History VideoGame / PokemonMysteryDungeonRescueTeam

* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: Defeating the Mankey in Uproar Forest nets you a Peeled Chestnut as a reward. Your partner is visibly disappointed with this, but right then the Mankey you defeated show up looking for a rematch, only to be won over immediately due to said [TrademarkFavoriteFood chestnut]]. Bonus points for you requiring to find another chestnut for them to finish renovating your base when they lose motivation halfway through.

** Kecleon has the lowest base recruit rate in the game, at ''-33.9%''. To even have a shot at catching him, you need a Pokémon at maximum level that is holding the Friend Bow, and even then, its recruitment rate only tops at '''.1%''' from the combined bonuses. Not to mention that [[ShopliftAndDie you have to steal from one to force it into fighting]], they respawn endlessly in droves and are hellbent murderers, ''and'' Escape Orbs are rendered useless... so if you ''are'' lucky enough to recruit one, you're still in for a hard time getting your new friend out of this mess. [[note]]Alternatively, if you pick the "Something good!" wish from Jirachi, Kecleon is one of the recruits who can offer to join you for free. Not the case in ''DX'', however.[[/note]]

* ShopliftAndDie: God help you if you try to take an item from a Kecleon shop. Unfortunately, it's the only way to recruit Kecleon, [[RareRandomDrop assuming you're lucky enough]].

* TerrainSculpting: One of the very last IQ skills lets you walk through ''anything''. This means you can walk straight through walls, which breaks them in the process and carves a path through solid rock, and unlike Mobile Scarf or Ghost-types' innate ability, this does not increase Belly consumption rate.

** Slight, but Jirachi's "Something good!" wish no longer includes Kecleon in the list of Pokémon that can join your rescue team. He'll have to be recruited the old-fashioned way (either from [[ShopliftAndDie stealing]], or found in Joyous Tower).

* LostWoods: Sinister Woods, Uproar Forest, Howling Forest, and Purity Forest are all deep dungeons that qualify for this - featuring large trees, strong Pokémon, and sometimes the use of the darkness mechanic.

* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Apart from the regular "Sure Hit" moves, two Rare Qualities provide this trait. "Narrow Focus" gives all attacks perfect accuracy when used in a corridor, and "Rapid Bull's-Eye" gives perfect accuracy to all moves that hit multiple times.

** The infamously powerful Terrain Walker/Super Mobile IQ Skills were reincarnated as the "Forge a Path" Rare Quality. Unlike them, Forge a Path induces a Hunger penalty when used, much like Ghost-types and the Mobile Scarf.

* SaveScumming: Discouraged by the fact that the game auto-saves pretty much every time something signifigant happens (you can shut off the game during a boss fight and boot it back up to find you're right where you left off), but a facimile is doable by turning off automatic cloud saves and just manually uploading and downloading them.

** For the first time in the series, ''DX'' removes standard attacks entirely; pressing the A button has the game pick a move to attack with. The game instead uses Move Ranks from ''Gates to Infinity'' to enhance your capability to continue fighting in longer dungeons. However, enemy Pokémon can still attack you this way.

* TimedMission: The new Makuhita Dojo involves being dropped into a dungeon with a set amount of real-time seconds to hammer as many Pokémon as possible. All the Pokémon in the dungeon are weak to your Pokémon's main typing, and you have doubled Travel Speed, infinite revives, and unlimited Pinkie Pie.

** This is the only game in the series without Treasure Boxes.

* HelloInsertNameHere: Both your character and partner can be named, as well as your Rescue Team. %%In ''DX'', all of these names can be changed on the main menu.

** ''Something Good?'': Jirachi raises your Rescue Rank, and if not that, gives you a free Pokémon you don't already have, and if you have both, gives you Poke.
* MarathonLevel: Several post-game dungeons have 99 Floors, .

%%* NintendoHard: The post-game special dungeons with special restrictions, notably the dungeons that [[LevelDrain temporarily reset your Level to 1 while you're inside.]] When applied to a dungeon that also doesn't let you bring anything except a held item, prepare for one hell of a [[MarathonLevel Marathon]] LuckBasedMission.

%%* PlanetHeck: Magma Cavern.

%%* ShiftingSandLand: Desert Region.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can choose to keep the apples that Munchlax dropped instead of returning them. You'll gain an Apple in your inventory, but the game will [[WhatTheHellPlayer call you out for this]] because you made Munchlax cry.

* YouAreWorthHell: In a postgame event, Latios is so desparate to locate his younger sister Latias in Pitfall Valley that he doesn't care if he becomes lost forever in it himself, so long as the two of them are together; bonus points for the place being called Hell Valley in Japanese. About the only thing stopping him is that you tracked down and defeated him in battle first.

