Pokèmon Colosseum, a.k.a. "This pokèmon would have been amazing in the next gen." the game.

“Dunsparce NEEDS an Evolution” 7 Generations Later “Ask and you SHALL receive. Even though we’re MANY years late, we’re forgiven right?”

I really wish that Gamefreak would remake these games. I absolutely love double battles, as they are much more strategic than regular battles. Plus, there are a plethora of Pokemon that receive evolutions later on, making the "would be good, but doesn't evolve until later," group of pokemon somewhat viable!

So, I get the impression that Pokemon Colosseum has limited options.

drinking game, take a sip every time he says limited options

I wish that this list was more in order of encountering them rather than their Pokedex number.

He always bashes Ursaring when it’s such an amazing pokemon lol

Before anyone asks no the smeargle aren't shiny all of the gen 1 & 2 pokemon had their models reused from stadium 2 and in gen 2 normal smeargle had red tails

Chugga clearly never used Plusle in this game. Plusle is the end all of support mons in Colosseum. Being the only traded Pokemon in Colosseum Plusle will level up very fast, carrying Plusle through the main story will end up with Plusle being level 50 when the rest of your team is about level 46. In addition Plusle's movepool is insane, Plusle is one of the fastest pokemon you can obtain in the game so spreading around Thunder Waves in Double Battles can be insane usefulness, Plusle also comes with Helping Hand. Very few things in the entire game can survive a Suicune Rain+Helping Hand boosted Surf in this entire game. Plusle also touts a decently impressive special attack which it can make us of with it's learned at level 37 Thunder, pairing it with Suicune or Feraligatr Plusle can both Helping Hand a rain boosted Surf or smash a water type with it's own 100% accuracy Thunder before forcing the next Pokemon out to eat your partner's Rain Boosted Surf for chip on the switch. For the post game fights Plusle will also learn both Agility and Baton Pass eventually at level 52. An ideal battle with Plusle will usually go using Agility turn 1 while your water type uses Rain Dance, Plusle will then either Thunder something or Helping Hand the Surf and if need be Plusle can always Baton Pass out it's Agility to a slower Pokemon like Granbull. Plusle also has a few other options like Fake Tears to specifically target certain Pokemon, Growling both enemies, giving Plusle itself Rain Dance in order to set up Rain Dance for your Surfer to start pumping out Rain boosted Surfs on turn 1. There's also a few other things to note. Makuhita will learn Smellingsalts at level 31 so as soon as you purify your Makuhita it will learn Smellingsalts and immediately evolve into Hariyama. Hariyama also being a perfect base 5 speed slower than Ampharos allows you to shoot out 120 power off a 120 attack Smellingsalts by combining Thunderwave and Smellingsalts for a decently effective single target pokemon combo. Furret is the sole exclusive pokemon that learns Follow Me in the entire game, if you want a strategy that involves using Focus Punch or any other strategy that might require Follow Me Furret is your option.

Take a shot every time he says Colosseum has limited options

Whole video in a nutshell: "This Pokemon is......... interesting."

Says Meditite is a mixed attacker Evolved base stats: 120 Attack (with Pure Power), 60 Sp. Attack yeah, amazing mixed attacker

I'm shocked at how nice Chuggaa was when talking about Yanma. My guess is he's never actually used one in Colosseum, or even looked at its level-up movepool. Yeah, Speed Boost can be nice, but it's not very useful when you can't damage the enemy for crap and you don't even have Baton Pass In Gen 3, Yanma had an absolutely awful level-up movepool. Yanma is a specially-inclined Pokemon, but the main way you'll rely on damaging your opponents is by using Uproar, a 50 power physical move that doesn't have STAB that's unreliable in the way that it forces you into it for a few turns when you use it and you have no control over which opponent you'll hit. Things get a little better when it gets to level 43, when it learns... Wing Attack. Yeah, that's right. Wing Attack at fricking level 43. That's about the strongest STAB move you can teach it too. I guess you could confuse things with it, but Supersonic is very unreliable. Hypnosis would have been useful in catching Shadow Pokemon, but Yanma doesn't learn it in this game. Honestly, the only way Yanma could ever hope to be useful would be by the player babying it by giving it all the useful Special TMs you can find, all of which would be probably used better by other Pokemon. I've tried to use Yanma in multiple playthroughs and it's been consistently almost impossible to use. I'm actually surprised that Chuggaa just said "Recommended because Speed Boost" and called it a day.

