Draft:Silph Co.
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The Silph Corporation (Silph Co.) is a fictional company in many versions of the Pokémon franchise. They are the manufacturers of many tools, including the Silph Scope, which allows the user to view spectral entities, and have headquarters in Saffron City. The name is probably derived from the sylph, a mythological creature.
Overview
Silph Co. is the leading manufacturer of Pokémon technology in the Kanto-Johto region. It is this company that produces the Pokéballs used by trainers to capture Pokémon, and they are constantly looking for ways to improve upon them.
Their status made them a target in the Red/Blue/Yellow/Fire Red and Leafgreen games, in which Team Rocket orchestrated the takeover of their headquarters in Saffron City. However, in Red/Blue/Yellow/Fire Red and Leafgreen, the player has the mission of driving them out of the city, and the President of Silph will reveal afterwards the top-secret development Team Rocket was after: the Master Ball, which can catch any Pokémon without fail.
Silph Headquarters
The Silph Co. Head Office Building is an eleven-floor skyscraper that is effectively a giant maze. In Red/Blue/Yellow/Fire Red and Leafgreen, the player must navigate using teleporter tiles in order to reach the board room on the top floor. The player must find the Card Key, which unlocks the building’s security doors, in order to do this. After rescuing Silph, the player is free to explore the building and talk to the employees.
In Gold/Silver/Crystal, Silph Co. has increased security, and the player can not see the upper floors. One of the guards, however, will kindly give the player an Up-Grade item for talking to him, which will allow a Porygon to evolve through a trade to Porygon2.
In the Anime
Although the Silph Co. head office building plays a major part in the games, it is not mentioned nor seen in the Pokémon anime. This is interesting, and leaves the origins of various technologies unknown. It may also be that the Devon Corp. produce everything in the anime.
Manufactured Items
See also
- Kanto
- Saffron City
- Team Rocket
- Devon Corporation
- List of Pokémon items