BenjiTheKid

Cooltrainer Benji

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Spring Lake, NC
Seen August 24th, 2014
Posted May 19th, 2011
496 posts
14.3 Years
I've been trying to play Colesseum for a while now. But, there's something about it that is beginning to annoy the heck out of me. Everytime I play it, I realize how everyone I battle seems to have Pokemon on a higher level than mine. Seriously. Am I the only one who has this problem? It's like, I'll get to a new town and ~think~ my Pokemon are so awesome because my Umbreon just got to Lv 33 only to find out all the Pokemon in that town are Lv 36-40!! And that has me going like- O_O- WHAT? But, that's not the problem, I suppose. That's good for training. Because, if you beat them, your Pokemon get mad Exp points. However, the shadow Pokemon are what have me lagging behind. I have trouble leveling shadow Pokemon without being able to see how man Exp points they have. And, since each Pokemon gains Exp points just a ~little~ differently, I never know when to battle with which shadow Pokemon. In Gale of Darkness, this was never a problem- since your Pokemon started out on low levels and leveling a low-level Pokemon is easy. But, in Colesseum... this is a problem for me. Because I find leveling middle level Pokemon hard... so, when I finally do get to purify my shadow Pokemon... I wanna throw the game out the window. Because, this is how it usually looks. (I'm using my most recent list):

Umbreon: Lv 38
Espeon: Lv 38
Ampharos: Lv 33
Bayleef: Lv 31
Slugma: Lv 31
Misdreavus: Lv 33

Now, this wouldn't be a problem... and getting the others to Lv 38 would be easy... if everyone elses Pokemon weren't a few levels higher than my strongest two. (I seriously don't know how Misdreavus is higher than Bayleef and Slugma... I use Bayleef and Slugma MORE Dx) Well, what I wanna know is... how can I get my entire team on the same level? Without throwing the game out the window? If anyone else had this problem and found a solution; help is much appreciated.

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bobandbill

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Interesting question, and a problem some other players I think could relate to as well.

I'll say that the best training spot in Colosseum by far is Mt Battle - although you have to clear the first few sets of 10 which are ridiculously easy to access the others , the good thing is you don't have to worry about battling Pokemon with levels higher than your Shadow Pokemon. You can redo areas again and again, so you can fight the same levelled Pokemon over and over. (Each area is made up of ten battles, ten areas in all, and the levels range from 10/15-ish... (?) up to level 60, evenly spread over those areas).

Definately an advantage over some places (like Pyrite Square even), as the trainers there tend to get stronger as well. So I'd strongly recommend using Mt Battle as your training base. (If you haven't gone there yet - you will VERY soon, and you'll have to do the storyline-related stuff there before you can take it on and use it).

Also, I'll add that Shadow Pokemon only start recieving experiance from battles after you've purifyed two bars on the Shadow Metre (i.e. when you can find out the nature of the Shadow Pokemon, which is hidden until then). Before then they will not recieve any experiance points, so keep that in mind (and this would go a way to explaining why Shadow Pokemon you used more levelled up less, besides the fact Pokemon level up at different rates as well).

Good luck levelling your Pokemon and beating Colosseum!

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BenjiTheKid

Cooltrainer Benji

Non-binary
Spring Lake, NC
Seen August 24th, 2014
Posted May 19th, 2011
496 posts
14.3 Years
Thank you, bobandbill! I just got to Mt Battle yesterday and I've been training there. It really did help a lot. I switched my Misdreavious out (after finding out he didn't evolve unless you had a stone... >>) for Quagsire and Mt Battle helped open Quagsire's heart AND get her to a pretty good Lv. So, it works. It's a lot of training... a lot more than XD... but, I do play for the battles... xD

And, I didn't know that about the shadow meter. I just assumed that they got Exp points the entire time. That would explain a lot, though.

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