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

Characters

• Ash Ketchum — Orange League champion from Pallet Town, back on the road with Pikachu and a head full of half-remembered advice from Gary. Johto is his first real ch
• Brock — Pewter City's former Gym Leader, now traveling Johto with his sights re-aimed from Rock-type mastery toward becoming a Pokémon Breeder — or maybe a Do
• Bugsy — Azalea Town's elementary-school-aged Bug-type Gym Leader, who studies insects with the seriousness of a field researcher and gives out the Hive Badge
• Butch — Cassidy's Team Rocket partner, a scratchy-voiced professional whose name no one outside the organization can ever remember — Biff, Botch, Patch, Hutch
• Casey — A loud, loyal rookie trainer from New Bark Town who roots for the Electabuzz baseball team with religious intensity and specializes in yellow-and-blac
• Cassidy — Team Rocket's competent agent. Jessie's college rival, actually gets results, and is Giovanni's favorite. Partnered with Butch, she runs long cons acr
• Celebi — The Voice of the Forest — a tiny green time-traveling Psychic/Grass Pokémon from Ilex Forest, whose fate in the Johto saga is the climax of the fourth
• Chuck — Cianwood City's Fighting-type Gym Leader, a bald, white-bearded old martial artist who trains with his Pokémon under waterfalls and gives out the Stor
• Clair — Blackthorn City's Dragon-type Gym Leader, Lance's cousin and the most difficult badge in Johto. She refuses to hand Ash the Rising Badge even after he
• Entei — The volcanic lion of the Legendary Beasts, resurrected by Ho-Oh from the Burned Tower's fire. Roams Johto's hot country, mane trailing smoke and ember
• Falkner — Violet City's young Gym Leader, son of the former leader, and Johto's first badge on the trail. Specializes in Flying-type Pokémon trained atop Sprout
• Gary Oak — Professor Oak's grandson and Ash's lifelong rival, now traveling Johto with a signed baseball jersey, a purple convertible, and a cheerleader-free rep
• Giovanni — The boss of Team Rocket, an organized-crime baron with a Persian curled at his feet and a whole region of operatives, including the Johto gangs in Gol
• Harrison — A trainer from Littleroot Town in the unseen region of Hoenn, in Johto for the Silver Conference with a Blaziken no one on the continent has seen befo
• Ho-Oh — The rainbow-feathered phoenix of Johto legend, long believed extinct, which circled over Ash's head on the very first day of his journey. In Johto, Ho
• James — The second of Team Rocket's trio. A runaway rich kid with a bottle-cap collection, a sensitive stomach, and a Weezing he genuinely loves. Dreams of a
• Jasmine — Olivine City's shy Steel-type Gym Leader, who closes her gym when her Ampharos Amphy — the keeper of the Olivine Lighthouse — falls sick.
• Jessie — Team Rocket's senior agent, one-half of a trio of chronic failures assigned since Pallet Town to steal Ash's Pikachu. Beautiful, vain, violent, and ab
• Kurt — Azalea Town's reclusive Poké Ball craftsman, the only person in the world who can hand-make Apricorn Balls — and the one Professor Elm sends the GS Ba
• Lance — The Pokémon League's Dragon Master and reigning Johto Champion, who moonlights as a G-Men operative hunting Team Rocket across Johto with his red Drag
• Larvitar — A traumatized infant Rock/Ground-type Pokémon Ash is entrusted with walking home to Mt. Silver. Stolen from its mother's nest by poachers, it hatches
• Lugia — The silver-winged Psychic/Flying Diving Pokémon of the Whirl Islands, guardian of the seas and counterpart to Ho-Oh. In Johto, its Silver Wing is a Wh
• Meowth — The talking, upright-walking Scratch Cat Pokémon of Team Rocket, who taught himself to speak human language out of unrequited love and has been making
• Misty — The youngest of the four Cerulean City Sensational Sisters, back on the road in Johto with a borrowed bike and Togepi in her arms. She is dead serious
• Morty — Ecruteak City's Ghost-type Gym Leader, a young mystic who keeps watch over the Burned Tower and believes, correctly, that Ho-Oh is returning to Johto.
• Pikachu — Ash's first Pokémon and permanent shoulder passenger. In Johto, Pikachu is an experienced battler coasting into tougher matchups with a chip on its sm
• Professor Elm — New Bark Town's Pokémon professor — a young, anxious researcher specializing in Pokémon breeding, hand-offs of the GS Ball, and being overwhelmed by h
• Professor Oak — Pallet Town's foundational Pokémon researcher and Ash's lifelong mentor, who keeps Ash's reserve Pokémon at his lab and takes every phone call at exac
• Pryce — Mahogany Town's elderly Ice-type Gym Leader, a former League champion who once lost his closest Pokémon to the cold of a freezing lake — and who teach
• Raikou — The thundercloud tiger of the Legendary Beasts. A streak of electricity and yellow fur across the Johto skies, faster than any reading equipment Jasmi
• Suicune — The northern winds-of-water lion-deer of the Legendary Beasts. Walks across lakes without breaking the surface, and has taken a personal interest in a
• Togepi — Misty's hatchling Togepi, a Spike Ball Pokémon that thinks she is its mother and the world is a game it's winning. Its Metronome attack has ended more
• Whitney — Goldenrod City's pink-haired Normal-type Gym Leader, infamous across Johto for the Miltank that has broken more winning streaks than any other single

