Appendix:Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky walkthrough/Chapter 6

Team Skull on B2F

After the morning cheer, you and your partner go up to the Job Bulletin Board to get a job. However...there is Koffing and Zubat there. Aren't they familiar?

Your partner gets aggravated at the fact that they are here and Koffing and Zubat taunt your partner again, making him/her back down a bit. However, he/she comes up with a comeback on how you and your partner easily defeated Koffing and Zubat. Koffing and Zubat are undaunted and say they didn't have the "Chief" with them. You and your partner get puzzled, but Zubat could "smell him coming now"!

The Chief turns out to be a Skuntank, who is the leader of Koffing and Zubat, who are part of a team called Team Skull. Skuntank appears to have a bad personality, attacking you with what appears to be a Poison Gas, knocking you out. After several taunts and remarks, the team goes away. After this, your partner goes up to you and says that Team Skull is right...he/she really is a chicken. Your two answers could be "No, you're not," or "BOK BOK BOK!". The second answer is slightly odd.

New Services in the Town

Spinda's Café

Once you exit the Guild, you will be notified that a new place has opened in the town: the Spinda's Café, a place exclusive to Sky version. In this place, you can either turn consumable items into drinks that can further boost stats, or recycle unneeded items for other items.

An item that boosts stats will always give a stat boost if turned into a drink, but certain items can become good or miraculous drinks. Good drinks boost either HP or IQ, depending on the item (for example, Gummis will give 2 IQ, while Apple will give 2 HP). Miraculous drinks boost a random stat by 2-5 points. Sometimes, instead of that, an event will happen; for now, a Pokémon might want to join your team (it will come at level 1, however). The chances vary from item to item, and some items are effectively high-risk, high reward; for example, the lookalike items have high chances for good or miracle drinks or a Pokémon joining your team, but equally likely to instead give out a bad drink which lowers a stat by 1-3 points.

The following Pokémon can be obtained this way. Most of these can be found in dungeons found at various points of the main story; Pokémon marked with a dagger (†) can be recruited only after the credits roll.

Caterpie

Weedle

Sandshrew

Oddish

Paras

Psyduck

Poliwag

Machop

Tentacool

Geodude

Farfetch'd†

Doduo

Seel

Grimer

Shellder†

Gastly†

Onix†

Krabby

Cubone

Rhyhorn

Tangela

Staryu

Pinsir

Tauros

Ditto†

Omanyte

Kabuto

Aerodactyl

Dratini

Hoothoot

Spinarak

Pichu

Natu

Mareep

Hoppip

Yanma

Wooper

Misdreavus†

Girafarig

Pineco

Dunsparce

Snubbull

Shuckle

Slugma

Swinub†

Corsola†

Skarmory†

Houndour†

Stantler

Smeargle

Elekid

Magby

Larvitar

Pupitar

Lotad

Wingull

Ralts

Surskit

Shroomish

Nincada

Aron

Plusle

Minun

Volbeat

Illumise

Numel

Trapinch

Cacnea

Seviper

Lunatone†

Solrock†

Barboach

Baltoy†

Lileep

Anorith

Tropius†

Absol

Spheal

Bagon

Beldum

Starly

Kricketot†

Budew

Cranidos

Shieldon

Burmy

Sandy Cloak

Combee

Cherubi

Shellos

West Sea

Shellos†

East Sea

Drifloon†

Buneary

Glameow

Chingling

Bronzor

Bonsly

Hippopotas

Skorupi

Carnivine

Wynaut's service is exchanging items for other ones.

At the beginning you don't have much choice; only Oran Berry for 2 Apples and Prize Ticket for 4 items. Sometimes after recycling, you might be awarded a bonus of a Ticket; this includes recycling for tickets themselves if you don't claim them immediately.

Prize Ticket lets you draw in a lottery, which is guaranteed to give you something; either a consolatory prize, a normal reward or a big reward. The color you pick does not matter, as the game instead picks outcome afterward. While it's technically possible to win better ones as the lottery reward, for now let's focus on the normal one.

