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Aegis Cave ばんにんのどうくつ Watchman's Cave

Allowances Recruiting: Yes Items: 48 Money: Allowed Starting level: Current Team members: 4

Aegis Cave (Japanese: ばんにんのどうくつ Watchman's Cave) is a dungeon in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and Explorers of Sky. It is segmented into 4 sections, each home to one of the legendary giants.

The player's team first enters the cave with Team Charm. The exploration team first enters the first Stela Chamber; from there, if the I, C, and E stones are in the Treasure Bag the team can proceed to the Regice Chamber; if they do not have the required stones, the team enters Ice Aegis Cave, where these stones can be collected. After defeating Regice in the Regice Chamber, the team proceeds to the second Stela Chamber, where they will proceed either to the Rock Aegis Cave or Regirock Chamber depending on if they have the R, O, C, and K stones. After defeating Regirock in the Regirock Chamber, the team proceeds to the third Stela Chamber, where they will proceed either to the Steel Aegis Cave or Registeel Chamber depending on if they have the S, T, L stones and two E stones. After defeating Registeel, the team proceeds to the Aegis Cave Pit, where Regigigas is battled along with a group of four Hitmonlee and four Bronzong.

Unown stones are sometimes dropped by Unown when defeated; the stone dropped corresponds to the letter or symbol of the Unown knocked out. All 28 Unown stones have no practical use outside Aegis Cave; all stones other than C, E, I, K, L, O, R, S, and T have no practical use in the dungeon, either. They cause 60 damage if thrown at a Pokémon (90 damage if the Pokémon has the IQ skill Power Pitcher) and can be sold for 10 Poké.

Unlike most other dungeons, the cave's intermissive rooms have no exits. A player attempting to leave through the south will encounter an invisible wall, and will be unable to pass. The only ways to leave the cave are to complete it or use an Escape Orb.

Gameplay

For purpose of Treasure Boxes, Ice Aegis Cave is ranked E and ★1, Rock Aegis Cave is ranked ★1, Steel Aegis Cave is ranked ★2 and Aegis Cave Pit is ranked ★2 and ★3.

All floors are medium-sized with 3-9 rooms. There's 1-4 items on each floor on the ground and 4-7 buried in the walls. There's 2-4 starting enemies on each floor.

IQ Booster activates on every even floor of the Rock/Ice/Steel Aegis Cave, and every odd floor of Aegis Cave Pit. The turn limit is 1000. There's light darkness in the dungeon. There's water on every floor except floor 1 of Ice Aegis Cave, floor 3 of Rock Aegis Cave and Aegis Cave Pit, and floor 2 of Steel Aegis Cave The player cannot be rescued in this dungeon if knocked out. Non-boss enemies dungeon in this dungeon have 150 IQ. Regirock, Regice and Registeel have 330IQ during their boss fight, while bosses of Regigigas Chamber all have 600 IQ, granting them access to many IQ skills such as Intimidator or Extra Striker.

Pokémon encountered

The Unown are all considered separate species for purpose of the internal spawn limit, which allows only 14 different species to spawn at the same time on a given floor. Since there are a total of 28 different Unown, it is possible that the game will not pick the Unown needed to progress further and the player will have to repeat the part.

Ice Aegis Cave

Regice Chamber

Rock Aegis Cave

Regirock Chamber

Steel Aegis Cave

Registeel Chamber

Aegis Cave Pit

Regigigas Chamber

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Hitmonlee	Regigigas Chamber	35	Unrecruitable
	Bronzong	Regigigas Chamber	35	Unrecruitable
	Regigigas	Regigigas Chamber	49	100% Boss
Regigigas cannot be recruited on the first visit. There are four Hitmonlee and four Bronzong as the boss.

Items

Ground

Item		Floors
	2-200 Poké	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	3-5 Gravelerock	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	S Gravelyrock	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Apple	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	TS Blue Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	TS Brown Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	TS Grass Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	TS Green Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	TS Orange Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	TS Silver Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	TS Sky Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	TS White Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	DS Black Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	DS Clear Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	DS Gold Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	DS Gray Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	DS Pink Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	DS Purple Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	DS Red Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	DS Royal Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	DS Yellow Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Cheri Berry	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Oran Berry	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Pecha Berry	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	DS Blinker Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Doom Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Reviver Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	TS Sleep Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	TS Warp Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	DS X-Eye Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Max Elixir	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Escape Orb	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Key	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F

Buried items

Item		Floors
	2-200 Poké	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F

Traps

The game will spawn 4 to 8 of these on each floor.

Layout

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