Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver

by Game Freak / Nintendo

Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver are the 2009 Nintendo DS remakes of the beloved Gold & Silver, set in the Johto region — a land of tradition, mythology, and two legendary birds (Ho-Oh and Lugia) whose absence shapes the world as much as their presence. Sixteen gyms across two regions, a rival who might be the franchise's most compelling character, and a post-game climb up Mt. Silver to face Red in silence that remains one of gaming's great moments.

48 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Archer — Team Rocket Executive — Team Rocket's interim commander while Giovanni is absent — a man of total loyalty to a boss who has abandoned him, coordinating the Radio Tower takeov
• Ariana — Team Rocket Executive — Team Rocket's most senior female executive — sharp, devoted to the organization, and the closest to frightening of the four Johto executives because h
• Blue — Viridian Gym Leader — Professor Oak's insufferable grandson — former Champion of Kanto, now the last Gym Leader the player faces before the Elite Four, still cocky, still s
• Bruno — Elite Four — A massive, shirtless Fighting-type trainer who lives and trains alongside his Pokémon — the Elite Four member who takes the martial arts metaphor most
• Bugsy — Azalea Town Gym Leader — The Walking Bug Pokémon Encyclopedia — a passionate young researcher who never loses with Bug-type Pokémon, or so he says. He's discovered new battle
• Chuck — Cianwood City Gym Leader — His Roaring Fists Do the Talking — a massive, enthusiastic Fighting-type trainer who spars alongside his Pokémon rather than coaching from a distance,
• Clair — Blackthorn City Gym Leader — The Blessed User of Dragon Pokémon — the world's best Dragon master (her claim), Lance's cousin, and the only Gym Leader who refuses to hand over her
• Ethan — Gold — A quiet kid from New Bark Town who picks a starter, walks out the door, and ends up the best trainer in two regions — including one face-to-face with
• Falkner — Violet City Gym Leader — The Elegant Master of Flying Pokémon — a cool, handsome trainer who inherited his gym from his father and has spent his career trying to prove the leg
• Giovanni — Team Rocket Boss — The criminal mastermind who built Team Rocket from a gang into a criminal empire, who ran the Viridian City Gym as cover, who was defeated in Kanto an
• Ho-Oh — The rainbow guardian of the skies — a legendary phoenix whose wings trail prismatic light, who resurrected three Pokémon into the legendary beasts, an
• Jasmine — Olivine City Gym Leader — The Steel-Clad Defense Girl — a shy, compassionate trainer who delays her own gym battle to nurse a sick Ampharos named Amphy back to health in the li
• Karen — Elite Four — The final Elite Four member — a Dark-type specialist who believes strong trainers use the Pokémon they love most, not the Pokémon that win most. Her q
• Koga — Elite Four — The Poisonous Ninja Master — the former Gym Leader of Fuchsia City who ascended to the Elite Four, leaving his daughter Janine to run the gym. He stud
• Lance — Pokémon Champion — The cape-wearing, dragon-commanding Champion of the Indigo League — a man who stands for justice, helps dismantle Team Rocket at Lake of Rage, and is
• Lugia — The diving guardian — a vast silver-white Pokémon of impossible power who retreated to the bottom of the Whirl Islands because its own wings can level
• Lyra — The female protagonist of HeartGold and SoulSilver — a girl from New Bark Town who replaces Kris from Crystal and makes the same journey to the top of
• Morty — Ecruteak City Gym Leader — The Mystic Seer of the Future — a Ghost-type specialist who has devoted his life to searching for Ho-Oh, certain that the legendary bird will one day
• Petrel — Team Rocket Executive — The Team Rocket Executive with a talent for disguise — he impersonates both the Director of the Radio Tower and Giovanni himself, which turns out to b
• Professor Elm — New Bark Town's scatterbrained, brilliant Pokémon researcher — the man who discovered Pokémon Eggs, who forgets to eat lunch when a hypothesis is goin
• Professor Oak — The grandfather of Pokémon research — the man who invented the Pokédex, who sent a ten-year-old into the wilderness thirty years ago and still believe
• Proton — Team Rocket Executive — The most overtly cruel of Team Rocket's four Johto executives — the one assigned to Slowpoke Well, who drove away the Slowpoke and called it a job wel
• Pryce — Mahogany Town Gym Leader — The Teacher of Winter's Harshness — an old man who has trained Pokémon for over fifty years, who meditates under waterfalls, and whose heart closed ar
• Red — The original Pokémon protagonist — the boy who became Champion of Kanto, then climbed Mt. Silver and stopped coming down. The final boss of the game.
• Silver — The darkest rival in the franchise — a thief, the son of a crime boss who abandoned him, and a trainer who starts by treating Pokémon as weapons and e
• Team Rocket — The criminal organization that treats Pokémon as product — stealing them, exploiting them, building an empire on them. Defeated in Kanto. Rebuilding i
• Whitney — Goldenrod City Gym Leader — The Incredibly Pretty Girl — a sweet, scatterbrained Normal-type specialist whose Miltank has traumatized more Johto players than any trainer in the f
• Will — Elite Four — The first member of the Indigo Plateau Elite Four — a Psychic-type specialist in a black domino mask with a powerful ambition to be the world's strong

