Great Canyon

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Great Canyon

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Great Canyon 大いなる峡谷 Great Canyon

Basic info Floors: 12 Rest stops: No Traps: NoRB YesRTDX Monster Houses: No Main type: Normal, Grass, FlyingRB Grass, Normal, FlyingRTDX Boss: None

Allowances Recruiting: Yes Items: Allowed Money: Allowed Starting level: Current Team members: 3

Location

Great Canyon (Japanese: 大いなる峡谷 Great Canyon) is the seventh dungeon in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX. It consists of 12 floors.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

The protagonist and partner travels through this dungeon to reach the Hill of the Ancients, the home of a Xatu who helps out the protagonist with its precognition. Immediately after completing the mystery dungeon for the first time, the player becomes a fugitive and is not permitted to return to Pokémon Square until after completing Mt. Freeze Peak.

Gameplay

In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, there is no chance of finding a Monster House, a Kecleon Shop, or a buried item in this dungeon. In Rescue Team DX, Kecleon Shops and buried items can appear in this dungeon.

Pokémon encountered

Generation III

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Skiploom	1-3	13	-19%
	Dunsparce	1-3	13	7.6%
	Phanpy	1-3	14	8.2%
	Doduo	1-4	14	7.2%
	Vileplume	4-6	14	Unrecruitable
	Breloom	4-6	14	Unrecruitable
	Murkrow	5-7	14	7.2%
	Cacturne	5-8	14	Unrecruitable
	Noctowl	6-8	14	Unrecruitable
	Heracross	7-9	14	2.6%
	Ariados	8-11	14	Unrecruitable
	Tauros	10-12	15	7.9%
	Houndoom	10-12	15	Unrecruitable

Generation VIII

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Vileplume	1-3	21	10.8%
	Doduo	1-3	16	10.8%
	Skiploom	1-3	18	10.8%
	Dunsparce	1-3	16	10.8%
	Phanpy	4-6	16	10.8%
	Breloom	4-7	23	10.8%
	Murkrow	4-8	16	10.8%
	Cacturne	4-9	32	10.8%
	Heracross	7-11	16	10.8%
	Ariados	8-12	22	10.8%
	Tauros	9-12	16	10.8%
	Houndoom	10-12	24	10.8%
Fainted Pokémon
	Nidorina	2-12	18	100%
	Nidorino	2-12	18	100%
	Aerodactyl	2-12	20	100%
	Shuckle	2-12	18	100%
	Spheal	2-12	18	100%
	Bagon	2-12	18	100%
Strong Foe*
	Ambipom	3-12	16	Unrecruitable -6.4%
Shiny Ambipom can only be recruited with a Friend Bow.

Items

Generation III

Item		Floors
	4-278 Poké	1-12F
	Power Band	1-12F
	Special Band	1-12F
	3-4 Gravelerock	1-12F
	Apple	1-12F
	Brown Gummi	1-12F
	Clear Gummi	1-12F
	Gold Gummi	1-12F
	Gray Gummi	1-12F
	Orange Gummi	1-12F
	Pink Gummi	1-12F
	Red Gummi	1-12F
	Silver Gummi	1-12F
	Sky Gummi	1-12F
	White Gummi	1-12F
	Yellow Gummi	1-12F
	Cheri Berry	1-12F
	Oran Berry	1-12F
	Pecha Berry	1-12F
	Rawst Berry	1-12F
	Blast Seed	1-12F
	Max Elixir	1-12F
	Aerial Ace	1-12F
	Attract	1-12F
	Brick Break	1-12F
	Bullet Seed	1-12F
	Dig	1-12F
	Facade	1-12F
	Frustration	1-12F
	Giga Drain	1-12F
	Hidden Power	1-12F
	Return	1-12F
	Roar	1-12F
	Safeguard	1-12F
	Secret Power	1-12F
	Shadow Ball	1-12F
	Shock Wave	1-12F
	Taunt	1-12F
	Thief	1-12F
	Torment	1-12F
	Toxic	1-12F
	Link Box	1-12F

Generation VIII

Great Canyon

Item		Floors
	10-70 Poké	1-12F
	Apple	1-12F
	Cheri Berry	1-12F
	Oran Berry	1-12F
	Pecha Berry	1-12F
	Rawst Berry	1-12F
	Blast Seed	1-12F
	Eyedrop Seed	1-12F
	Sleep Seed	1-12F
	Stun Seed	1-12F
	Tiny Reviver Seed	1-12F
	Totter Seed	1-12F
	Training Seed	1-12F
	Max Ether	1-12F

Sparkling Floor

Item		Floors
	Gold Ribbon	1-12F
	Sitrus Berry	1-12F
	Life Seed	1-12F
	Max Elixir	1-12F
	Calcium	1-12F
	Carbos	1-12F
	Iron	1-12F
	Protein	1-12F
	Zinc	1-12F

Kecleon Shop

Item		Floors
	Apple	1-12F
	Cheri Berry	1-12F
	Oran Berry	1-12F
	Pecha Berry	1-12F
	Rawst Berry	1-12F
	Eyedrop Seed	1-12F
	Blast Seed	1-12F
	Sleep Seed	1-12F
	Tiny Reviver Seed	1-12F
	Totter Seed	1-12F
	Max Ether	1-12F
	All Power-Up Orb	1-12F
	Foe-Hold Orb	1-12F
	Foe-Seal Orb	1-12F
	Nullify Orb	1-12F
	Petrify Orb	1-12F
	Quick Orb	1-12F
	Rollcall Orb	1-12F
	Slow Orb	1-12F
	Slumber Orb	1-12F
	Totter Orb	1-12F
	Wigglytuff Orb	1-12F

Traps encountered

Generation VIII

Note: The percentages are calculated from trap frequencies observed across 27 dungeon runs involving a total of 599 traps. Confidence intervals are given at a 95% confidence level.

Image	Trap	Floor 1-12
	Gust Trap	18.2 ± 2.2 %
	Slumber Trap	44.7 ± 3.6 %
	Spiky Trap	17.7 ± 3.6 %
	Spin Trap	19.4 ± 2.0 %

Layout

	Entrance	Interior
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Music

By Pokémon

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In other languages

Language		Title
French		Grand Ravin
German		Riesenschlucht
Italian		Canyon Maestoso
Korean		위대한 대협곡 Widaehan daehyeobgog
Spanish		Gran Cañón

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