Plague von Karma
Banned deucer.
"A stranger is being shown around a village that he has just become part of. He is shown a well and his guide says "On any day except Tuesday, you can shout any question down that well and you'll be told the answer." The man seems pretty impressed, and so he shouts down, "Why not on Tuesday?" A voice from in the well shouts back, "Because on Tuesday, it's your day in the well."
"How did I get here?"
Well, it's nearly 1:30 AM Tuesday now in the UK, so let's get this out the sandbox and off the ground before I pass out, though lord knows I'll probably stay up until 4 or some ungodly hour anyway. This post ended up being pretty fucking huge because I have no regard for people's eyes or time. I'm kind of shocked I was even voted, but I hope this is interesting enough to make it worth it!
The Introduction
For those who don't know me, I'm agenwunner RBY player who goes "RBY isn't implemented properly NotLikeThis" every other week. I enjoy contributing to RoA and C&C with RBY content as resource-wise, the generation is pretty scattered. There's never been a "permanent" space for RBY, which has resulted in information being somewhat difficult to access, with one forum even being wiped off the face of the earth with no way to get the resources back. Unlike what some may believe, I play Gen 2 and the current generation as well, just not to a level I'd call competitive. If I don't have an informed opinion, I won't talk about it, because lord knows there are enough loud+uninformed people out there. Just how I am.
You may have seen me around the social forums as well - particularly Cong and Smogoff - because I have too much time on my hands. In Cong, I've made a bunch of threads based around some personal interests of mine in hopes of getting some discussion. There are some political bits I've brought up as well, usually ones I'm not knowledgable about, in hopes of learning about them. In Smogoff...well, you probably know me as that one BKC simp in every Well Nomination Thread...and chronic shitposter. There's also my spritework thread in Smeargle's Laptop, but eh, I hardly consider if "work".
The Plague von Karma Origin Story™
Some people have given origin stories on these wells, so here's an essay on how I wound up here, as well as my general history.
I've played Pokemon ever since I was 3 years old, starting with Pokemon Stadium and a copy of Pokemon Yellow and Pokemon Gold. I was kind of a "90s kid bought up in 2000", with a lot of hand-me-downs from my dad, uncle and other family members. My family wasn't "rich", so I had to make do. I didn't even get internet access in my house 'till 2007ish, where I would end up lurking on 4chan and some niche forums, seeing stuff like the Final Fantasy House incident unfold. I played a lot of Pokemon with friends in the neighbourhood but eventually moved to another location due to some...family issues, let's call it that.
While I certainly don't look it, I've had a Smogon account for 6 years, originally under the pseudonym "Chippy2001" prior to changing my name to my actual tag. I lurked before making my account for a few years and was on PO for a bit. Not sure how long this was, but I remember seeing the whole "FREE SOMALIA!!!" thing. Once I joined Smogon, however, I made a bunch of awful posts that I sorely regret. This would continue on an irregular basis until very, very late 2018. I believe I got a lurk more warning from Kink at some point? It's my only infraction from what I know bar (rightfully) deleted posts, anyway.
Why did I join Smogon in the first place? Well, I was having issues with a PS user who was perving on me, which caused some flashbacks to a very dark time in my childhood. At the time, there wasn't a report button or anything, and I didn't know where to go. I forgot the name of the user by this point, but I don't think I'd want to remember anyway. It was a total mess. I believe I made a post in the old PS Suggestion Box and was dismissed due to Smogon being very separate from PS at the time. You can probably find it, but I hold no responsibility for the eye bleach you'll need for my cringe phrasing and mannerisms.
So, I was mostly a lurker with horrific opinions up until late 2018ish. What happened, and why did I suddenly come back posting tolerably? Let's go over the interim.
When I originally decided to hop into gaming communities, I was mainly reserved to Facebook Fire Emblem groups, and this continued into 2017. There was also Pokken Arena's forums, where I moderated the Pikachu Libre subforum for a hot minute, but I was, frankly, a horrible person, and neither community benefitted from my presence. I was very closeted and didn't get help with my mental problems; ergo, I definitely wasn't the kind of person who should be on a computer. I ended up becoming pretty radicalised and the like, in part due to my crippling self-hatred issues. Despite those horrific qualities, I somehow ended up moderating 3 of the big Facebook Fire Emblem groups at different points, in addition to my time on Pokken Arena; Nino's Magical Circlejerk, Fire Emblem: Skill Center and All Your Fire Emblem Waifus (AYFEW). Did I do it well? The only one I'd say that was done properly was Skill Center, where I would do regular unit reviews, hold events for people, and promote a lot of discussion over various things. I was a pretty vocal staff member on various issues as well. My problem was that I was really rough about certain things, and held opinions I would absolutely tear into my old self for these days. If you need an idea on how I was, think of those alt-righter snowflakes who throw a fit when you even consider the idea of enacting legislation against hate speech, with a dash of sealioning. Yeah, it was pretty bad. I did try to develop a fan game in AYFEW one time, but I don't think I'll go into it unless asked. It wouldn't be until late-2016 maybe early 2017 where I'd finally hoof it and get my ass into gear when I started to lose interest...and friends. There's a lot I regret, frankly. The biggest thing I got out of my time in these areas was a wealth of group moderation experience, which I would put to use later to good effect. I forgot what happened in the end with me and Pokken Arena, but I remember having disagreements with someone called Quiet who I think became owner...I either left or was kicked off. I just can't remember, this was like...2015-2016ish? I know they transferred to a new site since then...
