The 1hp floor 98 wish cave gave me a panic attack 😂

I remember grinding for Mew and I finally found it as a kid I found it around floor 70 something, knocked it out... and it didn't want to join. Gave up after that. Lol. I knew it spawned because of the move log said "Mew used Transform."

Me watching this remembering how I'd turn down exeggcute as a partner when playing as a kid bc I thought it was ugly 👁👄👁

Recruiting Kecleon AND Mew in this game has to be one of the feats I will put on my working resume XD

So fun fact about getting joy seeds, each run through of team hydro refreshed the Kecleon shop, so you can go back to the shop after each run and check for a joy seed. And with the huge amount of grinding you’ll be doing trying to evolve everything, you’re bound to get a few from the shop

I'm surprised Ponyta isn't on this list, though I'm aware there's stiff competition. It's also pretty deep into Joyous Tower, runs away after taking some damage, and the other pokemon on the floors it appears on are pretty tough too, especially if your leader pokemon is slow to gain experience.

They made recruiting Mew unnecessarily worse in DX. I'm just lucky to have even gotten it myself in Red Rescue Team. And also, I'm going to be 100% genuine with this one bit, *I ALWAYS KNEW THAT I WASN'T CRAZY ABOUT EXEGGCUTE BEING INFURIATINGLY RARE TO FIND.* Screw Howling Forest. That name bestows painful unfulfilled memories in words that I can't describe.

Woow, I was a trooper then. I remember I did everything in my power to get Chansey because it was a cute pokémon, back when I was 13 or so. I didn't thought it was THAT hard.

I just had to open my save file and check which one's I'm missing from this list. The first thing I noticed was lvl 36 Dragonair on my party so that definitely checks out. I was also missing Pidgey, Milotic and Blissey. Although, I did have 2 Chanseys so the hard work had already been done. I had 2 Kecleons for whatever reason and every single legendary. Safe to say I did grind this game as a kid quite a lot.

To me personally a very hard recruit was Snorlax. I never seemed to find one in Howling Forest, and when I finally found one he decided he didn't want to be on my team.

I actually managed to recruit Mew when I was a kid, tho that save sadly got wiped. Buried Relic is GENUINELY one of my favorite dungeons in any Mystery Dungeon game, Pokémon or otherwise, and I love the mechanics unique to it!!

Nice video! I didn't even know that Blissey is so annoying to get

I recruited Kecleon, Deoxys and Mew when I was a kid, but you're right, I don't think I ever saw a Blissey or a Chansey, let alone recruit them

It would have been funny if the rarest to encounter was a Zubat due to them being occupied with attacking trainers

i expected to see kecleon at number 1 and wanted to disagree, but yeah i agree with blissey, even tho kecleons recruit chance is .1% or something, you have to remember that you get swarmed by those things, so you kill probably hundreds per hour and at 1000 you should be expected to already have gotten one. i think just finding enough gummies for a friendship evolution like blissey thats monotype should take at least an hour aswell, maybe even more, not to mention even getting a chansey in the first place might already take you as long as it would take you to get kecleon and on top of everything, you need another chansey if you wanna recruit all, so yea xD

For number 5 there is an easier trick, Mew will only show on the recruitment page if it's actually there on that floor if I remember correctly, so just check it at the start of each floor and you're good, and once you've beat it escape orb and try again

When I played this years ago, I didn't have a problem with recruiting mew at all. If you use the Ingame menus and just check the recruitment list everytime you go to a new floor, it literally tells you if mew is there

I was surprised Mew is here. I've never really had any difficulty getting it. You have so may opportunities to get it, and it's not hard at all. It just takes time.

Great video, yeah, I definitely agree with the list, keep it up!

I’d also include; Hitmonchan and Hitmontop - require numerous irons to get defense at right level which aren’t that common Vileplume, Victreebell and Exeggcutor - leaf stones hard to find (Shiftry can be recruited though) Politoed and Slowking - King’s rock hard to find Marill, Jigglypuff and Clefairy - require high IQ Snorlax - low spawn rate Raikou, Entei and Suicune - requires travelling 30 floors each attempt, Suicune especially as Politoed can use Perish song meaning even lvl 100 will need reviver seeds.

