Pokémon Colosseum

Pokémon Colosseum is a game that in real life was first released in Japan on 21 November 2003 and was, along with and , designed for players of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Versions to collect Pokémon not available in those games due to disallowing trading with previous generations. Eagle-eyed readers of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Versions will have noted my open contempt for restrictions on cross-generational trading, and as such may be wondering why I am introducing this game given why it was introduced in the first place. This is a slightly different take on Colosseum, as it would have taken place in the universe as described in Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions, whereby parts of are available as downloadable content instead.
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For starters, Colosseum would have been released in March 2003, exactly one year after the first games of its generation, so Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions, and it would have been released worldwide that day. The would almost certainly have been able to connect to the internet; the (and by extension Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Stadium 2) were able to connect to Randnet, and therefore rather than releasing a second game in , that game's contents would be pillaged and released as downloadable content à la the . Damsels in distress would have gone down like a lead balloon in my universe, so here you can choose between playing as or - and Rui would have appeared as she did in real-life Japanese releases. (I mean, if people can cope with …).
Although all 508 Pokémon from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions can be imported, by virtue of the game's available Pokémon mirroring those from real-life Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness, all of the Pokémon available to catch were released in either Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions or Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Versions. That's with the exception of the , and families, which were not introduced in Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions due to it being and in one.
==Pokémon==
List of Pokémon	List of Pokémon	List of Pokémon	List of Pokémon	List of Pokémon
# 	# 	Name 	Type 	Type
There are nine new Pokémon in this game, the starters , and , and their respective evolution families; to match Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions, where several Pokémon evolve at the levels they would have evolved at in the beta, , and all evolve into , and at level 32.
There are 131 Shadow Pokémon in this game. There are 131 Pokémon across real-life non-Japanese and , but with the eleven duplicates , , , , , , , , , and replaced by the eleven Pokémon in the that don't appear in either real-life Colosseum or XD, so , , , , , , , , , and .
To facilitate the two games' concatenation, all unSnagged Pokémon are picked up by (to avoid the player having to deal with - - - - - , this includes both the unchosen starters), who wanders away from between and , and is next fought at . , therefore, has only four rounds, with TM rewards knocked back by a round; will only ever appear via in or at a .
, incidentally, is one of thirteen trainers to have a 'foreign' Shadow Pokémon, that is to say a Shadow Pokémon they would not normally have; the only electric type Shadow Pokémon in the game are , , , , and , and Diogo having means that needs a different Electric type Pokémon - so I've moved across, and given . Mesin has a for a similar reason; Nella has a , and so Mesin's has been moved across. On account of being moved to between and , Kilen has instead of , which replaces Nexir's , which is duplicated by Lesar's , and Cyle has a instead of , which is duplicated by Kloak's . , who has his Shadow Pokémon when you face him in rather than at , has a instead of a , and ' Torkin has a instead of a . Gonrag has instead of , which is duplicated by Vana's , Greck has instead of , which is duplicated by Lonia's and hands over a , as has a . has a instead of , as Zalo has a .
Oh, and note that I have no tremendous problem with Pokémon being massively underevolved for their level, because they are not wild Pokémon (they're looked after by trainers, who can cancel evolution at will).
==Moves and abilities==
This version contains 490 moves, so the 473 from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions and the 17 from real-life . has 55 base power and no recoil damage, like in . The first 48 Shadow Pokémon (i.e. the 'classic' 48 from real-life ) have as their only Shadow move, while the remaining 73 keep their moves from real-life . The 123 abilities from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions turn up here as well. Note that all of the 'special' moves in were introduced in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Versions as level 1 moves.
==Geography==
Almost everything in real-life shows up here; damsels in distress would have been passé in my universe, so rather than clinging to , you can choose whether to play as either or , with an 'optional' cutscene at the start with blowing up instead. The player never finds out what the bag contains. Hader would lose a line from his pre- email exposition, as not crying when upset is an excellent way of making you ill. I'd cut 's post- spiel between "Ah, <player/>" and "Hmhm… I see!", and remove all other uses of the word 'cretins' from either side. The second appears in . would lack its , as there's already one in ; the parts shop would be a regular house, and by extension the chap who evolves your isn't there (which by rights should mean the port should be called something else, since that's what it's named after, but Gate Port's a bit boring, isn't it?).
==Pokémon Trainers==
List of Pokémon Trainer classes	List of Pokémon Trainer classes	List of Pokémon Trainer classes
 	 	
 	 	
 	 	Entrepreneur
 	Housekeeper 	
 	 	
 	 	
Slacker 	 	
 	 	
 	 	
 	 	
 	 	
 	 	
 	 	
 	 	
 	 	
On your left is a list of Trainer classes found within this game, not including , as that is a duplicate of . Three rechristenings carry over from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions; becomes Heir, becomes Aristocrat, and s, which were known as Cooltrainers in real-life and , are here known as s, as this version goes out after Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions and as such after that class was renamed. I've said it before, and I will say it again; I loathe and despise classifying Trainers based on the results of a lottery, and as such do not appear; these were the XD version of s, and as such they have collectively been rechristened Entrepreneurs. All and are here funnelled into the class Housekeeper. s are renamed s, from real-life and and my Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions. s and s are Slackers. , which were known as s in real-life , are actually known here as s, as the one in , , is not battled until he is known to be a .
==Pokémon locations==
===Wild Pokémon===
The nine Pokémon available in Poké Spots in real life show up here as well, with identical probabilities.
List of Wild Pokémon	List of Wild Pokémon	List of Wild Pokémon	
Location 	Probability 	Probability 	Probability
Location 	50% 	35% 	15%
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
===In-game event Pokémon===
The following is a list of in-game event Pokémon. They are the three from and the four from . Technically, all Shadow Pokémon count as in-game event Pokémon, but they have their own section; to that end, I am not including 's in this list. Note also that and 's stated location of is not accurate; the player clearly has them on the trip from , and so their stated position is based on when the player is first able to access them.
===In-game trade Pokémon===
The following is a list of in-game event Pokémon. They are the same four as in real-life , except that wants his back, as opposed to the he gives you and wants back in real-life.
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