Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

This article is about the game. For the special anime episode, see Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness.

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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 空の探検隊
File:PMD-EoS Box.jpg Boxart of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
Basic info
Platform:	Nintendo DS
Category:	Dungeon Crawler, Roguelike
Players:	1
Connectivity:	Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
Developer:	Chunsoft
Publisher:	Nintendo The Pokémon Company
Part of:	Generation IV side series
Ratings
CERO:	A
ESRB:	E
ACB:	N/A
OFLC:	G
PEGI:	3+
GRAC:	ALL
GSRR:	N/A
Release dates
Japan:	April 18, 2009
North America:	October 12, 2009
Australia:	November 12, 2009
Europe:	November 20, 2009
South Korea:	N/A
Hong Kong:	N/A
Taiwan:	N/A
Websites
Japanese:	Official Site
English:	Official Site
Japanese boxart File:Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Sora no Tankentai Explorers of the Sky box.jpg Explorers of Sky Japanese boxart

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (Japanese: ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 空の探検隊 Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon Sora no Tankentai) is a game developed by Chunsoft, and is a sister game to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness. The game was first announced in CoroCoro, which released the first details in January 2009. It was officially released in Japan on April 18, 2009 and in North America on October 12th, 2009.

New features

• Players can now play as four new starter Pokémon: Phanpy, Vulpix, Riolu, and Shinx. Munchlax and Meowth are no longer playable, and Eevee and Skitty return from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team. Moreover, every starter Pokémon, in addition to Meowth and Munchlax, are available as partners.
  • Some of the starter and partner Pokémon can now start with an egg move.
• Players can now play the music used in the game with the Sky Jukebox.
• There is a new place called Spinda's Café where the following can be found:
  • Spinda's Juice Bar grants access to the Unexplored Land, and it also allows players to make drinks out of food items.
  • Recycle Shop allows players to exchange excess items for other items. The more items exchanged, the better the items available will be. Players may also trade items for Prize Tickets (more kinds of tickets can be unlocked by team's rank, for example Silver Tickets are only available to teams in the Silver rank). Prize tickets can be used in a lottery, where you get to chose from three colors for the drawing (red, blue, and yellow). You can sometimes get rare items this way.
• The player's team recruits can now be found in Spinda's Café (if the player prefers).
• Job requests can also be found here, and can be accepted or rejected by talking to the client to the left of the exit.
• Dungeons that were previously only attainable through job requests can also be found in Spinda's Juice Bar and the Recycle Shop.
• There is a new location called the Secret Bazaar which is found randomly in dungeons. It is run by Kirlia. The bazaar has several stalls found inside.
  • Mime Jr.'s stall restores the team's Health Points (HP), Power Points (PP), and fill the belly for 100 Poké.
  • Swalot's Grab Bag Shop gives players Grab Bags for 100 Poké. They may hold useful items inside them.
  • Lickilicky's will clean the player's items in their inventory for 100 Poké.
  • Shedinja's gives players a chance to escape the dungeon sooner for 100 Poké.
• Players can find a statue of Arceus in a new dungeon called Destiny Tower. The story here involves a new item called the Space Globe.
• Players only lose half of their money when defeated in a dungeon, instead of all of it.
• Tradable items can be traded for any others now, provided they are available at Croagunk's Swap Shop.
• Using DS Download Play, the player can send their friends a demo of the game in the Hidden Shopkeeper Village.
• The Luxray and Luxio tribe that was the boss of Amp Plains has been replaced by the Manectric and Electrike tribe. This is possibly due to one of the starter and partner choices in this game being Shinx.
• A new item called the Sky Gift can be obtained in an area consisting of ten dungeons called Sky Peak
• Raikou, Entei, and Suicune are no longer acquired with the Mystery Part and Secret Slab or in Final Maze, and are now in three new dungeons called Southeastern Islands, Inferno Cave, and Treacherous Waters. These dungeons are unlocked through random challenges in Spinda's Cafe. However, these challenges cannot be taken until the player's team has reached the Master Rank.
  • The same applies for Mewtwo, but it can be fought in Sky Stairway instead.
  • Jirachi is now fought in Star Cave, only accessible through Wonder Mail codes or Spinda's Café. The special episode "Bidoof's Wish" must be completed first.

• Occasionally bottles containing job requests will wash up along the beach. Upon finding a bottle the player has the option to take or reject the request. Rejected jobs remain on the beach until taken. However, if the player wants, they can accept the job and then delete it to remove the bottle.
• Some of the items found in a dungeon might not be what they seem to be. These items are called Lookalike items. For example, that blue Berry that was found in a dungeon might not be of the healing Oran variety, but the damaging Oren.

Special episodes

During the course of the game, players can engage in various scenarios that expand upon the story of some of the different characters.

