Official Pokémon Colosseum & XD: Gale of Darkness Recent Happenings Thread V2

[CJ0114]

I'm leveling a team in XD to send to Black and White. I hope to restart Colosseum after that to do the same. I love these two games

[Drummerdude]

I recently started a new game on Colosseum. I went through the dull stuff near the beginning and got around to snagging the Makuhita. Then I attempted to snag the Bayleef outside the mayors office but Makuhita knocked it out with a critical hit. I proceeded to Pyrite Town and captured my third team member (Espeon and Umbreon are the first two), a Slugma. I snagged the other Pokemon in the area, as well as the Furret near the entrance before finding the missing Gear and beating the a Colosseum challenge.

[The Eleventh]

I started XD today. After spending over ten minutes trying to find Adon (please, do not judge), I headed to Dr. Kaminko's Lab, where I battled Chobin. Oh, Chobin. I found my sister, then headed back to the Lab, where I snagged Teddiursa. I went to Gateon Port, witnessed a battle between the ~Mystery Man~ and Zook. In Gateon, I snagged a Ledyba, but avoided Poochyena, in case I want to reset for it later on. I chose the Water Stone in the shop in Gateon, after much deliberation. I haven't evolved Eevee yet, though I will soon. I saved after bringing the Machine Part back to the Lab and arriving in Agate Village.

Current Team:
Lv. 11
Lv. 11

[Aquarelle]

I got around to working on purifying more Pokemon on Colosseum today. The first Pokemon I worked on was Miltank. I fought with it in several colosseums and Mt. Battle. It did not go into Hyper Mode very often, so the purification process was very slooooow. I ended up spamming scents on it to empty all the bars. Once it was ready to be fully purified, I took it to the relic and opened its heart. It then gained 5 levels and I nicknamed it.

After that, I started to work on purifying Delibird. I got the door to its heart over halfway open, which didn't take that long. I will finish purifying it next time.

[Shadow Aura]

While waiting for my Pokémon Black 2 to arrive, I decided to pick up Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness as a way to blow off some of the Pokémon hype I've been giving myself lately. I haven't played it in years.

Since I have already beat the game, I have decided to get the last remaining Shadow Pokémon and try to snag them from Mirror B. whenever he appears. I've missed about 10-15, so I should keep myself occupied for a while.

I'm also trying to beat all the Battle CD's. Really fun - brilliant concept, by the way - but also quite challenging. Had to look for help with a Battle CD that involved two Vigoroths, both with Taunt, Encore and Facade against a trolling Clefable, a Baton Passing Ninjask and an Ursaring with Earthquake. That was a tough one - I even remember getting stuck with it when I played it years ago!

So far I'm enjoying myself once again. I wish I hadn't sold my Pokémon Colosseum though. Wes was the most badass-looking protagonist ever.

[Bobrocket]

so i found my gamecube and colosseum, put in my memory card first time in over 6 years
put in the R-Disk at the Upper, beat cipher admin with pokemon 10 levels under hers (i got a critical bite before i caught suicune, i'm so pissed)
about to do the Upper colosseum, wish me luck

snagged 10 pokés, purifed 3

typhlosion - lv37
plusle - lv24
espeon - lv38
furret - lv37
sudowoodo - lv35
umbreon - lv36

[Cronkr]

Decided after working on collecting Pokemon in Pearl and Black 2 to revisit Colosseum and XD. Took my XD team from when I restarted it over a year ago to Mt. Battle and beat it again, loved the feeling of getting my prize Totodile again!

[The Flash]

Was it just me, or did Colesseum seem really hard? I had difficulty beating it, but XD I had no troubles.

I haven't played them in forever, but I really wish they'd make a third game and make it a complete trilogy.

[ZeroKyurem]

Was it just me, or did Colesseum seem really hard? I had difficulty beating it, but XD I had no troubles.

I haven't played them in forever, but I really wish they'd make a third game and make it a complete trilogy.

Lol, I know your pain. I was quite surprised between the level gap from the Team Snagem boss to the Chipher Boss.

My team was around the 40's, and thanks to an EXP share, my Altaria was around 57. It helped me so very much.

Also, after watching the Trailer for Pokemon X and Y, upon seeing the 3D white structures in the desert, I actually thought that the region was going to be Orre.

...and I'm still hoping that the new region is adjacent to Orre. :3

[Glitch314]

Colosseum:
Used some scents on my shadow vibrava, and gave it the exp share. Then I went and beat Mt. Battle (Lv. 40-60) a couple times until all my other pokemon gained a few levels each. Then I purified it. It went from Lv. 43 to Lv. 55, and evolved into flygon - all in one go.

[Youngster Sheba]

Colosseum: Defeated Lady Venus and chased her down to obtain the Subway Key. Currently battling in Pyrite town to purify Hitmontop and Sudowoodo. Also obtained TM18 Rain Dance and TM01 Focus Punch.

Party:
Sudowoodo(shadow) Lv35
Hitmontop(shadow) Lv38
Slugma Lv34
Altaria Lv42
Espeon Lv38
Umbreon Lv41

[Cronkr]

Internet was out for a couple days last week so popped in Colosseum. After spamming the Deep Colosseum for a couple hours officially got my 15th level 100 on that game (this one was a traded Steelix from LeafGreen). I'm probably going to work on bringing my Scizor to level 100 on there next.

