In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team, Makuhita Dojo has 21 presetmazes, each only three floors deep. The first floor of all the mazes has no special features, while the second floor has limited visibility and water tiles (exceptFire Maze which has lava,Rock andSteel Maze which have no specialfloor tiles). A boss Pokémon is present on the third floor. The mazes are unlocked as the player progresses through the main storyline:
The Pokémon encountered in Makuhita Dojo cannot be recruited in any of the mazes. Boss Pokémon in the Team mazes may be recruited, however. The boss Pokémon may only be recruited if the player is level 90 or higher and wearing aFriend Bow, with the exception ofNuzleaf in theTeam Shifty maze andGraveler in theTeam Rumblerock maze, which can be recruited if the player is either level 90 or higher or level 50 or higher with a Friend Bow. There is no chance of findingMonster Houses,Kecleon Shops, or items in this dungeon.Pickup still works, however. Clearing a maze refreshes the items available in theKecleon Shop and the jobs available on the bulletin board.
Upon clearing each of the type-based mazes at least once, the player will receive aBonsly statue to place outside their rescueTeam Base and aGinseng. The player will also receive a Ginseng the first time they clear each of the Rescue Team-based mazes.
Traps encountered
Note: The % are rough estimates. Traps appear only in team mazes.
Type-themed mazes will have their type Gummi, while team mazes will have an Apple. Heal and Cheri appear in mazes from Normal to Poison. The other items are shared.
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, Makuhita Dojo is now a time-based feature where one Pokémon attempts to defeat as many opposing Pokémon within a one-floor maze to earnExperience Points and Move Experience. The player requires a Bronze, Silver, or GoldDojo Ticket to train at the Dojo, and the tickets give 50, 55, or 60 seconds respectively at the Dojo. The timer will continue to run during animations or when the menu is opened. Within the maze, walking turns are faster than they usually are. No items can be found within the mazes, and no Pokémon can be recruited.Monster Houses can occur.
Once the time has passed, the Experience Points accumulated goes into the trained Pokémon. Depending on the type of Dojo Ticket used, Experience and Move Experience earned are multiplied by two (Bronze), five (Silver), or seven (Gold). The Experience gained is substantially increased if an enemy is defeated by a supereffective move.
Mazes contain Pokémon who are weak to the namesake maze, except for theNormal Maze, as no type is weak to Normal. For example, theFire Maze may contain Pokémon of theBug-type, theGrass-type, theIce-type, or theSteel-type. The maze that the player enters depends on the type the Pokémon selected to train, e.g. if aBaltoy is chosen to train, that Pokémon can only enter either theGround orPsychic mazes, whilstBlastoise can only enter theWater Maze. If the Pokémon faints, it will be revived with its stats reset to normal. There is no limit to how many times the Pokémon can be revived. Using moves does not consume anyPP, allowing moves to be used infinitely in mazes.
Team Shifty is a Normal-rank rescue team consisting of its leaderShiftry and twoNuzleaf. The trio were known to cause some trouble at the beginning of the game. Later on, Shiftry assembled Pokémon inPokémon Square to recruit a team to attempt to stopGroudon in theMagma Cavern. The volunteers were leaders of other rescue teams:Blastoise from Team Hydro,Octillery from Team Constrictor, andGolem from Team Rumblerock.
There are two Nuzleaf and one Shiftry as the bosses.
Team Constrictor
Team Constrictor
Team Constrictor is a Silver-rank rescue team consisting of its leaderOctillery as well asTentacruel andCradily. Octillery stepped up to volunteer her services in an attempt to stopGroudon in theMagma Cavern.
Team Rumblerock is a Normal-rank rescue team consisting of its leaderGolem and twoGraveler. Golem stepped up to volunteer his services in an attempt to stopGroudon in theMagma Cavern.
There are two Graveler and one Golem as the bosses.
Rescue Team Maze
Rescue Team Maze
Rescue Team Maze is only available inBlue Rescue Team using aNintendo DS or aNintendo DS Lite and is acquired by selecting the Receive Team option on the main menu while a Red Rescue Team cartridge is in the GBA Slot. The Team present on the Red Rescue Team game will be the boss of this Maze.
After encounteringHo-Oh,Mewtwo, andMew, the team transferred over from Red Rescue Team can be recruited in Blue Rescue Team, using their species recruitment rates.[1]
Octillery's usage of the word "darling" may be a play on at least one of theGabor sisters.
The fully evolved recruitable boss Pokémon in the team mazes represent eight of the nine exceptions to a game mechanic that prevents players from recruiting fully evolved Pokémon in dungeons. The lone other exception isPorygon2.
In the original games, all of the training dungeons share the same theme song withRock Path,Snow Path, andJoyous Tower. In Rescue Team DX, they use the same music as when the player attempts to steal from aKecleon Shop.
