I joined Bulbapedia on October 3, 2008, and made my 50th edit on October 24, 2008. I mostly post comments on talk pages, but am gravitating towards just helping other users get Egg Moves.
Me and Pokēmon, Inside and Out
I have no life. My world is about playing the 'cello at school, learning math, and playing video games in my hours of free time. Okay, scratch that; I do sort of have a life, but my peers have more of one than I do. With Pokémon, I am dedicated, the games never get old, and my play time is currently spent breeding and raising Pokémon to use at the Battle Tower and in PBR. I have played Gold for a little over 400 hours yet I have 5 Lv. 100 Pokémon in it, Ruby for over 700 hours (3 Lv. 100's), and Diamond for more than 600 hours (Highest Level is 86 because of my style of gameplay). I have beaten Emerald, LeafGreen, Ruby, Gold, and Crystal, but I am not too proud of my Emerald because for some reason, it's like my Pokēmon have fallen behind. Maybe it's because I chose May. . . . Anyway, I've Beaten XD twice and Colosseum once, but second files had to be made when my dog chewed my Memory Card, I was smart enough to trade Lugia off of XD, but I forgot to get any other legendaries off of those games before they had to croak. I have beaten the story in both Mystery Dungeon Red and Mystery Dungeon Time. I attribute some of Gold's success and my knowledge of how to battle to Pokémon Stadium 2. My favorite memory of Pokēmon is the day my older brother decided to give me my first Main Series Pokēmon Game; Gold. By the way, that is his Crystal, too, but he lost it and when it was found again he didn't really care about it. To this day, he has Sapphire, FireRed, and Pearl. My Diamond has a Lunatone he caught for me in exchange for a Solrock when we were into Ruby and Sapphire. But he's in college now, so here I sit in a house that seems so quiet now. If you actually bothered to read all of that bleeble-blabble, congratulations, you win a cookie! . . . . . (Just kidding)
Breeding for Bulbapedia Members
Before I go into the story behind my breeding passion, you may be interested in a little thing I'm going to do for more Pokémon from different trainers. If you give me your Friend Code, I will gladly breed anything that is at least somewhat reasonable (NO LEGENDARIES, POKÉMON THAT CAN'T BE FEMALE, SHINY POKÉMON, OR ANY POKÉMON THAT OTHERWISE CAN'T BREED) for you, and practically for nothing if the request was easy to do, but I will most likely take one of the Pokémon from the batch of Eggs to keep for myself. Tell me on my talk page and we can arrange a time and date after I get it. PLEASE do not tell me what to use as parents, only the moves, gender, and what stats you want its nature to affect in what way. This does not guarentee that you will get the exact nature you want.
How did I Start Breeding?
Not an easy question, because it didn't happen all at once, but I started breeding because I beat every colosseum in PBR. Of couse, I continued playing it, but I had a hard time beating the colosseums when some of them changed their battle type. I started looking for something to help me stand a chance. I knew about EVs at the time, but I kept track of them instead of trying to face certain Pokémon to change the EVs they got, and the party that beat Stargazer Colosseum had the same Pokémon I beat Diamond with (but there was a Heatran and a migrated Lugia (the one from XD) in it). When those were trained, even Heatran came to early for EV training and the rest had Effort Ribbons at that point. As a solution, I looked into Egg Moves, and the first Pokémon I bred for was an Gible that was born with Dragon Rush (not sure how that happened). I trained a Dratini (♂) I migrated until it knew Dragon Rush, and bred it with a Gible (♀) that I never let evolve until it was lv. 37 (and it actually learned Dragon Rush before lv. 50!). The male offspring knew Dragon Rush (and Dragon Pulse) at birth, and I bred that with my Aggron from Emerald (I think it was the best Pokémon in my Emerald, but I didn't know until it was migrated) to acheive my ultimate goal, an Aron with Dragon Rush, Impish nature, with high IVs in Defense, nicknamed "Titanium." This, of course, led to my strong set of Monster Egg Group mothers and fathers.