[Pikafleg]

I started a new XD version recently, and evolved my eevee into a Jolteon. I'm up to snagem's laire. My team is Jolteon, Ursaring, Mightyena, Numel, Aron and Seel. I also started to train the baltoy, but subbed it out, might use it again though. I actually have purified all of the shadow pokemon I have so far...this is like the first time that in the middle of the story I have six complete purification sets but no shadow pokemon in any lol. I also realized a little too late that only one pokemon in my team that evolves twice, which isn't great...but whatever.

EDIT: This one Snagem member just said "You inflitrated Team Snagem's Base? That takes guts!" right before the battle. The funny thing is, my teddiursa had just evolved two battles before him, and if I had waited until that battle to get it to level 30, I could have been like at the end of the battle, "You said it takes guts? Ok then..." and then teddiursa would have evolved and gained the ability guts. Now I have it! lololololol yeah I love corny jokes sorry if I just made you groan :P

[Aquarelle]

Worked on purifying some more Pokemon on Colosseum a few days ago. In total, I purified several Pokemon, including Dunsparce, Togetic, and Granbull. I mostly just used a bunch of scents on them and then battled a lot at Mt. Battle and the colosseums. Now, I have purified just over half of all the Shadow Pokemon in the game. Also, I've trained most of the members of my team to above level 80.

[Pikafleg]

In XD I just decided to replace my Lairon with another aron, as (which I technically knew since I got it) it has a mild nature. Not only is it a terrible pokemon to have a sp. attack enhancing nature, but mild lowers its defense, and of course lairon and aggron have incredible defense, but I'd like it to take full advantage of its awesome defense. It also so happened that I had already caught (after I started training my first aron but before the decision to maybe not use it) another aron with an impish nature, which is great for it (adamant or jolly would have been even better but its fine). And then to be sure I was making the right decision (well actually it wouldn't be making total sure, but its the best I can do), I checked the IVs of the second aron, and they were pretty good...so I replaced Lairon! Yeah, I rarely swap a pokemon for a better one of the same species...actually I've never done it after training the pokemon for as long as I did Lairon ever before! Also, for some reason I only now thought of changing my signature to have my current super awesome (in my biased opinion :P) XD team, instead of the black 2 team that while I love, I haven't used in ages! lol I'll do that now...

[Aquarelle]

I continued to work on purifying Pokemon in Colosseum. First, I purified Forretress and Ariados. After that, I did Vibrava and Gligar. All their heart gauges emptied rather quickly because I spammed a whole bunch of scents on my Pokemon and they went into Hyper Mode quite often. Once I was done purifying those Pokemon, I picked up the Shadow Sudowoodo from the Day Care. Its bars were completely empty so I was able to purify it too. Now, my total number of purified Pokemon is 30! I'm now working on purifying Skiploom.

[Pikafleg]

In XD I just fainted two shadow pokemon in one battle, because (in my not so humble opinion ) my ursaring is too strong. Yeah, what a shame, I know it sucks right....lol I'm sorta kidding, btw. Besides was just a dodrio and ratticate, so whatever I'm fine with finding mirror B again...hope its at a pokespot for once lol. Though actually I've only missed a shadow pokemon twice before that, and all three times I found him (including the nosepass which of course you have to faint first time) he was in a colosseum. But that's still a much better accuracy than I've done in the game before! lol still have the greevil battle though, and I don't think I've ever gotten all six the first time though...

and ha the trainer after the raticate and dodrio one asks you (in a way you can really answer) if you want to have a battle, and if you say no he just says "that's mighty cold of you" and still battles you anyway. Not that I didn't want to battle, I just wanted to see what would happen...I did that with mirror B and Lovrina too just for fun, where I answered that I would do something that goes against being a protagonist just for fun lol

[LimeSoda]

I finally purified all 48 shadow Pokemon on Colosseum. Before going to Mt. Battle however, I decided to purify around 34 Pokemon on XD so I can trade hoppips, so I can purify XD 001

[Pikafleg]

Guess what? In XD I was about to snag a shadow pokemon with yellow health, but accidentally selected the other shadow pokemon opponent, that had full H.P. Crazily it actually caught it! And it was an altaria, which I think would have a fairly high catch rate. But there was a down side to that crazy luck, in that the capture made my other pokemon attack the remaining opponent (a farfetch'd, btw), and it fainted. Oh well. I actually wouldn't even really care about it at all if you didn't need to catch them all to get dragonite. Of course there still is mirror B, just saying.

[Aquarelle]

Purified some more Pokemon on Colosseum, including Tropius, Sneasel, Swablu, and Meditite. I went through dozens of scents and many, many colosseum battles in order to get all the heart gauges down. Now, I have a total of 38 Pokemon purified, so I'm getting close to purifying them all.
Also, I worked on levelling up my Umbreon because it was lagging behind the rest of my team. I gave it the Exp. Share yesterday when it was level 73. When I finished purifying Pokemon today, it had grown to lv. 88, making it the highest on my team now.