"Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness" Orre Oddities Quiz

Answer: Gulpin

Gulpin is owned by Cipher Peon Purpsix. The Hexagon Brothers each have one Shadow and, unlike most of the rest of the game, they will permanently keep their Shadow until the player manages to snag it. These six can be refought basically whenever the player wants, so it's likely Genius Sonority wanted the player to be ensured of having access to at least a few Shadow Pokemon, no matter how new or bad they are at the game.

Answer: A cutscene

Ordinarily, just for defeating Greevil without purifying everything, the player gets a great big cutscene showing what happens with Greevil and Cipher being finally defeated. The game then cuts to the credits. If the player has purified everything, then defeats Greevil, they'll start by getting the same big cutscene as usual. However, after it, a second, smaller cutscene will play. It shows the protagonist leaving behind his Snag Machine, as the player wouldn't need it anymore having snagged and purified everything.

It's a nice, wholesome touch to cap off a 100% finished game.

Answer: Aerodactyl

Greevil's team has three Flying types and three non Flying types, the latter of which will take any minuscule chance the player offers them to relentlessly spam Earthquake as much as possible. Even still, this is not a particularly difficult fight, as his team caps at level 50 and nothing is particularly scary to face off against- even the blisteringly fast Aerodactyl.

Answer: 75

Orre Colosseum opponents are designed to have full teams of Pokemon with the exact same level as the player's highest level Pokemon, to a minimum of 60. If the player has a single Pokemon at level 99 and everything else is level 10, the opponents will have full teams of level 99 Pokemon. If the player has a team full of level 55s, Orre Colosseum opponents will have teams full of level 60s.

Answer: It was buried

The player is told by an NPC standing by a bridge in Pyrite Town that The Under was quite literally just buried underground and left behind.

Answer: Zangoose and Nosepass

During this part of the story, the player does not have access to the Snag Machine. As a result, the game will simply tell the player that snagging Zangoose from Thug Zook and Nosepass from Miror B, respectively, isn't initially possible. Zook is fought a second time and Miror B will quickly reappear once the player has the Snag Machine back, so it won't be long before these two can be caught.

Answer: Mt Battle

The player would have to go all the way up 90 entire areas just to get the TM for Aerial Ace. This requires an end game team of Pokemon level 60+, so by this point, the player has likely finished their team. By that point, the TM for Aerial Ace would probably be redundant.

Answer: Seven

The earliest Intimidater the player would likely be able to acquire will take a little bit of work. Poochyena can be snagged at level 10, purified, then when evolved, Mightyena will have this ability.

Similarly, the next earliest would probably be Masquerain. It can be caught as a Surskit from the Oasis Area, then evolved to get this ability.

Mawile can be snagged from Cipher Commander Exol in the OBNS.

Growlithe and Arbok can be snagged from the Cipher Key Lair. However, some resetting or a bit of luck will need to be in order, as they can also be found with different abilities, as they both have two. Thankfully, the player can just reset the game if they don't have Intimidate, then retry the encounters continuously until they do.

It'll be a little while after that, but very late in the game, Cipher Admin Eldes has a Shadow Salamence which can be snagged.

Last but not least, Grand Master Greevil wields a snaggable Shadow Tauros with the Intimidate ability.

Answer: Three

The earliest available would be Duskull, who can be snagged in the OBNS.

After that, the player will sadly have to wait quite a long time. The next and final two available Ghost types, Sableye and Banette, won't appear until Citadark Isle, the last dungeon of the entire game.

Answer: Hoppip and Tropius

Up to this point, Chobin has had a Gyarados and a Sunkern. When fought inside his Robo Groudon suit, Sunken has evolved into Sunflora, and Hoppip and Tropius have joined the fray. By the end of the game, Hoppip will have evolved into Skiploom, then again into Jumpluff.