Rockersk08, whose real name is Justin (Japanese: ジャスティン)*, is a member of Bulbapedia, joined on October 20th, 2008. He found Bulbapedia through Wikipedia, which he uses as a general information source. Since he found Bulbapedia more comprehensive, he switched to using it as his Pokémon source. His primary reason to join was to contribute to the anime episode summaries. He first took an interest in Pokémon when he received Pokémon Red in 1998, following up with viewing the anime.
Games
The Pokémon games started Rockersk08's interest in Pokémon, beginning with Pokémon Red on his Game Boy Pocket. Although he has owned games from each generation, he no longer has Crystal. His Gold and Silver cartridges no longer save due to dry cell batteries. He considered repairing them, but shelved the thought for newer games.
For Red, he chose Charmander as his first starter. Since it was the first game he played, he made common mistakes: not raising a balanced team, no movesets, and relying too much on Charizard. He fixed his mistakes in Pokémon Yellow, completing it with a balanced team at level 50.
Pokémon Gold increased his interest dramatically. He got it in December 2002, along with a Target-endorsed Game Boy Advance. He chose Cyndaquil as his starter. Gold was the first game where he would raise a team to level 100, although half of the team was composed of Legendary Pokémon: Mewtwo, Zapdos and Ho-oh. He played that version for three years, co-playing along with Pokémon Stadium 2. He did get a hold of Silver and Crystal, but he eventually set them down for the third generation.
Rockersk08 originally skipped over Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, getting FireRed in December 2005, his stepbrother getting LeafGreen. He once again chose Charmander as his starter, and he found FireRed much harder but more rewarding. After switching out his team, he raised his first non-legendary team to level 100: Tyranitar, Machamp, Alakazam, Lapras, Jolteon, and Arcanine. He eventually imported the team to his Diamond card, updated with Generation IV moves. He did get ahold of Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, merging all the Pokémon onto Diamond. He did, however, chose Torchic as his starter for Sapphire.
Rockersk08 is currently working on the fourth generation games, having acquired Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum. For all three, he raised the teams to level 100. Although Dialga was on Diamond, this marks the first instance where he has raised starter Pokémon to level 100, let alone all three Sinnoh starters. Since he found out about Effort Values, he is now breeding and raising many new Pokémon for competition, but only to level 50. Once he completes his list, he plans to take six Pokémon, incorporating all four generations, and raising that team to level 100 with Effort Values for a tournament team. He also plans to incorporate Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver into his collection when they arrive in the United States.
These are only a few of Rockersk08's usertags. The rest have been placed on a subpage to condense the main user page. To view the tags, click this link.
Anime
Rockersk08 has seen most of the Original series episodes, all of the Advanced Generation, and parts of Diamond and Pearl. He currently has the first box set for the first season, the second season box set, both Battle Frontier box sets, the complete tenth season and the first two boxes for season eleven. He strives to pick up as many on DVD as possible. In terms of movies, he has seen the first four films and Destiny Deoxys. He owns the DVD for The Rise of Darkrai and Giratina and the Sky Warrior.
Contributions
Rockersk08's first contribution was the synopsis to The Bicker The Better on October 22nd, 2008. He also joined Project Anime, which has been his primary focus. His first created page was for the 1999 Pokémon Monopoly board game on January 12th, 2009. As of October 20th, 2009, he has written sixty episode summaries and plans to write more. He received the Golden Bulbasaur Award on June 6th, 2009 for service between February 2009 and May 2009.
Writing the average episode synopsis takes at least one hour or more for Rockersk08. While watching the episode, he will type very quick notes using Notepad. Once finished, he often transfers it to Microsoft Word and revises it four times. The first run removes spelling errors while the next two improves the text, adding complete, detailed paragraphs. The final pass involves adding links. Preferably, he likes to watch the episode on DVD for quality. However, YouTube videos are adequate, especially for newly-released episodes. He does make occassional typos and doesn't always check the links due to slower Internet connections.