Nearly ignored that list, cause I assume the list would be less interesting (I mean everyone knows Kecleon is hard- exepected alot of long dungeon Legendaries here). You seem very passionate about 6 and 7 (MIlotic & Gyarados). Any of your 10 listings you consider bad game design? btw, every thought about making a hardest Pokemon to evolve list?

"Can't recruit fully evolved Pokemon" *Has 3 of the exceptions on screen at the same time as its mentioned* Also, Lv 7 on is ALWAYS 30000 for Magikarp... its so freaking stupid. It might have been noteworthy that with no Wondermail that Leaf Stones are ONLY in Wish Cave too so Exeggutor is double pain.

Eggxecute is so rare that i didn't even know it was directly recruitable because i never encountered it lol Also, i kinda expected Ho-oh to potentially be in this list because the quest chain to get it is so long. But now that i've watched the video i see that there are many much more annoying hoops to jump through for other Pokemon

Thanks for these videos! Pokémon mystery dungeon is my favorite Pokémon game!

Even though its from the newer game. I prayed so hard recruiting feebas. I had like maxed squad up and friend bow. Feebas appeared right when I go to the next floor. This was a pain in the butt because not only that dungeon is hard very early but also shiny (YES A SHINY) gyrados was on to me. It literally hurts to paralyze it and leave because I don't want to mess up my squad up. Luckily, I got it first try even tho I was far from feebas and I can't tell my extras whatsoever to not attack it. I definitely expected feebas how long it took for me.

I agree on the list mostly. 1. Chansey, Blissey On top of Spawning in level 1 dungeon, it is hard to stay in the floor 50 60 longer. Azumarill and Granbull will drain the joy seeds if u don't bring kecleon as a leader. 2. Kecleon : Agree it is quite grindy Players are required to either get lucky (encounter the kecleons that do not use screech and tailwhip) or grind Metagross/Tantacuel/Torkoal/Electrode to get him pretty easily. 4. Exeggutor : Even with illumination strats, the entire process of recruiting him quite annoying. with oneroom orb and illumination, one can encounter 2 exeggcutes each runs but grumpigs and houndoom are extremely annoying to deal with for the entire turns.

Hey man how does wosh cave work can you make multiple wishes or does once you recruit jirachi does it stop you making wishes? Currently trying to recruit all atm and may use the wish to get a few of the harder pokemon to get

-can def agree pidgey and exeggcute never spawned when i would hunt them -as for leveling i personally liked western cave as in the later part you would get like 1200 exp PER pokemon just have to deal with sand stream from Ttar -deoxys is definetly a step above the other legendaries as theres no pre save point before him and only having 3 items means if you use the friend bow you only have 2 items left and deoxys DOES have pressure so killing 20 of them WILL wreck your PP -good thing about mew is if it uses transform you will actually be notified about it in the chat box also in the remake after floor 35 it spawns on every floor ending in 0 and 98 -i remember purity forest at the end i was literally running for my life from aerodactyl but because of kecleon i was able to do it because hes a crazy fast leveler

anyways I was wondering if u do the same with the other dungeons recruits most difficult?

In Dx (I did play the originals ages ago but no longer have them.) Most of the pokemon on this list plus honorable mentions are solved thanks to the edition of pre evolutions like Munchlax, Dungeons that are revamped like Oddity Cave and etc. However, Kecleon is actually slightly easier in Dx but depends on the player's skill level. Dungeon shops are indeed everywhere like before but Joyous Tower gives you the option to get a Level 5 Kecleon in the higher floors. So there the question is: How badly does one want a Kecleon on the team and at what level? Mew isn't that hard to recruit in DX but maybe slightly trickier. Unless I'm wrong, floors 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 98 are your chances. Mew could be found in a monster house on those floors or sleeping or roaming naturally (Transformed or just as itself). If Mew doesn't appear on those specific floors of 10 plus 98 in the Buried Relic right away, one can get it to spawn by waiting awhile on one of those floors. Also thanks to leveling up while in dungeons, the pokemon on your team level up too.

