Rescue Team DX:Differences From the Original Game

Menu

• On the first launch of the game, the player can choose a language.
• The names of the player's main character, partner, and rescue team can be changed in the main menu.

Pokémon

• Pokémon from Generation Ⅳ and further were added in the remake exclusively on Pokémon who have an evolution after Generation Ⅲ.

Dex. №	Icon	Pokémon
		English	Japanese
Generation Ⅳ
406		Budew	スボミー
407		Roserade	ロズレイド
424		Ambipom	エテボース
429		Mismagius	ムウマージ
430		Honchkrow	ドンカラス
433		Chingling	リーシャン
438		Bonsly	ウソハチ
439		Mime Jr.	マネネ
440		Happiny	ピンプク
446		Munchlax	ゴンベ
447		Riolu	リオル
448		Lucario	ルカリオ
458		Mantyke	タマンタ
461		Weavile	マニューラ
462		Magnezone	ジバコイル
463		Lickilicky	ベロベルト
464		Rhyperior	ドサイドン
465		Tangrowth	モジャンボ
466		Electivire	エレキブル
467		Magmortar	ブーバーン
468		Togekiss	トゲキッス
469		Yanmega	メガヤンマ
470		Leafeon	リーフィア
471		Glaceon	グレイシア
472		Gliscor	グライオン
473		Mamoswine	マンムー
474		Porygon-Z	ポリゴンＺ
475		Gallade	エルレイド
476		Probopass	ダイノーズ
477		Dusknoir	ヨノワール
478		Froslass	ユキメノコ
Generation Ⅵ
700		Sylveon	ニンフィア

Types

• The Fairy-Type, first introduced in Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, is added to the remake.
  • It gives new weakness and resistance for previous types as well as changing the gameplay.

Shiny

• Returning from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Adventure Squad, Shiny Pokémon appear rarely in dungeons.
  • They can be recruited by holding the Friend Bow in the inventory.
  • Celebi is the only Pokémon to have a shiny variation with conditions; it can be recruited in Mystery Houses after clearing Purity Forest for the first time.

Dex. №	Icon	Pokémon
		English	Japanese
Ver. 1.0.0 - 1.0.2
012		Butterfree	バタフリー
038		Ninetales	キュウコン
078		Rapidash	ギャロップ
101		Electrode	マルマイン
102		Exeggcute	タマタマ
103		Exeggutor	ナッシー
121		Starmie	スターミー
129		Magikarp	コイキング
130		Gyarados	ギャラドス
132		Ditto	メタモン
149		Dragonite	カイリュー
163		Hoothoot	ホーホー
164		Noctowl	ヨルノズク
181		Ampharos	デンリュウ
184		Azumarill	マリルリ
185		Sudowoodo	ウソッキー
190		Aipom	エイパム
196		Espeon	エーフィ
202		Wobbuffet	ソーナンス
213		Shuckle	ツボツボ
222		Corsola	サニーゴ
251		Celebi	セレビィ
327		Spinda	パッチール
334		Altaria	チルタリス
335		Zangoose	ザングース
376		Metagross	メタグロス
424		Ambipom	エテボース
463		Lickilicky	ベロベルト

Strong Foes

• Pokémon with higher stats can appears in one of the twenty-seven available dungeons and are indicated with an icon. If defeated, the team will be rewarded with a great amount of Experience points and a Deluxe Box.
  • Before going to the dungeon, the player can see their weakness type by pressing + on the Joy Con.
  • Strong Foes have a chance of being Shiny.

Bosses and Special Enemies

• During the Post-Story, every bosses fought before can be recruited. This time, it is indicated with an icon appearing on the right of the dungeon's name.
• Bosses will have a Mega Evolution segment only after the Main Story is completed.
• Hazardous moments like Magma occurs in some boss's area.

Items

• New items are featured in the game such as the Bank Orb.
  • Returning items from Super Mystery Dungeon such as Wands are also featured in the game.
• Gummis can no longer be taken out of the Kangaskhan Storage. Instead, they are eaten at a rescue team camp.
  • As such, each types of Gummis were replaced by Rainbow Gummis and DX Gummis.
• TMs can no longer be recycled; instead of becoming an used TMs, they are destroyed.
• The TM Recycle now changes a Plain Seed to a different item.
• Evolutionary items have been replaced with Evolution Crystals which are consumed whenever a Pokémon with evolution requirements outside of level wishes to evolve.

Locations

Pokémon Square

• Walking through the Sqaure now changes the camera angle, giving more depth around the area.
• A shortcut from the Team Base to the Pelipper Post Office is created by Diglett early on in the game.
• Persian gives a reward once every day after a transaction at the Felicity Bank.
• The Makuhita Dojo has been revamped. There are two types of gameplay offered from Makuhita:
  • Dojo drills: A challenge mode where only one Pokémon can enter at a time and has a time limit depending on which ticket and how many of them the player gives to Makuhita. Experience points obtained from the dojo are multiplied by a higher number depending on the ticket.
  • Tricks of the trade: Both a tutorial for newcomers and a challenge mode, it trains newcomers to the Mystery Dungeon series its basic gameplay and ends with a bonus if completed.
• The unlockable statues are now placed behind the Pelipper Post Office instead of being in front of the Rescue Team Base.
• Smeargle now allows the player to select one of his 16 unique flag designs for the Base.
  • It can be called as many times as the player wishes to without waiting on the next day.
• Munchlax's cameo event can happen at any point in the story.
  • Upon giving Munchlax any kind of Apples, he will reward the player with unique items or Gummis.

