User:Butterfreeism

Butterfreeism
Gender	Male
Hometown	San Francisco Bay Area
Region	California

Alola! I'm Butterfreeism, and welcome to my userpage! It's a work in progress. If you have any suggestions, let me know on my talk page!

Current projects

Alola, which has location pages still needing descriptions

Here are my current Bulbapedia projects:

• Finishing this user page
• Adding/expanding the "Route description"/"Geography" sections for Alolan & Galarian locations
• Fleshing out & streamlining the "Biology" descriptions for Pokémon
• Fixing grammatical, stylistic, and typographical issues wherever I find them

About me

Butterfree, the inspiration for my username.

I've been a Pokémon fan since my childhood in the 1990s. I played Pokémon Yellow on my GameBoy Color, though I never actually finished it. (I couldn't find HM03 (Surf) in the Safari Zone, so I couldn't finish get any further than the Fuchsia Gym.) I watched the Pokémon: Indigo League anime every day after school. I collected Pokémon Cards in a big Pokémon binder, though I never knew how to play the game.

While I continued to like Pokémon and remember a lot about Generation I, I stopped keeping up with Pokémon (in any form) just before the start of Generation III. By the time I got a DS in the mid-2000s, I wasn't even aware that more Pokémon games were coming out. But, I've finally got back into the wonderful world of Pokémon with Pokémon Moon and Pokémon GO in 2016.

Since then, my husband & have played all the games as they've come out, up to and including Pokémon Shield! We've also kept up somewhat with the new movies and started collecting Pokémon Cards again. I've started to learn how to play the TCG, but we mostly just collect the cards to collect them.

My username is inspired by the Generation I Pokémon Butterfree. I didn't come up with it myself, though; it comes from something we did in my frosh dorm in college. One day, we decided to list out which Pokémon everyone was, and my dormmates decided I was the Butterfree of our dorm. And I kind of ran with it!

Pokémon Universe

If I were a character in the Pokémon Universe, my starter would be the Grass-type Starter for the region. The only exceptions I'd make would be in Unova, where I'd choose Tepig, and Kalos, where I'd choose Froakie.

Regardless of my Starter choice, I'd probably end up becoming a male Psychic that focuses on Ghosts or a Punk Guy that throws in a few Ghosts. To be close to the Ghost Pokémon, I'd live in one of the following cities:

• Lavender Town if I lived in Kanto;
• Konikoni City if I lived in Alola, as Konikoni City is close to Memorial Hill; or
• Stow-on-Side if I lived in Galar, as it's close to a few Ghosts on Route 6 & in Glimwood Tangle.

I don't know the other regions well enough yet to say which city or town I'd prefer.

I'm not sure how much of a Pokémon adventure I'd undertake, or even whether I'd challenge the Elite Four. I might be a Pokémon Breeder (in the anime sense) instead.

Usertags

Below are the usertags that I've come across that both apply to me and that I liked. If you have suggestions for other ones, drop me a note on my talk page.

Basic info	Other info	Current games
en This user is a native speaker of English.	es-3 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.	This user is a player of Pokémon Black Version 2.
This user is 31 years old.	This user was born in the Year of the Rooster.	This user is a player of Pokémon Y.
This user identifies as male.	This user is a feminist.	This user is a player of Pokémon GO.
This user is homosexual.	This user is an advocate of gay rights.	This user is a player of Pokémon Ultra Sun.
This user is from the state of California.	This user loves autumn.	This user is a player of Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!
This user has brown hair.	This user's favorite color is purple.	This user is a player of Pokémon Shield.
	This user is Christian.

Favorites

Below are lists of my favorites for various aspects of the Pokémon Universe.

Favorite types

Below are my favorite Pokémon types, in ranked order. I think of these as "Haunted Forest" types, since I'd imagine these types of Pokémon coexisting in a haunted forest.

1) Ghost
Example: Gastly
2) Grass	3) Fairy	4) Psychic
Example: Bulbasaur	Example: Clefairy	Example: Drowzee
5) Dark	6) Poison	7) Bug
Example: Sableye	Example: Ekans	Example: Paras

Favorite Pokémon

Here are my favorite Pokémon, in rank order. Their types are listed as of Generation VIII.

Overall

1) Gastly family
Ghost			Poison
2) Mimikyu		3) Bulbasaur family		4) Mewtwo
Ghost	Fairy	Grass	Poison	Psychic
5) Clefairy family		6) Spoink family		7) Caterpie family
Fairy		Psychic		Bug	Flying*

Starters

1) Bulbasaur family
Grass			Poison
2) Grookey family		3) Rowlet family		4) Tepig family
Grass		Grass	Flying* / Ghost*	Fire	Fighting*
5) Froakie family		6) Chikorita family		7) Treecko family
Water	Dark*	Grass		Grass

Games

Me, spading my way through every game, never beating the Elite Four. (Weedle is the symbol for the Bulbapedia:Spading Notice Template.)

I've played the following core series games, at least briefly:

• Pokémon Yellow;
• Pokémon Zafiro, the Spanish version of Pokémon Sapphire;
• Pokémon Leaf Green;
• ポケットモンスター ブラック ２, the Japanese version of Pokémon Black 2;
• Pokémon Y
• Pokémon Moon;
• Pokémon Ultra Sun;
• Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu!; and
• Pokémon Shield.

Despite playing all of these games for extended periods of time, I've only beaten Pokémon Moon and Pokémon Shield so far. I'm a major spader in Pokémon games. However, I do fully intend to play through each of the ones I still have access to until I beat them!

Through the years, I've also played a number of the spin-off Pokémon games, most notably Pokémon GO. I started playing on the first day it came out in 2016, and I've never really stopped. It helps that I've always lived/worked in places with good access to PokéStops and Gyms.