Sumwun

sumwun
"I’ll never give in; I’ll do my best!"
This is what I really look like. Don’t judge.
Gender	Genderless
Eye color	Blonde
Hair color	Blue
Hometown	Unknown
Region	sumwair
Relatives	My family left me...
Trainer class	User
Generation
Games	Pokémon Brown and Gray

If you go to a mainspace article that isn't considered a stub (for example, by clicking "random page"), click on the first link in the article that links to a Bulbapedia page, isn't in italics, and isn't in parentheses, and repeat the previous step, you will eventually find yourself at the Bulbapedia article about Canada. It's true.

Anyway, I’m sumwun. (obviously, because people other than sumwun aren't supposed to edit this) My first experience with Pokémon was from the TCG. My first card was this Seadra, which I found lying around in my house. When I realized that a few of my friends had their own collections of Pokémon cards, I bought an actual set and started playing with them. A few years later, I got Pokémon Platinum Version (I would have gotten it much sooner if I hadn't spent so much on TCG sets). I decided that the games were better than the TCG, so I ended up giving all of my cards except that Seadra to my friends. I made an account on the Pokémon Database and I regularly use the Q&A and help new competitors in the Rate My Team. I don’t have time to breed for perfect IVs, so I battle on a simulator, specifically Pokémon Showdown!. I also like their banlists better than those of official tournaments (I don’t care if Rayquaza isn’t “mythical”; it’s game breaking). I think it would be pointless to put in information about which metagames I play, because that changes more often than I edit this page. Some time later, I got a copy of Pokémon Emerald Version, which I played on for more than 100 hours before realizing that it was fake. I did get a real cartridge eventually, which is my only other game at the time of writing. I’ve only played core series games so far, but I plan on starting my PMD: Blue Rescue Team sometime. As for Bulbapedia, it’s the best source of Pokémon information I’ve found so far. I tend to pay attention to detail, so most of my activity here consists of fixing unnoticeably tiny errors and adding random stuff to trivia sections.

Pokébase account

Achievement Records (more adaptable than halls of fame)

Team used to defeat Wallace in Emerald for the first time:

User sumwun Ever Grande City Emerald Reward: bragging rights

Type: Electric Unknown Ability: Static Held item: None Manectric♂ Lv.49 Thunderbolt Electric   --       Thunder Wave Electric   --       Thunder Electric   --       Roar Normal   --       Type: Grass Unknown Ability: Overgrow Held item: Exp. Share Grovyle♂ Lv.49 Leaf Blade Grass   --       Quick Attack Normal   --       Giga Drain Grass   --       Screech Normal   --       Types: Bug Flying Ability: Speed Boost Held item: None Ninjask♂ Lv.50 Aerial Ace Flying   --       False Swipe Normal   --       Swords Dance Normal   --       Silver Wind Bug   --       Types: Ice Water Ability: Thick Fat Held item: Quick Claw Walrein♂ Lv.51 Surf Water   --       Encore Normal   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       Rest Psychic   --       Type: Fighting Unknown Ability: Thick Fat Held item: None Hariyama♂ Lv.49 Fake Out Normal   --       Strength Normal   --       Vital Throw Fighting   --       Foresight Fighting   --       Types: Dark Ghost Ability: Keen Eye Held item: Rawst Berry Sableye♂ Lv.51 Fake Out Normal   --       Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Faint Attack Dark   --       Night Shade Ghost   --

Team used to defeat Cynthia in Platinum for the first time:

User sumwun Pokémon League Platinum Reward: bragging rights

Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Inner Focus Held item: Expert Belt Lucario♂ Lv.60 Aura Sphere Fighting Special   --       Foresight Normal Status   --       Me First Normal Status   --       Reversal Fighting Physical   --       Types: Water Flying Ability: Keen Eye Held item: None Pelipper♂ Lv.61 Air Slash Flying Special   --       Fly Flying Physical   --       Surf Water Special   --       Roost Flying Status   --       Types: Dark Fire Ability: Early Bird Held item: Choice Specs Houndoom♂ Lv.58 Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Crunch Dark Physical   --       Sucker Punch Dark Physical   --       Embargo Dark Status   --       Types: Rock Steel Ability: Sturdy Held item: Chople Berry Probopass♂ Lv.61 Power Gem Rock Special   --       Magnet Bomb Steel Physical   --       Stealth Rock Rock Status   --       Sandstorm Rock Status   --       Types: Grass Ground Ability: Overgrow Held item: Yache Berry Torterra♂ Lv.59 Wood Hammer Grass Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Leech Seed Grass Status   --       Synthesis Grass Status   --       Types: Dark Ice Ability: Pressure Held item: Focus Sash Weavile♂ Lv.61 Night Slash Dark Physical   --       Ice Punch Ice Physical   --       Ice Shard Ice Physical   --       Taunt Dark Status   --

Times I was top 500 on a Pokémon Showdown! ladder:

11/27/2015 Monotype

Usertags

Pokémon Stuff

	This user is a player of Pokémon Emerald Version.

	This user is a player of Pokémon Platinum Version.

	☆ This user's favorite Rock-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Water-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Electric-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Grass-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Poison-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Psychic-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Fire-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Ground-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Flying-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Bug-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

I don’t know of any good normal Pokémon. What should I put here?

	☆ This user's favorite Ghost-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Fighting-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Steel-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Ice-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Dragon-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Dark-type Pokémon is Kecleon. ☆

Just kidding!

	☆ This user's favorite Pokémon is Skarmory. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite type is Steel. ☆

	This user is a Flying-type trainer.

	This user used to be a steel-type trainer like you, then the user took a close combat in the knee.

	☆ This user's favorite move is Roost. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Ability is Unaware. ☆

	This user's favorite ball is the Timer Ball.

♫♪♫	This user's favorite song is Johto Trainer Battle.

	♠ This user's least favorite Pokémon is Pikachu. ♠

	This user hates Pikachu.

	← This user used to have one of these, till the user met one of these. →

	This user enjoys stalling competitive matches.

Not to brag, but...

	This user used to fear putting rare TMs to waste and ended up not using them.

		This user's Rattata is in the top percentage.

	PRAISE LORD HELIX!!!

	This user hates fairies.

	This user doesn’t care if Pokémon have bad designs.

	Hey, Generation I Pokemon were pretty bad as well!

	This user reads Pokémon Adventures.

	This user does not trust Chuang Yi.

Random Stuff

	This user identifies as genderless.

suT	This user uses sumwair Standard Time, which is UTC-13.

	HEY GUYS, DID YOU HEAR? LUKE CASTELLAN SAVES MT. OLYMPUS!

	This user is asexual.

	This user does not like shipping.

	This user is not a shipper.

	This statement is false.

	This user has a collection of applesauce.

Look!

Tags That Should Exist

	This user is a competitive battler.

	This user is a competitive battler

	This user is a competitive battler.

Seriously. Anything but Netbattle.

	This user is a defiant battler.

	This user is sick and tired of people using Pikachu to represent all Pokémon.

	This user thinks Eevee would be a better mascot.

	This user thinks Rhydon would be a better mascot.

	This user thinks the use of Pokémon with high stats makes battling less fun.

	This user’s favorite item is the Leftovers.

	This user was top 500 on a Pokémon Showdown! ladder.

	This user dreams of every Pokémon being tiered someday.

	This user is resolute.

There’s already tags for emotional, intelligent...don’t legendaries come in trios?

	Sunkern for ubers!

	This user uses his trusty frying pan as a drying pan.

	This user has navigated an entire cave without using repels.

	This user loses when he doesn't eat enough pizza.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon introduced in Generation II is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon that doesn’t evolve is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon with a unique type combination is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon with a BST of 465 is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon whose ability can be sturdy is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon with a 50-50 gender ratio is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon with a catch rate of 25 is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon whose evolution family is in the flying egg group is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon whose lowest evolution has 25 egg cycles is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon whose evolution family grows slowly is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon that gives physical defense EVs is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon with one pair of wings is Skarmory.

