Appendix:Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky walkthrough/Chapter 11

Grovyle

After having the discussion with Dusknoir, Chatot calls you over to the guild. He has something to tell you, apparently. Unfortunately, another Time Gear was stolen, and this time, it's the one at Fogbound Lake!

Everyone in the guild gets upset, and your partner even accuses one of our fellow guild members. Everyone makes quite an uproar. However, Chatot calls for silence and everyone becomes quiet immediately. According to Magnezone, the thief is Grovyle, and he shows the guild members a picture of him, with an extra-large bounty on his head. Grovyle, apparently, has a "sixth sense" for connecting with Time Gears. He has been the one stealing the recently stolen Time Gears.

Again, everyone gets noisy, some claiming that they never told Grovyle about any of the Time Gears. However, Wigglytuff himself calls for silence, making everyone fall quiet almost instantly. Wigglytuff then declares that they will catch Grovyle! Everyone says "HOORAY!" and goes off.

The Mission

Everyone is taken off of their normal duties to make sure the next two Time Gears are safe. Your team is going to Northern Desert, a place where it is rumored to have Time Gears.

Once you arrive, there appears to be no Time Gears, and your partner gets confused. However, he/she says they will need to go deeper in to get a real look at the dungeon, and you set off.

Northern Desert

A dungeon with a weather condition, the Sandstorm. This could be really annoying, as every few steps the game will say you took damage (unless you're a Phanpy). Naturally it only happens on floors 6, 10 and 11; but Larvitar can also use Sandstorm move to summon it. As predicted, there are many Ground-types here, as well as some Rock-types, and occasional Grass-types, with most of them immune to the weather either due to their typing or Ability. Because two of the types, Ground and Grass, are defensive against Electric, Electric is not recommended. Not only that, there aren't many items to be found here; the only food here is Grimy Food, so stock up in advance.

This dungeon has traps, but curiously no Monster Houses.

Baltoy: F IQ Group. Has Levitate, granting it one of the few true immunities. Doesn't have anything particularly interesting in moveset, but could be useful to get around Earthquake or Magnitude.Its exclusive items give it chance to seal attackers' moves and absorb Dark-type damage.
Cubone: F IQ Group. Has Bonemerang, two-hit projectile move, as well as Rage and Focus Energy. In postgame learns Bone Rush, which is a multihit move. Not only that, but it has coverage via TMs, such as Blizzard, Flaemthrower, Aerial Ace or Focus Punch. Its exclusive items makes its thrown items keep going until it hits something, as well as Grass-type damage absorption.
Aron/Lairon: E IQ Group. Has Mud-Slap, Roar and Take Down (with Rock Head to prevent recoil), learns Protect, Metal Sound, Double-Edge and Metal Burst (which is a counter that hits multiple tiles) at postgame levels. Can learn Water Pulse and Shock Wave via TMs for range, as well as Aerial Ace and Shadow Claw for coverage. Its exclusive items prevent critis, reduces damage from explosions to 1 and absorbs Fighting-type damage.
Cacnea/Cacturne: C IQ Group. Has Leech Seed, Sand Attack and Pin Missile, eventually learns Faint Attack and even Cotton Spore at postgame levels. Surprisingly learns Focus Punch, Drain Punch and Brick Break via TMs, as well as Dark Pulse and Poison Jab. Has Sand Veil, making it immune to sandstorm damage and dodge attacks better in it. Its exclusive items increase its Movement Speed in sandstorm and absorb Bug-type damage.
Larvitar: C IQ Group. Unfortunately, since it is the first stage of a pseudolegendary, it doesn't have that notable of a moveset quite yet, though it learns Sandstorm, Screech, Scary Face and Dark Pulse all by level 28.
Sandshrew: D IQ Group. Learns Fury Swipes, Rollout, Fury Cutter and Sand Tomb, as well as Sandstorm at postgame levels. Has quite the coverage in TMS: Focus Punch, Aerial Ace, Shadow Claw, X-Scissor, and Poison Jab. Has Sand Veil, which it can abuse on its own since it gets access to Sandstorm move. Its exclusive items give it a chance to cause cringing status on attackers, reduce damage from explosions to 1 and absorb Fighting-type damage.
Trapinch: D IQ Group. Has Faint Attack and Sand Attack; eventually naturally learns Dig, Earth Power, Sandstorm... but is very slow at learning moves, and it learns these via level-up only in this form. It learns moves around every eight 8 levels, with its last move being at level 89, and its TM compatibility not being that good. Its exclusive items increase its Evasion in sandstorm, makes it immune to the threatening sleep Status and makes it absorb Ice-type damage
Carnivine: A IQ Group. A Grass-type with Levitate, which is an interesting combination. Unfortunately its moveset isn't too much to write about, aside from possibly Faint Attack. Its exclusive item makes it restore 10 extra HP when eating a Berry or an Apple.
Rhyhorn: E IQ Group. Has Lightning Rod and Rock Head. Learns Fury Attack, Scary Face and Rock Blast, Take Down later on and even Megahorn at postgame levels. It can learn quite the many moves via TMs: Blizzard, Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, Shock Wave, Dragon Pulse or Poison Jab. Its exclusive items reduce damage from explosions to 1, cause it to ignore Reflect and Light Screen and make it absorb Grass-type damage (removing one of its double weaknesses)

