Meteor Cave
Meteor Cave (Japanese: 隕石の洞窟 Meteorite Cave) is a dungeon in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX that contains 20 floors. It is home to Deoxys.
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Meteor Cave was created when rocks from the destroyed meteor crashed into a mountain. The morning after Lugia is defeated in Silver Trench, Blastoise reports discovering the cave to Xatu, who then gives the cave its name. The partner then suggests the rescue team investigates it.
Gameplay
Generation III
In the original games, only one Pokémon is allowed to enter, and only Poké is found in the dungeon. A maximum of three items may be carried into the dungeon at once. However, this does not include the player's held item. One random Deoxys form is created on every floor when the leader enters: Attack, Speed, or Defense. The random Deoxys must be defeated to unlock the stairs down. The Normal Deoxys is on the 20th floor, and it is the only one that can be recruited. After Deoxys is recruited, the player gains access to the Enclosed Island Friend Area, of which Deoxys is the only inhabitant.
Floors 1-5 are shrouded in darkness, limiting field of view to 2 tiles in hallways, while floors 6-19 are shrouded in heavy darkness, limiting field of view to just 1 tile in hallways.
Generation VIII
In the remake, up to 3 Pokémon can enter the dungeon, and there are no restrictions on items brought in the dungeon. Rescue is not available in the case of defeat in this dungeon. The Normal Deoxys, that spawns on every floor in the room containing the stairs, must be defeated in order to unlock the stairs down. In addition, multiple random Deoxys forms spawn as mirages on every floor to attack the player: Attack, Speed, or Defense. Monster Houses that spawn will contain these mirage forms.
On the 20th floor, Normal Deoxys appears as a boss, and is surrounded by 3 mirages, one of each of its other forms. If the mirages are defeated, 3 more appear within the following turn. Upon beating Normal Deoxys, Deoxys is recruited and the player gains access to the Enclosed Island Rescue Team Camp.
After clearing Meteor Cave for the first time, the stairs will no longer be sealed and Normal Deoxys no longer spawns.
Pokémon encountered
Generation III
| Pokémon | Floors | Levels | Recruit Rate | |
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Deoxys Attack Forme |
1-19 | 35 | Unrecruitable |
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Deoxys Defense Forme |
1-19 | 35 | Unrecruitable |
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Deoxys Speed Forme |
1-19 | 35 | Unrecruitable |
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Deoxys Normal Forme |
20 | 35 | -10% Boss |
Generation VIII
| Pokémon | Floors | Levels | Recruit Rate | |
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Deoxys Normal Forme |
1-19 | 55 | Unrecruitable |
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Deoxys Attack Forme |
1-19 | 55 | Unrecruitable |
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Deoxys Defense Forme |
1-19 | 55 | Unrecruitable |
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Deoxys Speed Forme |
1-19 | 55 | Unrecruitable |
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Deoxys Normal Forme |
20 | 55 | 100% Boss |
Items
Traps encountered
Generation III
Note: The % are approximations.
| Image | Trap | Floor 1-9 | Floor 10-19 |
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Explosion Trap | 5.64% | 5.03% |
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Grimy Trap | 8.06% | 7.20% |
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Gust Trap | 4.03% | 3.59% |
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Mud Trap | 24.19% | 21.58% |
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Pitfall Trap | — | 3.59% |
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PP-Zero Trap | 8.07% | 7.20% |
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Pokémon Trap* | 8.06% | 7.19% |
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Seal Trap | 8.07% | 7.20% |
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Selfdestruct Trap | 2.42% | 2.16% |
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Slow Trap | 4.03% | 3.59% |
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Slumber Trap | 4.03% | 3.60% |
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Spin Trap | 7.26% | 6.48% |
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Sticky Trap | 8.07% | 14.39% |
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Warp Trap | 8.07% | 7.20% |
Trivia
- If a mirage Deoxys is recruited through means of a cheating device, then the game will immediately crash after accepting the mirage into the party.
- In Rescue Team DX, it is the only dungeon in the game where rescue is unavailable under any circumstance.
In other languages
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| Locations in the Pokémon world in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team, Blue Rescue Team, and Rescue Team DX |
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| Major locations |
| Friend Areas/Rescue team camps • Team Base • Pokémon Square • Kecleon Shop Kangaskhan Storage • Makuhita Dojo • Whiscash Pond • Luminous Cave • Hill of the Ancients |
| Dungeons |
| Tiny Woods • Thunderwave Cave • Mt. Steel • Sinister Woods • Silent Chasm Mt. Thunder • Great Canyon • Lapis Cave • Rock Path • Mt. Blaze • Snow Path Frosty Forest • Mt. Freeze • Magma Cavern • Sky Tower • Uproar Forest Howling Forest • Stormy Sea • Silver Trench • Meteor Cave • Fiery Field Lightning Field • Northwind Field • Mt. Faraway • Western Cave • Northern Range Pitfall Valley • Buried Relic • Wish Cave • Murky Cave • Desert Region Southern Cavern • Wyvern Hill • Solar Cave • Darknight Relic • Grand Sea Waterfall Pond • Unown Relic • Joyous Tower • Far-Off Sea • Purity Forest Oddity Cave • Remains Island • Marvelous Sea • Fantasy Strait Unknown DungeonRB Illusory GrottoRTDX |
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