	This user’s favorite Pokémon with 70 base friendship is Skarmory.

	This user thinks Skarmory would be a better mascot.

Boring Stuff That You Likely Won’t Read

	This user likes to experiment with templates.

	This user is a WikiGnome.

	This user loves the manual of style.

	This user is not a member of any project and prefers to work on anything floating around.

	This user spends too much time on the computer.

	This user supports the use of renewable energy.

	This user is a Libra.

Libra? Scales? Dragon scales? Get it? nvm.

	This user plays Minecraft.

	This user's favorite video game is Minecraft.

Yeah, yeah, I’m a heretic. But in what other game can you build a fully functional Splatoon map without changing the source code?

	This user doesn't get enough sleep.

	This user is insane.

	This user is a loner.

	This user thinks that they are a nuisance.

	This user is a Slow Starter.

	This user is a Slow Starter.

Slow? Starter? Get it?

	This user likes it when it rains.

	This user likes standing outside with no raincoat or umbrella when it rains.

	This user has too many usertags.

My excessively trivial userpages

List of Pokémon with unique egg group combinations

List of Pokémon with unique effort value yields

List of Pokémon with unique base experience yields

Arguments that Pikachu should not be the mascot

My main argument is that Pokémon started as the core series games. Pikachu doesn’t represent them very well, except for Pokémon Yellow Version. Pikachu only became important when the Pokémon anime started airing. The first episode was aired on April Fools day, so Pikachu’s status as mascot was probably just some kind of prank.

• The mascot of Mario is Mario. The mascot of The Legend of Zelda is Link. The mascot of Kirby is Kirby. The mascot of Donkey Kong is Donkey Kong. In case you don’t see a pattern, the mascots for all these games are one of their playable characters. However, Red has no superpowers, so it would make more sense for the mascot to be a Pokémon. The closest that a Pokémon could ever get to being a playable character would probably be the starter Pokémon, since they’re both titular and obtained at the beginning of each game. Thus, I think it would make sense if all three Kanto starters could be mascots. Of course, they’d have to be roughly balanced in terms of both usefulness and popularity.

• If some Pokémon were to permanently be a mascot, it should represent some concept that doesn’t change. Of course, the thing that never changes is the past. Rhydon would be a good choice because it was the first Pokémon, thus a good representation of the past.

• Other concepts that at least should never become less significant are battling and evolution. No matter what you’re doing with Pokémon, whether you’re playing a core series game, a spinoff game, the Trading Card Game, watching the TV show, or reading one of the manga series, both battling and evolution are very important and intriguing concepts. A good mascot to represent the former would be Magikarp. It’s one of the weakest Pokémon, but becomes better at battling through battling. A good mascot to represent the latter would be Eevee, which is literally the evolution Pokémon.

Feel free to tell me that I’m wrong, but please tell me why. That way, I can find and fix flaws in my logic and win more arguments.

Changes that I think would make competitive battling more balanced

• All Pokémon that have a BST less than 410 and can’t evolve further, have no mega evolution(s) should get either an added evolution, a Mega Evolution, or a base stat boost that raises their BST to 410. I think 410 is the minimum for fully evolved Pokémon because the strongest non-legendary Pokémon, which have BSTs of 600, evolve from Pokémon with BSTs of a maximum of 410. Thus, 410 should be the maximum for not-fully-evolved Pokémon, and the minimum for the Pokémon that are fully evolved.
• All fully evolved Pokémon, except for Thundurus, Landorus, and Pokémon in which neither base attack stat is 1/12 or more of its BST, will be able to learn a “viable” attack for all of its types in the damage category that in which it has the strongest attack stat. For example, black Kyurem should be able to learn a “viable” physical ice attack and a “viable” physical dragon attack, since those are its two types and its physical attack is stronger than its special attack. Here’s a table that lists the attacks I think are “viable”. If you want to know how I decided that these moves are "viable", ask me on my talk page. Yes. Dragonite with Drill Peck will be a thing.

