Rescue Team DX:Differences From the Original Game

This Differences From the Original Game page is about the differences between Rescue Team titles and the remake, Rescue Team DX. For the differences in-between the Game Boy Advance game Red Rescue Team and the Nintendo DS game Blue Rescue Team, see Rescue Team:Version Differences.

Pokémon

All Pokémon that appear in the original game appear as playable Pokémon in the remake, including those that were not originally playable, such as Munchlax and the Statues. Additionally, all of those Pokémon received the new evolutions, pre-evolution stages and forms, including Mega Evolutions, introduced in  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness and  Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon.

New Pokémon

New Pokémon
Sprite	Pokémon
	English	Japanese
	Budew	スボミー
	Roserade	ロズレイド
	Ambipom	エテボース
	Mismagius	ムウマージ
	Honchkrow	ドンカラス
	Chingling	リーシャン
	Bonsly	ウソハチ
	Mime Jr.	マネネ
	Happiny	ピンプク
	Munchlax	ゴンベ
	Riolu	リオル
	Lucario	ルカリオ
	Mantyke	タマンタ
	Weavile	マニューラ
	Magnezone	ジバコイル
	Lickilicky	ベロベルト
	Rhyperior	ドサイドン
	Tangrowth	モジャンボ
	Electivire	エレキブル
	Magmortar	ブーバーン
	Togekiss	トゲキッス
	Yanmega	メガヤンマ
	Leafeon	リーフィア
	Glaceon	グレイシア
	Gliscor	グライオン
	Mamoswine	マンムー
	Porygon-Z	ポリゴンＺ
	Gallade	エルレイド
	Probopass	ダイノーズ
	Dusknoir	ヨノワール
	Froslass	ユキメノコ
	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: Blazing, Light, and Stormy Adventure Squad, some Shiny Pokémon can be found in Locations.
  • 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 Foes.

Shinies
Sprite	Pokémon
	English	Japanese
	Butterfree	バタフリー
	Ninetales	キュウコン
	Rapidash	ギャロップ
	Electrode	マルマイン
	Exeggcute	タマタマ
	Exeggutor	ナッシー
	Starmie	スターミー
	Magikarp	コイキング
	Gyarados	ギャラドス
	Ditto	メタモン
	Dragonite	カイリュー
	Hoothoot	ホーホー
	Noctowl	ヨルノズク
	Ampharos	デンリュウ
	Azumarill	マリルリ
	Sudowoodo	ウソッキー
	Aipom	エイパム
	Espeon	エーフィ
	Wobbuffet	ソーナンス
	Shuckle	ツボツボ
	Corsola	サニーゴ
	Celebi	セレビィ
	Spinda	パッチール
	Altaria	チルタリス
	Zangoose	ザングース
	Metagross	メタグロス
	Ambipom	エテボース
	Lickilicky	ベロベルト

Strong Foes

• Strong Foes are Pokémon with higher stats that can appear 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 & Special Enemies

• During the Post-Credits, every boss 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 Gummi and Rainbow Gummi.
• TM 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.
• Evolution Items have been replaced with Evolution Crystal which are consumed whenever a Pokémon with Evolution outside of level wishes to evolve.
• Each item now has its own artwork, which can be seen when hovering over the items in the menus.

Locations

Pokémon Square

• Walking through the Square now changes the camera angle, giving more depth around the area.
• A shortcut from the Rescue 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 Tickets 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 Camp 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 a higher chance to obtain Treasure Boxes from defeated foes. It is indicated on the menu with its dungeon name glowing and a Treasure Box icon appearing on the right.
• The player can edit their 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: 13 → 12
  • Mt. Blaze: 15 → 14
  • Uproar Forest: B10 → B4
  • Magma Cavern: B26 → B23
  • Western Cave: 99 → 20
  • Mt. Faraway: 40 → 60
• A new dungeon named Illusory Grotto temporarily appears only when the player doesn't have any Tiny Reviver Seed, Reviver Seed, or Revive All Orb 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 House.
  • 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 recruiting Pokémon inside a dungeon the current team can increase to up to eight members, as opposed to the four of the original.
• The player can recruit a fainted Pokémon with any kind of Apple.
• 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 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.
• Ranks 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 Items, Moves and Abilities 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 eight 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 are replaced with Rare Qualities.
• Body Sizes limiting the amount of Pokémon the player can have in their 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 foes.
• Linked moves that run out of PP do not automatically un-link the entire set anymore. Now it will use the moves that still have PP.

See Also

• List of Updates.