Loss (65%)	Win (30%)	Big Win (5%)
Heal Seed	Power Band	Silver Spike
Oran Berry	Def. Scarf	Twist Band
Scanner Orb	Special Band	Joy Ribbon
Radar Orb	Zinc Band	Gold Ribbon
	Eyedrop Seed	Sitrus Berry
	Max Elixir	Reviver Seed
	Big Apple	Joy Seed
	Silver Ticket	White Gummi
	Cleanse Orb	Red Gummi
		Blue Gummi
		Grass Gummi
		Yellow Gummi
		Clear Gummi
		Orange Gummi
		Pink Gummi
		Brown Gummi
		Sky Gummi
		Gold Gummi
		Green Gummi
		Gray Gummi
		Purple Gummi
		Royal Gummi
		Black Gummi
		Silver Gummi
		Gold Ticket

As you can see, even the basic Prize Ticket's big reward pool contains valuable items such as Sitrus Berry or Joy Seed if you are lucky enough to get them.

With the new place checked out, you will have to perform some more board jobs and then a Sentry Duty to continue the story; around this part you should now be a Bronze Rank team. Ranking up your team will increase your Kangshkan Storage size and grant you one copy of a stat boosting item, but some ranks will also grant certain hidden benefits, such as unlocking new mission types (some of which may lead to further unlocks) or aforementioned better lottery tickets.

Since this isn't your first Sentry Duty, the reward are unfortunately less impressive. In fact, since you get better reward for setting a high score (which will get harder and harder to do over time), it might better to not play as optimally as possible on purpose!

	Bad	Adequate	Good	Perfect
Regular	Nothing	50 Poké Oran Berry	100 Poké Max Elixir Nectar	300 Poké Def. Scarf Reviver Seed Heal Seed
New high score		100 Poké Max Elixir	200 Poké Heal Seed Nectar	400 Poké Pecha Scarf Reviver Seed Max Elixir

After that, you'll gain access to Apple Woods. Chatot asks you to go to Apple Woods to get some more of Wigglytuff's favorite food, Perfect Apples. You two go quietly, but you won't leave peacefully...as Team Skull is planning to cause you some trouble! But before you go, it is a good idea to check out the town, as with Apple Woods, yet another service has shown up.

Electivire's Link Shop

At Electivire's you can do two things:

• Remember level-up moves free of charge. This does not include moves exclusive to previous evolved forms unless you have stalled the evolution and had the prompt to learn, such as Shroomish learning Spore far beyond the level at which it evolves, but not its evolution.
• Link moves for 500 Poké a session. This lets you use multiple moves as one action, from top to bottom (though certain moves will behave odd while linked, or can't be linked at all). A good example is linking Skitty's Tail Whip and Tackle so that each enemy's Defense is lowered and then it gets immediately attacked; there are some particularly strong combinations of moves on certain Pokémon. If an enemy is attacked with a linked move, it will yield 50% more experience on defeat, compared to just using a regular move (which is triple the experience when defeated without using any moves at all); however, linked moves drain Belly faster and additionally will be delinked if a move reaches 0PP.

Apple Woods

Much bigger and much harder than Waterfall Cave, the main type here appears to be Bug and Grass-type, with some Poison-types. There are 12 floors in this dungeon. Most notably, this is the first dungeon that can have TMs lying on the ground, which is a good alternative to saving up money and hoping they show up in Treasure Town's shop (though they aren't particularly common and some are more rare than the others, like with the mission rewards). This is also the first dungeon that features special floor layout: floor 7 will always have one long corridor around the edges of the floor, with rooms in middle, whereas floor 8 will be opposite of that.