Pokémon Encountered

	Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
Baltoy	1-7	23-24	5.6%
Cubone	1-8	20-21	8.2%
Aron	1-8	22-23	6.4%
Cacnea	1-8	22-23	6.4%
Larvitar	1-9	22-23	8.2%
Sandshrew	1-15	20-23	8.2%
Trapinch	1-15	22-25	8.2%
Carnivine	7-15	24-26	8.2%
Rhyhorn	8-15	23-25	6.4%
Lairon	9-15	23-25	0.5%
Cacturne	9-15	23-25	0.5%

After completing this level, you will see many quicksand. However, your partner gets scared and realizes that there really is no Time Gear there...but you get the feeling there is something beneath the quicksand. However, you follow your partner to head back to the guild.

Items

Item		Floors
	2-125 Poké	1-15F
	4-5 Iron Thorn	1-15F
	2-4 Silver Spike	1-15F
	Grimy Food	1-15F
	Silver Gummi	1-15F
	All-Hit Orb	1-15F
	All-Mach Orb	1-15F
	Blowback Orb	1-15F
	Decoy Orb	1-15F
	Drought Orb	1-15F
	Escape Orb	1-15F
	Foe-Fear Orb	1-15F
	Foe-Hold Orb	1-15F
	Foe-Seal Orb	1-15F
	Hurl Orb	1-15F
	Luminous Orb	1-15F
	Petrify Orb	1-15F
	Rollcall Orb	1-15F
	Slumber Orb	1-15F
	Spurn Orb	1-15F
	Switcher Orb	1-15F
	Totter Orb	1-15F
	Transfer Orb	1-15F
	Warp Orb	1-15F

Traps encountered

The game will generate 2-5 of the following tiles per each floor.

Image	Trap	Appearance %
	Slumber Trap	7.69%
	Summon Trap	15.38%
	Trip Trap	7.69%
	Warp Trap	7.70%
	Wonder Tile	61.54%

Mission...failed.

You're not the only who found nothing--everyone else didn't find any Time Gear as well! As such, Chatot gets a bit disappointed and says they'll continue to search tomorrow. You go off to eat dinner.

The Next Day

Chatot tells the guild to search for Time Gears on their own accord while he and Dusknoir come up with a new plan. Your partner muses about where to search when you remember the feeling you had back at the quicksand pits at the end of Northern Desert. You tell your partner about the quicksand, and perhaps you need to jump into it. Your partner thinks you're mad, but he/she agrees anyway and you go through Northern Desert again to get there. Don't worry, you really just get magically teleported.

Back at the Quicksand

So you and your partner are back. Your partner thinks there is absolutely nothing there, however, you tell him/her that they're supposed to be jumping into the quicksand. Your partner gets scared immediately, but remembers that you're with him/her, and you and your partner jump into the quicksand, your partner screaming with fear.

When you finally get down from a long drop, you appear to be in a cave. Your partner is awed and decides to look deeper in the cave, as perhaps there may be the Time Gear down here. Your partner is aggravated that they didn't go yesterday, as that gave Grovyle more time to go to the Time Gear. However, your partner stops being agitated and you go deeper into the cave.

Quicksand Cave

A bit like Northern Desert, with the Sandstorm weather. Again, there is many Ground types with occasional Rock types, although there are more types that weren't found above. Note that Hippopotas and Tyranitar will cause sandstorms upon spawning, while Pupitar can summon them using a move.

Pokémon Encountered

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Nincada	B1-B7	23-24	6.4%
	Vibrava	B1-B9	27-28	0.5%
	Pupitar	B1-B10, PB1	23-25	0.5%
	Skorupi	B1-B10, PB1-PB5	24-27	8.2%
	Mawile	B8-B10, PB1-PB5	24-26	6.4%
	Sandslash	B1-B10, PB1-PB10	23-27	0.5%
	Tyranitar	PB2-PB10	28-30	-12%
	Hippopotas	PB3-PB10	26-28	8.2%
	Ninjask	PB5-PB10	27-28	0.5%
	Mesprit	Underground Lake	42	Unrecruitable ^Boss
Mesprit cannot be recruited first time around.

