Ruby & Sapphire Team Aqua Hideout
In Sapphire, the hideout east of Lilycove belongs to Team Aqua. Archie's grunts guard Captain Stern's stolen submarine, and a Master Ball is hidden on B1F.
Team Aqua Hideout is in Hoenn. In the story you arrive from Lilycove City to the south and it comes before Route 124.
TEAM AQUA HIDEOUT MAP
Team Aqua Hideout Walkthrough
1F
- SurfMoveSurfWaterClassSpecialPower95Accuracy100%PP15Creates a huge wave, then crashes it down on the foe. north through both pools and step ashore at the gap above them.
- Hug the east wall to the stairs down. On B1F, the first room's east panel takes you to the Max Elixir in the middle of the floor and back.
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- The first room's west panel opens the long hall: go east along the top into the wide room, where a Team Aqua Grunt battles you.
- Follow the bottom corridor west to its end panel, then ride the grid: top row left, second middle, third left, bottom left along the lower edge.
- In the small square of item balls in the west, take the NuggetNuggetA nugget of pure gold. Can be sold at a high price.B1F, just below the Master Ball in the western square of item balls; the balls beside them are Electrode, then stand in its place for the Master Ball; Electrode sit on its east side.
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Max Elixir
Nugget
Master BallB2F
- Leave by the room's panel, then bottom middle, second left and top; the corridor's east panel leads to the stairs down to B2F.
- There a Team Aqua Grunt battles you before the east panel, whose small room climbs to a B1F room with north stairs back down.
- Another Team Aqua Grunt battles you there. His southwest panel reaches the dock: face Aqua Admin MattAqua Admin Matt₱1,280CarvanhaLv 32
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Electrode
ITEMS
All field items and hidden pickups at Team Aqua Hideout.
Master Ball
The best BALL that catches a Pokemon without fail.
Master Ball
The best BALL that catches a Pokemon without fail.
Max Elixir
Fully restores the PP of a Pokemon's moves.
Nugget
A nugget of pure gold. Can be sold at a high price.
Nest Ball
A BALL that works better on weaker Pokemon.
TRAINERS
Six Team Aqua grunts hold the hideout in Sapphire, their leads sitting between level 30 and 33. The warp panels drag you back past them more than once, so heal before you go in.
Team Aqua Hideout Guide
Team Aqua's in Sapphire and Team Magma's in Ruby. It is the same building either way, with the rival team's grunts swapped in. Emerald splits them up, leaving Team Aqua at Lilycove and moving Team Magma inland.
The floor is a grid of warp tiles that fling you between rooms, and the wrong panel loops you back where you started. Take it slow and track which tile leads where. The goal at the back is the team leader and the stolen submarine plans.
Flash is optional in most Hoenn caves. A hiker on Granite Cave's first floor hands you HM05, and the Knuckle Badge lets you use it in the field. Only a few dark rooms in Victory Road really call for it, so teach it to a spare Pokemon and skip the wall-bumping.
In long caves like Victory Road they pay off, letting you reach exits and items without constant low-level battles. Keep in mind a Repel only quiets random wild encounters, so it does nothing about the level-45 Groudon or Kyogre standing in the Cave of Origin, and Shoal Cave's rooms still open and close on the tide no matter what you hold.