Pokémon
Updated 4/29/4

`Dexless
When you trade new pokémon from colosseum to ruby/sapphire they don't show up on your pokédex. That's no fun.

Rock Love
The female tyranitar I snagged on Colosseum took a fancy to an aggron (steel/rock) I caught on Sapphire and they made little larvitar eggs. She wasn't the least bit interested in golem (rock/ground) or cacturine (grass/dark).

Bear Love
I found my Ursaring a mate on the first try. She fancies Zangoose, but thier offspring only seem to inherit his slash move, but neither pursuit, crush claw nor false swipe. Looks like more experimenting.

The next go `round was with a manectric that knew crunch and thief as an egg move from some previous breeding. The resulting teddiursa picked up both of the dark moves. Because I started with just one female, unfortunately I can't raise a male `til it knows slash and make a new egg that knows both crunch and slash. He is closely related enough to all the other ursas I have and must not be interested in hooking up with them. I've tried half-siblings, but not kissing cousins. Yet.

Colosseum
48 Purified/48 Snagged/262 Seen

Girl Trouble
I didn't consider `til well into the game that I needed to snag only female versions of the availible `mon if I eventually want to get the pre-evolved forms on Ruby/Sapphire. Once I finish, I'll have to start again from the beginning and hold out for the girls.

Jirachi Bonus Berries
I got Jirachi from the preorder bonus disk. It's a tough little `mon and I like it. The best part about getting it was that it was holding a berry I didn't have. The berry must be somewhat random as I got a Ganlon Berry on Sapphire and a Salac on Ruby. Both varieties take four days to produce new fruit. One day to sprout, one day to "get a little bigger," one day to blossom and a forth and final day to produce the fruit. I watered both as often as I could remember, and still only got two berries for every one I planted. Update:The berries seem less random now. Another Ganlon Berry on Sapphire and a Salac on Ruby.

Snorelaxless
I'm dissapointed that my favorite `mon doesn't even make an appearance in Colossuem. I'm still holding out hope that I can transfer them from R/B/Y or G/S/C when Pokémon Box is released.

Time Flutein'
I didn't use any of the three time flutes I picked up in the game hoping that I could somehow use them to summon Celibi to my team. I've purified all the shadow pokémon, and the flutes do nothing at the stone relic now. My contingency if this happened was just to trade them to my Sapphire cart for storage, but pokémon won't hold them. Looks like they'll be wasted.

Ruby/Sapphire
Got `em All
I caught RegiIce this morning, Monday May 26, 2003. He was the last one. The only things I can tell have changed with the game are that the guy in the LilyCove Hotel will display a certificate of completion for me, and I think my trainer card has turned green to copper colored. I think the biggest reward is that I get to stop playing. I love the game, and will go out and get the next version, etc--two months of spending too much time playing has burned me out for now. I look forward to having a real life again.

Catching Feebas
Alot of folks have been asking me how I caught febass. It is hard work, but the pattern I used was to catch six `mon from a water square on Route 119, then move to the next square until I caught one. I had to fish about 75 squares before I hit a feebas square. One you find them, they are easy to catch. Rumor has it that changing your profile saying or the trendy saying will re-randomize the spots, so I refrained from talking to anyone who might change it, including the reporters and the Berry Mistress. The spots are random, so yours probably won't be the same as mine. Just because folks are askin' I found my spot on the North end of the stream on Route 119 just above the waterfall near the Weather Center on the leftmost block.

Championship
I won the title on 4/20/3. Steven's Metacross is tough and he used a Full Retore on it at least five times during the battle. Flygon's Earthquake was the most effective move against him.

