I'm usually lying on my bed when I play, so I just roll over and play upside down.
<3 Spear Pillar.
Do you have a mirror for when Palkia flips it horizontally?
That's actually a good strategy, I should try that.
I'd like to know this too. I love it when Dialga comes out to play (Roar of Time is fun to work in), but Palkia's effects all suck, particularly in Classic mode when I'm fighting computers that know how to fight with reversed controls.
I think my least favorite pokemon to fight with is Cresselia, because those Air Slashes can kill in one hit at many percents, and you have to dodge a lot of them. I also get excited at the blue tint of Dialga, only to have a stupid space duck pop out of the smoke. Very disappointing.
Yeah, agreed...I hate Cresselia. I mean, the lasers can interrupt battles, and Palkia's stage flipping can really mess you up, but after the first time you screw up with those, you know what to do and never screw up again, except on rare occasions. Cresselia, on the other hand, has deadly attacks--if you get hit, there's little preventing it. Especially when the blade is twirling above her, if you get hit, there's a good chance you'll die. It's nearly impossible to see coming and it's in the center of the stage, so it's not difficult at all to end up at that point just at the right time. It's happened to me more than once.
But yeah, I love Spear Pillar anyways. If there's a way to guarantee you get Dialga, I'll have to figure it out.
For some of those stages, they should've let you switch it in the Random Stage selection. You can turn Dialga/Palkia/Cresselia on/off, 1-1 or 1-2 off, and so on. I realize that you can select 1-1/1-2 on your own, but there's really no reason to have to hold a button every time if you are NEVER going to play on the other stage.