User:Butterfreeism
Butterfreeism

Pink Butterfree, as seen in the anime
Gender Male
Hometown San Francisco Bay Area
Region California

Alola and hello! I'm Butterfreeism, and welcome to my userpage! Among other things, this page is a way for me to practice/test out different things with wikicode. If you have any suggestions, let me know on my talk page!

Current projects

My starters
Region Starter
Kanto Bulbasaur Grass
Poison
Johto Chikorita Grass
Hoenn Treecko Grass
Sinnoh Piplup Water
Unova Tepig Fire
Kalos Froakie Water
Alola Rowlet Grass
Flying
Galar Grookey Grass
Paldea Sprigatito Grass

Here are my current Bulbapedia projects:

  • Adding/expanding the basic descriptive information for game locations, i.e. in the "Route description" and "Geography" sections of those pages
    • The Alola & Galar games in particular have a lot of location pages with this info missing, even though they've been out for years.
  • Fleshing out & streamlining the "Biology" descriptions for individual Pokémon species, particularly with the physical descriptions of Pokémon
  • Adding/expanding information related to Pokémon GO and the Paldea games
  • Updating long pages so that they're more readable, streamlined, and sourced
  • Fixing grammatical, readability, and typographical issues wherever I find them

I like to edit Bulbapedia when I have time and have something to add. But, that means that I make edits fairly sporadically.

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 Game Boy Color, though I never actually finished it. (I couldn't find HM03 (Surf) in the Safari Zone despite repeated attempts, so I couldn't get any further in the main storyline than the Fuchsia Gym.) I watched the Pokémon: Indigo League anime every day after school. And 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 (and some about Generation II), I stopped keeping up with Pokémon (in any form) around the introduction of Generation III in the anime. By the time I got a DS Lite as a teenager in the mid-2000s, I wasn't even aware that more Pokémon games were coming out. But in 2016, I finally got back into the wonderful world of Pokémon—first with Pokémon GO, and then with Pokémon Moon.

Since then, my husband & I have played all the core series games as they've come out, up to and including Pokémon Violet! We've also gone back and played some of the older games, and we've played a handful of the side series and spin-off Pokémon games, primarily the mobile games Pokémon Go and Pokémon TCG Pocket. Plus, we've kept up somewhat with the new movies/shows a little bit, and we've even started collecting Pokémon Cards again. We're starting to learn how to play the (physical) TCG, but since we still don't have a full starter set, 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 (Generation I) Pokémon everyone was, and my dormmates decided I was the Butterfree of our dorm. And since I loved Ash's Butterfree as a kid, I kind of ran with it!

Pokémon Universe

If I were a character in the Pokémon Universe, my starter would almost always be the Grass-type starter for the region. (The starters I've chosen, or would choose, from each generation are in the table on the right.)

Regardless of my Starter choice, I'd probably end up becoming a trainer focused on Ghosts (e.g. 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:

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.
This user is a Pisces.
This user is a player of Pokémon GO.
es-3 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.
This user was born in the Year of the Rooster.
This user is a player of Pokémon Ultra Sun.
This user identifies as male.
This user is a feminist.
This user is a player of Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!
This user is 33 years old.
This user loves autumn.
This user is a player of Pokémon Shield.
This user is bisexual.
This user is an advocate of gay rights.
This user is a player of Pokémon Shining Pearl.
This user is from the state of California.
This user's favorite color is purple.
This user is a player of Pokémon Violet.
This user has brown hair.
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 the "Haunted Forest" types, since I'd imagine these types of Pokémon coexisting in a haunted forest.

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

Favorite Pokémon

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

Overall

1. Gastly family 2. Mimikyu 3. Bulbasaur family

Ghost Fairy Grass Poison
4. Sprigatito family 5. Clefairy family
Ghost Poison Grass Dark* Fairy
6. Lechonk family 7. Caterpie family 8. Rowlet family
Normal Bug Flying* Grass Flying* / Ghost*

Starters

1. Bulbasaur family 2. Sprigatito family 3. Rowlet family

Grass Dark* Grass Flying* / Ghost*
4. Grookey family 5. Tepig family
Grass Fire Fighting*
6. Froakie family 7. Chikorita family
Grass Poison Water Dark* 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:

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 and Pokémon TCG Pocket. I started playing Pokémon GO on the first day it came out in 2016, and I've come back to it fairly often. It helps that I've always lived/worked in places with good access to PokéStops and Gyms. I started playing Pokémon TCG Pocket in late 2024, and I've enjoyed the daily pack pulls and collecting Pokémon cards in a digital way.

Teams

Here are my main teams.

Pokémon GO

When I think about my 'team' in Pokémon GO, I think of my top CP Pokémon that I use frequently in Gym Battles and Raid Battles. Here are some of my perennial team members:

Lucky Pokémon are marked with golden backgrounds. Max stat Pokémon are marked with pink backgrounds.
Slaking
 cp3949 #0289 ♂ Moves
★★☆ Yawn
Obtained in a trade: 6/25/2022
Caught in the wild: San Francisco, CA, United States 		Play Rough
Mewtwo
 cp3611 #0150 Moves
★★★ • Confusion
Caught after defeating Giovanni: 1/20/2021 Psychic
Garchomp
 cp3408 #0445 ♀ Moves
★★★ Dragon Tail
Obtained in a trade: 6/6/2021
Caught in the wild: San Mateo, CA, United States
Event: Community Day: Gible 		Earth Power
Rhyperior
 cp3394 #0464 ♀ Moves
★★☆ Mud-Slap
Caught: 9/1/2018 Earthquake
Dragonite
 cp3377 #0149 ♀ Moves
★★☆ Dragon Tail
Caught: 12/1/2018 Dragon Claw
Tyranitar
 cp3318 #0248 ♂ Moves
★★★ Bite
Caught in the wild: 7/17/2021
Event: Pokémon GO Fest 2021 Day 1: Catch! 		Stone Edge
Zekrom
 cp3168 #0644 Moves
★★★ Charge Beam
Caught at a raid: 12/12/2021 Stone Edge
Mewtwo
 cp3030 #0150 Moves
★★★ Psycho Cut
Caught at a raid: 6/25/2022 Psystrike
Hydreigon
 cp2972 #0635 ♂ Moves
★★★ Dragon Breath
Obtained in a trade: 6/25/2022
Caught in the wild: San Francisco, CA, United States
Event: Community Day: Deino 		Brutal Swing
Gengar
 cp2474 #0094 ♂ Moves
★★★ Shadow Claw
Obtained in a trade: 10/7/2018
Caught: Millbrae, CA, United States 		Sludge Bomb
Tyrantrum
 cp2255 #0697 ♂ Moves
★★★ • Rock Throw
Caught in the wild: 10/12/2022 Meteor Beam
Gengar
 cp1961 #0697 ♂ Moves
★★★ • Shadow Claw
Caught: 10/27/2020 Shadow Ball

Pokémon Shield

Here is the team I used to compete in (and win) the Galar League.

Pokémon Trainer
Butterfreeism
Wyndon Stadium
Shield
Reward:
$0
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