Nincada/Ninjask: D IQ Group. Nincada has Compoundeyes while Ninjask has Speed Boost, making its Movement Speed permanently increase every 250 turns... but that gets reset on each floor, so it's not as useful as it sounds. Nincada has two moves via level-up that Ninjask can't learn in this game: Mud-Slap and Metal Claw, learning them by postgame levels . These two are one of the few Pokémon that learn Mind Reader, which can be linked with their Fury Swipes for a strong attack. Surprisingly has access to Shadow Ball and Aerial Ace even as Nincada. Its moveset does expand quite nicely as Ninjask: Screech and Fury Cutter, Agility at postgame levels and Silver Wind via TMs. Their exclusive items increase natural HP recovery and grant Rock and Ghost type damage absorptions.
Vibrava: Trapinch's evolution. Loses Bite, Crunch and Earth Power, but has Supersonic, Screech and DragonBreath instead, as well as Silver Wind via TM. It only has only one Ability now, the very useful Levitate.
Pupitar/Tyranitar: Larvitar's evolutions. Pupitar doesn't change too much, but Tyranitar is the final stage of pseudolegendary and its moveset does easily live up to it, having the elemental fangs at low level and also massive TM compatibility, giving it access to many moves with great range, power, or some other use. Since this is Generation IV, its Sand Stream will also effectively passively increase its Sp. Defense. Unfortunately its low recruit rate makes it unrecruitable for now.
Skorupi: C IQ Group. Has access to Pin Missile, Scary Face, but most importantly: Acupressure, the only line other than Doduo with easy access to this powerful move. Its abilities make it impossible to crit and make its crits stronger, giving it somewhat of an edge. Its exclusive items give it chance to inflict attackers with Shadow Hold and absorb Ground-type damage.
Mawile: C IQ Group. It has access to Sweet Scent and Faint Attack, though no natural Steel-type STAB until very late. It learns Fake Tears, but nearly every offensive move it learns naturally is physical; though has quite the TM compatibility, learning Focus Punch, Flamethrower, Ice Beam (but not Blizzard), Focus Blast and Shadow Ball. Its exclusive item gives it chance to seal attackers' moves.
Sandslash: Sandshrew's evolution. It has Crush Claw in its level-up moveset and Focus Blast via TM compared to Sandshrew.
Hippopotas: E IQ Group. Its movepool isn't too notable, but it does have Water Pulse via TMs, as well as Sand Stream as ability, allowing for sandstorm usage on the go. Its exclusive item increases its Evasion in Sandstorm (which will be almost always true given its ability) and gives it Grass-type damage absorption.

Boss Battle

Your boss this time is a Mesprit, who believes you have been stealing the Time Gears, since Uxie from Fogbound Lake told her about the stolen Time Gear through telepathy.

It is a very hard battle, as she deals plenty of damage as well as having many defensive tactics. However, after a bit of confusion and one powerful move, Mesprit will be defeated.

After this, Mesprit believes you haven't taken the Time Gear. Just when things were starting to get all friendly...Grovyle comes! Your partner gets fearful, and Mesprit tries to stop him, but he knocks her out quickly, causing your partner to get concerned.

He takes the Time Gear, and you are unable to stop it despite your partner's failed attempts. He will leave and you two get down, as though you thought you would be able to stop him.

Items

Ground

Item		Floors
	2-125 Poké	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	4 Iron Thorn	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	4 Silver Spike	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Grimy Food	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Silver Gummi	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	All-Hit Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	All-Mach Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Blowback Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Decoy Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Drought Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Escape Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Foe-Fear Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Foe-Hold Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Foe-Seal Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Hurl Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Luminous Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Petrify Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Rollcall Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Slumber Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Spurn Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Switcher Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Totter Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Transfer Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Warp Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F

Monster House

8% spawn rate.

Item		Floors
	2-125 Poké	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Blue Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Brown Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Grass Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Green Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Orange Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Silver Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Sky Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	White Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Black Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Clear Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Gold Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Gray Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Pink Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Purple Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Red Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Royal Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Yellow Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Aerial Ace	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Attract	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Brick Break	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Brine	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Bullet Seed	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Calm Mind	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Dig	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Dive	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Embargo	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Energy Ball	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Explosion	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	False Swipe	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Flash	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Focus Blast	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Focus Punch	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Giga Drain	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Giga Impact	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Hidden Power	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Hyper Beam	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Iron Tail	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Light Screen	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Natural Gift	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Payback	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Poison Jab	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Protect	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Recycle	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Reflect	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Rest	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Roar	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Rock Slide	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Roost	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Safeguard	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Shadow Claw	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Shock Wave	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	SolarBeam	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Stealth Rock	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Steel Wing	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Swords Dance	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Taunt	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Thunder Wave	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Thunderbolt	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Torment	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Vacuum-Cut	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Water Pulse	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Wide Slash	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F