Client

In job missions in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, the client of the mission is the Pokémon requesting professional help from the player's exploration team, typically involving a visit to a dungeon. Possible requests include, but are not limited to, traveling with the client, rescuing the client, and delivering an item. Once the mission is completed, the client rewards the player. The reward is usually an item and money, but occasionally, the client can join the player's team as a permanent team member. Over the course of the story, job missions typically involve Pokémon that have appeared as wild Pokémon in dungeons the player has already visited. For example, in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness, a player who has completed Mt. Bristle but has not yet unlocked Waterfall Cave can expect to see job missions involving Pokémon from Beach Cave, Drenched Bluff, and Mt. Bristle, such as Shellos and Geodude. 
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and its sequels Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, an online generator for Wonder Mail can be used to choose a client of the player's choice, allowing the player to recruit Pokémon much earlier than they would normally become available through normal gameplay, though some Pokémon are unavailable via Wonder Mail. Legendary Pokémon and Kecleon are unobtainable through this method regardless of the game. Many Pokémon that are NPCs or major storyline characters in the Explorers games, such as Loudred, Chatot, or Grovyle, are also unavailable through this method in those games.
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, Magnemite and Magnezone frequently appear as the clients of jobs on the Outlaw Notice Board that require the player to visit a predetermined floor of a dungeon to take down a wanted criminal Pokémon in the form of a boss battle. However, Magnemite and Magnezone are unavailable as clients for rescue missions and escort missions, and thus cannot be recruited through this method. Also in these games, all clients that join the player's team are Level 7, except in Zero Isles East, West and South, where they are Level 1 instead. The client Pokémon will not earn Experience Points during the mission. The client Pokémon cannot pick up any items. If the client Pokémon is defeated during the mission, the mission is failed and it is treated as a defeat for the player's team, with the same consequences as any other defeat (loss of some of the player's items and all of the player's money). If the player has a full team prior to attempting the mission, the last member of the player's party will return to Chimecho Assembly to make room for the client. Upon unlocking optional dungeons such as Midnight Forest or Happy Outlook, the player must complete an escort mission by bringing the client to the final floor of the dungeon. Any client Pokémon that is recruited through a job mission begins at Level 1, even if the mission was an escort mission. Joy Seeds and Golden Seeds cannot be used to increase the level of a client. Attempting to do so will result in the message "<species> didn't level up", where <species> is the client's species. For example, attempting to level up a client Starly will result in the message "Starly didn't level up." If talked to, a client says, "I'm counting on you!" if at or near full HP (80% or higher), and "I might be done for" if at critically low HP (25% or lower).
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