• Caterpie/Butterfree: A IQ Group. Notably, Metapod isn't available until the credits roll, unlike Kakuna. While Caterpie is nothing much to say about as expected, Butterfree has amazing niche of having many useful moves and Compoundeyes to boost their accuracy: right now it has access to Confusion and both Stun Spore and Sleep Powder, and will eventually learn Supersonic, Tailwind and Silver Wind. It can also have some type coverage via TMs if needed, such as Energy Ball or Shadow Ball. This is on top of the useful IQ skills its group has: PP Saver, Survivalist, Coin Watcher, Multitalent, Haggler, Collector (makes Treasure Boxes more common, although this type of item isn't available quite yet), All Terrain Hiker, Stair Sensor, Map Surveyor and Pierce Hurler, meaning it can become not only more useful in battle with more PP, but also help traverse the dungeon.
• Hoppip: H IQ Group. Similarly to Tangela in previous dungeon, it has both Chlorophyll and Leaf Guard, meaning it can become quite powerful in the sunlight, especially since it is compatible with Silver Wind TM. However, the moves it starts with are rather lackluster and will require some leveling, but within main story levels it gains access to the powder moves, Leech Seed and natural Bullet Seed. However, the real niche of this Pokémon will be revealed during postgame, where it will learn Memento - a move that massively reduces attacking stats of every enemy in the room, reduces user's HP to 1 and then teleports them to a random place in the room. This move, combined with it learning Synthesis, a self-healing move, is useful for debuffing bosses.
• Budew: H IQ Group. Unfortunately, being a baby Pokémon, it doesn't learn many moves until it evolves, which won't be possible for quite the while.
• Burmy (Sandy): E IQ Group. Similarly to Caterpie, it doesn't have much use due to its limited moveset before evolving (though it does naturally learn Protect, which here is much more powerful). Notably, while in main games, Burmy's cloak is a temporary form that changes with battles, here it is a permanent variant, akin to the Shellos colors. Each of the Burmy forms can be found only in one specific dungeon.
• Oddish/Gloom: B IQ Group. Another Chlorophyll user. Its moveset isn't too varied, mostly being Normal and Grass moves with some Poison ones (though it does learn the powder moves); however, it eventually learns Moonlight, which heals the entire team for fixed, weather-dependent amount, regardless of where they are on the floor.
• Paras: A IQ Group. Similarly to Butterfree, this is a Pokémon more suited for support, learning Stun Spore, Spore (which is basically Sleep Powder that targets every enemy in the entire room, rather than just adjacent to the user), and at high level, Aromatherapy and even X-Scissor. It is compatible with Dig, Aerial Ace and Sludge Bomb for type coverage. Unfortunately its Dry Skin Ability combined with its typing makes it incredibly weak to Fire attacks (as well as sunlight, though thankfully Fire-types aren't very common during main story, in contrast to Water-types it will be healed by, which are more plentiful during the main story), as well as few other types.
• Weedle/Kakuna/Beedrill: A IQ Group. Like with Butterfree, the not fully evolved forms aren't really useful, but Beedrill does learn some useful moves; at the levels it is met it will have Fury Attack, Focus Energy and Twineedle, learning Pursuit within main story and then later on Pin Missile and Agility.
• Exeggutor: B IQ Group. Yet another Chlorophyll user. Unfortunately being a stone evolution, it does not learn many moves on its own and doesn't have too useful moves via TMs (aside from typical Grass-type tools), with the most notable moves being the ones it starts with: Barrage (a multi-hit move), Confusion and Hypnosis.
• Combee: A IQ Group. Combee suffers from terrible moveset until it evolves, but thankfully it does have niche. Its Honey Gather will make it possible to find Nectar, the potent IQ boosting item, in Treasure Boxes (though right now you do not have access to them). Additionally, if you ever think of acquiring its evolved form by evolution rather than recruiting it directly, it is much easier to find female Combee in this game, as the gender is instead dictated by whether the floor is even or odd (unless the species is one gender only).

