Pokémon Colosseum
Pokémon Colosseum was released in 2003 (Japan) and 2004 (international) for the Nintendo GameCube.
The game contains two modes: Story Mode and Battle Mode. In Story Mode, the player can play through a story set in the Orre region and capture a total of 52 Pokémon (not counting their evolutions). In Battle Mode, the player can engage in several battle challenges, using either Pokémon captured in the Story Mode, or Pokémon from a connected Game Boy Advance game. Two players can use Battle Mode to conduct battles using teams from their Game Boy Advance games, similar to the Stadium games.
This game remains the only way that a player trying to complete the National Dex in any Generation 3 game can obtain Ho-Oh without glitches, cheats, or access to a long-defunct event.
Subpages
I am still working on verifying all the information on the Locations pages & working through Battle Mode to provide additional context for those pages.
Story Mode
- Orre Locations: A list of all areas in the Orre region, with items and Trainers.
- Mt. Battle Trainers: A list of all 100 Trainers that can be battled in Mt. Battle in Story Mode, with information about Pokémon's moves, abilities, stats, and Natures.
Battle Mode
These pages contain information about the moves, abilities, stats, and Natures of all Pokémon that can be battled in each option available in Battle Mode.
Other pages
- All Pokémon and their locations: A table containing all available Pokémon and their locations (not counting bonus disc or e-Reader data).
- Shadow Pokémon list: A list of all Shadow Pokémon (not counting e-Reader data) and their levels, held items, and moves.
- Ribbons: A list of all Ribbons that can be obtained in Colosseum and their locations.
- TM locations: A table of all obtainable TMs and their locations.
- Poké Ball locations: A list of all Poké Ball locations.
- Stat booster locations: A list of all stat-boosting items, as well as Rare Candies, and their locations.
- Held item locations: Lists of all obtainable held items, including Berries, and their locations.
- Minimum levels (Generation 3): A page with lists of the lowest levels at which you can have any Pokémon in Colosseum, taking into account Pokémon that can be obtained at lower levels by trading with Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen, or XD.
Off-site resources
- Card e Room, a Japanese-only location accessible by scanning e-Reader cards that provides access to Shadow Mareep, Togepi, and Scizor, on Bulbapedia.
- IV Calculator, on PycoSites.
- Stat Calculator, on PycoSites.
- Capture Mechanics, on The Cave of Dragonflies.
- Catch Rate Calculator, on The Cave of Dragonflies.
- Purification Guide, on The Cave of Dragonflies.
- Colosseum Mechanics Guide, on Smogon.
- TM Locations, on Smogon.
- In-Game Tier List, a fan-driven effort to rank how good Pokémon are when used in-game, on Smogon.
- Gen 3 base stats, on Bulbapedia.
- Pokémon movepools, on Bulbapedia.
Credits & sources
- This guide by Stars, whose instructions and data formats helped me to construct a program to dump Trainer parties.
- SadisticMystic and ShinxHijinx, for helping me on some formatting and replacing IDs with names in the dump after I made it.
- Bulbapedia, for basic information about Trainer parties, which I matched up with my dumps.