He called his Typhlosion "Corona" *In the words of JonTron:* "That one didn't age quite so well..."

13:54 *It begins.*

I really appreciate you putting this in pokedex order, thx

It's such a shame Miltank is so far in the game as its one of my favourite normal types and would be incredible if received a little earlier in colloseum

I am pretty sure that if u don't pick up flaffy as your electric type and want an electric type ur stuck with duking's plussle or raikou.

Although its typing might state otherwise, Meditite is purely a physical attacker, but with Calm Mind can do decent damage with special attacks.

8:36 The grass type disappears from Skiploom for a split second

I can't deny i used remoraid on a team in colosseum and my boi squidward wrecked a lot of things since he had an ice, water, and psychic move in his set

Gamefreak must of hated Minun I bet. They've been giving Plusle attention and hardly any for Minun ever since. Also, you can get a Minun by porting your Minun from Pokemon Emerald to this game but I do not want to do that.

Thank you for this detailed video, something players like me need for starting up this game!

Also unlike Absol, Houndoom takes advantage of its Dark type excellently given its high special attack and access to moves like Faint Attack and Crunch. Although on the defensive side, it does little to no favors for Houndoom.

I think Slugmas Ability was a mistake It's meant to be Magma Armor or Flame Body but in the video it's written as Blaze, which I thought was a starter exclusive ability

I'm sorry, Emile, but Grass-type starter being the slowest? The only Grass-type starters that are their own region's respective slowest are Torterra and Chesnaught. It's mostly the Water starter that's the slowest.

I've gotten great use out of Remoraid and Umbreon. Just takes a while to get em going

for all those who are tl;dr limited options that would be better in the next generation.

I know he states it makes no sense that they didn’t give run away a new effect, but it makes sense to me because they’d have to program it to have an effect in story but take that away for multiplayer because it wouldn’t line up with the core series games that you can link to colosseum, so it’s just easier to label it useless in story

he says foretress has little offensive capabilities yet has higher base attack than skarmory

Having a wall Pokémon is really good for this game because of double battles even umbreon is a good defender plus it helps setup for your team or buffing it’s stats to make it better I think forretress is a great example for what it does especially using protect while using explosion great strategy for double battles but not really for singles

I like how Chugga says "I don't remember it being particularly fast" about Murkrow, when it is faster than an overwhelming majority of the obtainable Pokémon in this game. The only things that outspeed it are Yanma, Sneasel, Raikou, Entei, and Houndoom. So a "not particularly fast" Pokémon just so happens to outspeed 90% of the usable Pokémon, ok chugga.

Remoraid was level 20 because back in Gen 3 Octillery got Octazooka (it's signature move) at level 25 (instead of AT evolution like it is today). I guess they were hoping you'd purify and evolve Remoraid before 25?

I could sleep to this

Thank you. This helps plot out my next play through and is more entertaining than looking at a chart 🙏

Meditite can be a mixed attacker, it has equal Attack and Sp Attack at this stage, and the pure power boost only really changes it to ~60. Its type allows for mixed attacking. Medicham on the other hand...

Drink every time Chuggaa says “this game has limited options”.

I’ve noticed you could potentially end up with a lot of Colosseum and XD native Sinnoh and Hisui dex Pokémon

Y’know I gotta say the comments section is full of over pretentious people who don’t appreciate all the work Emile put into these bios.

If remoraid wasn't level 20 when you get it, it would be up there with croconaw and suicune as one of the best water types in the game. Sure it's slow and doesn't have the HP stat that ampharos does, but this thing's type coverage is insane. It has access to so many different moves, and unlike croconaw, it can actually use it's water stab effectively.