Pokémon encountered

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Caterpie	1-4	10	8.2%
	Hoppip	1-5	11	8.2%
	Budew	1-5	11-12	8.2%
	Burmy Sandy Cloak	1-5	11	8.2%
	Oddish	1-6	11-12	8.2%
	Butterfree	1-7	14-17	5.5%
	Paras	1-12	11-13	8.2%
	Weedle	4-9	12	8.2%
	Exeggutor	4-12	12	0.5%
	Combee	6-12	12-13	6.4%
	Gloom	7-12	12-13	0.1%
	Kakuna	8-12	14	5%
	Beedrill	8-12	11-12	5%

The boss here is Team Skull, who were hiding in the trees. However you don't have an official fight, as Koffing and Skuntank simply send a Noxious Special Gas Combo at you, knocking you out. After that happens, Koffing and Skuntank leave, but there's another member left who hasn't...Zubat! He also got knocked out by the Noxious Special Gas Combo, and he hurries after his fellow team members. Oh well...you'll just have to admit it to Chatot--you couldn't get any Perfect Apples.

Items

Ground

Item		Floors
	2-80 Poké	1-12F
	Power Band	1-12F
	Special Band	1-12F
	Twist Band	1-12F
	4-5 Stick	1-12F
	Apple	1-12F
	Big Apple	1-12F
	Blue Gummi	1-12F
	Grass Gummi	1-12F
	Orange Gummi	1-12F
	White Gummi	1-12F
	Clear Gummi	1-12F
	Pink Gummi	1-12F
	Red Gummi	1-12F
	Yellow Gummi	1-12F
	Cheri Berry	1-12F
	Oran Berry	1-12F
	Oren Berry	1-12F
	Pecha Berry	1-12F
	Blast Seed	1-12F
	Dough Seed	1-12F
	Dropeye Seed	1-12F
	Heal Seed	1-12F
	Reviser Seed	1-12F
	Reviver Seed	1-12F
	Sleep Seed	1-12F
	Slip Seed	1-12F
	Stun Seed	1-12F
	Via Seed	1-12F
	Warp Seed	1-12F
	X-Eye Seed	1-12F
	Max Elixir	1-12F
	Mix Elixir	1-12F
	Aerial Ace	1-12F
	Attract	1-12F
	Brick Break	1-12F
	Brine	1-12F
	Bullet Seed	1-12F
	Calm Mind	1-12F
	Dig	1-12F
	Dive	1-12F
	Dragon Claw	1-12F
	Embargo	1-12F
	Energy Ball	1-12F
	Explosion	1-12F
	False Swipe	1-12F
	Flash	1-12F
	Focus Blast	1-12F
	Focus Punch	1-12F
	Giga Drain	1-12F
	Giga Impact	1-12F
	Hidden Power	1-12F
	Hyper Beam	1-12F
	Iron Tail	1-12F
	Light Screen	1-12F
	Natural Gift	1-12F
	Payback	1-12F
	Poison Jab	1-12F
	Protect	1-12F
	Recycle	1-12F
	Reflect	1-12F
	Rest	1-12F
	Roar	1-12F
	Rock Slide	1-12F
	Roost	1-12F
	Safeguard	1-12F
	Shadow Claw	1-12F
	Shock Wave	1-12F
	SolarBeam	1-12F
	Stealth Rock	1-12F
	Steel Wing	1-12F
	Swords Dance	1-12F
	Taunt	1-12F
	Thunder Wave	1-12F
	Thunderbolt	1-12F
	Torment	1-12F
	Vacuum-Cut	1-12F
	Water Pulse	1-12F
	Wide Slash	1-12F
	All-Hit Orb	1-12F
	Blowback Orb	1-12F
	Decoy Orb	1-12F
	Drought Orb	1-12F
	Escape Orb	1-12F
	Foe-Fear Orb	1-12F
	Foe-Seal Orb	1-12F
	Hurl Orb	1-12F
	Luminous Orb	1-12F
	Petrify Orb	1-12F
	Radar Orb	1-12F
	Rollcall Orb	1-12F
	Scanner Orb	1-12F
	Slumber Orb	1-12F
	Spurn Orb	1-12F
	Switcher Orb	1-12F
	Totter Orb	1-12F
	Transfer Orb	1-12F
	Warp Orb	1-12F

Kecleon Shop

8-10% spawn rate depending on the floor.

