Rescue Team DX:Differences From the Original Game

Pokémon

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

List of new Pokémon

List of new Pokémon
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, some shiny Pokémon can be found in dungeons.
  • They can be recruited by having 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.
  • Every other shiny Pokémon available in the game will be encountered as a Strong Foe.

List of Shinies

List of Shinies
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

• Strong Foes are Pokémon with higher stats that 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.
• Gummis no longer match Pokémon types, being replaced by DX Gummis and Rainbow Gummis.
• TMs can no longer be recycled; instead of becoming 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.
• Each item now has its own artwork, which can be seen when hovering the items in the menus.

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 to its basic gameplay and gives the player bonus items when each tutorial is completed for the first time.
• 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 from a menu 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 new dungeon named Illusory Grotto temporarily appears only when the player doesn't have any Tiny Reviver Seeds, Reviver Seeds, or Revive All Orbs neither in the inventory nor in the storage.
  • Many reviving and health-based items are present throughout the dungeon.
  • Pokémon are randomized.
  • The amount of floors is randomized.
• 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.
• Some dungeons, such as 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

• While the player can enter most dungeons with up to three Pokémon like in the original, by recuruiting Pokémon inside a dungeon the current team can increase to up to eigth members, as opposed to the four of the original.
• 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 successfully leaving the dungeon by reaching the end, leaving after a mission is completed or by using 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 vary depending on the dungeon and the kind of mission the player chose.
• Rank names are the same as Super Mystery Dungeon instead of those of the original.
  • 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 item, move and ability present in the game with descriptions and tags is 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.
• Pressing the A Button now checks for traps in all eigth adjacent tiles or, if a Pokémon is in range, uses a move considered by the game to be most appropriate to the current situation.
• IQ skills are replaced with Rare Qualities.
• Body sizes limiting the amount of Pokémon the player can have in his team were removed from the game.
• Pokémon may use the same move twice in the same turn if their Speed stat is higher than the foe's.
• 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

Much of the new content added to the remake originated from other Mystery Dungeon titles, including early Shiren the Wanderer titles.

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.
• Wands are back after their Pokémon Mystery Dungeon introduction in the previous game.

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.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team & Blue Rescue Team

• Linked moves are back.
• The player's Pokémon can only evolve in Luminous Cave.

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

• The capability to have more than the amount of partners authorized in dungeons originates from this game.

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.
• The name of the player's Team can be changed from the main menu.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Adventure Squad Titles

• Shiny Pokémon were first introduced in this game then added back in the remake.
• In some dungeons, enemy Pokémon can evolve after defeating another Pokémon.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity

• Pokémon with two abilities no longer have both simultaneously.
• Gigantic Pokémon (3x3 case long) are back.
• Wonder Orbs can be used during boss battles.

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon

• The player can rescue themselves if they are defeated in a dungeon in addition to rescuing other players.
• The Speed stat from the main series Pokémon games, independent from Travel Speed, is brought back.
• Team members will spend their turn using healing items instead of moving or attacking.
  • The player can decide which item is used on which Pokémon or decline the offer.
  • It can be turned on and off in the Options.
• Pokémon can experience Mega Evolution with the Awakened status.
• Players can switch leaders by pushing + on the Joy Con, it can be done at any time in any dungeons.
• Gigantic Pokémon can be used by the player.
• Non-enemy Pokémon can appear in dungeons and they can join the team when interacted with.
• 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.
• The names of the player's main character and partner can be changed from the main menu.

List of Update

See the page Rescue Team DX/List of Updates.