Rescue Team:Meteor Cave

Meteor Cave いんせきの　どうくつ
Information
Entrance Location		Rescue Team Base
Final Goal Floor		20
Total Floor Count		20
Initial Level		Current
Bring Items In?		Yesː 3
Bring Poké In?		Yes
Bring Team Members In?		No
Rescues		No
Kangaskhan Rest Stops		None
Weather		Clear
Visibility		Light Darkness: 1 - 5 Darkness: 6 - 19 Normal: 20
Kecleon Shops
Monster Houses		No
Unseen Force		2,000 turns
Boss		Deoxys
Navigation
← Previous dungeon		Next dungeon →
	Silver Trench	N/A

This Meteor Cave page is about the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS release. For the Nintendo Switch release, see Rescue Team DX:Meteor Cave.

For the lore page, see Pkmn:Meteor Cave.

Meteor Cave (Japanese: いんせきの　どうくつ, Meteorite Cave) is a post-credits dungeon in / Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team. It is unlocked after recruiting Lugia in Silver Trench.

Plot

After the events of the main story, the Meteor which Rayquaza destroyed crash-landed near Mt. Thunder, and created Meteor Cave.

The Hero and Partner spot Xatu outside their Team Base, who is just about head into Pokémon Square to do some shopping when Blastoise, the leader of Team Hydro) comes in and reports to Xatu about the meteorite. Blastoise figured that Xatu would know about said cave, and Xatu responds wit "Kwaaah" and gives it its name, retailing the origins of the cave in the process.

The partner then asks if Blastoise had explored the cave, and he replied that he had but only for a little while because he was weirded out by the "weird things" crawling around in the cave. The partner then, in a teasing manner, remarks Blastoise's cowardliness, to which Blastoise angrily responds by saying that the partner would be intimidated as well if they had seen the cave. Blastoise then asks Xatu if they had seen anything like the Pokémon in the cave, to which they respond no, but guesses that the Pokémon would not be of this world if they had survived the crash. The partner then asks the protagonist if they want to explore the cave, and Meteor Cave is unlocked.

Dungeon information

Meteor Cave is unique for its odd requirements and contains only one Pokémon throughout the whole dungeon, that being Deoxys. However, the real Deoxys is fought on floor 20, and is the only one that can be Recruited. Recruiting Deoxys will result in the Friend Area Enclosed Island being unlocked.

Floors 1 - 5 are shrouded in darkness, whilst Floors 6 - 19 are shrouded in Deep Darkness. The player can only have 3 items in their inventory (excluding their held item) and only one Pokémon is permitted to enter the dungeon. Each floor contains one Deoxys of any form and the stairways (which are covered). In order to unblock these stairs and progress, the player must search for and defeat Mirage Deoxys.

When in the dungeon, it is important to consider these things:

• Attack Form Deoxys has very high offenses.
• Defense Form Deoxys has very high defenses.
• Speed Form Deoxys is always at Double Speed.
• Only use your Huge Apples or Big Apples once the Leader's Belly is completely empty. For those who are more confident in their abilities, wait until HP drops until you are in peril before consuming a Huge or Big Apple.
• You should equip the Friend Bow either just before accessing the stairs at Floor 19 or at Floor 20 after the Boss dialogue.

IQ, Level and Others

The Pokémon should be at least level 40 or above. The IQ Skills Trap Seer and Super Mobile would be most recommended for this particular exploration, as Trap Seer could prevent the items being either made sticky or food items turning into Grimy Food, as well as other hindering misfortunes. Super Mobile would be particularly useful as certain parts of the dungeons are extremely spacious and contain lots of rooms, plus it would make it easier to hunt and take down the Deoxys clones.

Suggested Items

If you're not looking for recruiting, an inventory of only 3 Huge Apples or Big Apples will suffice, with the Pokémon holding X-Ray Specs. If you are recruiting, however, keep 2 Huge or Big Apples and one Friend Bow for better chances of recruiting. The player should still keep the X-Ray Specs, however, to locate where the Deoxys clone is in order to defeat it as quickly as possible.

Pokémon

Sprite	Pokémon		Type		Level	Experience	Floors	Recruit Chance			Available in
	English	Japanese						Base Chance	Friend Area	Story
	Deoxys (Attack Forme)				35	193	1 - 19	Unrecruitable
	Deoxys (Defense Forme)				35	193	1 - 19	Unrecruitable
	Deoxys (Speed Forme)				35	193	1 - 19	Unrecruitable

Boss

Sprite	Pokémon		Type		Level	Experience	Recruit Chance		Move
	English	Japanese					Base Chance	Friend Area
	Deoxys (Normal Forme)				35	[Research required]	Unrecruitable		[[Rescue Team:|]]

Items and Poké

Ground

Poké
Lowest amount	Highest amount	Floors
		1 - 19

Special Tiles

No special tiles are found in Meteor Cave.

Traps

Sprite	Trap		Floors
English	Japanese
	Explosion Trap	ばくはスイッチ	1 - 19
	Grimy Trap	ベトベタスイッチ	1 - 19
	Gust Trap	とっぷうスイッチ	1 - 19
	Mud Trap	どろスイッチ	1 - 19
	Pokémon Trap	ポケモンスイッチ	1 - 19
	PP-Zero Trap	わざへりのわな	1 - 19
	Seal Trap	ふういんスイッチ	1 - 19
	Selfdestruct Trap	じばくスイッチ	1 - 19
	Slow Trap	ヤドンスイッチ	1 - 19
	Slumber Trap	バクスイッチ	1 - 19
	Spin Trap	ぐるぐるスイッチ	1 - 19
	Sticky Trap	くっつきスイッチ	1 - 19
	Warp Trap	ワープスイッチ	1 - 19
	Pitfall Trap	おとしあな	10 - 19

Gallery

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  Mirage Deoxys.

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  Covered stairs.

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  Boss arena

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  Deoxys introduction.

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  Recruiting Deoxys.

Trivia

• Meteor Cave is the first dungeon with more than one requirement to enter it.
• It is the only dungeon that limits the player to 3 items in their inventory without outright banning carry-in items.
• Meteor Cave has the least amount of Pokémon in all dungeons of the game, being 1 (Unless you count forms as different Pokémon).
• If the player steps on a Pokémon Trap, the trap will fail to activate and disappear.

In Other Languages

Language		Name
English		Meteor Cave
Japanese		いんせきの　どうくつ Meteorite Cave
French		Grotte Météore
Spanish		Cueva Meteora
German		Meteorhöhle
Italian		Grotta Meteora
Korean		운석의 동굴

References

• Part of this page history was imported from the PMD Rescue Team Wiki on Fandom as part of the Fandom-Gamepedia unification project while the MDFW was still on Gamepedia.

Part of this page's history has been imported from the PMD Rescue Team Wiki. On September 11, 2019, the Gamepedia Shiren the Wanderer Wiki became the Gamepedia Mystery Dungeon Wiki. As part of the unification project between Fandom and Gamepedia, we absorbed the Rescue Team Wiki and its page histories. Some pages were originally deemed unworthy of being imported and were left behind. We've since imported them with the intent to preserve the edits and history of this community and its contributions, as well as to build upon them. In some cases, these pages have been created again by editors of the MDFW, and the Rescue Team page histories were imported into them at a later date. You can check if this is the case by visiting the page's history. For a full list of imported pages, see: Pages with histories imported from the PMD Rescue Team Wiki.