hahaha. Laddering is just too easy with Deoxys-D (imo it's utterly broken and needs to be banned). Deoxys D + dark horse + ??? + ??? + ??? + ??? = win. It only takes about an hour to make a top 100 run.
Oh, don't worry. I am new, too. The people there are very nice, and there are many sub-groups within BABA (such as TPH, BWS, and more), so they will keep things quite occupied. By the way, how are you in battling? I, well, am getting better...