So risky to do the Meteor Cave without X-Ray or something to move through water. I remember Deoxys getting stuck in squares far from land. Then, while grinding XP there (1000 from each one), I always took a Mobile Scarf, X-Ray Specs and a Tight Ribbon.

I totally agree with the top 10, and I have all of them, so I'm only missing some of the grinding ones. If there was a Top 20, surely they might be, probably in this order, Jirachi, Snorlax, Delcatty (if not your starter) (it's mainly bc Skitty is too strong in Joyous Tower), Rapidash, Mewtwo, and the other three pseudo-legendaries: Tyranitar, Salamence or Metagross. Lapras is also a thing here, it's not so common to appear and in a non mandatory place. I'm trying to remember which other pokemon took a lot of grinding, I remember Cacnea, Wailmer, Teddiursa... May be one of them. Am I missing someone?

Does only one Mew spawn on a single floor or in the whole dungeon? So let's say I encountered one on floor 38 and it didn't join. Should I use an Escape Orb or could I encounter it again in the same run, for example on floor 67? I also recruited all Pokémon ~1,5 years ago and used the Joy Seed manip in Lightning Field. I gave up on Exeggcute after not even finding one after hours and didn't even try Chansey, so I used RNG to get both two times. The same with Ponyta, because it spawns late in Joyous Tower and at that point I was just lazy after already using RNG for the other two. But the rest was 100% "legit", if you don't count the ways I got the Gummis and Joy Seeds

Actually, just for fun I tried to complete Team Blue to 100% at an old savefile of mine like 2 years ago, I do a bit and if I have enough of grinding I stop playing for a couple of Weeks or 1-2 months every time. I always thought Purity Forest was the worst part but after that, one of the last Pokemon I need is Chansey..... By time I learned how annoying Joys Tower is. Till now I failed to recruit even one Chansey, haven't played for 4 months but I think now is the time to beat my Nemesis. (Nice Video, I agree to the entire list👍)

I thought would be on here. If i remember correctly at max boost it is a 1% join rate after a 20 floor dungeon

I recently emulated RRT, had a legit copy for years, but I figured save states would help with recruiting ‘em all a lot. Then I found out that dungeon generation is on a seed system or something: once floor 1 loads in, every subsequent floor is set in stone. Pretty sure recruit chances are the same: you step next to an enemy Pokémon, your recruit chance has already been rolled and save states won’t help. Still glad I’m using them, but they can’t reroll RNG.

Man, the Mew one I remember so much, I just got it and left on a holiday and when I returned my little sister had reset my game on my old GBA.

Yaaay new video!

Bro I have so many of these in my old savefile, I'm kinda proud of my younger self 😁

Kecleon still gives me nightmares to this day

I remember as a kid defeating some random pokemon and then it just turned into mew and mew wanted to join me. Very hard to replicate the emotions I felt in that moment 😂

I don't think Deoxys is all that bad. I've had more trouble with Groudon and Rayquaza. I kept expecting Snorlax to make the list. I fainted on my Blue Rescue Team save, just so I could rescue myself and get another go at Exeggcute, Pidgey, and Snorlax by generating monster houses.

Fun video and good information for sure! I think you would benefit from following a script though.

The time I recruited every Pokemon, I used the western Cave for leveling. From Floor I think 40 on, several Pokemon give at least 1000 xp, so using X-ray goggles, reviver seeds and huge apples Dragonite only took a couple times going through. And I can't really agree with Mew and Deoxys on this list. At least as long as Ponyta, Rapidash and Chansey aren't on this list. Going so far through the joy tower is simply pain in my opinion, while going though the buried relic is really simple, at least with a level 100 Pokemon. Same with the meteor cave

As a kid, I did not like trying to go for Mew. But once. And only ONCE of my many many hours, I found Mew twice. Once early on the dungeon, and the other one, more late on the dungeon. I keep hearing that Mew only spawns once and that makes me wonder what the heck happened there. If it was a bug (to be fair I did find a glitched Kecleon once) or if Mew has a limited spawn rate? I have issues with this game and I also have a Blissey card unable to activate but that I don't want to get rid of for reasons. And egxecute (never remembering how it's written) can spawn in Wish Cave (I think??) so it can be easier to get as well. Never did tho so don't trust me on that. Great vid. Never knew of the Blissey one.

