I joined Bulbapedia on October 3, 2008. I mostly posted comments on talk pages, and was gravitating towards just helping other users get Egg Moves until I was told it was talk page abuse. However, my edits lately have centered around cleaning up unsatisfactory grammar, style, and tone as well as contributing trivia. Lately, I've also been on the lookout for Pokémon species articles whose learnsets are not yet up to date for Generation VI. I remain keenly interested in breeding.
Current Activities
As I currently attend Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA to get a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, I have less time to play Pokémon as I had in high school. However, when I'm not in class or doing coursework, I usually play Pokémon White 2, breeding and training Pokémon to be as successful as possible in the Pokémon World Tournament. I also have a habit of seeking out Pokémon with competitively useful Hidden Abilities. This pursuit often means I have to breed Pokémon for my friends to get Hidden Abilities I otherwise couldn't access; cases of this include Zangoose, Dratini, Bagon, Vulpix, and Eevee.
My Skills Have Improved Since Gen IV
I'm quite proud to say that breeding in my Black Version has gone absurdly well. I've gotten to the point at which I can breed Pokémon (that don't have unknown genders) well enough to get triple flawless Pokémon (3 IVs are 31). I can do this quite easily in the Monster, Dragon, Field, and Fairy Egg groups, and can chain breed my way into others. I've also started to get picky about the Legendary Pokémon I choose to keep, preferring to wait until I get one with a desirable Nature and IV spread. My skills have continued to advance further in White 2; I have been picky about the IVs of almost every Pokémon I have chosen to train and with every legendary Pokémon I catch (from any source other than Pokémon Dream Radar). For the first time in my Pokémon career, I went out of my way to collect at least one Ditto with perfect IVs in each of the six stats, and the only perfect IV I don't have in a Ditto is Attack. Also, every Pokémon I train has had EVs tracked in great detail--even Pokémon I have barely used. I even developed an Excel-based Stat Calculator/Journal so that I never have to manually calculate IVs when I'm offline. I even made sure that it had a look-up feature for the base stats of every form of each species, and I have included features to account for the statements of the Stats judge and each possible Characteristic.
I've had a few ideas for teams I can use in the Battle Maison (mostly for fun). The two I'm acting upon at the moment are a Trick Room Rain Team for Doubles and a Sun Team for Triples.