Rescue Team Camps

• Friend Areas and the Wigglytuff Club are replaced by Rescue Team Camps and Wigglytuff's Camp Corner, respectively.
• Excluding the boss exclusives, every rescue team camps are available for purchase in Wigglytuff's Camp Corner and do not need conditions for unlocking them.
• Recruited Pokémon obtain experience points and can gain a level in their camp if they are not participating in an exploration.

Dungeons

• Dungeons now share the following information in the menu:
  • Pokémon: Which Pokémon are present in the dungeon.
  • Floors: How many floors are available in the dungeon.
  • Initial Level: If the dungeon is limited to Lv. 5 or none.
  • Teammates: If it is limited to 1 or 3 teammates.
  • Items: If the player can or can not bring items.
  • Team: If a team without the main and partner Pokémon can enter the dungeon.
• A dungeon can now have more Poké and higher chance to obtain a Treasure Boxes from defeated foes. It is indicated on the menu with its dungeon name glowing and an Treasure Box icon appearing on the right.
• The player can edit his team, give items and deposit or withdraw items and Poké before entering a dungeon in the menu.
  • The player can also see the whole map by pressing Y on the Joy Con.
• Some dungeons have their amount of floors tweaked in the remake:
  • Mt. Thunder: 13F → 12F
  • Mt. Blaze: 15F → 14F
  • Uproar Forest: B10F → B4F
  • Magma Cavern: B26F → B23F
  • Western Cave: 99F → 20F
  • Mt. Faraway: 40F → 60F
• A temporary dungeon named Illusory Grotto appears only after the player fails in a dungeon.
  • Many reviving and health-based items are present throughout the dungeon.
• Keys and Locked doors are replaced with Invitation and Mystery Houses.
  • If the player holds an Invitation, a Mystery House will appear within a specific room shape in the dungeon. It is fulfilled with items and an exclusive Pokémon and can appear. Mystery Houses can appear as a small house with one Pokémon inside or as a huge house with three Pokémon.
• Far-Off Sea and Waterfall Pond no longer require a team member to know specific HMs or have a specific type to be accessed.
• Oddity Cave, Remains Island, Fantasy Strait and Marvelous Sea can now be accessed through normal gameplay without the need of Nintendo events or Wonder Mail codes.

Gameplay Elements

Recruiting

• Up to five additional team members can be recruited while exploring a dungeon, for a total of eight teammates.
• The player can recruit a fainted Pokémon with any kind of Apples.
• A recruited Pokémon without a rescue team camp gives Poké to the player after completing or leaving a dungeon with an Escape Orb.
• Fully evolved starter Pokémon can now be recruited which it was not possible in the original game.

Rankings

• The player can see their accepted jobs by pressing X on the Joy Con in the dungeon menu.
• Mission difficulty goes from F to 3★ instead of E to 7★.
  • Points given from the mission variate depending on the dungeon and the kind of mission the player chose.
• Ranking goes from Rookie Rank to Grand Master Rank instead of going from Normal Rank to Lucario Rank.
  • Ranking up gives advantages to the number of preset teams, job limit, camp capacity and toolbox size as well as useful item rewards.

Options

• A list of every items present in the game with descriptions and tags are available in the Options.
• The game auto-saves the player's progress anytime while playing in a dungeon.
  • The player can also save their progress on the menu.

Miscellaneous

• A brand new gameplay element is added to the game entitled Auto mode.
  • Pressing the L Button will automatically move the player and their team until an enemy is around one square radius of the team or the button is pressed again.
• Using the A Button now selects the best move against an opponent in a dungeon.
• IQ ranks are now replaced with rare qualities.
• Body sizes limiting the amount of Pokémon the player can have in his team were removed from the game.
• Speed is now based on the Pokémon's stats instead of the turn-based gameplay in the original games.
  • Similarly to TM Ability, the Pokémon can attack twice in the same turn if his speed stats are above the foe's speed and vice versa.
• The AI can now help the team by giving an item to the player or the teammates throughout the exploration.
  • It can be turned on and off in the Options.
• Linked moves that run out of PP do not automatically un-link the entire set anymore. Now it will use the moves that still has PP.

Returning from past games

Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (series)

• The second option from the revamped Makuhita Dojo, Tricks of the trade, is inspired from Fay's Puzzles.
• Unique AI behavior such as monster spawning in groups or monsters attacking others for leveling up are brought back for certain Pokémon.

Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 2: Demon Invasion! Shiren Castle!

• The capability to have more than two partners in dungeons.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness / Sky

• Treasure Boxes return. They are opened automatically upon leaving the dungeon.
• Rescue missions with "Special Reward" written on the reward list recruits the Pokémon seen in the icon.
• The Toolbox's size will increase with the player's rank as up to 56 items.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Adventure Squad Titles

• Shiny Pokémon were first introduced in this game then added back in the remake.

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon

• The player can rescue themselves if they are defeated in a dungeon in addition to rescuing other players.
• Pokémon can experience Mega Evolution with the Awakened status.
• Pokémon with two abilities no longer have both simultaneously.
• Players can switch leaders by pushing + on the Joy Con, it can be done at any time in any dungeons.
• Gigantic Pokémon (3x3 case long) are back.
• Starving Pokémon can be found and recruited with an Apple in dungeons.
• Traps that were added in this game are brought back.
• The player can pre-set teams and the amount of team is increased with the rank.

Pokémon (Mainline series)

• Pokémon stats, Moves and abilities based from Generation Ⅶ are present in the remake.
• Type effectiveness has been revised to fit Generation Ⅶ. Ineffective moves no longer deal damage.

List of Update

See the page Rescue Team DX/List of Updates.