	Physical	Special
Rock	Rock Slide, Head Smash, Stone Edge, Diamond Storm	Power Gem
Water	Crabhammer, Waterfall, Aqua Tail, Liquidation	Hydro Pump, Surf, Muddy Water, Water Spout, Scald, Water Pledge, Origin Pulse, Steam Eruption, Sparkling Aria
Electric	Volt Tackle, Bolt Strike, Fusion Bolt, Zing Zap	Thunderbolt, Discharge, Electro Ball, Parabolic Charge
Grass	Leaf Blade, Power Whip, Seed Bomb, Wood Hammer, Horn Leech, Petal Blizzard	Petal Dance, Giga Drain, Energy Ball, Grass Knot, Leaf Storm, Seed Flare, Grass Pledge
Poison	Gunk Shot, Poison Jab	Sludge Bomb, Sludge Wave
Psychic	Psychic Fangs	Psychic, Extrasensory, Psycho Boost, Psyshock, Psystrike, Hyperspace Hole
Fire	Sacred Fire, Flare Blitz, Heat Crash, V-create, Fire Lash	Fire Blast, Flamethrower, Eruption, Heat Wave, Overheat, Lava Plume, Blue Flare, Fiery Dance, Fire Pledge, Fusion Flare, Searing Shot
Ground	Bonemerang, Earthquake, Magnitude, Bulldoze, Land's Wrath, Precipice Blades, Thousand Arrows, Thousand Waves, High Horsepower	Earth Power
Flying	Drill Peck, Brave Bird, Dragon Ascent, Beak Blast	Aeroblast, Oblivion Wing
Bug	Megahorn, Attack Order, X-Scissor, Lunge	Bug Buzz, Pollen Puff
Normal	Body Slam, Double-Edge, Strength, Thrash, Extreme Speed, Return, Facade, Head Charge, Multi-Attack	Tri Attack, Hyper Voice, Judgment, Techno Blast, Boomburst, Revelation Dance
Ghost	Spectral Thief, Spirit Shackle, Shadow Bone	Shadow Ball, Moongeist Beam
Fighting	High Jump Kick, Jump Kick, Low Kick, Cross Chop, Revenge, Superpower, Close Combat, Drain Punch, Sacred Sword, Storm Throw	Aura Sphere, Focus Blast, Secret Sword
Steel	Meteor Mash, Gyro Ball, Iron Head, Gear Grind, Anchor Shot, Sunsteel Strike	Flash Cannon
Ice	Avalanche, Ice Hammer	Blizzard, Ice Beam
Dragon	Outrage, Dragon Claw, Dragon Hammer	Draco Meteor, Dragon Pulse, Spacial Rend, Core Enforcer, Clanging Scales
Dark	Crunch, Knock Off, Hyperspace Fury, Darkest Lariat, Throat Chop	Dark Pulse, Night Daze
Fairy	Play Rough	Dazzling Gleam, Light of Ruin, Moonblast, Fleur Cannon

• Pokémon of the same species but with different abilities should be tiered separately, as separate forms. For example, Blaziken with Blaze should be allowed in some metagames where Blaziken with Speed Boost is banned.
• There should be a tiers system where every Pokémon is viable in at least one tier. Borderlines should be playable, and if a Pokémon becomes too strong for a borderline but not strong enough for the next tier, it moves to a borderline of a borderline. This would apply especially for Uber, where dozens of Pokémon aren’t viable there but are banned from OU. Yes. Powerful Legendary Pokémon will be banned to Uber Uber, and then to Uber Uber Uber, until each one has its own tier. Also, Pokémon should get automatically un-banned from borderlines if their usage falls below a certain amount.
• All attacks in which base power times average number of hits is less than 85 should be either 100% accurate or unable to miss.