Item		Floors
	Cheri Berry	1-12F
	Oran Berry	1-12F
	Pecha Berry	1-12F
	Rawst Berry	1-12F
	Blast Seed	1-12F
	Heal Seed	1-12F
	Reviver Seed	1-12F
	Max Elixir	1-12F
	Apple	1-12F
	Big Apple	1-12F
	Blue Gummi	1-12F
	Grass Gummi	1-12F
	Orange Gummi	1-12F
	White Gummi	1-12F
	Clear Gummi	1-12F
	Gray Gummi	1-12F
	Pink Gummi	1-12F
	Red Gummi	1-12F
	Yellow Gummi	1-12F
	Blowback Orb	1-12F
	Drought Orb	1-12F
	Hurl Orb	1-12F
	One-Shot Orb	1-12F
	Petrify Orb	1-12F
	Rollcall Orb	1-12F
	Warp Orb	1-12F

B2F and Wigglytuff's Room

There you are again, explaining to Chatot how you couldn't get the Perfect Apples. Your partner tries to blame Team Skull, only to receive a yelling Chatot. Chatot then looks to the bad side, having to face Wigglytuff alone...but then has a better idea for punishment: you're going with him!

So Wigglytuff doesn't seem at all disappointed. He then asks for some Perfect Apples. Chatot then says that Team ____ has failed to receive the Perfect Apples, making Wigglytuff go on a slight rampage. However, just when it was going to get really bad for you and your partner, Team Skull arrives! He gives Wigglytuff a Perfect Apple.

As you had no dinner that night, both of your stomachs rumble and have a hard time going to sleep. Oh well. The punishment could have been more severe, as Chatot said.

Team Skull isn't asleep; they're discussing what happened in Wigglytuff's Room. Zubat and Koffing wonder why Skuntank stepped in just when it was looking worst for Team ____. Skuntank says they're trying to grow on Wigglytuff, trying to make him choose them for an upcoming expedition.

Croagunk's Swap Shop

An addition that's not that important. When you're done with the morning cheers, Chatot says that Team ____ shouldn't get their hopes up about being chosen for the Expedition, as the incident between Wigglytuff and the Perfect Apple was very severe and Wigglytuff is probably not going to pick them.

After this, your partner tells you how he/she was already sick from hunger...and now he/she is even more sick now that Chatot told them that. There is suddenly a voice calling to you. It's Sunflora and her friends! She calls you to your own room, where her friends give you an Apple. After that, you and your partner explain what Chatot said. Sunflora, Chimecho, Corphish, and Bidoof comfort you.

When you try to go upstairs, Croagunk will call you over (for the first time). He asks what you and Sunflora and her friends were doing back in the room...but that's not what he called you for. He called you for the Croagunk Swap Shop. He then explains what it is. For now, you can't really do anything at Croagunk's shop.

Project P

After going outside, there will be commotion inside Spinda's Café explaining Project P. In short, by recycling items at Wynaut's service, you will unlock things, such as new items or dungeons. Right now you can only acquire better version of the tickets by ranking your team up, with everything else being unavailable.

After that event, you have to go through yet another session of Sentry Duty (with the same pool of rewards as 2nd time) and doing random jobs on the board. If you have been diligent with mission, you should be able to reach Silver Rank around here, which will further upgrade your Kangaskhan Storage, give yet another stat-boosting item and make it possible to recycle 6 items for a Silver Ticket at Spinda's Café, which offers better rewards at better rates than the default ticket.