** For the first time in the series, ''DX'' removes standard attacks entirely; pressing the A button has the game pick a move to attack with. The game instead uses Move Ranks from ''Gates to Infinity'' to enhance your capability to continue fighting in longer dungeons.

** Linked moves are not unlinked if any of the involved moves runs out of PP, and they can still be used even in that situation (and still get the "always critical" bonus if the user is Awakened).

** The Small Stomach Rare Quality makes all items that can fill your Belly fill it fully, which is invaluable for the various [[MarathonLevel Marathon Levels]] in the postgame.

** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with Kecleon - but this is VideoGameCrueltyPunishment.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Averted - moves that can inflict flinch (such as Bite and Fake Out) are ''very'' useful, since they can even work on bosses.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Averting SecretAIMoves, recruiting [[spoiler:Rayquaza]] and teaching it Hyper Beam will allow it to use its special variant of Hyper Beam that it uses against you in its boss fight and during a cutscene at the end of the game. (In fact, all large Pokémon that are taught Hyper Beam will use it in the same way).

* GuiltBasedGaming: Selecting the option to delete your save (through the in-game menu, instead of the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch's system settings menu) will result in your character's avatar looking heartbroken as you go through the confirmation prompts.

* PinataEnemy: Enemy Abra are guaranteed to drop a Max Ether when defeated.

** While there is a new Internet option for accepting Friend Rescues, the old [[PasswordSave Password]] method still exists (albeit with a somewhat different format than the original).

* ShootTheMedicFirst: In the second half of Northwind Field, Delibird will randomly warp near the enemy to heal them with Present, a move that usually has a random chance to hurt its target, but it's never the case here. As more than one Delibird can spawn and heal its allies, they must be defeated first to prevent them from healing them.
* SparklingStreamOfTears: These are shed by your partner during one cutscene.
* SuperMode: The Empowerment Seed, a consumable item that temporarily invokes the Awakened status on the Pokémon that consumes it. If the Pokémon that ate the Empowerment Seed is capable of Mega Evolution, they will go Mega instead, [[spoiler:or enter Primal Reversion in the case of Groudon and Kyogre]]. Since Mega Evolutions no longer go Berserk after a certain number of turns, they revert to normal when inflicted with a bad status condition. Besides the Empowerment Seed, enemy Pokémon can attain the status if they knock out a Pokémon, friend or foe. [[note]][[ExplainExplainOhCrap Which becomes a problem]] when [[OneHitPointWonder Shedinja]] is on the table...[[/note]]
* TimedMission: The new Makuhita Dojo involves being dropped into a dungeon with a set amount of real-time seconds to hammer as many Pokémon as possible. All the Pokémon in the dungeon are weak to your Pokémon's main typing, and you have doubled Travel Speed and infinite revives.

* SuperMode: The Empowerment Seed, a consumable item that temporarily invokes the Awakened status on the Pokémon that consumes it. If the Pokémon that ate the Empowerment Seed is capable of Mega Evolution, they will go Mega instead, [[spoiler:or enter Primal Reversion in the case of Groudon and Kyogre]]. Besides the Empowerment Seed, enemy Pokémon can attain the status if they knock out a Pokémon, friend or foe. [[note]][[ExplainExplainOhCrap Which becomes a problem]] when [[OneHitPointWonder Shedinja]] is on the table...[[/note]]

%%* UnderTheSea: Stormy Sea, Far-Off Sea, Grand Sea, and Silver Trench.

** Things like "not stepping on visible traps" and "not trying to use moves that are out of PP" - are special skills that your partner can only lean once their IQ is high enough.

** Things like "not stepping on visible traps" and "not trying to use moves that are out of PP" - are special skills that your partner can only lean once their iq is high enough.

** Slight, but Jirachi's "Something good!" wish no longer includes Kecleon in the list of Pokémon that can join your rescue team. He'll have to be recruited the old-fashioned way (either from [[ShoplifeAndDie stealing]], or found in Joyous Tower).

* SuperMode: The Empowerment Seed, a consumable item that temporarily invokes the Awakened status on the Pokémon that consumes it. If the Pokémon that ate the Empowerment Seed is capable of Mega Evolution, they will go Mega instead. [[spoiler:It also triggers Primal Reversion for Groudon and Kyogre.]]

** The 99 floor dungeons now set the team's starting level at 5 rather than 1.

** Slight, but Jirachi's "Something good!" wish no longer includes Kecleon in the list of Pokémon that can join your rescue team. He'll have to be recruited [[ShopliftAndDie the hard way.]]