When he does not have time to write a summary, Rockersk08 works on improving links and pages. One project involved removing improper use of {{G}}, which was being used lazily for pages starting with Pokémon, such as {{g|Center}} for Pokémon Center. In the edit summary, he referred to it as "Lazy Shell," which is a reference to Super Mario RPG. He also works on fixing any incorrect links, such as those that lead to Disambiguation pages when they should not. He also works on fixing redirect links.
On November 4th, 2009, the dark lord trombonator offered Rockersk08 a temporary promotion to an administrator in order to help with the major transition from Pokémon Special to Pokémon Adventures. He accepted and moved several pages, changed the links in the Number Disambiguation pages and fixed resulting double redirect pages. Less than twenty-four hours afterward, he returned back to a normal user.
Episodes summaries
Teams
As Rockersk08 has played most of the games, he has created several teams. All teams have been moved to a subpage to condense the main user page. To view the teams, click this link.
- HeartGold: TBA, will be ♂
- SoulSilver: TBA, will be ♀
- Platinum: 49484, ♀
- Diamond: 22369 ♂
- Pearl: 59536 ♀
- Emerald: 16480 ♂
- FireRed: 25611 ♂, 00261 ♂
- LeafGreen: 19635 ♂
- Ruby: 44999 ♂
- Sapphire: 46744 ♂
- Crystal: Unknown but was ♀
- Gold: 28565
- Silver: 27621
- Yellow: 34804
- Red: 39338
- Blue: 65524
Trivia
- The name Rockersk08 was originally a netname he used for online gaming. He created it in 2002 for Red Alert 2. Although the 08 defines his high school graduation year, rockersk was derived from the trainer class Rocker in the games. He threw in the letter "k" at random. In essence, the name was inspired by Pokémon!
- Rockersk08's first starter Pokémon from each generation were Charizard (Red and FireRed), Typhlosion (Gold), Blaziken (Sapphire), and Empoleon (Diamond). Although he owns every starter, these were the first picks when he started a new generation.
- His favors the Fire-types. He also generally balances his team with Water, Psychic, Fighting, Ground, and Electric types, although there are variations.
- His favorite Japanese opening is High Touch! and its variants, but Together and its variants are a close favorite. For an English opening, it is the twelfth season opener followed by the the eleventh season one.
- When he plays his games, he names the male characters after himself, his friends or hero characters, such as Jack Bauer. For female characters, he names them after his friends.
- Aside from Ash Ketchum, his favorite anime character is Dawn, closely followed by Brock's Croagunk and Meowth. On the opposite end, he strongly dislikes Pokémon Hunter J.
- He supports PearlShipping the most, but PokéShipping and AdvanceShipping are also worthy.
- His favorite episode is Get Your Rotom Running!. A Scare to Remember!, Aipom & Circumstance and Aiding the Enemy! are close favorites.
- He has three battle partners: his stepbrother (7-3), his high school friend (4-2) and his university's anime club (0-2). He also had two more from middle school. Currently, his record is 11-7.
- As Rockersk08 takes the time to raise his Pokémon, he dislikes major forms of cheating, such as utilizing Pokésav to modify stats. Although he understands that it can save time, he would rather work for it.
- Seeing as Alakazam has been on every team, it would make sense that it is Rockersk08's favorite Psychic Pokémon.
- His first Event Pokémon was the Toys "R" Us Shaymin, retrieved on February 13th, 2009. His second one was the Toys "R" Us Regigigas on March 13th, 2009.
- He originally thought the edit limit applied to all pages, not just the userspace. Once he realized his error, he picked up editing.
- Aside from Pokémon, he has interests in the Halo trilogy, Yu-Gi-Oh!, 24, Star Wars, Red Alert 2 and its expansion Yuri's Revenge, StarCraft, the Mega Man X series, James Bond, the Terminator series, the original Power Rangers, The Steve Wilkos Show and the RMS Titanic.
- He is currently a college sophomore trying to major in Biology. He wants to become a Pediatric Dentist.
- To mark one year on Bulbapedia, he revealed his name.
Contact
The best time to contact Rockersk08 would be during the week since he uses the computer labs at his university. He checks his e-mail every day except for weekends, where it may vary.
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