So i need someone to confirm this. So to get the johto starter, i not only have to beat all 100 trainers on mt. Battle in one continous run, and not only can I not change pokemon mid run, but i also cannot switch my team order.
Is that right or are there more arbitrary restrictions?
I'm not complaining because that it's hard, just that it's annoying.
I’m loving this game! Never got the chance to play it back then, but I 100% Colosseum back in the Gamecube days. I am loving the story and using Pokemon I’ve never used before, since the options seem pretty limited without being able to trade from GBA games. I wish I would have been able to transfer my FireRed or LeafGreen Pokemon to this game. Ursaring is also now one of my favorites because of this experience, and I will probably use him in a mainline playthrough. I just got to the island using the Kyogre boat and have no idea what to expect. Anyone else playing this on NSO?
Genuinely not the slightest bit upset about reaching almost double odds here, it's just balancing things out after I previously got extremely lucky on the original GameCube version. On that version, I got one uncatchable tutorial Salamence at 1151 resets, two male Eevees at 3084 and 6897 resets, and finally my target female shiny Eevee at only 7646 resets.
Now, I'm thrilled and relieved to have my shiny starter for XD on NSO after only one Phase (the uncatchable tutorial Salamence at 7384 resets) and a total of 14225 resets! This hunt took about 3 months of resetting every day, with each reset taking about two minutes because of the unskippable opening cutscene. Nearly 300 hours were spent actively hunting, with my Switch profile saying I've been going 755 hours (never opened any game other than XD on the GameCube Classics NSO app) but that includes times I stepped away, or fell asleep and let the Switch automatically enter Sleep Mode, etc.
Now to figure out which evolution I want to go with (screenshot of all of them in the comments).
Getting ahead of some likely questions:
I thought Pokémon in XD were shiny locked?
Shadow Pokémon are, yes. The starter Eevee, the wild Pokéspot Pokémon, in-game trades, and the three Mt. Battle reward Pokémon can all be hunted with standard Gen 3 1/8192 shiny odds.
Was this RNG manipulated?
No. Full soft resets to the title screen using the B+X+Start button combination.
Did you use Suspend Points (save states)? You probably wouldn't have actually gone so far over odds, you probably just kept hitting the same frames.
No. It would've been nice if Suspend Points could speed the hunt up, but I specifically did proper in-game SRs because using Suspend Points will indeed lead to hitting the same RNG frames.
Why hunt on NSO? You can't trade or transfer to HOME, so this shiny's pointless and destined to disappear one day.
Honestly, I don't mind at all that shinies in this game are stuck here. Colosseum and XD are my two favourite Pokémon titles by far, and that's not even counting the fact that shinies in these games are much more special to me because they usually have different colours compared to the main series games. So I'll gladly keep Eevee and future shinies in this game until the day the GameCube Classics app is no longer usable.
That meaning, you only have access to your Eeveelution, the Poké Spot Pokémon, Zaprong, Duking's trades, and the Mt. Battle rewards.
I want to do this myself, so I'm trying to decide whether to evolve my Eevee into Umbreon or Vaporeon given the limited team options when excluding all the Shadows.
I know the Mirror B. rematches are for catching missed shadow Pokémon, but is there a reason to battle him in the Pyrite town colosseum or the Realgam Tower colosseum?
Are there any set of trainers with Pokémon between 50 and like 57?
Mt. Battle leaps from the low 40s in Area 6 to just below 60 in Area 7. Got to the Area 7 leader, and a bad ordering of my team made clear how underleveled my team is.
Miror B is all lvl 57 and because my team is underleveled, his Swift Swim Ludicolos outspeed almost my entire team and wreck them.
I spent a lot of yesterday just fighting the colored squad over and over at the lab, since their teams are all lvl 50.
This is my main team as of the end credits. In order, they were holding: Charcoal, TwistedSpoon, Sharp Beak, Silk Scarf, Nevermeltice, Magnet. Pretty obvious item selection.
Houndoom, Ursaring, and Walrein were taken out for the final fight. I subbed in Snorlax and Salamance, each with Leftovers. I kept the 6th slot open so I could use Lugia after catching it with the Master Ball. Really fitting that the last two catches happened with Jolteon and Lugia being my only remaining members.
Though I once played this game on release 20+ years ago, this is my first time actually beating Greevil. Looking forward to the post-game.