Smeargle move set sheer cold,lock on,spore all you need

I love how the full thing happens a year after the LP ends. P:S: Are you going to do all of Chuggaa's Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness bios after the LP is over?

I miss Pokemon Colosseum, for its the best Colosseum game ever.

So many mons have Faint Attack as their first attack

On every playthrough of Colosseum that I do I always take Noctowl through the entire game its a brilliant asset on the team when trained properly, I always use a Male as its just my preferred gender of Pokemon and in this game Forretress is a good Pokemon in this game.

8:00 sudowoodo 8:05 skiploom 8:40 aipom

This is why colosseum needs a remake

I just realized, he did the Jirachi download for one of his bonus episodes for this playthrough. I wonder why he didn’t do a bio for it?

In case anyone sees this in the future. Remoraid is lv. 20 do that it can evolve into octillery and learn octozooka at lv. 25. But I mean, it has the same power as bubblebeam with 15% less accuracy and 50% chance to lower accuracy do it doesn't seem that worth it to have such a weak pokemon to get 1 move

L I M I T E D O P T I O N S

Noctowl, Ariados, Forretress, Misdreavus & Jumpluff are useful in this game.

Why is this in Pokedex number order and not in order of appearance? I immediately got confused as to why Makuhita wasn't at the very beginning of the video since its the first Shadow Pokemon you could catch in the game.

Funny part is that the sprite they use for smearagle is the shiny sprite in most games

13:53 “It doesn’t affect Misdreavus.”

Stantler can evolve, NOW!

This and Gale of Darkness has all the pokemon that evolve in 4th gen as shadow pokemon lol.

HYPER MODE is in metroid prime 3

Hey Chugga, ice doesn't have the most weaknesses by itself. Grass does! Fire, Flying, Bug, Ice, and Poison.

It's weird to me how positive he is about granbull but not ursaring as granbull only has intimidate over ursaring every other stat ursaring is way better

I caught mantine my 1st try (for my first play through)

Emile, Sleep Clause does not exist in Video Game Championships.

5:38 Subtitles XD

Those catch rates are incorrect, some catch rates were altered in this game to be either easier or harder to catch, here's the real catch rates in this game: Bayleef: Original: 45 / Colosseum: 180 Quilava: Original: 45 / Colosseum: 180 Croconaw: Original: 45 / Colosseum: 180 Togetic: Original: 75 / Colosseum: 45 Misdreavus: Original: 45 / Colosseum: 90 Mantine: Original: 25 / Colosseum: 90 Skarmory: Original: 25 / Colosseum: 15 Raikou: Original: 3 / Colosseum: 15 Entei: Original: 3 / Colosseum: 15 Suicune: Original: 3 / Colosseum: 15 Tyranitar: Original: 45 / Colosseum: 10 Makuhita: Original: 180 / Colosseum: 255 (Always a guranteed catch) Tropius: Original: 200 / Colosseum: 45 Metagross: Original: 3 / Colosseum: 15 Card E room (Japanese only) Togepi: Original: 190 / Colosseum: 45 Mareep: Original: 235 / Colosseum: 45 Scizor: Original: 25 / Colosseum: 45

33:45 man i can not wait to shiny hunt that bad boy

I don't really change my team around much in any game once I have one I like. This doesn't seem any different

0:00 MR. STEAK

Why did the Smeargle have a red brush for a tail in Chuggaa's game when the bio picture had a green one?

8 years later, but I am disappointed in the lack of research done for this tier list of ingame Pokémon for Colosseum. I like the stats presentation a lot and some points you brought up were valid, but it was also lacking. 2014 was the beginning of the height of double battles since vgc was beginning to get a lot of attention; and this video from the same era is more of a casual discussion. Plus why did you talk about the Pokemon in sequential National Dex order instead of the order in which you catch/acquire them? Seems like a huge oversight.

going for a very different team with Espeon Bayleaf Makuhita Quilfish Sawblu Slugma I get all my pokemon early and they are not too OP pokes what you guys think?

