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If there is a Pokémon unable to be recruited, it might be a Mystery Egg.

Recruiting a Pokémon refers to the act adding a wild Pokémon to the player's team. This occurs after the player defeats a given Pokémon in a dungeon or on the overworld and it asks to join his or her team. Saying "Yes" will recruit it and add it to the roster in Chimecho Assembly. There are a couple of different ways to recruit a Pokémon, and each Pokémon species has it's own Recruit Rate.

To check the Pokémon's Recruit Rate, the player must click on the Pokémon sprite. This will result in a message in the chat that shows the player whether or not the Pokémon is recruitable. The message "You see a [Pokémon name]. [Pokémon name] is not recruitable in this area." will appear if the Pokémon is unrecruitable. If it is recruitable, the message will instead say, "You see a [Pokémon name]. You have a [percentage] of recruiting [Pokémon name]!". Most often the percentage will be a positive number; however, some Pokémon have a negative recruitment rate.

NPC Pokémon are not recruitable.

## Recruitment Criteria

If a Pokémon is listed as recruitable, there is a chance that it will want to join the player's team upon defeating it. In order for this to occur, certain criteria must be met.
• The player's level must be higher than the defeated Pokémon's.
• The higher the player's level, the greater the chance of recruitment.
• The player must have one open slot in his or her party.
• The Recruit Rate of the Pokémon must be a positive number.

Other factors apply to recruiting. For example, the Pokémon's spawn rate will affect it's Recruit Rate, as well the specific dungeon itself.

## Applied Recruit Rate

The Applied Recruit Rate refers to the bonus percentage added to a Pokémon's Recruit Rate depending on the player's level.

### Pokémon Level

The higher the level of the player, the more his or her hidden Recruit Rate increases. The increases follows the formula:

$(Level) * (.1)$

For example a level 10 will have a bonus recruit rate of +1% while a level 100 will have a bonus recruit rate of +10%

These Recruit Rates are not shown separately in the chat message and are instead added to the original recruit rate. For example, a Pokémon with a Recruit Rate of 7% will have a 17% recruit rate if a Level 100 is being used. This means that the message will show a 17% rate instead of the 7%.

### Explorer Rank

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 the maximum of +11% applied recruit rate. Complete missions to increase Explorer Rank.

Rank Explorer Points Bonus Recruit Rate
Normal Start +0%
Bronze 100
Silver 300 +3.5%
Gold 1600 +6.5%
Diamond 3200
Super 5000 +8.5%
Ultra 7500 +8.5%
Hyper 10500 +8.5%
Master 13500 +8.5%
Master* 17000 +9.0%
Master** 21000 +9.5%​
Master*** 25000 +10%
Guildmaster 100000 +11%

### Items

There are three items that give a bonus to the recruit rate of a Pokémon.

• Friend Bow

Friend Bow gives a +10% recruit rate and is a team item, meaning any Pokémon may hold it. It is found at the end of Friendship Forest.

Golden Mask gives an additional +24% recruit rate. It must be held by the active Pokémon to take effect.

• Soothe Bell

The Soothe Bell item adds an additional hidden Recruit Rate of +1%. It must be held by the active Pokémon to take effect.

## Previous Event Pokémon

Certain Pokémon, such as Eevee, were unobtainable outside of events. The current event-exclusive Pokémon in PMU are as follows:

• Gible
• Lillipup
• Pansage
• Pansear
• Panpour
• Audino
• Flabébé
• Pumpkaboo
• Klefki
• Rowlet
• Popplio
• Litten
• Stufful
• Salandit
• Mimikyu

## List of Recruitable Pokémon

Check the List of Recruitable Pokémon.

## Trivia

• The Soothe Bell item gave a Recruit Rate boost of +6% in PMU 6.
• In PMU 6 and the beginning of PMU 7, Recruit Rates were out of 1000.
• A Pokémon would have a +64 Recruit Rate, which equates to +6.4%.
• Some Pokémon that have a -100% Recruit Rate can be recruited.
• If Honey is used in the final room in Sunny Hillside, it used to spawn recruitable Level 32 Sunflora. Now, recruitable Sunkern will spawn instead.
• Pitch-Black Abyss

is currently the sole dungeon where Pokémon can only be recruited from eggs.