Locations

• Azalea Town — A small forest town south of Ilex Forest famous for its Slowpoke Well, its Apricorn craftsman Kurt, and Bugsy's bug-themed gym. Where the GS Ball ques
• Blackthorn City — A high-altitude mountain town in Johto's northeast, home to the Dragon Clan, Clair's Dragon-type gym, and the sacred Dragon's Den where true dragon ta
• Burned Tower — A centuries-old collapsed pagoda in Ecruteak, half-scorched and roped off, where the three Legendary Beasts were reborn from its fires by Ho-Oh.
• Cianwood City — A coastal fishing town across the strait from Olivine, home to Chuck's Fighting-type gym, the medicinal Cianwood Pharmacy, and the famous Cianwood wat
• Ecruteak City — The historical heart of Johto, a city of Shinto-influenced temples, the Burned Tower of the Legendary Beasts, the Tin Tower of Ho-Oh, and Morty's Ghos
• Goldenrod City — Johto's largest city — a commercial hub of department stores, radio towers, a Magnet Train terminus, and Whitney's Miltank. Where Team Rocket attempts
• Ilex Forest — A thick, dim, primordial forest between Azalea and Goldenrod, home to the Voice of the Forest Celebi, and site of the climactic battle of the fourth P
• Indigo Plateau (Silver Conference) — The Pokémon League's tournament grounds at the foot of Mt. Silver, host to the Silver Conference — the annual Johto League tournament, a separate even
• Mahogany Town — A small mountain village on the road between Ecruteak and Blackthorn, home to Pryce's Ice-type gym, a gift shop full of Gyarados taxidermy, and the se
• Mt. Silver — The highest mountain in Johto, a wild and snow-capped peak on the border with Kanto, home to the region's strongest wild Pokémon — and the mother Tyra
• New Bark Town — A small coastal town at the eastern edge of Johto, home to Professor Elm's lab and the starting point for every new trainer in the region. Where the w
• Olivine City — A port city on Johto's western coast, home to Jasmine's Steel-type gym and the Olivine Lighthouse where Amphy the Ampharos keeps the ships safe.
• Sprout Tower — A seven-story wooden pagoda in Violet City, home to a sect of monks who train Bellsprout and who test traveling trainers before they are allowed to ch
• Tin Tower — The restored nine-story pagoda in Ecruteak, counterpart to the Burned Tower, and the former perch of Ho-Oh itself. Where rainbow-colored light is said
• Violet City — Johto's city of historical temples and cliff-top roofs, home to Sprout Tower and Falkner's Flying-type gym. The first gym badge for most trainers on t
• Whirl Islands — A four-island archipelago off Johto's southwest coast, home of the Whirl Cup water-Pokémon tournament and the long-hidden resting place of Lugia.

Items

• Apricorn Balls — Hand-crafted Poké Balls made from Apricorns — the colored fruit that grow only in Johto — by Kurt of Azalea Town. Seven varieties, each tuned to a dif
• Johto Gym Badges — The eight gym badges of the Johto League circuit, awarded for defeating each of the region's Gym Leaders. Required for admission to the Silver Confere
• Rainbow Wing — A single brilliant feather from Ho-Oh, the key to the Tin Tower's upper floors, and the sign that the rainbow phoenix is watching its watcher.
• Silver Wing — A single silver-white feather from Lugia, the trophy of the Whirl Cup and the sign that the Diving Pokémon is watching its watcher.
• The GS Ball — A small gold-and-silver Poké Ball mystery handed to Professor Elm, then to Ash, then to Kurt in Azalea Town — a saga-long quest that is never actually

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