I like how my hero and my partner are Mew and Celebi, because that way you won't have stress for these two mythical Pokémon. But yes, I went out of line doing illegal things using mods or hacks to get those two Mythical Pokémon (Mew and Celebi), sorry but I did it. I couldn't resist since Mew and Celebi are my two favorite Pokémon from this franchise. Anyways, I was able to progress the whole story with Mew and Celebi at the helm. And yeah, I was able to recruit Kecleon with a record of 3 or 4 hours. It wasn't too much time that I wasted, but it was hard to get it in my fifth try. Other Pokémon like Milotic, Chansey, and Dragonite gave me more headaches than Kecleon, since first of all their spawn percentage and also their recruit percentage. And this took me a total of 562 hours to recruit them (if I remember correctly), at least it was fun to recruit all the Pokémon. :)

Out of all the Mystery Dungeon games this game and Red Rescue Team handled Legendary Pokemon the best.

I know this is late but could you do something similar to this for the DX remake? I’m lost trying to find Nincada because it is not found in lapis cave unlike in the original. At least, I think. There are no good guides online for where all of the Pokémon can be found. Most are slap dashed and put together by reusing the same locations from the original, which is wrong in some cases. I know it can be found in the last dungeons in the postgame but I don’t wanna have to go through ALL of that trouble just for one nincada.

I'm pretty sure we can recruit in tiny woods for red rescue team so it is different for blue rescue team?

i remember i was able to recruit an Execute and kleckeon when i played this as a kid Didn't realize how lucky i was until now Mew and Deoxys were a nighmare lol I was eventually able to get Deoxys but never got Mew :c

I like how blissey was hard to recruit when I turned it away multiple times 😭

Does this remains the same in Mystery dungeon DX for switch?

I wish you would show the clip of you finding the pokemon you're talking about

Nobody talking about how he’s using a skarmory as himself?!?!?

Omg my childhood, i remember that purity forest, holy shit, i had to recruit kecleom, cause in this game, kecleon is the best for the dungeon. That freaking camerupts and their earthquake or magnitude FFFFFFFFFFF

The hardest thing for me is to find those damn leaf stones in wish cave. I have beaten the dungeon like seventeen times and havent had a single kecleon shop on the right floors. Atleast Jirachi has given me other recruits from it.

What about the remakes? Will you make a list fir that game?

Getting through that Gyrados section was exhausting...

*Laugh in Jirachi Wishes spam Still to complete the Book on the main menu, you have to face every Pokémon... I never managed to face Blissey. Screw Joyous Tower

Nice video

If Exeggcute is hard, imagine Exeggutor, Leaf Stone is the hardest stone to find

Man. Mew. The furthest I ever got as kid was buried relic. I thought Mew was floor 99. I remember getting to floor 97 and encountering a monster house and dying. Never got Mew or Floor 99.

I believe that the pokemon cannot be recruited in Tiny Forest because it was coded as a dungeon primarily coded as a dungeon only to be done in the very beginning of the game. I believe that I found their explanation behind the exact reason as to why pokemon cannot be recruited inside of the dungeon. The explanation at least seemed like they said it at least, I do not remember if they actually mentioned that they said it or not inside of the message likely thinking that no one else would attempt to write the information about this specific information online. I believe that the message did infact state something very similar to what I said in the previous sentence.

I would have expected to find the Pokémon being recruited on this video

I was expecting jumpluff to be number 1 lol

I swear to God,i played this game since im 6,i have more hours in MD then in any Ps Game. Still i was NEVER able to recruit ONE.GOD.DAMM.POKEMON and they pain never stopps

I always saw snorlax on the recruitment list yet it never appeared each time I was in the dungeon

Salamence was already a pain to evolve, I don't know if I want to do Dragonite

Even still the video idea that they wanted to make probably had to be made specifically for a convention with the information only talking about it inside of that specific video. The convention logo would be on the specific video as well and not uploaded to their specific KZfaq channel at all.

