Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX has taken over and reinvented several elements from Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team: among these the specialty, which replace the IQ mechanics, a rather cumbersome system that earned skills depending on the IQ level starting from a random and hidden number.
Spike Chunsoft has greatly simplified the thing on Nintendo Switch by changing the name and way of obtaining these secondary skills. In this guide we'll see what are the specialties, how you get and a list of all the abilities available in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon DX.
What are the specialties
Quite simply, specialties (or rare qualities) can be seen as second skills that each Pokémon can have. They are passive abilities that affect dungeons and reflect themselves on the whole team, allowing you to create synergies between team members and increase survival skills, especially in the case of very long dungeons.
How to get Pokémon with specialties
In full style of the Mystery Dungeon series, whether a Pokémon has a specialty when recruited is all decided by the case. However, to increase the probability that a future ally has a specialty, a Specialty Sphere can be used, which gives a greater probability that all the Pokémon on the floor concerned can have one.
If a Pokémon with which we have befriended is without the specialty, it can also obtain it without problems at a later time. Like? Just use the gelatin. There are two types of jellies, the rainbow ones and the gold ones, called DX. The jellies rainbow have a chance each time you use them to grant a (random) specialty to a Pokémon in its respective base camp. The DX jellies, rarer, always assign a specialty (also random) to the desired Pokémon.
Collecting jellies will come quite naturally over the course of the game and can be found either in chests or by accepting side missions that have a rainbow jelly or DX as a specific reward. If a Pokémon already has a specialty, it can be overwritten in favor of another: the game will ask you to choose which one you want to keep.
Pitted the rudiments, here is one list of all specialties which can be obtained in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX:
List of specialties:
- Bargains: allows you to buy tools from Kecleon stores in dungeons at a discounted price (and base camps using the Wigglytuff Sphere!)
- Friends: increases the likelihood of recruiting Pokémon.
- Merry Brigade: The more team members you have, the more likely you are to recruit Pokémon.
- Amicura: when a team member heals from a state problem (paralysis, confusion, etc.) another teammate also heals.
- Relief: increases the effectiveness of tools that increase HP or fill the belly.
- Satiable appetite: The Pokémon's belly fills up to the max regardless of what it ate.
- Muffler: reduces the damage of explosions, both traps and attacks.
- Self-sufficiency: The Pokémon becomes stronger when it is alone and has no companions nearby.
- Scuffle: increase the power as more Pokémon are in the room.
- Bulldozer: allows you to destroy walls by walking, but at the cost of emptying the belly faster.
- Hundred percent: Multi-point moves (Fury, Pin Missile, etc.) never fail.
- Chilafa: When a Pokémon takes damage, the opponent's Attack and Special Attack decreases.
- Claustrophilia: accelerates HP recovery in corridors.
- Shot PP: there is a possibility that the PP of a move will be recovered when you KO an enemy.
- Combo +: Boosts Gulpin's combo moves.
- Safe burrow: The moves used in the corridors become infallible.
- Bold Heart: Greatly increases the power of backlash or miss moves.
- Inner Energy: The Pokémon heals from status problems when it passes on a magic mat.
- Experience +: increases the experience points obtained in dungeons.
- Smart throw: increases the power of thrown objects, such as stones.
- Melatrovo: Increases the chance of finding small apples in dungeons.
- Slowly: makes a move that has 30 recover a PP every 0 turns approximately.
- Lead foot: The Pokémon can destroy and deactivate the traps it passes over.
- Prevalence: Ignore the opposing Pokémon's type or ability when a move would not be very effective.
- Prodigy: The Pokémon with this specialty takes no damage once the belly drops to 0, but neither does it regain HP.
- Stellar Profits: allows you to sell tools from Kecleon shops in dungeons at a higher price.
- Progress +: accelerates the normal development of moves with use.
- Promptness: Accelerates HP recovery by walking.
- Close ranks: Reduces damage from attacks such as Magnitude, Silverwind, etc.
- Raziocibo: after using a Pomegranate, a Perfect Apple, an Elixir Max or a Revital Seed, an Apple, an Aether Max or a Revital Seed Mini will always remain in the Toolbox.
- Defensive Rhythm: When the Pokémon is attacked, both defense and special defense increase (for one turn only).
- Elusive Rhythm: like the previous specialty, only that it concerns avoidance, that is, the possibility of being hit.
- Rosicone: can be seen as the opposite of Chilafa, that is, when a Pokémon takes damage, Attack and Special Attack increase.
- Assault jump: Allows a Pokémon in the rear to jump forward when it uses a move that hits 1 square away and then backward. It only works in the corridors.
The 5 best specialties:
To conclude with this guide we had fun choosing and recommending which ones could be five best specialties that Pokémon Mystery Dungeon DX has to offer. These are the passive skills that we find most useful in general:
Friends e Merry Brigade they are two sides of the same coin and are essential for recruiting Pokémon and adding new members to our team. Any self-respecting expedition should have at least one member with this specialty.
Prevalence, which we remember practically cancels the words "not very effective" from our screen, it is bluntly a godsend for those who do not want to think too much about the types but to proceed as quickly as possible without looking back.
Rosicone: an increase in attack and special attack with each hit can only be considered among the best specialties of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon DX. The real beauty of this skill, however, lies in the fact that these positive stat tweaks persist for the duration of the plan (magic magic permitting). Neutralizing opposing Pokémon and entire rooms with wide-ranging attacks like Blast or Heat Wave has never been so satisfying.
Melatrovo: do not underestimate this specialty, it is unica of the game that allows you to constantly replenish your apple supply, albeit small, the lack of which is felt especially in the most kilometer-long dungeons. Additionally, many Pokémon that are knocked out between floors require an apple to regain consciousness and in most cases join the team, so Melatrovo is the ability for rescue teams that never have to ask.
This concludes our guide dedicated to the specialties of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX. Have fun experimenting remembering that the whole team benefits from it and that they give important help in a rogue like game like this.
► Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is a RPG-Adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for Nintendo Switch, the video game was released on 06/03/2020
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