I learned the hard way that even if pokémon like you alot, when you trade them to another cartridge and trade them back, they forget you. Even if "you" are the original trainer and they loved you before. We all know pokémon are stronger/work harder when they love you. I got remined of this the hard way when leveled up my Dream Team, moved them over to my Ruby cartridge, and did a practice run on the Pokémon League, I kicked ass and leveled them up a few levels beating the elite four and Steven. Then I immediatly traded them back over to Sapphire (where I caught and raised them) and it was much more difficult to beat the League--even though they were higher levels. For example, on Ruby L58 Gurthie took out Metcross on the first Earthquake attack, on Sapphire L60 Gurthie could almost but not quite knock metacross out, and then Steven would use a full restore. I went to the empath lady and found out they didn't like or dislike me, and they weren't "used" to me. ie:they forgot me. It took a week or so of playing with them for them to love me again. Just a warning to those who trade, to not trade their favorites.

Post Championship:Steven left me a note and a Bedlum at his house. I now have access to the Battle Tower and sky tower. I have spotted Latias and Latios in the wild. There are sales at the LilyCove Department Store and the Energy Guru, and "service days" at the Game Corner.

Catching Latios/Latias
My first strategy was to use Crobat because Crobat is fast and can learn the "mean look" move to keep the Latis from fleeing. Bad idea, as Crobat is weak against the latis' psychic attacks. Turns out WoBuffet did real well for this. His innate "Shadow Tag" ability kept them from fleeing, and he is resistant to psychic attacks. I juiced him up with 10 zincs from the Energy Guru (on a sale day) to raise Wobuffet's special defense.

I was lucky enough to have random encounters with both latis so I could track them via the Pokédex. They seemingly randomize their location when you use fly, so I flew to LilyCove, checked the latis' location. If it was two areas/routes away I would move toward it, hoping it would move toward me. If not, then I fly back to LilyCove and check it's location again. Once I am in the same route as the latis, I put Wobuffet at the front of my party and wade thorough the talls grass `til I find it. I had both down to one bar of health, paralyzed, and used about 2 dozen ultraballs on each before I was able to catch them.

To catch the Lati I didn't find in the wild on each cart I used an Eon Ticket. I got the Eon Ticket on eBay, bought an eReader a EBX and scanned it in. Once I scanned it in, it told me to go see "Dad." Dad gave me the Eon Ticket in the game, and told me to go to Lilycove Ferry Station to use it. The ferry took me to South Island where I touched a stone in the middle of some water and summoned the other Lati. It is level 50 and carries Soul Dew. I used Thunder Wave to paralyze it, then used a Zangoose with False Swipe to knock it down to one HP. I had to use both moves several times as the Latis keep using Recover. I got the Latis on both versions with Ultraballs.

Silver Bullet
I finally managed to defeat 50 level 50 traininers in a row in the Battle Tower on June 21, 2004. I got a silver shield, the three `mon got ribbons, and I got a third star on my newly silvered trainer card. Woo Hoo.

Dream Team
Updated 5/26/3

Chilcoat	SlacKing 038	♀	Normal
	Chilcoat is named after my friend Brad. Chilcoat is furry all over, 6'8", 290#. Brad is only about 6"5', 250#, but from what I've seen at the gym, still furry all over. Chilcoat won a "Cute" contest on 4/17/3 and has a ribbon. Awww.
Bro	Salamence 189	♂	Dragon/Flying
	Bro is the son of "Brodie" the first Bagon I caught in the Dragon Cave at Meteor Falls. I've raised him from an egg.
Gurthie	Flygon 118	♀	Ground/Dragon
	Named after Sam Gurthie aka Cannonball of the X-tribes. It's about the goggles. His Earthquake attack kicks ass.
Burmester	Kyogre 198		Water
	Burmester has nice ice attacks and a wicked strong special attack score that knocks out the Dragons the Elite Four have with one shot. Named after "Catfish" in the Abyss--he's the big red furry Daddy Bear that KOed the Psyco Navy Seal. ˇWoof!
Psyluck	Gardevoir 031	♂	Psychic
	Psyluck is the second or third critter I caught on Sapphire. Named after Betsy Braddock of the X-Tribes, but reminds me more of Squirrel X. Not just because she's got the shine, but `cause she looked squirrely in her early incarnations, and now looks more Xtine.
Inductep	Manectric 079	♂	Electric
	I was raising a Plusie to be my electric guy, but didn't like him much. While I was raising Inductep from an Eletrike, he did really well for me. I took a shine to him, and bumped my Plusie "Sparky"

Berry List
Berry inventory as of 4/29/4. This does not reflect the number of berries planted except where noted.

