Aegis Cave

Aegis Cave	ばんにんのどうくつ Watchman's Cave

	Basic info
Floors:		19 total
Rest stops:		4
Traps:		Yes
Monster Houses:		No
Main type:		Psychic, Poison, Fighting
Boss:		Regice Regice Chamber Regirock Regirock Chamber Registeel Registeel Chamber Regigigas Hitmonlee ×4 Bronzong ×4 Regigigas Chamber

	Allowances
Recruiting:		Yes
Items:		48
Money:		Allowed
Starting level:		Current
Team members:		4

		Location
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Aegis Cave (Japanese: ばんにんのどうくつ Watchman's Cave) is a dungeon in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and Explorers of Sky. It is segmented into 4 sections, each home to one of the legendary giants.

The player's team first enters the cave with Team Charm. The exploration team first enters the first Stela Chamber; from there, if the I, C, and E stones are in the Treasure Bag the team can proceed to the Regice Chamber; if they do not have the required stones, the team enters Ice Aegis Cave, where these stones can be collected. After defeating Regice in the Regice Chamber, the team proceeds to the second Stela Chamber, where they will proceed either to the Rock Aegis Cave or Regirock Chamber depending on if they have the R, O, C, and K stones. After defeating Regirock in the Regirock Chamber, the team proceeds to the third Stela Chamber, where they will proceed either to the Steel Aegis Cave or Registeel Chamber depending on if they have the S, T, L stones and two E stones. After defeating Registeel, the team proceeds to the Aegis Cave Pit, where Regigigas is battled along with a group of four Hitmonlee and four Bronzong.

Unown stones are sometimes dropped by Unown when defeated; the stone dropped corresponds to the letter or symbol of the Unown knocked out. All 28 Unown stones have no practical use outside Aegis Cave; all stones other than C, E, I, K, L, O, R, S, and T have no practical use in the dungeon, either. They cause 60 damage if thrown at a Pokémon (90 damage if the Pokémon has the IQ skill Power Pitcher) and can be sold for 10 Poké.

Unlike most other dungeons, the cave's intermissive rooms have no exits. A player attempting to leave through the south will encounter an invisible wall, and will be unable to pass. The only ways to leave the cave are to complete it or use an Escape Orb.

Gameplay

For purpose of Treasure Boxes, Ice Aegis Cave is ranked E and ★1, Rock Aegis Cave is ranked ★1, Steel Aegis Cave is ranked ★2 and Aegis Cave Pit is ranked ★2 and ★3.

All floors are medium-sized with 3-9 rooms. There's 1-4 items on each floor on the ground and 4-7 buried in the walls. There's 2-4 starting enemies on each floor.

IQ Booster activates on every even floor of the Rock/Ice/Steel Aegis Cave, and every odd floor of Aegis Cave Pit. The turn limit is 1000. There's light darkness in the dungeon. There's water on every floor except floor 1 of Ice Aegis Cave, floor 3 of Rock Aegis Cave and Aegis Cave Pit, and floor 2 of Steel Aegis Cave The player cannot be rescued in this dungeon if knocked out. Non-boss enemies dungeon in this dungeon have 150 IQ. Regirock, Regice and Registeel have 330IQ during their boss fight, while bosses of Regigigas Chamber all have 600 IQ, granting them access to many IQ skills such as Intimidator or Extra Striker.

Pokémon encountered

The Unown are all considered separate species for purpose of the internal spawn limit, which allows only 14 different species to spawn at the same time on a given floor. Since there are a total of 28 different Unown, it is possible that the game will not pick the Unown needed to progress further and the player will have to repeat the part.

Ice Aegis Cave

	Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
Zubat	B1-B3	16	5.5%
Golbat	B1-B3	45	-4.5%
Unown	B1-B3	43	8.2%

Regice Chamber

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Regice	Regice Chamber	46	50%
Regice cannot be recruited on the first visit.

Rock Aegis Cave

	Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
Zubat	B1-B3	16-17	5.5%
Golbat	B1-B3	45-46	-4.5%
Unown	B1-B3	43-44	8.2%
Machoke	B2-B3	41	-4.5%
Machamp	B2-B3	47	-10%

Regirock Chamber

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Regirock	Regirock Chamber	46	50%
Regirock cannot be recruited on the first visit.

