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The hand-made, hundred-year-old Poké Ball Roy's grandfather kept on a shrine shelf — one of six Lucius crafted to hold the Six Heroes, containing a black Rayquaza.
The Ancient Poké Ball is older than every Pokémon professor currently practicing. It cannot be opened by pressing its button; it opens only when its chosen bearer is in sufficient emotional or physical danger, and when the Pokémon inside judges them worth emerging for. Roy has opened it exactly once, briefly, the day his grandfather's village was attacked — enough for a black Rayquaza to scatter the attackers and return.
A heavy, hand-forged spherical ball about twice the weight of a modern Poké Ball, banded with tarnished gold filigree and a deep green lacquer that has cracked in spiderweb patterns over a century. A small sunburst seal mirrors the one on Liko's pendant. The release button is a raised carved gemstone rather than a modern mechanism.
Also known as: Lucius's Poké Ball