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|jname=ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 空の探検隊

|boxart=PMD-EoS_Box.jpg

|caption=Boxart of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

|jbox=Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Sora no Tankentai Explorers of the Sky box.jpg

|platform=[[Nintendo DS]]

|developer=[[Chunsoft]]

|publisher=[[Nintendo]]<br>[[The Pokémon Company]]

|gen_series=[[Generation IV]] [[version|side series]]

|pegi=3+

|release_date_ja=April 18, 2009<ref>[http://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/ds/dungeon2009/ Pokémon.co.jp]</ref>

|release_date_na=October 12, 2009<ref>[http://www.pokemon.com/us/games/videogame-pokemontm-mystery-dungeon-explorers-of-sky/ Pokémon.com (US)]</ref>

|release_date_au=November 12, 2009<ref>[http://www.nintendo.com.au/index.php?action=catalogue&prodcat_id=&prod_id=19448&pageID=1 Nintendo of Australia]</ref>

|release_date_eu=November 20, 2009<ref>[http://www.pokemon.com/uk/games/videogame-pokemontm-mystery-dungeon-explorers-of-sky/ Pokémon.com (UK)]</ref>

|website_ja=[http://www.pokemon.co.jp/special/dungeon_sora/ Official site]

|website_en=[http://www.pokemonmysterydungeon.com/ Official site]

'''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 {{g|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.

*Players can now play as four new [[starter Pokémon]]: {{p|Phanpy}}, {{p|Vulpix}}, {{p|Riolu}}, and {{p|Shinx}}. {{p|Munchlax}} and {{p|Meowth}} are no longer playable, and {{p|Eevee}} returns from {{g|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 the player gets to chose from three colors for the drawing (red, blue, and yellow). The player can sometimes get rare items this way.

*The player's team recruits can now be found in Spinda's Café (once it opens).

* 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.

**{{p|Mime Jr.|Mime Jr.'s}} stall restores the team's Health Points (HP), Power Points (PP), and fill the belly for 100 [[Pokémon Dollar|Poké]].

**Swalot's ''Grab Bag Shop'' gives players Grab Bags for 100 [[Pokémon Dollar|Poké]]. They may hold useful items inside them.

**Lickilicky's will clean the player's items in their inventory for 100 [[Pokémon Dollar|Poké]].

**Shedinja's gives players a chance to escape the dungeon sooner for 100 [[Pokémon Dollar|Poké]].

* A new location, '''[[Shaymin Village]]''', is unlocked after completion of the main game, featuring a tribe of {{p|Shaymin}}, where the player also allies with Team Frontier to reclaim the trail leading to the top of the nearby [[Sky Peak Station Passes|Sky Peak]] mountain. An accompanying Shaymin demonstrates its ability to instantly purify polluted environments, its use of the {{OBP|Gracidea|flower}} to transform into its Sky Forme, and can be later recruited into the player's party.

*Players can find a statue of {{p|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.

*Tradeable 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 {{p|Luxray}} and {{p|Luxio}} tribe that was the boss of [[Amp Plains]] has been replaced by the {{p|Manectric}} and {{p|Electrike}} tribe. This is possibly due to one of the starter and partner choices in this game being {{p|Shinx}}.

*A new item called the [[Sky Gift]] can be obtained in an area consisting of ten dungeons called [[Sky Peak Station Passes|Sky Peak]].

*{{p|Raikou}}, {{p|Entei}}, and {{p|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 {{p|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 item]]s. For example, a blue [[Berry]] found in a dungeon might not be of the healing [[Oran Berry|Oran]] variety, but the damaging Or'''e'''n.

{{main|Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness#Plot}}

The story begins with the {{player}} having been washed ashore by a storm. Meanwhile, the partner is nervous about joining the [[Wigglytuff's Guild]], a local exploration club, and gives up early. Walking along the beach, the partner encounters the player, and informs that the player has been turned into a Pokémon. The Relic Fragment is stolen by Zubat and Koffing, members of [[Team Skull]], which the player helps recover. After a brief exchange the partner explains their motivation for joining the guild, the partner loves legend and lore and their life dream is to find what their personal treasure, the [[Relic Fragment]] belongs to. The partner, reinvigorated by the player's courage, joins the Guild as a new team with the player.

 

Over the next few days, the team gets accustomed to life at the Guild and the nearby [[Treasure Town]]. Among the folks they meet are {{mdc|Wigglytuff|2}}, the kindhearted Guild Leader, {{mdc|Chatot|2}}, the hot-tempered yet well-meaning second-in-command, {{p|Bidoof}}, the newest recruit prior to the team joining, the Guild chef {{p|Chimecho}} (also in charge of maintaining the team), {{p|Diglett}} and {{p|Loudred}}, the Guild sentries, {{p|Dugtrio}}, maintainers of the job boards, {{p|Magnezone}}, the local sheriff, and other exploration teams. As they are introduced to the Guild, they learn of the fact that rogue Pokémon have been wreaking havoc in the world due to the disruption of time, Pokémon cannot [[evolution|evolve]], and new "Mystery Dungeons" have been revealed and open to exploration.

The player discovers not too long after that he/she has the ability to spontaneously see things in the past and future, which is known as the [[Dimensional Scream]].