** Kecleon has the lowest base recruit rate in the game, at ''-33.9%''. To even have a shot at catching him, you need a Pokémon at maximum level that is holding the Friend Bow, and even then, its recruitment rate only tops at '''.1%''' from the combined bonuses. Not to mention that [[ShopliftAndDie you have to steal from one to force it into fighting]], they respawn endlessly in droves and are hellbent murderers, ''and'' Escape Orbs are rendered useless... so if you ''are'' lucky enough to recruit one, you're still in for a hard time getting your new friend out of this mess.

* TerrainSculpting: One of the very last IQ skills lets you walk through ''anything''. This means you can walk straight through walls, which breaks them in the process and carves a path through solid rock, and unlike things like Mobile Scarf or Ghost-types' innate ability, this does not increase Belly consumption rate.

** The infamously powerful Terrain Walker IQ Skill was reincarnated as the "Forge a Path" Rare Quality. Unlike Terrain Walker, Forge a Path induces a Hunger penalty when used (like Ghost-types and the Mobile Scarf), making it nowhere near as abusable as before.

** Kecleon has the lowest base recruit rate in the game, at ''-33.9%''. To even have a shot at catching him, you need a Pokémon at maximum level that is holding the Friend Bow, and even then, its recruitment rate only tops at '''.1%''' from the combined bonuses. Not to mention that [[ShopliftAndDie you have to steal from one to force it into fighting]], and they respawn endlessly in droves and are hellbent murderers... so if you ''are'' lucky enough to recruit one, have an Escape Orb ready or they'll likely insta-kill your new recruit on the next turn.

* VideoGameTime: The story does not progress unless you make the decision to do so. This can become very ridiculous when you spend a hundred days doing jobs in in Thunderwave Cave and poor little Diglett is still begging to be rescued as though a second hasn't even passed by without you.

** Blastoise, Feraligatr, and Swampert can count as well, as they also have a -33.9% recruit rate as the only fully-evolved starters to be recruitable, and only spawn in the later floors of [[MarathonLevel Western Cave]]. Whether this is easier or harder than evoling their previous forms is up to the player.

** Kecleon has the lowest base recruit rate in the game, at ''-33.9%''. To even have a shot at catching him, you need a Pokémon at maximum level that is holding the Friend Bow, and even then, its recruitment rate only tops at '''.1%''' from the combined bonuses. Not to mention that [[ShopliftAndDie you have to steal from one to force it into fighting]], and they respawn endlessly in droves and are hellbent murderers... so if you ''are'' lucky enough to recruit one, have an Escape Orb ready or they'll instantly kill your new recruit on the next turn.
** Blastoise, Feraligatr, and Swampert can count as well, as they also have a -33.9% recruit rate as the only fully-evolved starters to be recruitable, and only spawn in the later floors of [[MarathonLevel Western Cave]].

* CommonplaceRare: Some Pokémon that were ComMons in Generation 3 main games are not so common here. For example, Pidgey and Magikarp can be recruited only (the latter won't appear in ''Red Rescue Team'' at all until it's unlocked) in specific dungeons, where they spawn with an average rate of 1.50% and 2.13%, respectively. [[labelnote:Note]]For good comparison, Mew's spawn rate is anywhere between 0.21% and 1.22%, depending on the floor.[[/labelnote]] Pidgey is actually seen in the very first dungeon, but the game prevents anyone from being recruited in Tiny Woods, so it's a long time before you fight ones that can be recruited.

* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: [[spoiler:Postgame, Ekans reveals the existence of the Wish Cave by telling the player that he dooesn't know anything about making wishes come true.]]

* LostWoods: Sinister Woods, Uproar Forest, Howling Forest, and Purity Forest are all deep dungeons that take place relatively late into the game - featuring large trees, strong Pokémon, and sometimes the use of the darkness mechanic.

* ObviouslyEvil: Team Meanies. Probably invoked; with a [[UnfortunateNames lame name]] like that, who would suspect that world domination was a goal?

* PasswordSave: The game includes an intricate password system called "Wonder Mail", allowing you to get special job requests otherwise not obtainable through normal gameplay. The most common of these are typically rescue requests from other players, which can be generated in the event of a full party wipe and sent to another player to give them the opportunity to rescue you, with the sender granted a revival on a successful rescue and the receiver getting rewards. Special codes were also released through official media, granting access to three "secret" dungeons and unique items and Pokémon. However, through gratuitous datamining fans were able to figure out how the Wonder Mail password generation system works, giving rise to the so-called "Wonder Mail generator", a topic of hot debate among fans as it can be used to generate any job request with virtually any condition (such as beating Tiny Woods) and any possible reward (such as Rainbow Gummies or Legendary Pokémon).