Shady House is the base of Team Skull, a dilapidated mansion at the far end of Po Town, whereGuzma also stays from time to time.
Pokémon Center
As thePokémon Center, like the rest of Po Town, is occupied by Team Skull, no operationalPoké Mart,Pokémon Center Café, orPC can be found there. ATeam Skull Grunt will, however, offer to heal theplayer's Pokémon for$10 whenever she's asked to. After the player has becomeChampion, the Grunt, along with her cohort, will offer to sell them aSkull Tank andTeam Skull CapUSUM. If the player purchases the clothing, the two Grunts will leave the Pokémon Center, leaving it with no more functional use.
Demographics
Pokémon Sun and Moon
The population of Po Town is 23. Team Skull primarily inhabits the Shady House and the main road leading to it, with all other buildings being abandoned and inaccessible.
After defeatingGuzma in theShady House, none of theTeam Skull Grunts will battle the player (unless mentioned otherwise), acting as if they had already been defeated.
Po Town debuted inFlash and Cosmog's Secret.Gladion traveled there after being made aTeam Skull Enforcer byGuzma. Shortly after arriving, Gladion was attacked byPlumeria and a group ofTeam Skull Grunts, who wanted to see if he was skilled enough for the job. Though Gladion proved himself during the battle, his negative attitude angered Plumeria to the point where she refused to accept him as a true member of Team Skull. When Plumeria told Gladion to follow her, Gladion complied, but was momentarily distracted when aZygardeCore jumped past him.
InA Raid and Po Town,Ilima,Lana,Kiawe,Mallow,Acerola, andHau arrived in Po Town to have a talk with Team Skull. Guzma, appearing on theShady House's balcony, seemed amused by the suggestion, and accepted the offer to talk, if the group could get into the house first. At that moment, theTrial Captains and Hau found themselves surrounded by a group ofUltra Beasts.
The Ultra Beasts proceeded to easily best their opponents, but when Guzma noticed that the Captains' Pokémon were still hanging on, he revealed aCosmog that he had in his possession and had it open moreUltra Wormholes to summon more UBs. The group was saved by Gladion, who used hisType: Null to fight the Ultra Beasts, which it did with ease due to its status as a Pokémon specificallycreated to fight them. He demanded Guzma to tell him who had given him the Cosmog, but Guzma refused to answer. Afterward, Guzma was kidnapped by aNihilego, which dragged him into an Ultra Wormhole with it. The other UBs subsequently broke out of Po Town's barrier, proceeding to cause havoc on the rest of Ula'ula.
While the Captains and Gladion headed out to help the people of Ula'ula and stop the Ultra Beasts,Sun andMoon, who had followed the Captains to Po Town, stayed behind to collect Zygarde Cells. The two were soon approached byLooker andAnabel from theInternational Police, who wanted to ask them questions regarding the Ultra Beasts. After they had agreed to pay Sun six million yen for his information, he told them everything about the Ultra Beasts he saw. Not much after Anabel had sent Looker out to identify and locate the Ultra Beasts, the threeTrainers were attacked by aBlacephalon. Their attempt atcatching it failed, but they were saved by the appearance ofTapu Bulu, whoblew it away. While Sun completed his job of delivering aMirage Berry to Tapu Bulu, Anabel thought abouta certain man hiding somewhere inAlola, who could be able to createa Poké Ball capable of catching Ultra Beasts.
Related cards Cards listed with ablue background are only legal to use in the currentExpanded format. Cards listed with agreen background are legal to use in both the currentStandard andExpanded formats.
ThePokémon Center in Po Town is the only one in thecore series where healing one's Pokémon is not free of charge, as theTeam Skull Grunt behind the desk will charge the player$10.
Po Town is the only city or town in Alola where the background music doesn't change depending on the time of day.
Team Skull
