Team Rocket Hideout Gold & Silver · Johto landmark

Map of Team Rocket Hideout in Pokémon Gold and Silver — B1F (in-game map)

Team Rocket's hideout is hidden beneath the souvenir shop in Mahogany Town. Its strange radio signal is forcing the Magikarp at the Lake of Rage to evolve, and after the red Gyarados event Lance asks you to help him break in. Inside you deal with security cameras, booby-trapped item balls and locked doors, then shut down the transmitter, and Lance gives you HM06 Whirlpool.

Wild Pokémon: None
Items: 11
Trainers: 13

Connects to: Mahogany Town

Where Team Rocket Hideout is on the Johto map Team Rocket Hideout on the Johto map

Gift and special Pokémon

Voltorb Lv. 23 · One-off encounter

One of the fake item balls on B1F.

Geodude Lv. 21 · One-off encounter

One of the fake item balls on B1F.

Koffing Lv. 21 · One-off encounter

One of the fake item balls on B1F.

Electrode Lv. 23 · One-off encounter

Three Electrode power the generator on B2F; you must defeat or catch all three.

Wild Pokémon

No wild Pokémon here.

Trainers

Rocket Grunt B1F

Drowzee 17

Zubat 19

Prize ₽190

Rocket Grunt B1F

Zubat 16

Grimer 17

Rattata 18

Prize ₽180

Rocket Executive B2F, at the end

Arbok 23

Gloom 23

Murkrow 25

Prize ₽450

Rocket Executive B3F, guarding the boss room

Zubat 22

Raticate 24

Koffing 22

Prize ₽396

Trainer	Pokémon	Prize	Where
Rocket GruntGrunt	Rattata 16 Rattata 16 Rattata 16 Rattata 16	₽160	B1F
ScientistJed	Magnemite 20 Magnemite 20 Magnemite 20	₽500	B1F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Golbat 18	₽180	B2F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Rattata 17 Zubat 17 Rattata 17	₽170	B2F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Venonat 18 Venonat 18	₽180	B2F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Ekans 18 Gloom 18	₽180	B3F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Raticate 19	₽190	B3F
ScientistRoss	Koffing 22 Koffing 22	₽550	B3F
ScientistMitch	Ditto 24	₽600	B3F

Prize money is the trainer class’s base payout times the level of the trainer’s last Pokémon. Trainers with phone rematches call you when they want another battle; their teams grow as you progress.

Items

Item	How	Where
Hyper Potion	Item ball	B1F
Nugget	Item ball	B1F
X Accuracy	Item ball	B1F
Revive	Hidden	B1F
TM46 Thief	Item ball	B2F
Full Heal	Hidden	B2F
HM06 Whirlpool	Gift Lance gives it to you after you shut down the radio signal.	B2F
Full Heal	Item ball	B3F
Dire Hit	Item ball	B3F
Protein	Item ball	B3F
Ice Heal	Item ball	B3F

Hidden items can be found with the Itemfinder from Ecruteak City.

Tips

The Persian statues on B1F are security cameras that summon Grunts; the secret switch on B1F turns them off.
Some item balls on B1F are traps that turn into a Voltorb, Geodude or Koffing, so expect a fight.
Beat the two Grunts on B3F who know the passwords (Slowpoketail and Raticate Tail) to open the boss's room, where the Executive's Murkrow gives away the transmitter password.
Lance heals your party during the infiltration, and on B2F he steps in to take on one of two Rockets who gang up on you.
To stop the transmitter you must defeat or catch the three Lv 23 Electrode powering it.
Clearing the hideout opens Pryce's Gym and sends the Rockets on Route 43 packing; winning the Glacier Badge afterwards sets off the Radio Tower takeover in Goldenrod.

Walkthrough: Part 8: Lake of Rage, the Rocket Hideout and Pryce

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FAQ

Where is the Team Rocket hideout in Pokémon Gold and Silver?

Under the souvenir shop in Mahogany Town. After you meet Lance at the Lake of Rage, he joins you in Mahogany and you head down through the shop.

What are the passwords in the Team Rocket hideout?

The boss's room on B3F needs Slowpoketail and Raticate Tail, which you learn from two Grunts. The transmitter door on B2F needs Hail Giovanni, which the Executive's Murkrow reveals.

Where do you get Whirlpool in Pokémon Gold and Silver?

Lance gives you HM06 Whirlpool after you shut down the radio transmitter in Team Rocket's hideout. You need the Glacier Badge to use it outside battle.

How do you turn off the cameras in the Rocket hideout?

Find and press the secret switch on B1F. Until then, walking past the Persian statues calls Grunts to battle you.

Sources & picture credits

Guide text is original retrogameindex writing, checked against Bulbapedia and the game data. Wild Pokémon and encounter chances for both versions and all three times of day, fishing, Headbutt and Rock Smash tables, items, trainers, gifts, trades and shops come from the pret/pokegold decompilation (pret/pokegold ef0201d8da). Maps and sprites © Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK, archived from the Bulbagarden Archives; the Johto and Kanto maps are drawn from the game’s own Pokégear graphics (listed on the image gallery).