Locations

• Bell Tower — A ten-story tower in Ecruteak City built nearly a thousand years ago as a roost for Ho-Oh — maintained ever since in the hope that Ho-Oh will return,
• Blackthorn City — A quiet mountain retreat cut into a rock face in northeast Johto — where generations of Dragon-type trainers have lived, where Dragon's Den tests thos
• Burned Tower — The ruin across from the Bell Tower — the Brass Tower before it burned 150 years ago, where three Pokémon died, where Ho-Oh descended and made them in
• Ecruteak City — The ancient city at Johto's spiritual center — where two towers stand across from each other, one still ringing and one in ruins, and where the legend
• Glitter Lighthouse — The lighthouse at Olivine City's harbor where Amphy the Ampharos lives and keeps the beacon burning — and where Jasmine keeps vigil over a sick Pokémo
• Goldenrod City — Johto's sprawling economic capital — the ultra-modern city where the Radio Tower broadcasts to the whole region, the Department Store has six floors,
• Indigo Plateau — The Pokémon League facility shared between Johto and Kanto — where the Elite Four wait in their chambers and Champion Lance sits at the end, and where
• Johto Region — A region built on tradition and mythology — west of Kanto, layered with ancient history from the ruins in the southwest to the dragon clans in the nor
• Lake of Rage — The largest lake in Johto, north of Mahogany Town — where a red Gyarados circles the surface, where the water has been made turbulent by Team Rocket's
• Mahogany Town — A town with a suspicious air — known as a hiding place for ninjas, home to Pryce's ice gym, and concealing a Team Rocket headquarters beneath a souven
• Mt. Silver — The mountain at the border of Johto and Kanto — locked behind sixteen badges, home to Pokémon stronger than anything in either region, and the place w
• New Bark Town — Winds of a New Beginning — the smallest named town in Johto, population eleven, where the player lives, Professor Elm researches Pokémon Eggs, and eve
• Olivine City — A port city where you can hear the melody of the sea — where Jasmine tends a sick Ampharos in the lighthouse rather than run her gym, and where the S.
• Ruins of Alph — An ancient archaeological site southwest of Violet City where an unknown civilization left behind slide puzzles, stone messages written in Unown, and
• Violet City — The City of Nostalgic Scents — a historic Johto settlement where Sprout Tower sways on purpose, monks train Bellsprout, and the first Gym waits at the
• Whirl Islands — A treacherous island archipelago off the Johto coast, surrounded by whirlpools — and below the waterline, where Lugia sleeps in the deepest chamber, i

Items

• Mystery Egg (Togepi) — The egg that Professor Elm's assistant presses into your hands in Violet City — a round, speckled object that requires care and footsteps to hatch, an
• Pokégear — The all-purpose device that every Johto trainer wears on their wrist — a phone, a map, a radio, and the primary way the player's mother stays in conta
• Rainbow Wing — A feather shed by Ho-Oh — the key item that unlocks the Bell Tower summit and summons the rainbow guardian from wherever it has been for 150 years. In
• Silver Wing — A feather connected to Lugia — the key item that calls the guardian of the seas up from the deep chambers of the Whirl Islands. In SoulSilver, the Win

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