ThePoké Ball Factory (Japanese:ボール工場Ball Factory) is a facility located north ofLaverre City inKalos, responsible for manufacturing all kinds ofPoké Balls.
The factory is mostly automated and only a few people reside there to observe the process. They also give tours to show people how Poké Balls are created. The Poké Balls manufactured here are delivered to allPoké Marts in Kalos.
The Poké Ball Factory area is proceeded by a paved walkway, decorated withPoké Ball statues. The factory area consists of the factory itself and the yards, where two small hedge mazes reside. Inside the factory, two conveyor belts run through the building, allowing theplayer to move around. The direction of the conveyor belts can be temporarily reversed from a computer at the southwest corner of the facility. Three staircases (one of which is initially blocked) allow the player to enter the second floor, where two small rooms are located. One of them is reserved for the workers of the factory, while the other one is the Poké Ball Factory President's office.
After defeatingValerie at theLaverre Gym,Shauna andTrevor will invite the player to visit the Poké Ball Factory with them. It then turns out that the factory has been taken over byTeam Flare, and aTeam Flare Grunt is standing at the door, initially preventing the player from entering the factory. If the player talks to Shauna at the walkway, she will go talk to the Team Flare Grunt again, only to get chased away. With the door cleared, the player can enter the factory, where another Team Flare Grunt is standing as a guard.Calem orSerena will stay tobattle the Team Flare Grunt while the player makes their way through the factory. When the player reaches the President's office, where aTeam Flare Admin is trying to convince him to join them, Calem or Serena will join the player in aMulti Battle against theTeam Flare ScientistsCelosia andBryony. Once they are defeated, Team Flare leaves the factory and the President awards the player with aMaster Ball and aBig Nugget.
The Poké Ball Factory appeared inA Frenzied Factory Fiasco!.Ash andhis friends came to visit the factory, but were tricked by a disguisedTeam Rocket, who were pretending to be factory workers. They tricked Ash and his friends into handing them all their Pokémon, includingPikachu in a container and Pikachu's Poké Ball. After trapping the group into an empty room and believing to have successfully caught Pikachu, Team Rocket started stealing the Poké Balls of the factory, only to notice that Pikachu had managed to avoid beingreturned to his Poké Ball and was still on the loose. Meowth gave chase to Pikachu while Jessie and James loaded the stolen Poké Balls into their truck.
Thanks to one ofClemont'sinventions, the group managed to break out of the room, forcing Team Rocket to flee. However, before they could get away, Ash stopped their truck with Pikachu'sThunderbolt. Meowth then challenged Pikachu to a battle, during which he made one last-ditch effort to catch Pikachu, but failed, and Ash managed to recover Pikachu's Poké Ball. After Team Rocket had been sent blasting off by a falling Poké Ball statue, all the stolen Pokémon and Poké Balls were recovered, and the trapped factory workers were freed. As a reward, the group was offered a tour around the factory.
The Poké Ball Factory was first mentioned inCorphish Pinches whenTierno accidentally encountered aTeam Flare Admin atRoute 5. From the files she dropped, he found out thatTeam Flare was planning to infiltrate the facility, their intention being to stop the production ofPoké Balls in Kalos and prevent those they deemed unworthy from being capable of catching Pokémon.
The factory was mentioned again inQuilladin Stands, whereValerie revealed how she and the other KalosGym Leaders, aside fromViola andKorrina, had first learned about Team Flare when she had noticed its members entering the facility.
InScizor Defends, Team Flare was revealed to have successfully stolen Poké Balls from the factory, with their scientists working on modifying them. These very Poké Balls were presumably later used to transport Pokémon from thePokémon Village toRoute 10 in Team Flare's second attempt to use theultimate weapon.
Trivia
Poké Ball Factory shares several similarities with theSilph Co. office building inSaffron City: both places are involved in creating Poké Balls, are located in the same city or town as the sixthGym of the region, get taken over by avillainous team at some point, and both companies' presidents reward the player with aMaster Ball after they drive the villainous team out of the building.
InPokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, a boy in the Akala Ferry Terminal inHeahea Citymentions the Poké Ball Factory, being surprised to learn that not all Poké Balls are made there. Implying they distribute to other regions.
