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Mt. Silver Cave Silver Cave		シロガネ山どうくつ Mt. Shirogane Cave
"Wild Missingno. appeared!"

Map description:

A hallowed mountain that rises between the Johto and Kanto regions.

Location:

North of Mt. Silver, west of Route 28

Region:

Johto

Generations:

II, IV

Location of Mt. Silver Cave in Johto.

Pokémon world locations

Mt. Silver Cave (Japanese: シロガネやまどうくつ Mt. Shirogane Cave) is the cave system of Mt. Silver in Johto, located west of Victory Road and Indigo Plateau. It can be entered from the outside area at the foot of the mountain after receiving the sixteen Gym Badges of both Johto and Kanto. In Generation II, both the outside area and the cave system are included under the location header Silver Cave (Japanese: シロガネやま Mt. Shirogane).

At the very summit, the player may battle Red. If defeated, Red vanishes from Mt. Silver Cave, and returns every time the player enters the Hall of Fame.

A field based on Silver Cave also appears in Pokémon Stadium 2's Kanto Gym Leader Castle.

Geography

In the games, Mt. Silver is off-limits to all but the most skilled of Trainers. After the player has received all sixteen badges of Johto and Kanto, Professor Oak will give the player permission to travel here.

There is a Pokémon Center just outside the entrance of Mt. Silver Cave, at the foot of Mt. Silver. Inside, however, the cave is dark, requiring Flash to see in the first room. Many high-level Pokémon reside in the cave, as well as rare Pokémon not found elsewhere in the Johto region, like Larvitar and Misdreavus.

The cave has only one entrance, unlike all other caves found in Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, but goes deep into the mountain. In the cave's final room, the player will encounter Red, who will wordlessly challenge the player to what is the highest-leveled Trainer battle in the Pokémon series. If defeated, Red will vanish, and will only return for another battle after the player defeats the Elite Four again.

In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, Mt. Silver Cave is much larger than before. Flash is no longer needed to light up the cave. The higher sections of the cave, where Red is located, require Rock Climb to be accessible. At times, the player must also venture onto the slopes on the mountain's sides in order to climb higher. In addition, a heavy snowfall is present at the summit, which assumes the hail weather condition in battle; this weather becomes diamond dust on certain days, which disables the hail weather condition in battle.

Items

Generation II

	Location	Games
Escape Rope	1F, west of the entrance	G S C
X Accuracy	1F, east of the entrance	G S
Protein	1F, east of the entrance	C
Ultra Ball	1F, in the middle of the floor	C
Dire Hit	1F, on the rock between the central ledges (hidden)	G S C
Max Elixir	1F, northwest corner	G S C
Ultra Ball	1F, southeast area near the 2F entrance (hidden)	G S C
Max Potion	2F, on the rock just west of the 2F entrance (hidden)	G S C
PP Up	2F, on the tiny western shoreline (requires Surf and Waterfall)	C
Max Revive	2F, southwestern interior, far western end of the cave (requires Surf and Waterfall)	G S C
Ultra Ball	2F, east of the triple stairway	C
Calcium	2F, near the entrance of the northeastern interior cave (requires Surf and Waterfall)	C
Full Restore	2F, northeastern interior, far northeastern end of the cave (requires Surf and Waterfall)	G S C

Generation IV

1F

	Location	Games
Expert Belt	Southern chamber, in the cave just north of the entrance to the main chamber (requires Surf and Waterfall)	HG SS
Ultra Ball	Main chamber, on a rock between the two waterfalls (requires Surf, Waterfall, and Rock Climb) (hidden)	HG SS
Hyper Potion	Northwestern chamber, at the north-west corner of the ledge above Moltres (requires Surf, Waterfall, and Rock Climb) (hidden)	HG SS
Ultra Ball	Northwestern chamber, at the north-east corner of the ledge above Moltres (requires Surf, Waterfall, and Rock Climb) (hidden)	HG SS
Dire Hit	Main chamber, on a rock northeast of the entrance (requires Rock Climb) (hidden)	HG SS
Full Restore	Main chamber, in the northeast corner, accessed from the lower mountainside (requires Rock Climb)	HG SS
Revive	Main chamber, on a rock right of the path to 2F (requires Rock Climb) (hidden)	HG SS