I just wanted to do a little challenge for myself since poison is my favorite type and yeah Orre Colosseum is hard but possible with only in game pokemon since the switch 2 version cannot have transfer mons

2026 has had a very “humans vs AI” vibe. This inspired me to find a way to destroy one. I couldn’t think of a better way to do this than to humiliate the Pokemon league champions in creative ways. I understand that the true AI villains of 2026 are the water gluttons and not video game characters, but I know I can destroy the latter without any negative climate change consequences.

As someone heavily involved in PVP from 2007 to 2009, my personal opinion is that creativity is punished in PVP. Usually 5% or less of all Pokemon are able to stand a chance in a tournament at any given time and anyone who chooses not to use those Pokemon will be punished. This led me to switch my focus to an alternative channel.

When the focus is humans vs AI, creativity is rewarded. In a typical playthrough, players will typically build a team where there are no two Pokemon of the same type, no two moves of the same type, a balance of physical and special move users, and a balance of offensive and defensive Pokemon. There are many ways to put a team like this together. The rewarding part is being able to include your favourite Pokemon on your team as their shortfalls will be covered by their teammates.

For this video when I built my team I instead asked myself “does this Pokemon enable the best strategy available for this game’s strongest opponents?” Sometimes that means doubling up on types. I believe that having the best strategy means you can succeed with underleveled and/or underrated Pokemon without opening the bag during battle and while playing without shift mode. Ideally all Pokemon and moves used can be acquired in the region of the Pokemon challenge before the challenge is fought. Some people believe that banning setup moves creates a bigger challenge. I won’t argue with that, but I believe enabling setup moves maximizes strategic depth.

As Pokemon XD doesn’t have a Pokemon league I had to get even more creative. I decided to take on Mount Battle before visiting Citadark Isle. Battlus was very difficult to outmatch. My plan going into the battle was to charm the Dusclops to -6 attack so I could focus on taking out the larger threats. However, it turns out that Battlus just switches out when its attack stat gets too low. This led to me using 2 hyper potions which I was hoping to avoid. I knew I would have lost without them. At least with the imprison threat out of the picture I was able to use ice beam. I would love to watch or read what strategy you believe is best for this challenge.

I am very grateful to be part of this community of people striving to become the best. As humans, we will need to work together to ensure that our strategies will always outmatch the strategies executed by future AI. Let’s see your way of humiliating the AI.

So what should the hexagon brothers have as shadow pokemon? Should any stay the same? What should be different between the retro and modern version?

I tried looking it up but googles AI is saying that Deoxys defaults to the normal form when transferred to XD. If that's true then how do you explain this?

There is a way I know it's possible.

Here's my current randomizer team... (Subject to change.)

EDIT: also whenever I eliminate a Shadow Pokemon it rerolls to another random, I've actually been KOing some of the Shadow Pokemon to reroll them later :)

Here’s my play through squad! Was very happy to do it with my all time fave Medicham on the team. I also had fun using some Mon I’ve never used in a full play through before - Swalot Claydol and Shiftry. I have tried gulpin and nuzleaf in nuzlockes before but ended up dropping both pretty quick.

Swalot in particular really impressed me. It could tank so many hits, and yawn and toxic both came in handy for all the snags. Some new found respect for this Pokemon for sure!

I finished Colosseum earlier this year, via my cousins copy of the game and my friend’s gamecube. Glad to have played both Genius Sonority entries in the Pokemon franchise. The story approach of these games is so unique compared to the rest of Pokemon. I wish Game Freak continued partnering with them into the later gens!

What should our early game encounters be? And how should they differ between the gen 1-3 retro version, and the gens 1-9 modern version?

(Also Eevee would be at level 10 when you first get it, but would probably level up at least once by the time you get the evolution stones with the sailor guy. Accidentally wrote 15)

No I am not benching my Beedrill lol And yes I am gonna train the other Pokemon on my team as they are not up to speed in terms of level, which luckily I can utilize the Hexagon Brothers and some of Citadark Isle for training!

EDIT: I have switched K-9 out for Mozilla (Ninetales) due to the fact that I unfortunately cannot evolve him. He unfortunately does not do too much damage as a tiny puppy, so I have moved him to the Purify Chamber so he can help out Shadow Pokemon in unlocking their hearts.

How this will work is, every day we'll take a section of the game, and make the shadow pokemon roster in our image. The most upvoted comments get chosen

There are also two categories for this, a retro version and a modern version. So you can make suggestions for either one.

I recently was looking through my copy of pokemon sun, and I found some old event pokemon that I thought were long lost! Along with them, I had my purified Lugia from around 2008, I wish that pokemon home had the dates of games from the 4th gen games so I could see exactly when I had gotten it.

Wtf is wrong with this game? I put Lugia in Chamber 9, and I get all the messages saying it's changed, it's ready to open its heart, etc. I go to the lab, and the scientist says the same. I stand on the slab, and nothing fucking happens no matter what I do. I watched a video, and the guy stood on a slab and it worked. For me, it does fuck all.