Episode	Title	Information
	How to Unlock
	Bidoof's Wish	The first episode features the past of the Bidoof in Wigglytuff's Guild just after he entered the guild. He goes to the Star Cave to have his wish granted by a Jirachi.
	Arrest Drowzee in Chapter 3
	Igglybuff the Prodigy	The second episode features Wigglytuff as an Igglybuff. It explores his past and explains how he became an explorer.
	Return to the Guild in Chapter 9
File:MDSky EP3.jpg	Today's "Oh My Gosh"	The third episode features the fellow guild member, Sunflora. She was given a mission to seek out a Haunter but was apparently unprepared for what she was about to face.
	Come up with the plan to capture Grovyle in Chapter 13
File:MDSky EP4.jpg	Here Comes Team Charm!	The fourth episode features Team Charm and their past. Team AWD can also be found here.
	Return from the future in Chapter 15
File:MDSky EP5.jpg	In the Future of Darkness	The fifth episode is set in the dark future. Grovyle and Dusknoir work together when Primal Dialga tries to get rid of them.
	Graduate from the Wigglytuff Guild

Playable characters

Pokémon		Nature		Egg move
		Male	Female
File:MDP001.png	Bulbasaur	Lonely	Docile	-
File:MDP004.png	Charmander	Docile	Brave	-
File:MDP007.png	Squirtle	Quirky	Bold	-
File:MDP025.png	Pikachu	Brave	Hasty	-
File:MDP037.png	Vulpix	-	Relaxed	Faint Attack
File:MDP052.png	Meowth*	Sassy	Relaxed	Hypnosis
File:MDP133.png	Eevee	-	Jolly	Flail
File:MDP152.png	Chikorita	Calm	Quiet	-
File:MDP155.png	Cyndaquil	Timid	Calm	-
File:MDP158.png	Totodile	Jolly	Sassy	-
File:MDP231.png	Phanpy	Relaxed	-	AncientPower
File:MDP252.png	Treecko	Quiet	Hardy	-
File:MDP255.png	Torchic	Hardy	Rash	-
File:MDP258.png	Mudkip	Rash	Lonely	-
File:MDP300.png	Skitty	-	Naïve	Zen Headbutt
File:MDP387.png	Turtwig	Bold	Timid	-
File:MDP390.png	Chimchar	Naïve	Impish	-
File:MDP393.png	Piplup	Impish	Quirky	-
File:MDP403.png	Shinx	Hasty	-	Quick Attack
File:MDP446.png	Munchlax*	Relaxed	Jolly	Zen Headbutt
File:MDP447.png	Riolu	Sassy	-	Bite
Notes: *: These Pokémon may only be selected as a partner.

Connectivity

This game is capable of trading items with Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness. Rescues may also be carried out between the three. If a rescue mail is sent from Sky to Time or Darkness, the mail will appear to have come from either Time or Darkness.

Locations

• Beach Cave
• Wigglytuff's Guild
• Drenched Bluff
• Mt.Bristle
• Waterfall Cave
• Mt. Horn
• Fogbound Lake
• Steam Cave

Special Episode Locations

• Star Cave
• Murky Forest

Gallery

• EoS Wigglytuff Guild.jpg

  The new starters and Skitty

• Pmd3 grovyle.jpg

  Grovyle and a Time Gear

• PMD3 explore.jpg

  Exploration

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  Chimchar and Phanpy helping an Oddish

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  Squirtle and Vulpix standing before a crystal in Crystal Cave

• Pmd sky giratina.png

  Giratina (Origin Forme), Riolu, and Pikachu explore a dungeon

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  Sky Jukebox

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  Using the jukebox

• MD Sky m in a bottle.png

  A message in a bottle

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  Destiny Tower

• Pmd sky arceus.png

  Riolu and the Arceus statue

See also

External links

• Japanese game site
• English game site
• E3 09 page.

Side series games

Stadium series

Stadium (Japanese) • Stadium • Stadium 2

Storage software

Box RS • My Pokémon Ranch • Bank (Poké Transporter) • HOME

Orre games

Colosseum • XD: Gale of Darkness

Other games

Battle Revolution • Pokéwalker • Dream World • Dream Radar

Pokémon games

Core series • Side series • Spin-off series • Pokémon mini • Individual spin-offs • Betas • Demos

This article is part of Project Sidegames, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon Sidegames.

Plot

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, you are to first answer several questions, and then your character is chosen. After that, you are found washed on the sands near Beach Cave by your partner. Soon, two Pokémon, Koffing and Zubat steal your partner's "Relic Fragment". You then go to Beach Cave and battle the two crooks.

If you win the duel, you are asked by your partner to join an exploration team. Then, when you say "Yes", you both go to Wigglytuff's Guild and join as guild recruits. After you join, your first mission is to find Spoink's pearl, which is found in Drenched Bluff. Once you retrieve it, you are confronted with Marill and Azurill, shopping at the Kecleon Market. There, you meet Drowzee, who, at first, seems very helpful, but as the story continues, you find that he is an outlaw. Then, you go to Mt. Bristle in pursuit of the criminal.