Why NO ONE Speedruns Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness

Which game do you prefer? XD or Colosseum?

Nothing Speedrunners hate more than a game working as intended lmao.

Currently doing a Nuzloke of XD and I've learned a few things from this video. 1. I am now absolutely sure I am going to lose the fight to Grevil. 2. I am absolutely going to lose the fight to Grevil.

5:32 Fun Fact: That boat had a fuck ton of Pokémon on it and Cypher was planning on turning them into Shadow Pokémon.

That strong Gen 3 hyper beam smacking foes down with brute PHYSICAL force!

They don't do anything with Shadow Lugia after the boat because Lovrina hasn't truly perfected its purify resistant status until the end of the game. This is also why it dropped the boat in the first place. It's also why the final boss talks about replacing his minions with Shadow Pokemon now that Lugia's 'perfected', like how Shadow Lugia was directed by copters. So yeah, was fun to learn about how the game works speedrun-wise and of glitches I didn't even know were a thing.

So you said something about the AI I didn't know: boss AI can decide to not do what you expect them to do. I thought they just had standard boss AI, but I also don't think they are on the random system either. The funny part is I think we currently have everything to know WHY it does this, but I haven't checked myself. We have all the symbols and everything, someone could debug to find out why. But I have my own theory. Colosseum's AI system has parameters that I called a "divergence" factor. Basically, it's a chance in % where the AI can decide to willingly NOT choose the highest weight decision. My best guess is that it's supposed to simulate an AI's clumsiness, but I don't think this is used much in practice (you'd have to check the data for this, I don't know how much colo uses it). So I wonder, is it possible XD uses that system? We know a significant portion of colo's codebase ended up in XD so it wouldn't be too surprising if the system was in. What I wonder is is it actually used? Cause if it is, it could give you odds of decisions. Not sure if it would help though.

FYI they stole the SS Libra since it had Pokemon on board the ship to convert to Shadow Pokemon

I just wanna join the legion and reiterate that this is a great series of videos. Keep doing your thing

Its optimal to lose in pokemon yellow speedruns too, not only is it faster but the Rival's starter's eeveelution changes

Me: "oh boy I can't wait to see Pules's new video on my favorite Pokemon speedgame!" Pulse: spends the first 2 minutes explaining why Colo is better etchyPain

Shadow Luigia is probably still one of the coolest pokemon we will never get in the mainline Pokemon games.

5:00 got me so good 😂

Oh, that final battle is DISGUSTING.

XD would be a LOT better if the enemy AI during the main story wasn't so bad. I mean, the later stages in Mt. Battle as well as Colosseum orre HAVE the "good" AI, so it does exist .... it's so weird, really.

every time he called XD a "diet version of colosseum" I was like "what are you talking about, XD is a longer main story"

This game was childhood so excited to see u talk abt it

Weird how this popped up, just started playing XD again earlier this evening. Was thinking about it for awhile, but saw a Facebook post also mention XD. XD is my favorite Pokemon game.

Damn your videos are always great!

Wish I could play these games on switch. They look awesome