General "Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness" Quiz

Answer: Teddiursa

The tutorial battle of the game features the player battling Cipher Peon Naps, who sends out a Shadow Teddiursa. Catching the Teddiursa to properly participate in double battles is mandatory, but as this is a scripted 100% catch rate, the player won't have to actually spend any resources apart from a single Poke Ball catching it.

Answer: Five

The teacher NPC in front of a tutorial board the player can read can give a brief rundown of the events that took place in the prior game if talked to by the player. During this, she specifically mentions how it took place five years prior. This can be confirmed through numerous other dialogues, including but not limited to Professor Krane, Lily, Gonzap and more.

Answer: No

This is how you know the game came out in the middle 2000s: there is actually a fair bit of pointless yes/no questions the player is asked, where there is a "correct" answer the game eventually forces onto the player. No, you can't join Cipher, you can't join Team Miror, and you can't join Team Snagem. Even if doing so might be funny given the context of this game.

Answer: Miror B

Admins Lovrina, Snattle and Gorigan each have two encounters where the player must defeat them. A handful of Cipher Peons are also encountered twice, but Miror B will end up fighting the player a minimum of four times; once at the Cave Poke Spot, again at the Outskirt Stand, one more time at a random location, then last off at the Gateon Port.

The player may end up needing to fight him more if they fail to snag a Shadow Pokemon. But even if the player is completely perfect at snagging, a minimum of four fights with Miror B are required.

Answer: 83

This is up from the 48 that were in "Colosseum". Unlike the aforementioned game, several Peons and Admins have more than one Shadow Pokemon, while the final boss Grand Master Greevil has his entire team of six as Shadows. In "Colosseum", even the final boss only had a single Shadow Pokemon.

Answer: Eighteen

A small selection of these are exclusive to one Pokemon: Shadow Lugia and Shadow Blast, Articuno and Shadow Chill, Zapdos and Shadow Bolt and Moltres with Shadow Fire.

In "Colosseum", the only Shadow move to exist was Shadow Rush. Shadow Rush made it's return here, but on top of being a much stronger move, it's accompanied by other nasty Shadow moves such as Shadow End, Shadow Break and Shadow Half.

Answer: It takes damage

Reverse Mode causes the afflicted to take a measly 1/16th of their health in damage every turn. That said, there are no advantages to actually remaining in Reverse Mode, as it doesn't make Shadow moves scarier like Hyper Mode once did. On the other hand, the disobedience mechanic is completely absent from Reverse Mode, while being quite the hindrance in Hyper Mode. So there's a lot to give and take here. Both modes have in common that the afflicted cannot have items used on them until snapped out of their respective mode.

Answer: No

Purifying Shadow Lugia is quite the commitment, as the player must massively interact with the Purification Chamber to do it. Specifically, they must attain a perfect Flow and Tempo on all nine Sets in order to purify Lugia. This will require many, many Shadow Pokemon not only be caught, but also purified, to do. All other Pokemon can be purified alternatively, but Lugia alone has a strict prerequisite.

Answer: Their choice of a Johto starter

Totodile, Chikorita or Cyndaquil at level 5 will be rewarded. Each of them comes with a starter Hyper Beam clone (Hydro Cannon, Frenzy Plant and Blast Burn respectively), a random egg move, and then their earliest two learned moves. If the player achieves the Mt Battle 100 area challenge three times, they can claim all three Johto starters- they can't claim one more than once, however.

Answer: In an explosion

Gorigan tells the player he is going to blow up the Cipher Key Lair with the main character still inside of it, before Greevil himself calls Gorigan off. Ironically, Greevil himself agrees to Ardos' request that Greevil call for the implosion of Citadark Isle with the main character still on it. In both times, the offender makes it very clear that the explosions should take place with the main character still within the blast radius, so they are very explicitly threatening to kill them in an explosion two separate times.

That's a bit of a messed up way to deal with an annoying ten year old, in my professional opinion.