Steel Aegis Cave

	Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
Zubat	B1-B4	17-18	5.5%
Golbat	B1-B4	46-47	-4.5%
Machoke	B1-B4	41-42	-4.5%
Machamp	B1-B4	47-48	-10%
Unown	B1-B4	44-45	8.2%

Registeel Chamber

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Registeel	Registeel Chamber	46	50%
Registeel cannot be recruited on the first visit.

Aegis Cave Pit

	Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
Machoke	B1-B3	42-43	-4.5%
Machamp	B1-B3	48-49	-10%
Zubat	B1-B3, B5	18-19	5.5%
Golbat	B1-B3, B5	47-48	-4.5%
Crobat	B1-B5	44-45	-12%
Unown	B1-B5	45-46	8.2%
Mewtwo	B5 ^D	50	-22% *

Regigigas Chamber

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Hitmonlee	Regigigas Chamber	35	Unrecruitable
	Bronzong	Regigigas Chamber	35	Unrecruitable
	Regigigas	Regigigas Chamber	49	100% ^Boss
Regigigas cannot be recruited on the first visit. There are four Hitmonlee and four Bronzong as the boss.

Items

Ground

Item		Floors
	2-200 Poké	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	3-5 Gravelerock	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^S Gravelyrock	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Apple	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Blue Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Brown Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Grass Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Green Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Orange Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Silver Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Sky Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S White Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Black Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Clear Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Gold Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Gray Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Pink Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Purple Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Red Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Royal Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Yellow Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Cheri Berry	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Oran Berry	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Pecha Berry	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Blinker Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Doom Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Reviver Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Sleep Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Warp Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S X-Eye Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Max Elixir	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Escape Orb	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Key	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F

Buried items

Item		Floors
	2-200 Poké	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F

Traps

The game will spawn 4 to 8 of these on each floor.

Image	Trap	Appearance %
	Chestnut Trap	5.18%^D/5.71%^S
	Explosion Trap	2.07%^D/5.71%^S
	Grimy Trap	11.76%^T/5.18%^D/5.71%^S
	Gust Trap	2.59%^D/5.71%^S
	Mud Trap	11.76%^T/5.18%^D/5.71%^S
	Pitfall Trap	5.19%^D/5.71%^S
	Poison Trap	11.77%^T/5.18%^D/5.71%^S
	Pokémon Trap	5.18%^D/5.71%^S
	PP-Zero Trap	11.76%^T/5.18%^D/5.72%^S
	Seal Trap	11.77%^T/2.59%^D/5.71%^S
	Selfdestruct Trap	1.56%^D/5.72%^S
	Slow Trap	11.77%^T/5.18%^D/5.72%^S
	Slumber Trap	5.88%^T/6.22%^D/2.86%^S
	Spin Trap	11.77%^T/4.66%^D/5.71%^S
	Sticky Trap	11.77%^T/2.59%^D/5.72%^S
	Summon Trap	5.18%^D/5.72%^S
	Trip Trap	2.59%^D/5.71%^S
	Warp Trap	5.18%^D/5.72%^S
	Wonder Tile	25.91%^D

Layout

Ice Aegis Cave waypoint	Regice Chamber	Rock Aegis Cave waypoint

Rock Aegis Cave/Aegis Cave Pit	Regirock Chamber	Steel Aegis Cave waypoint

Steel Aegis Cave	Registeel Chamber	Regigigas Chamber

Exit

In other languages

Aegis Cave

Language		Title
French		Grotte Egide
German		Ägishöhle
Italian		Grotta Egida
Korean		파수꾼의 동굴 Pasukkunui Donggul
Spanish		Cueva Regia

Stela Chamber

Language		Title
French		Chambre de la Stèle
German		Säulenkammer
Italian		Sala della Stele
Korean		비석의 방 Biseogui Bang
Spanish		Cámara Orilla

Ice Aegis Cave

Language		Title
French		Grotte Egide de Glace
German		Eis-Ägishöhle
Italian		Grotta di Ghiaccio
Korean		파수꾼의 동굴 아이스 방 Pasukkunui Donggul Aiseu Bang
Spanish		Cueva Regia Ice

