User:Superbreeder

About Me

	This user identifies as male.

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	This user is a Pokémon Breeder.

	This user is an Ace Trainer.

	☆ This user's favorite move is Head Smash. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite move is Dual Chop. ☆

	☆ This user's favorite Ability is Mold Breaker. ☆

	This user is intelligent.

♪ ×♪ ×	This user can't sing.

	This user is a player of Pokémon Gold Version.

	This user's first partner Pokémon is Cyndaquil.

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	This user's first partner Pokémon is Torchic.

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	This user's first partner Pokémon is Turtwig.

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	This user is a player of Pokémon Black Version.

	This user's first partner Pokémon is Tepig.

	This user is a player of Pokémon White Version 2.

	This user's first partner Pokémon is Oshawott.

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	This user doesn't like cheating in Pokémon games.

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.

Pokémon White 2 Competitive Team

I really only had one successful competitive team in Generation V. I mainly used it to participate in the Pokémon World Tournament's Champions' Tournament in Triple Battles. I had few problems with it in the tournament. It also won several battles against the team my best friend used for exactly the same tournament, and he was getting similar results to me. The key aspects of this team are Skarmory's Tailwind support, Cresselia's Dual Screens, and Salamence's Moxie ability (particularly when used with Outrage or Earthquake).

Pokémon Trainer Superbreeder Pokémon World Tournament Black 2 and White 2 Pokémon Trainer and Professor Superbreeder Oak Pokémon World Tournament Black 2 and White 2 Reward: N/A

Types: Steel Flying Ability: Sturdy Held item: Rocky Helmet Skarmory♂ Lv.50 Tailwind Flying Other   --       Roost Flying Other   --       Stealth Rock Rock Other   --       Steel Wing Steel Physical   --       Types: Dragon Flying Ability: Moxie Held item: Life Orb Salamence♀ Lv.50 Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Fly Flying Physical   --       Outrage Dragon Physical   --       Type: Psychic Unknown Ability: Levitate Held item: Light Clay Cresselia♀ Lv.50 Reflect Psychic Other   --       Light Screen Psychic Other   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Psychic Psychic Special   --       Types: Fire Steel Ability: Flash Fire Held item: Power Herb Heatran♀ Lv.50 Protect Normal Other   --       Solar Beam Grass Special   --       Earth Power Ground Special   --       Fire Blast Fire Special   --       Type: Electric Unknown Ability: Motor Drive Held item: Expert Belt Electivire♂ Lv.50 Ice Punch Ice Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Cross Chop Fighting Physical   --       Thunder Punch Electric Physical   --       Type: Water Unknown Ability: Marvel Scale Held item: Leftovers Milotic♂ Lv.50 Substitute Normal Other   --       Recover Normal Other   --       Ice Beam Ice Special   --       Scald Water Special   --

Pokémon X Competitive Teams

I've had a few ideas for teams I can use in the Battle Maison (mostly for fun). The three I'm acting upon at the moment are a Trick Room Rain Team for Doubles, a Sun Team for Triples, and a Tailwind Team for Triples.

Sun Team

Pokémon Trainer Superbreeder Battle Maison X and Y Pokémon Trainer and Professor Superbreeder Oak Battle Maison X and Y Reward: N/A

Type: Fire Unknown Ability: Drought Held item: Expert Belt Ninetales♀ Lv.50 Nasty Plot Dark Other   --       Psyshock Psychic Special   --       Solar Beam Grass Special   --       Heat Wave Fire Special   --       Type: Grass Unknown Ability: Grass Pelt Held item: Assault Vest Gogoat♀ Lv.50 Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Rock Slide Rock Physical   --       Wild Charge Electric Physical   --       Horn Leech Grass Physical   --       Type: Fairy Unknown Ability: Flower Veil Held item: Leftovers Florges♀ Lv.50 Grassy Terrain Grass Other   --       Flower Shield Fairy Other   --       Solar Beam Grass Special   --       Dazzling Gleam Fairy Special   --       Types: Grass Flying Ability: Harvest Held item: Sitrus Berry Tropius♂ Lv.50 Protect Normal Other   --       Substitute Normal Other   --       Leech Seed Grass Other   --       Air Slash Flying Special   --       Type: Dragon Unknown Ability: Gooey Held item: Heat Rock Goodra♂ Lv.50 Sunny Day Fire Other   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Ice Beam Ice Special   --       Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Types: Dark Fire Ability: Solar Power Held item: Houndoominite Houndoom♂ Lv.50 Sludge Bomb Poison Special   --       Solar Beam Grass Special   --       Dark Pulse Dark Special   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --

• Note: When not Mega Evolved, Houndoom's Ability is Flash Fire.

This team is complete, and it works as well as I had hoped. A lot of people I tell about this team are surprised to hear that I'm using Mega Houndoom instead of Mega Charizard Y. There are two reasons for my choice: 1) I don't have a Charizardinite Y and don't feel like asking someone for one, and 2) Mega Houndoom's Solar Power makes its Flamethrower extremely scary; its Base Power is 202.5 just on STAB and the Sun Boost, and Houndoom's Sp. Atk is doubled in the sun. In addition, I'm using this team to experiment with Florges's Flower Veil, Grassy Terrain, and Gogoat's Grass Pelt. This team has little vulnerability to Intimidate but a lot of vulnerability to status (for that, it is nice to have Florges on the field to protect Gogoat and Tropius), Fire-type moves from opposing Pokémon, and Poison-type Pokémon. To help with the first vulnerability, I may teach Florges Aromatherapy in place of Flower Shield. One way or another, I'm excited to see how this team will perform.

