Shadow Lugia Battle - Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness OST

Song: Shadow Lugia Battle
Composed and arranged by Tsukasa Tawada

[shadownite]

feel bad for the poor suckers who just threw the master ball right away without hearing this damn masterpiece beforehand

[elijahbruno]

Caught it in an Ultraball. This theme had me FOCUSED on getting this thing when I was 11. Honestly this theme may be the main reason Clavell's battle theme is one of my all-time favorites

[RicksterLPs]

I wanted to be willie so I created a team of zigzagoons in my X & Y copy and went online with it. I did lose like 90% of the time, but whenever I won, I felt only a fraction of the power willie probably feels everyday. What a badass trainer ^^

[Fwuffy_Cuddles]

Ah yes, the song that lasts for less then a damn minute if you do 1 thing

[wavern]

this theme always gave me the same vibe as the Jaws theme. just so simple but so imtimidating and creates a feeling of tension that just freaks you out that little bit

[michaelsevilla]

if you caugt shadow lugia in a regular poke ball your a real one and getting to hear this masterpiece before you do that is worth it

[duck_man]

This song gets stuck in my head every time I listen to it lol

[jamesjoynz]

Shadow lugia isn’t evil. The poor thing was forced into servitude. Capturing shadow lugia is how we save the poor thing ❤️

[Trygorn]

never actually got to listen to this cuz lets be real most of us just master balled him right off the bat

[kditty]

1:47-1:53 is the Pyrite Theme sped up.
It's like this for every song that has Lugia's "theme" in it including the Colosseum Admin battle theme, the Cipher Peon battle theme in Colosseum, and the normal battle theme in Colosseum. Snagem's Hideout in XD also has it. There's probably some I'm missing.
Edit: Just a half second before 1:54 until 1:56 is Lugia's "theme". That 10 note little tune.

[duck_man]

I recently got a gamecube and I am finally ~1 hour away from fighting Shadow Lugia, I just beat both of the henchmen guys (One had a salamence) and I am grinding for it in mount battle

[agedstring]

Damn for being on a console that primarily sequence its music through the game itself, I seldom expected a streamed song to be here

[YURTZYN]

I love the drama at 0:26 its as if someone witnessing shadow lugia is conducting a conspiracy tied to it adding somuch more tension to the occasion. They're all like..

"The prophecies told us of a black void monster that would consume all, XD001 they call this creature, but that XD isn't a laughing emoji, its a number! Check your phone, its 93, the number of Haunter who entails nightmares. Lugia's weight, 476, add those individual numbers together you get 17 which is the number of all pokemon types(As of gen 3). 001, the hex number of Rhydon, the first designed pokemon ever, with eyes of red just like this malevolent beast! Put all this together and you get NIGHTMARES TO ALL THAT MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH THIS ENGINE OF DESTRUCTION!"

Stupid, I know LOL

[citizencj]

Imagine Cypher has a Shadow Giratina?....Terrifying...

[thatguyhere]

I was going to use a master ball on it, but I decided to experience the fight with it first. I killed it. With just a Lunatone, a Delcatty and a Houndoom. I restarted and caught it immediately used a master ball so that my Pokémon would be fine for the fight with Greevil, I used Lugia in the fight, and I caught all of the birds without killing them. I love this game

[anira]

I remember battling and catching lugia in this game for my very first time playing the game. Gosh! It was so frustrating 😂😅

[jamesissadyo]

Sounds like sumn from a monster hunter chase in the newer games

[KimonoFlareonGX]

0:29 That part wouldn’t sound out of place in Batman: The Animated Series.

[AuraChannelerChris]

When the anime bird(?) goes evil on you.