Pokémon Obtaining Guide

The Pokémon Obtaining Guide lists every method of obtaining Pokémon in PMU, and lists all Pokémon grouped by generation and every way to obtain them.

Wild Encounter
The most well-known, efficient and easiest way to recruit Pokémon is to defeat wild Pokémon in dungeons. Certain Pokémon can be found through using keys, or can be found during certain times of the day.

In order to get a Pokémon through a wild encounter:
 * The player's level must be higher than the defeated Pokémon's.
 * The player must have one open slot in their party.
 * The recruit rate of the Pokémon must be a positive number.

You can also raise the chance of recruiting wild Pokémon: The highest obtainable recruit rate increase is +59%. Obtained through use of a level 100 Pokémon, Guildmaster Rank, a Friend Bow, and a Golden Mask.
 * The higher the player's active Pokémon's level, the greater the chance of recruitment. Level 100 gives a +10% applied recruit rate.
 * The Explorer Rank of the player gives an additional applied recruit rate. It begins at Bronze Rank and ends at Guildmaster Rank. Guildmaster Rank gives a +15% applied recruit rate.
 * Some items can raise the recruit rate:
 * Gives a +1% recruit rate and only works if it's held by the active Pokémon. It can be found in many places such as Harmonic Tower or Island Garden.
 * Gives a +10% recruit rate and is a team item, meaning any Pokémon in your team can hold it. It is found at the end of Friendship Forest.
 * Gives a +10% recruit rate and only works if it's held by the active Pokémon. It can be created by Finn the Treecko near Concealed Laboratory, with all three fragments from the bosses in the player's bag.
 * Gives a +17% recruit rate and only works if it's held by the active Pokémon. It can be found in Sky Fortress Garden's end boxes and Normal chamber Grand Box.
 * Gives a +24% recruit rate and only works if it's held by the active Pokémon. It can be obtained as a drop from Mewtwo in Cryptic Chasm.
 * guarantees recruitment when used on a recruitable Pokémon with a positive recruit rate. It can be bought from Ludicolo in Spinda's Cafe or shops in Holiday Caves.

Mystery Egg
Another easy way to recruit Pokémon is to hatch s found in dungeons. Certain Mystery Eggs can be obtained through using keys.

In order to get Pokémon through Mystery Eggs:
 * Eggs must be hatched outside of a dungeon.
 * The player must have an open slot in their party.
 * The player must take a certain amount of steps (the amount of steps varies between eggs).

Evolution
Some Pokémon can only be obtained by evolving.

Requirements for evolution:
 * To evolve Pokémon, you need an from Cliffside Relic to enter the Luminous Chamber in the Faded Relic, located west of Grassroot Town.
 * Some Pokémon have a certain criteria to evolve. It can include needing a specific level, item in the bag, move, gender or even Pokémon in the player's team or party.

Summoning
Summoning is a special form of Pokémon obtainment, and is not considered as recruitment.

Summoning is currently the only way to obtain Legendary/Mythical Pokémon, with Phione being the only exception. The main difference with summoning compared to all other forms of recruitment is that summoning only allows Pokémon to join your party for the duration of the dungeon, and subsequently that players cannot exist as these Pokémon in town.

In order to summon Legendary and Mythical Pokémon:
 * The player must have a, which can be found in Tanren Chambers (Normal Chamber B99F ending).
 * The player must have the respective from the respective Legendary/Mythical Pokémon (For example, to summon Mew, you will need Mew's Heart Slate). The slates can be dropped by Legendary/Mythical Pokémon battled in certain dungeons (For example, Mew in Mysterious Jungle, Regirock in Tanren Mines,...).
 * The player must have the Mystery Part and the respective Heart Slate combined.
 * The player must have an open slot in their party.
 * The player must have at least one free space in their storage.