Rain Team

Pokémon Trainer Superbreeder Battle Maison X and Y Pokémon Trainer and Professor Superbreeder Oak Battle Maison X and Y Reward: N/A

Types: Electric Dragon Ability: Mold Breaker Held item: Ampharosite Ampharos♀ Lv.50 Hidden Power Ice Special   --       Power Gem Rock Special   --       Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Thunder Electric Special   --       Types: Water Psychic Ability: Regenerator Held item: Damp Rock Slowking♂ Lv.50 Trick Room Psychic Other   --       Rain Dance Water Other   --       Scald Water Special   --       Psyshock Psychic Special   --       Types: Bug Steel Ability: Swarm Held item: Muscle Band Escavalier♀ Lv.50 Protect Normal Other   --       Poison Jab Poison Physical   --       Megahorn Bug Physical   --       Iron Head Steel Physical   --       Type: Water Unknown Ability: Mega Launcher Held item: Assault Vest Clawitzer♂ Lv.50 Aura Sphere Fighting Special   --       Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Dark Pulse Dark Special   --       Water Pulse Water Special   --

• Note: When not Mega Evolved, Ampharos's Ability is Static.

This team utilizes Trick Room and Rain Dance. Its Pokémon are all pretty bulky since no EVs are distributed to Speed, but they all have one fully trained offensive stat and a Nature that boosts that offensive stat and lowers Speed. Ampharos is the offensive heavyweight however, carrying a base 165 Sp. Atk stat (when Mega Evolved) and STAB Thunder in the rain. I didn't utilize Drizzle for this team because Slowking can double as the source of both Rain Dance and Trick Room, and as such, I'd use Trick Room on the first turn, and Rain Dance when Slowking goes first (probably) on the second turn. Escavalier helps Slowking with Dark- and Grass-types and helps Ampharos with Fairy-types. Since some Fairy-types aren't weak to Steel (such as Azumarill, a serious threat in the Rain and Trick Room), Escavalier has Poison Jab, a strong physical Poison-type attack. This team will not likely be made in full until after I finish the Triples Team, but I definitely plan to carry it out.

Tailwind Team

Pokémon Trainer Superbreeder Battle Maison X and Y Pokémon Trainer and Professor Superbreeder Oak Battle Maison X and Y Reward: N/A

Types: Fire Flying Ability: Gale Wings Held item: Life Orb Talonflame♂ Lv.50 Tailwind Flying Other   --       Roost Flying Other   --       Flare Blitz Fire Physical   --       Brave Bird Flying Physical   --       Types: Dragon Flying Ability: Moxie Held item: Expert Belt Salamence♀ Lv.50 Fire Fang Fire Physical   --       Steel Wing Steel Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Dragon Claw Dragon Physical   --       Types: Ground Psychic Ability: Levitate Held item: Light Clay Claydol Lv.50 Reflect Psychic Other   --       Light Screen Psychic Other   --       Psychic Psychic Special   --       Earth Power Ground Special   --       Type: Electric Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: Manectite Manectric♀ Lv.50 Snarl Dark Special   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Volt Switch Electric Special   --       Thunderbolt Electric Special   --       Types: Ground Steel Ability: Sheer Force Held item: Assault Vest Steelix♂ Lv.50 Ice Fang Ice Physical   --       Thunder Fang Electric Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Iron Tail Steel Physical   --       Type: Water Unknown Ability: Marvel Scale Held item: Leftovers Milotic♀ Lv.50 Substitute Normal Other   --       Recover Normal Other   --       Ice Beam Ice Special   --       Scald Water Special   --

• Note: When not Mega Evolved, Manectric's Ability is Lightning Rod.

Since I enjoyed so much success with my Triples Team in White 2, I decided that the combination of Dual Screens and Tailwind was worth bringing back, and the release of Pokémon Bank and the Poké Transporter made this team possible. However, I ended up replacing four Pokémon that were originally on the White 2 team. Initally, I realized that I did not want to use Cresselia or Heatran because I disliked the idea of transporting legendary Pokémon, so I planned replacements for them. I then figured out that I could not have Tailwind and Stealth Rocks on a Skarmory unless I bred it under the Generation V breeding mechanics, so I had to replace it. Unfortunately, its replacement does not set entry hazzards. In order to keep the same physical-special balance as I had before, I also had to replace Electivire. Talonflame replaces Skarmory, Claydol replaces Cresselia, and together Steelix and Manectric replace Electivire and Heatran. As far as type match-ups are concerned, Water-type Pokémon may cause me some trouble, and certain Rock-type Pokémon, particularly (Mega) Aerodactyl may be difficult to stop. Originally, I was going to use a Furfrou instead of Steelix, but the type match-ups looked a lot better with Steelix, and I really like the idea of Sheer Force and the Assault Vest on Steelix. Salamence's moveset has been rearranged to give it coverage for the new Fairy-types that seem so prevalent in the Generation VI metagame. Milotic works so well, I saw no need to change it, except to breed one with five perfect IVs and put EVs in Defense this time.