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てんくうのかいだん
Sky Stairway
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Yes
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Allowed
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Allowed
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Current
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Sky Stairway (Japanese: てんくうのかいだん Sky Stairway) is a location in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. Rayquaza can be battled and recruited at Sky Stairway Apex (Japanese: てんくうのかいだん ちょうじょう). Defeating Rayquaza will get the player the Sky Melodica.
Mewtwo also appears via challenge request on a random floor between 25F-49F in Explorers of Sky only.
Password
In Explorers of Time and Darkness, Wonder Mail password is the only way to unlock this dungeon; in Explorers of Sky it can be unlocked via Spinda's Café. Once the player has cleared Crevice Cave and obtained Secret Rank, the following codes can unlock this dungeon.
Gameplay
The jobs are ranked E or ★2 through ★8 by default, depending on the floor.
The dungeon layouts used here are the same as in World Abyss.
- Large-sized with following amount of rooms:
- 3-6 on floors 12, 27 and 42
- 3-8 on floors 11, 13, 26, 28, 41 and 43
- 3-10 on floors 1, 10, 14, 16, 25, 29, 30, 31, 40, 44 and 46
- 3-12 on floors 2, 9, 17, 24, 32, 39 and 47
- 3-14 on floors 3, 7, 18, 22, 33, 37 and 48
- 3-18 on floors 4, 8, 19, 23, 34, 38 and 49
- Floors 15 and 35 has hallways in center with rooms on the edge
- Floors 5, 6, 20, 21 and 36 have a giant room in middle with smaller rooms on left and right.
There's 2-5 items on floors 1 through 20 and 3-6 on floors 21 through 49. There's 2-3 starting enemies on first three floors and 2-4 on later floors.
The IQ Booster activates on every floor. Turn limit is 1000. Enemies in the dungeon have 331IQ, while Rayquaza has 600IQ, granting it access to many IQ skills. There is light darkness in the dungeon. There are air tiles in the dungeon on floors 3, 5, 7, 11, 12, 15, 19, 22, 24, 26, 30, 31, 34, 38, 41, 43, 45 and 49. The items in this dungeon spawn sticky 5% of the time.
Many of the dungeon's floors have naturally occurring weather, specifically:
- Floors 1, 4, 13, 14 and 18 have cloudy weather
- Floors 6, 7 and 11 have fog
- Floors 9, 16, 20, 24, 30, 37, 42 and 48 have sunny weather
Pokémon encountered
Most of the Pokémon encountered in the "future" dungeons (Chasm Cave, Dark Hill, Sealed Ruin and so on) appear in Sky Stairway.
Each time player enters a floor, only 14 of the species that can be found on a given floor will be chosen. The unpicked Pokémon's spawn rate will be added to whichever picked Pokémon is next in the National Dex order, going back to the beginning if needed.
Sky Stairway Apex
Items
Traps
The game will spawn 5 to 10 of these per floor.
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Trap
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1-40F
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41-49F
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Chestnut Trap
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2.25%
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Explosion Trap
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2.25%
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2.69%
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Grimy Trap
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5.62%
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6.71%
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Gust Trap
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2.81%
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6.71%
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Mud Trap
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2.81%
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2.01%
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Poison Trap
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5.61%
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Pokémon Trap
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5.62%
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3.35%
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PP-Zero Trap
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5.61%
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6.71%
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Seal Trap
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2.81%
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6.71%
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Selfdestruct Trap
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1.69%
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5.37%
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Slow Trap
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5.62%
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4.03%
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Slumber Trap
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6.74%
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5.37%
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Spin Trap
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5.06%
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4.69%
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Sticky Trap
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2.81%
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3.36%
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Summon Trap
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5.61%
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2.01%
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Warp Trap
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5.62%
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6.72%
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Wonder Tile
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28.09%
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33.55%
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Layout
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