===Special episodes===

{| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color}}; {{roundy|10px}}; border: 4px solid #{{md sky color}}; max-width: 75%" colspan=4 cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"

! rowspan="2" style="background: #{{md sky color dark}}; {{roundytl|5px}};" | {{color|{{md sky color light}}|Episode}}

! rowspan="2" style="background: #{{md sky color dark}}; {{roundytr|5px}};" | {{color|{{md sky color light}}|Information}}

| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color light}};" | {{color|{{md sky color dark}}|[[Bidoof's Wish]]}}

| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color light}};" | {{color|{{md sky color dark}}|Arrest {{p|Drowzee}} in Chapter 3}}

| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color light}};" | {{color|{{md sky color dark}}|[[Igglybuff the Prodigy]]}}

| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color light}};" | {{color|{{md sky color dark}}|Return to the Guild in Chapter 9}}

! rowspan="2" | [[File:MDSky EP3.jpg|150px]]

| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color light}};" | {{color|{{md sky color dark}}|[[Today's "Oh My Gosh"]]}}

| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color light}};" | {{color|{{md sky color dark}}|Come up with the plan to capture {{mdc|Grovyle|2}} in Chapter 13}}

! rowspan="2" | [[File:MDSky EP4.jpg|120px]]

| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color light}};" | {{color|{{md sky color dark}}|[[Here Comes Team Charm!]]}}

| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color light}};" | {{color|{{md sky color dark}}|Return from the future in Chapter 15}}

! rowspan="2" | [[File:MDSky EP5.png|150px]]

| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color light}};" | {{color|{{md sky color dark}}|[[In the Future of Darkness]]}}

| rowspan="2" style="background: #fff" | The fifth episode is set in the dark future. {{mdc|Grovyle|2}} and {{mdc|Dusknoir|2}} work together when [[Primal Dialga]] tries to get rid of them.

| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color light}};" | {{color|{{md sky color dark}}|Graduate from the [[Wigglytuff Guild]]}}

==Playable characters==

{| align="center" style="background: #{{md sky color dark}}; {{roundy|10px}}; border: 5px solid #{{md sky color}}"

! style="background:#{{md sky color}}; {{roundytl|5px}};" rowspan="2" colspan="2" | {{color2|000|Pokémon}}

! style="background:#{{md sky color}}" colspan="2" | {{color2|000|Nature}}

! style="background:#{{md sky color}}; {{roundytr|5px}};" rowspan="2" | {{color2|000|Egg move}}  

|- style="background:#{{md sky color}}"

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP001.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Bulbasaur|000}}

| Lonely || Docile || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP004.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Charmander|000}}

| Docile || Brave || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP007.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Squirtle|000}}

| Quirky || Bold || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP025.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Pikachu|000}}

| Brave || Hasty || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP037.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Vulpix|000}}

| align="center" | — || Relaxed || {{mcolor|Faint Attack|000}}

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP052.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Meowth|000}}*

| — || — || {{mcolor|Hypnosis|000}}

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP133.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Eevee|000}}

| align="center" | — || Jolly || {{mcolor|Flail|000}}

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP152.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Chikorita|000}}

| Calm || Quiet || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP155.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Cyndaquil|000}}

| Timid || Calm || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP158.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Totodile|000}}

| Jolly || Sassy || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP231.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Phanpy|000}}

| Relaxed || align="center" | — || {{mcolor|AncientPower|000}}

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP252.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Treecko|000}}

| Quiet || Hardy || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP255.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Torchic|000}}

| Hardy || Rash || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP258.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Mudkip|000}}

| Rash || Lonely || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP300.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Skitty|000}}

| align="center" | — || Naïve || {{mcolor|Zen Headbutt|000}}

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP387.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Turtwig|000}}

| Bold || Timid || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP390.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Chimchar|000}}

| Naïve || Impish || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP393.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Piplup|000}}

| Impish || Quirky || align="center" | —

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP403.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Shinx|000}}

| Hasty || align="center" | — || {{mcolor|Quick Attack|000}}

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP446.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Munchlax|000}}*

| — || — || {{mcolor|Zen Headbutt|000}}

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | [[File:MDP447.png]]

! style="background:#{{md sky color light}}" | {{pcolor|Riolu|000}}

| Sassy || align="center" | — || {{mcolor|Bite|000}}

| style="background:#{{md sky color}}; {{roundybottom|5px}};" colspan="5" | <small>Notes:</small>

==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.

<gallery perrow=4>

File:Wigglytuff Guild exterior.png|The new starters and {{p|Skitty}}

File:Pmd3 grovyle.jpg|{{mdc|Grovyle|2}} and a [[Time Gear]]

File:PMD3 explore.jpg|Exploration

File:MD Sky Chimchar Phanpy.jpg|{{p|Chimchar}} and {{p|Phanpy}} helping an {{p|Oddish}}

File:MD Sky Squirtle Vulpix.jpg|{{p|Squirtle}} and {{p|Vulpix}} standing before a crystal in Crystal Cave

File:Pmd sky giratina.png|{{p|Giratina}} (Origin Forme), {{p|Riolu}}, and {{p|Pikachu}} explore a dungeon

File:MD Sky Jukebox.png|[[Sky Jukebox]]

File:MD Sky jukebox use.png|Using the jukebox

File:MDS Message in a Bottle.png|A message in a bottle

File:MD Sky Arceus statue.png|Destiny Tower

File:Pmd sky arceus.png|Riolu and the Arceus statue  

{{Side series}}<br>

[[de:Pokémon Mystery Dungeon - Erkundungsteam Himmel]]

[[es:Pokémon Mundo Misterioso: Exploradores del Cielo]]