Then, I got interested in the Flying Egg Group. I noticed how a lot of good Flying Pokémon have Brave Bird and Sky Attack in their Egg Movepool. I got the idea to try and combine the two, which to this day I have not done, and believe it's impossible. If you know of a way to do it (without hacking) though, please tell me. Anyway, I got very interested in Skarmory and Tailow, both good for teaching Sky Attack. My best candidate for Brave Bird was Pidgey. I trained a Staraptor and a Noctowl to know their respective moves. I caught two wild Swellow, one ♂ and one ♀, and migrated one of my Emerald's Skarmory, and bred the ♀s with Noctowl once it learned Sky Attack. As for the Pidgey, I got a ♀ Pidgey off of the GTS. I bred it with Staraptor and the resulting Pidgey (now this was cool) was born with Tangled Feet as its Ability, and it knew Roost, U-turn, Fly, and Brave Bird, and it is being EV trained!
I later researched Shuckle, and set out for a "Super Shuckle." A Cloyster I caught was the grandfather, because I taught it Toxic. I got Toxic to pass from Cloyster to a Skorupi, which I taught Accupressure, to a Shuckle. Its mother was a Shuckle I got from GTS. It was hard to decide between the two Pokémon I had that knew Toxic, both by TM06, Torterra (my starter) and Cloyster, but to get it from Torterra, I would have had to have a Paras (♀) and I didn't. I did, however, have a Skorupi that could be a mother. I am now so glad that Skorupi is in a weird Egg Group (Water 3).
My Strongest Teams
These teams are my best teams from throughout my main series Pokémon games. Only Gold, Ruby, and Diamond have a team good enough for mentioning here, but I can't put Ruby's team up here yet. I traded Ruby's team to XD to beat Mt. Battle, and now I can't find my Memory Card for XD. Until then, enjoy Gold's and Diamond's Pokémon!
Gold's Godly All-Purpose Team
In Gold version, this is the team that shows up in the Hall of Fame more than 80 times and beat Red more times than I can count. A good team could execute the obvious weaknesses to Rock and Water, but there aren't any in Gold strong enough for me to worry about. Note that Tempest's Moves were possibly the result of hacking (it wasn't me) and all of its moves have maximum PP. I don't know how I ended up with so many Leftovers, but I cannot complain. I have another Level 100 Typhlosion in my PC, with the same moves as this one, except the other one knows Flame Wheel instead of Fire Blast.
These 8 Pokémon are my primary Pokémon. If I needed to make any more storyline progress in Diamond, I would probably do so with this team. XD001 was migrated from Ruby when it saved it from deletion in XD, and arrived on September 2, 2007. Iron Fire (Heatran) was added to the team on July 7, 2007, and is my Diamond's highest level Pokémon.
THIS ONE NEEDS IMPROVEMENT. I am open for opinions on how to improve the way this party stands up against other types, particularly Rock, Ice, Fighting, and Ground. However, notice the way I have opened up combos for Double Battles (this team's specialty) to power up Pokémon with Volt Absorb, Motor Drive, and Flash Fire, and also for using Earthquake without hurting my ally or using Protect. I would like to keep it that way. Salamence is an alternative to Dragonite, it is EV trained for Speed and Attack.
Gyarados♂ Lv.89
Typhlosion♂ Lv. 100
Charizard♂ Lv. 100
Fat Albert♂ Lv. 100
Tempest Lv. 100
Earth♂ Lv.79
Lightning♂ Lv.70
Floatzel♂ Lv.72
Sonic Bird♀ Lv.65
Blitzdreig♂ Lv.54
XD001 Lv.85 (familliar...)
Fire Wolf♂ Lv.59
Electivire♂ Lv.68
Dragonite♂ Lv.69
Titanium♂ Lv.48
Salamence♂ Lv.53