Can someone fix the closed captions plz?

While I get putting them in number order but I prefer order you see them in game

You can feel the pain in trying to market the Johto Pokemon. They're just so bad, whether they're handicapped by Colosseum limiting your options, bad movepools, no evolutions, physical/special split, or just having dogshit stats for no reason.

Sooooooooo...I would like for someone to rate my future team Espeon, Ampharos, Heracross, Feraligatr, Flygon, Entei

Slugma's ability isn't blaze. I caught one and it has magma armor.

I really want a Heracross on my squad. That high speed will make sure I go first every turn, and when I do attack, I'll deal tons of damage.

Man I am so upset on how many useless pokemon there are in this game especially in early and mid game.

Octillery saved my bacon in the last battle. Beat Salamence and Scizor for me! Also beat Machamp before going down!

Ledian is a Special Wall!

19:34

never played this :(

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I noticed something; Emile accidentally put Blaze as the ability on Slugma's bio when it should be Magma Armor and Flame Body.

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Actually, I've used a ledian in moon, and it was a great asset to my team.

I suprisingly caught mantine in the first ball at I think full health.

50% of what Chugga says is the pokemon needs a mega evolution.

Actually Rock has 5 weaknesses where as ice only has 4.

I’m just saying, but if Pokémon Colosseum was made during Generation 9, there would be a lot more variety of Shadow Pokémon in Colosseum, as some Shadow Pokémon would be different while some Shadow Pokémon would stay the same. Like an example of Shadow Pokemon that would be different are the Shadow Bayleef and Shadow Croconaw, which would be replaced by a Shadow Dartrix and a Shadow Dewott, respectively, due to the Rowlet Line and the Oshawott Line being in Gen 8’s Legends Arceus and they can also be transferred over to Scarlet and Violet, while the Shadow Quilava would stay the same. Or they could replace the evolved Shadow Johto Starters with a Shadow Quilladin, Shadow Braixen, Shadow Frogadier, Shadow Thwackey, Shadow Raboot or Shadow Drizzile.

typhlosion name is corona lol

How does he make the bio thing

i would disagree on ledian. it was my first shiny and i actually use it and it does good

I LIKE LEDEN

0:00 bayleef 0:50 quilava 2:06 croconaw 2:40 furret 3:55 noctowl 4:28 ledian 5:15 ariados 6:08 togetic 7:03 flaafy 7:26 sudowoodo 8:05 skiploom 8:40 aipom 9:25 sunflora 9:57 yanma 10:52 quagsire 11:33 espeon 12:10 umbreon 12:50 murkrow 13:52 misdreavus 14:35 forretress 15:20 dunsparce 16:33 gligar 17:13 granbull 18:22 qwilfish 18:55 shuckle 19:32 heracross 20:20 sneasel 20:55 ursaring 21:50 slugma 22:25 piloswine 23:12 remoraid 24:15 delibird 24:50 mantine 26:00 skarmory 27:20 houndoom 27:40 stantler 28:50 smeargle 30:30 hitmontop 31:06 miltank 31:42 raikou 32:32 entei 33:01 suicune 33:42 tyranitar 34:10 ho oh gift 35:25 36:15 meditite 37:15 plusle 38:21 vibrava 39:02 swablu 39:57 tropius 40:25 absol 41:36 metagross

Bug isnt that Common honestly in this gen

Generally ide think the most balanced starter is Decidueye. Its stats are distributed to fit any type of role, albiet some are only mediocre and niches. Decidueye can a be an mixed offense tank that anything, which sets it apart from every other grass starter.

Miltank 🙃

This is why I hate playing Colosseum. Their options are extremely low and those options tend to REALLY suck.

14:40 *Donald Trump's ears perk up

"Dunsparce needs an evolution" and thus it did in Gen 9 with Dudunsparce. It may not be the evolution we wanted, but it's the evolution that Dunsparce needed.

I know no one's gonna see this, but I bet Chugga's gonna use Mantine in Platinum, even though he already has Milotic as a Water type