Regice Chamber

Language		Title
French		Antre Regice
German		Regice-Kammer
Italian		Sala Regice
Korean		레지아이스의 방 Rejiaiseu-ui Bang
Spanish		Camara Regice

Rock Aegis Cave

Language		Title
French		Grotte Egide de Roche
German		Fels-Ägishöhle
Italian		Grotta di Roccia
Korean		파수꾼의 동굴 락 방 Pasukkunui Donggul Rak Bang
Spanish		Cueva Regia Rock

Regirock Chamber

Language		Title
French		Antre Regirock
German		Regirock-Kammer
Italian		Sala Regirock
Korean		레지락의 방 Rejirogui Bang
Spanish		Camara Regirock

Steel Aegis Cave

Language		Title
French		Grotte Egide d'Acier
German		Stahl-Ägishöhle
Italian		Grotta d'Acciaio
Korean		파수꾼의 동굴 스틸 방 Pasukkunui Donggul Seutil Bang
Spanish		Cueva Regia Steel

Registeel Chamber

Language		Title
French		Antre Registeel
German		Registeel-Kammer
Italian		Sala Registeel
Korean		레지스틸의 방 Rejiseutirui Bang
Spanish		Camara Registeel

Aegis Cave Pit

Language		Title
French		Grotte Egide fond
German		Ägishöhlegrube
Italian		Fossa Egida
Korean		파수꾼의 동굴 최심부 Pasukkunui Donggul Choesimbu
Spanish		Sima Regia

Regigigas Chamber

Language		Title
French		Antre Regigigas
German		Regigigas-Kammer
Italian		Sala Regigigas
Korean		레지기가스의 방 Rejigigaseu-ui Bang
Spanish		Camara Regigigas

Locations in the Pokémon world in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky
Major locations
Sharpedo Bluff • Treasure Town • Kangaskhan Storage • Kecleon Shop Marowak Dojo • Chimecho Assembly • Wigglytuff's Guild • Croagunk's Swap Shop Beach • Fogbound Lake • Hot Spring • Luminous Spring • Pelipper Island Spinda's Café^S • Shaymin Village^S • Sky Peak^S
Dungeons
Beach Cave • Drenched Bluff • Mt. Bristle • Waterfall Cave • Apple Woods Side Path • Craggy Coast • Rock Path • Mt. Horn • Forest Path Foggy Forest • Steam Cave • Amp Plains • Northern Desert • Quicksand Cave Crystal Cave • Crystal Crossing • Chasm Cave • Dark Hill • Sealed Ruin Dusk Forest • Deep Dusk Forest • Treeshroud Forest • Brine Cave • Hidden Land Temporal Tower • Mystifying Forest • Blizzard Island • Crevice Cave • Surrounded Sea Miracle Sea • Aegis Cave • Mt. Travail • The Nightmare • Spacial Rift Dark Crater • Concealed Ruins • Marine Resort • Bottomless Sea • Shimmer Desert Mt. Avalanche • Giant Volcano • World Abyss • Sky Stairway • Mystery Jungle Serenity River • Landslide Cave • Lush Prairie • Tiny Meadow • Labyrinth Cave Oran Forest • Lake Afar • Happy Outlook • Mt. Mistral • Shimmer Hill Lost Wilderness • Midnight Forest • Zero Isle North • Zero Isle East • Zero Isle West Zero Isle South • Final Maze
Dungeons exclusive to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
Zero Isle Center • Destiny Tower • Oblivion Forest • Treacherous Waters • Southeastern Islands • Inferno Cave Star Cave • Sky Peak Mountain Path • Murky Forest • Eastern Cave • Fortune Ravine • Spring Cave Southern Jungle • Boulder Quarry • Left Cave Path • Right Cave Path • Limestone Cavern • Barren Valley Dark Wasteland • Spacial Cliffs • Dark Ice Mountain • Icicle Forest • Vast Ice Mountain Demo only: Little Plains • Mt. Clear • Challenge River • Trial Forest • Guiding Sea • Hidden Shopkeeper Village

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