That wish cave clip stressed me out ;_;

Pidgey is the only reason I ever bother with Howling Forest

well okay how difficult celebi is to get depends on your skill/ if you recruited kecleon or not, and either way having alakazam makes purity forest pretty easy, almost as easy as kecleon would and its actually easy to get alakazam instead of kecleon, so if you know what your doing its not difficult to get celebi, however if you were a kid 15 years ago then yeah it would be very difficult/ impossible, however i was able to beat it back then because i found a wonder mail generator online that would generate you a code to save yourself if you ever fail, i think i died on floor 90, used this and beat it xD with my starter charizard

I had a glitch in the makuhida dojo and recruited golem

December 25,2021 i have 2 DS's & 2 copies so i can trade items so i don't lose them if i die 10- not hard 9- i got him then i deleted him because i wasn't going to use him. 8-don't mind leveling it up just put a JOY RIBBON on it 7- yeah kinda hard to recruit 6- if i K'o Feebas i'll try again 5- Mew is Tiny in this game & the message box helped me get Mew the 2nd time thru 4-Not hard to catch 3- never Attempted it & even in Mystery dungeon DX 2-never Attempted it 1- never Attempted...Not sorry

Does anyone know if the legendaries are able to be re battled or is it just 1 chance and it's over?

I am surprised Snorlax is not here

Wait, near the 20min mark, you can just get whatever from Kekleon shop & then teleport out to safety without paying??!!??

Eh. I have to hard disagree with the Number 1 spot. Kecleon is still tougher by quite a few more reasons. Chansey you can actually recruit with the Friend Bow and a little luck. Kecleon is a nightmare because of its minmax stats, its double speed, the swarm, and its lower than heck recruit rate that makes Legendaries look like total pushovers. Yes, getting them to spawn is no issue, but without a good setup, you're not recruiting any camo-lizards.

The only exeption i know about is Golem,but it has a base Chance of like.....-13.75 or so

In every rescue team blue/red video i see they instakill everything even at low levels. Is the game extremely easy? I saw a video where they fought all the bosses and they killed all the badass legendaries without ever getting touched easily.

2:05 list beginning

Ive beaten deoxys like 30-40 times with the friend bow. Still havent beaten it

I don't know how I did the full recruit back as a kid like 15 years ago. Young me must have had a lot of willpower.

You should do a list like this for Rescue Team DX

very nice vid, if you practice your free speech a lil bit more you really got potential for one of the best pokemon channels

I got exeggcute before snorlax and that was hard

Leveling without items is so annoying in PMD

Chansey and blissey are the only pokemon that I can't recruit.

Ive got a graveler from one of the training stages drom the dojo. Which shouldnt be possible. But i got one

For me easily exeggcute and Kecleon.

The top 10 Is Kecleon Kecleon Kecleon Kecleon Kecleon Kecleon Kecleon Kecleon Kecleon Kecleon

generate a wonder mail code with the reward being recruitment, ez jk, it's wild how hard some of these pokemon are to get.

yo. had your video in my recommended, so algorithm worked out for you :D to keep it short- good video, yet your content literally only starts 2 minutes into the video. thats too late. if i didnt skip forward, i wouldve just stopped watching your video. you got potential, keep going mate.

Where's jirachi tho. It's dungeon is as cancerous as Celebis:( I remember struggling so bad to make it to the end when I played this game back then

Gómez Díaz, I just love English speakers trying to pronounce Spanish names

Olvidaste a Jirachi y a Celebi. Además, Celebi variocolor no existe en Pokémon mundo misterioso 1

imma lsoe my mind i tried in tiny woods for prolly ages. hours? and pidgey wouldnt come i got so sad and did give up i rlly wanted pidgey r u kidding me xD

So... the Red Rescue Team equalent of the list?

Idk, Purity Forest doesn't look too much difficult compared to Destiny Tower, sine there's no wather-mon relationated with that (like abomasnow or hippowdon) still when the weather wants to be shit ur doomed w "-5 hp" each time, only castform can save u with that and even with that... isn't very reliable

you forget jirachi