Loss (55%)	Win (40%)	Big Win (5%)
Oran Berry	Silver Spike	Scope Lens
Max Elixir	Heal Ribbon	Pass Scarf
Prize Ticket	Twist Band	Weather Band
Rainy Orb	Joy Ribbon	Friend Bow
Escape Orb	Gold Ribbon	Sitrus Berry
	Special Band	Ginseng
	Reviver Seed	Joy Seed
	Vile Seed	Protein
	Pure Seed	Calcium
	Violent Seed	Iron
	Huge Apple	Nectar
	TM01 (Focus Punch)	Zinc
	TM03 (Water Pulse)	Huge Apple
	TM04 (Calm Mind)	Gold Ticket
	TM05 (Roar)	TM02 (Dragon Claw)
	TM06 (Toxic)	TM03 (Water Pulse)
	TM08 (Bulk Up)	TM13 (Ice Beam)
	TM10 (Hidden Power)	TM14 (Blizzard)
	TM12 (Taunt)	TM15 (Hyper Beam)
	TM16 (Light Screen)	TM16 (Light Screen)
	TM20 (Safeguard)	TM19 (Giga Drain)
	TM27 (Return)	TM20 (Safeguard)
	TM28 (Dig)	TM21 (Frustration)
	TM31 (Brick Break)	TM22 (SolarBeam)
	TM33 (Reflect)	TM23 (Iron Tail)
	TM40 (Aerial Ace)	TM25 (Thunder)
	TM41 (Torment)	TM27 (Return)
	TM42 (Facade)	TM28 (Dig)
	TM43 (Secret Power)	TM34 (Shock Wave)
	TM44 (Rest)	TM35 (Flamethrower)
	TM46 (Thief)	TM36 (Sludge Bomb)
	TM51 (Roost)	TM38 (Fire Blast)
	TM52 (Focus Blast)	TM40 (Aerial Ace)
	TM56 (Fling)	TM41 (Torment)
	TM58 (Endure)	TM42 (Facade)
	TM60 (Drain Punch)	TM43 (Secret Power)
	TM61 (Will-O-Wisp)	TM44 (Rest)
	TM63 (Embargo)	TM47 (Steel Wing)
	TM66 (Payback)	TM48 (Skill Swap)
	TM67 (Recycle)	TM50 (Overheat)
	TM69 (Rock Polish)	TM53 (Energy Ball)
	TM72 (Avalanche)	TM54 (False Swipe)
	TM73 (Thunder Wave)	TM55 (Brine)
	TM75 (Swords Dance)	TM56 (Fling)
	TM77 (Psych Up)	TM57 (Charge Beam)
	TM78 (Captivate)	TM58 (Endure)
	TM79 (Dark Pulse)	TM59 (Dragon Pulse)
	TM80 (Rock Slide)	TM61 (Will-O-Wisp)
	TM82 (Sleep Talk)	TM62 (Silver Wind)
	TM83 (Natural Gift)	TM64 (Explosion)
	TM85 (Dream Eater)	TM65 (Shadow Claw)
	TM86 (Grass Knot)	TM68 (Giga Impact)
	TM87 (Swagger)	TM69 (Rock Polish)
	TM90 (Substitute)	TM70 (Flash)
	TM92 (Trick Room)	TM71 (Stone Edge)
	Invisify Orb	TM72 (Avalanche)
	Spurn Orb	TM73 (Thunder Wave)
	Foe-Hold Orb	TM74 (Gyro Ball)
	All-Mach Orb	TM75 (Swords Dance)
	Foe-Fear Orb	TM77 (Psych Up)
	All-Hit Orb	TM78 (Captivate)
	Foe-Seal Orb	TM79 (Dark Pulse)
		TM80 (Rock Slide)
		TM81 (X-Scissor)
		TM82 (Sleep Talk)
		TM83 (Natural Gift)
		TM85 (Dream Eater)
		TM86 (Grass Knot)
		TM87 (Swagger)
		TM90 (Substitute)
		TM92 (Trick Room)
		TM Dive
		TM Wide Slash
		TM Vacuum-Cut
		HM01 (Cut)
		HM02 (Fly)
		HM03 (Surf)
		HM04 (Strength)
		HM05 (Defog)
		HM06 (Rock Smash)
		HM07 (Waterfall)
		HM08 (Rock Climb)

The pool of Silver Ticket's rewards is already much better than the regular ticket, as it contains useful TMs in the regular reward section, and big reward can be various kind of stat boosting item, or even an HM! In this game, HMs are simply TMs that contain different moves and never break; most of them don't contain any useful moves, but Cut hits all adjacent enemies while Rock Smash lets you destroy walls in dungeons. If you get one, consider yourself lucky, as this is the only place to find them until the credits roll!

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