Number	Species	Quantity
01	Cheri	91
02	Chesto	69
03	Pecha	87
04	Rawst	79
05	Aspear	81
06	Leppa	108
07	Oran	83
08	Persim	77
09	Lum	90
10	Sitrus	133
11	Figy	60
12	Wiki	56
13	Mago	67 --Thanks Brian
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15	Iapapa	92
16	Razz	57
17	Bluk	55
18	Nanab	56
19	Wepear	56
20	Pinap	54
21	Pomeg	61
22	Kelpsy	66
23	Qualot	66
24	Hondew	73
25	Grepa	67
26	Tamato	58
27	Cornn	71
28	Magost	89
29	Rabuta	75
30	Nomel	66
31	Spelon	55
32	Pamtre	61
33	Watmel	58
34	Durin	60
35	Belue	56
37	Ganlon	13
38	Salac	14
?	Petaya	4 Planted
43	[Enigma]	66

Snagged List
as of 4/29/4 gender percentages from Serebii.net.

♀	♂	`mon	Location	%♂	%♀
	♂	Makuhita	Phenac City	75	25
	♂	Croconaw	Phenac City	87.5	12.5
	♂	Noctowl	Pyrite Town	50	50
	♂	Flaafy	Pyrite Town	50	50
	♂	Skiploom	Pyrite Town	50	50
	♂	Quagsire	Pyrite Town	50	50
♀		Misdreavus	Pyrite Town	50	50
♀		Slugma	Pyrite Town	50	50
	♂	Furret	Pyrite Town	50	50
	♂	Yanma	Pyrite Building	50	50
♀		Mantine	Pyrite Building	50	50
	♂	Remoraid	Pyrite Building	50	50
♀		Qwilfish	Pyrite Building	50	50
	♂	Meditite	Pyrite Cave	50	50
♀		Swablu	Pyrite Cave	50	50
♀		Dunsparse	Pyrite Cave	50	50
♀		Sudowoodo	Pyrite Cave	50	50
	♂	Hitmontop	Agate Village	100	0
○		Entei	Mt. Battle	Genderless
♀		Ledian	The Under	50	50
○		Suicune	The Under	Genderless
	♂	Gligar	The Under	50	50
♀		Stantler	The Under	50	50
♀		Piloswine	The Under	50	50
	♂	Sneasel	The Under	50	50
	♂	Aipom	Shadow Pokemon Lab	50	50
	♂	Murkrow	Shadow Pokemon Lab	50	50
♀		Forretress	Shadow Pokemon Lab	50	50
♀		Vibrava	Shadow Pokemon Lab	50	50
♀		Ariados	Shadow Pokemon Lab	50	50
♀		Granbull	Shadow Pokemon Lab	25	75
○		Raikou	Shadow Pokemon Lab	Genderless
♀		Sunflora	Realgam Tower	50	50
♀		Delibird	Realgam Tower	50	50
♀		Heracross	Realgam Tower	50	50
♀		Skarmory	Realgam Tower	50	50
♀		Miltank	Realgam Tower	0	100
	♂	Absol	Realgam Tower	50	50
	♂	Houndoom	Realgam Tower	50	50
♀		Tropius	Realgam Tower	50	50
○		Metagross	Realgam Tower	Genderless
♀		Tyranitar	Realgam Tower	50	50
	♂	Quilava	Snagem Hideout	87.5	12.5
	♂	Bayleef	Shadow Pokemon Lab	87.5	12.5
	♂	Smeargle	Snagem Hideout	50	50
♀		Ursaring	Snagem Hideout	50	50
♀		Shuckle	The Under	50	50
	♂	Togetic	Outskirt Stand	87.5	12.5