with Norman and his family.

Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire

Ash and May first arrived there in There's no Place Like Hoenn. After meeting up with May's family and having an unofficial battle at the local Gym, which Norman won, Ash left together with May and Max. They returned to Petalburg City in Love, Petalburg Style!, where they had a confrontation with Team Rocket. Ash had an official Gym battle with Norman in the following episode. He was successful in defeating Norman this time, earning the Balance Badge.

May and Max returned home in The Scheme Team, following May's participation in the Hoenn Grand Festival and Ash's efforts in the Ever Grande Conference. By The Right Place and the Right Mime, both May and Max had left home again to rejoin Ash in the Kanto region. However, May left behind her Beautifly and Skitty to keep her mother company. In Home is Where the Start Is!, following Ash's victory at the Battle Frontier and May's participation in the Kanto Grand Festival, May and Max headed back to Petalburg, where Max would go on to stay at his father's Gym, while May soon departed to Johto alone in order to participate in the local Pokémon Contests.

In the manga

Petalburg City in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Ruby & Sapphire arc

In Nixing Nuzleaf, Ruby arrived in Petalburg City. After defeating a group of wild Pokémon trying to attack him, he discovered Wally, whose attempts to catch one of them had caused them to be startled. Ruby offered to help him catch a Pokémon, but Wally told him that someone else was already coming to help him do that. Said person turned out to be Norman, much to Ruby's horror, as he was trying to avoid his father after running away from home to participate in Pokémon Contests. Wally asked Norman to teach him how to catch Pokémon, but Norman refused, since he hadn't been informed of Wally's illness before he had made his promise.

In Brushing Past Breloom, after Ruby had escaped his father's detection and taken Wally back home, Wally told him that his parents didn't want him to catch a Pokémon, so they must've told Norman to refuse helping him. Angered by this, Ruby took Wally to Petalburg Woods to teach him how to catch himself a Pokémon.

In Lombre Larceny, Sapphire helped to free Mr. Stone's Castform after it had gotten stuck in a fountain in Petalburg City. Shelly, Matt, and Amber of Team Aqua, who had sabotaged the fountain on purpose in order to secretly steal the Devon Parts that Mr. Stone was carrying while "saving" Castform, decided to abandon stealth and directly attacked Mr. Stone, escaping with the parts while Sapphire pursued them to Petalburg Woods.

Trivia

• In Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire, a female NPC in the city claims that Norman (and, indirectly, the rest of his family, which includes the player) moved to Hoenn from Johto.
  • In Pokémon Emerald, the NPC instead simply says that Norman came from "somewhere far away".
  • In the Pokémon World Tournament in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, Norman says that he is from Olivine City.

Name origin

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	トウカシティ Touka City	From 橙花 tōka (orange blossom) or 頭花 tōka (flower head)
English, Danish	Petalburg City	From petal and placename suffix -burg
German	Blütenburg City	From Blüten (blossoms) and the suffix -burg (castle)
Spanish	Ciudad Petalia	From pétalo (petal)
	Ciudad Petalburgo*	From its English name
French	Clémenti-ville	From clémentine (clementine) and ville (city)
Italian	Petalipoli	From petalo (petal) and the suffix -poli (city)
Korean	등화도시 Deunghwa Dosi*	From 등화 (橙花) deunghwa (orange blossom)
	등화시티 Deunghwa City*
Chinese (Mandarin)	橙華市 / 橙华市 Chénghuá Shì	From 橙 chéng / cháang (orange) and 華 / 华 huá / wàh (flowery, splendor)
Chinese (Cantonese)	橙華市 Cháangwàh Síh
Norwegian	Petalburg-by	From its English name
Polish	Petalburg	From its English name
Braziian Portuguese	Cidade de Petalburg	From its English name
Russian	Петалбург Сити Petalburg Siti	Transcription of its English name
Swedish	Petalburg-staden	From its English name
Vietnamese	Thành phố Touka	Transcription of its Japanese name

References

Hoenn
Settlements Littleroot Town • Oldale Town • Petalburg City • Rustboro City • Dewford Town • Slateport City • Mauville City • Verdanturf Town Fallarbor Town • Lavaridge Town • Fortree City • Lilycove City • Mossdeep City • Sootopolis City • Pacifidlog Town • Ever Grande City Battle Frontier • Battle Resort Routes 101 • 102 • 103 • 104 • 105 • 106 • 107 • 108 • 109 • 110 • 111 • 112 • 113 • 114 • 115 • 116 • 117 • 118 119 • 120 • 121 • 122 • 123 • 124 • 125 • 126 • 127 • 128 • 129 • 130 • 131 • 132 • 133 • 134 • Underwater Landmarks Petalburg Woods • Rusturf Tunnel • Island Cave • Granite Cave • Abandoned Ship • Sea Mauville • Oceanic Museum Seaside Cycling Road • Trick House • Mauville Game Corner • New Mauville • Trainer Hill • Desert Ruins • Mirage Tower • Fiery Path Jagged Pass • Mt. Chimney • Desert Underpass • Meteor Falls • Weather Institute • Scorched Slab • Ancient Tomb • Safari Zone • Mt. Pyre Lilycove Museum • Shoal Cave • Team Aqua Hideout • Team Magma Hideout (Lilycove • Jagged Pass) • Mossdeep Space Center • Seafloor Cavern Cave of Origin • Mirage Island • Sky Pillar • Victory Road • Pokémon League • Sealed Chamber • Artisan Cave • Altering Cave • Southern Island Marine Cave • Terra Cave • Contest Hall • Battle Maison • Battle Tower • Battle Tent • Secret Islet • Secret Meadow • Secret Shore Mirage spots Mirage Caves • Mirage Forests • Mirage Islands • Mirage Mountains Crescent Isle • Fabled Cave • Gnarled Den • Nameless Cavern • Pathless Plain • Trackless Forest Access to Birth Island • Faraway Island • Navel Rock • Sky

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