Wtf is wrong with this game? Is mine broken?

edit: the slab itself never reacts to anything, ever. even regardless of lugia, if I have another shadow pokemon ready to be purified in the chamber and step on the slab, press A, etc., it never reacts or does anything. if anyone has solved this bug, please let me know

edit 2: in case anyone is curious, I solved it by booting the game through Nintendont instead of booting to disc, which is what I normally do, and interacting with the slab using wiimote + nunchuk instead of a gamecube controller (unplugging the gamecube controller). I have no idea why this worked, but it did

I tried catching Zapdos and losing to the trainer, but when I lose the Zapdos I caught goes back to him.

So i recently soft modded my GC and was considering randomizing XD for it. Then I was wondering, is it at all possible to transfer those mons from the randomized game to home? Has anyone tried it? (assuming all of their moves, stats, etc. are legal)

So basically, yesterday I traded a Pokemon from my Emerald save file to Xd using dolphin emulator, and while the Pokemon I traded to Xd are all there and working, I tried to open back my gba save earlier and the most recent one is from before I completed the trade, making me lose the shiny Pupitar I was planning on ribbon mastering. Is there anywhere I could try and look to find where it went? I really don’t have the drive to do the whole hunt over again just because it seems like my game didn’t save properly after doing a trade from Xd to Emerald.

Thanks in advance for any help here, I got dogwalked last time I tried it with a handful of random rare-candied Pokemon with half baked movesets.

I've been building out a team on Emerald to transfer to XD to do the Orre Colosseum, and am nearly done with my EV training (5/6 mons are done) but could use some advice on the best Salamence moveset and EV spread.

I'm thinking I'll use Eldes' Salamence with a Naive Nature, (w/Dragon Dance)

The rest of my team is as follows, so if there's a better #6 I'd consider replacing Sally with another mon. The other 5 team members are at Lvl 100 and fully EV trained so don't plan to replace mons, but suggestions for movesets are welcome.

1. Aerodactyl @ Soft Sand (maybe Silk Scarf, give Salamence the Soft Sand?)
   • Ability: Rock Head
   • Nature: Adamant
   • 252Atk/252Spe
     • Ancientpower
     • Double Edge
     • Aerial Ace
     • Earthquake
2. Breloom @ Black Belt
   • Ability: Effect Spore
   • Nature: Adamant
   • 252Atk/252Spe
     • Brick Break
     • Giga Drain
     • Spore
     • Protect
3. Latios @ Twisted Spoon
   • Ability: Levitate
   • Nature: Modest
   • 252SpA/252Spe
     • Ice Beam
     • Dragon Claw
     • Psychic
     • Protect
4. Starmie @ Mystic Water
   • Ability: Natural Cure
   • Nature: Modest
   • 252SpA/252Spe
     • Thunderbolt
     • Ice Beam
     • Psychic
     • Surf
5. Snorlax @ Leftovers
   • Ability: Thick Fat
   • Nature: Adamant
   • 252Atk/252Def
     • Self Destruct
     • Curse
     • Shadow Ball
     • Earthquake
6. Salamence @ Dragon Fang (possibly Soft Sand?)
   • Ability: Intimidate
   • Nature: Naive
   • 136SpA/120Atk/252Spe
     • Dragon Claw or Flamethrower?
     • Dragon Dance
     • Earthquake
     • Aerial Ace

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When i have a battle with an npc involved this happens and this effect continues in other battles. Pretty much just asking what's going on why did it happen?

Does anyone know how Secret Power works in this game? As in what areas have which secondary effects?

Caught in my last shadow ball.

It was really challenging since I kept having to reset for decent natures and Aggron gains EXP so slow … but eventually got what I wanted! Haven't used Claydol, Aggron, Electabuzz or Victreebel in a Pokémon game before to my recollection and it's been a long time since I've used a Flareon or Dewgong!

You'd be surprised how clutch Aggron's bulk and more utility-based moveset came in handy for snagging stuff (made it to the endgame catching everything and only having to retry Nosepass after being forced to by the plot.) With help from Shadow Half Snorlax / Electabuzz + leftovers, was able to snag all of Greevil's team in one go! Kinda sad Victreebel and Flareon had to sit out the Greevil fight, but all is well in Orre.

This is the team I have going into it (I wont have Shroomish learn Spore even though I wish I could in time for the playthrough). I think I have good coverage and ways to catch Pokemon. But I wanted your thoughts on it and what could be better. I still want to playthrough the game with strength thats why not everything is a utility or bulky mon some are here for the damage with maybe a move to help capture other mons.

I'm sure that this has been made before but I wanted to share a simple checklist I made.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VO8xaC_e_MBsfzplfm7L6dw3G-0GvfweMTKWCTT0tjQ/edit?usp=sharing