I certainly did get my ass into gear, though. I went off-grid for a while and focused on self-improvement. I eventually discovered the sexuality that I'd been holding in for so long - biromantic homosexual, later figured to be trans - then went introspective and figured more stuff out. I got help for a lot of stuff, had the backing of a few friends, and soon I became significantly more liberal. Before long, I was a completely different person, the one you see here. The Plague von Karma prior to 2018 was a very different one.
Taking my experience from writing things for Skill Center - and with a brand new, productive attitude - I would turn to Smash. Yeah, one bad fandom to the next. Smash Ultimate had just come out, and I was looking for something to get into. A fresh start. I was primarily on Twitter for a time, as well as making minor appearances on Facebook until I saw one person talking about a bunch of Smash Character Discords, under an umbrella known as "SmashCords". So, I hopped into the Discord for the character I wanted for a decade and a half: King K. Rool. This was the worst decision I made in my time on the internet, possibly ever, and let me tell you: I have made some stupid decisions in my lifetime, like using 4chan!
I contributed greatly to King K. Rool's character metagame - in fact, some players have literally called me the pioneer - and ended up labbing out other characters as well. To this very day, I consider this spreadsheet to be one of the best works I have ever done. Furthermore, I have made significant contributions to SmashWiki on the side, including things on policy and the like. I'm particularly proud of the moveset pages I did for K. Rool there, featuring tons of documentation and citations: check out the FAir page, I'm particularly proud of what I did there! I could talk about SSBU King K. Rool for hours, hell, I'd happily coach anyone interested, give matchup advice, anything. Hell, I did it once for money and even helped high-level players like Onua. The work I did for Smash Ultimate largely moulded my interest in research to improve Pokemon Showdown. For a full run-down of what I did for Smash, I implore you to look here.
Anyway, moving on. I would eventually moderate a few SmashCords, in part due to my gigantic metagame contributions, but that's where it got hairy. Many things happened to me in the SmashCords that I won't go over in detail - some incidents include some shitty teen doxxing me, sexual harassment on 3 occasions, having to report multiple pedophiles, and more - the stress boiled over to the point of me having some kind of mental breakdown. This wasn't my staff placements causing stress, by the way. In fact, I enjoyed working on those and improving the communities, especially my work on the Terry Discord. The things causing me problems were very, very personal. The level of stress and abuse that the Smash Community brought upon me is something I wouldn't wish on anyone. I was often told to "ignore the bad eggs" among all the other cop-outs you and I have both heard many times, but people don't understand that this shit weighs on you, no matter how many times you're told to "move on" and the like. You don't just forget this shit: it will add up. When you're working for more than half the day on spreadsheets due to legitimate, genuine demands from the higher-ups in a certain top tier Discord, it will burn you to the ground. This is the tip of the iceberg, but let's not get depressing and instead move on to brighter things.
While my experience in Smash was generally negative, I met a lot of dear friends during this time, including my boyfriend, Abbey Street, who's the light of my life and we continue to have an amazing relationship to this day. I met Ex-RUTL Molk during this time too, and I have to say, the conversations I had with him were some of the most productive, eye-opening experiences I have ever had in my life. I have a massive amount of respect for the two of them, and they kept me playing Smash for a lot longer than I otherwise would have. There are some other friends I met, but this post is already gigantic, and it'd be discourteous to turn this into some shoutout circlejerk.
With some experiences that put me in therapy again behind me, I left the Smash Community for greener pastures, and those greener pastures would become my return to Smogon.
Since returning to Smogon...
So, who or what brought me back here? If you haven't guessed, it was Molk!
Molk introduced me to the SS RU community through a friend, though said friend turned out to be...reprehensible, and was banned. I won't go into that ordeal, but to say nothing else, I half considered hoofing it there and then. Instead of running away from the Pokemon Community, however, I ended up looking at the RBY Community. I lurked in the RBY community for a long time, since around 2015, watching the Pokemon Perfect forums and the like, mainly because of nostalgia and general interest in game design. I've been asked about my RBY and GSC experience in the past by a couple of people, so I think I owe an explanation.
Prior to me playing competitive RBY "for real", I would play RBY and GSC casually with some friends of mine on cartridge. This includes some irl friends and Facebook mates, some of which are the friends I grew up with. Be it netplay with TGBDual, screenshare software with Project64, Skype...we would play somehow. Overall, I rarely used Pokemon Showdown. This was partly due to the inaccuracies I complain about these days, which were only worse back then. Did you know Counter outright didn't work on Pokemon Showdown's Stadium sim for ages? Anyway, in terms of what we played format-wise, we would play the old official ones and Smogon's, primarily. We got the idea from some old gen WiFi battle YouTubers like Yus, who still does these battles to this day, by the way! We used this guide for Stadium if you're interested! This song and dance is how I got my metagame knowledge - in addition to watching forums - which was flawed. This was partly because of skill level differences, what the YouTubers used, and the nature of casual play. I'm pretty sure Earthworm may have some choice words for me regarding this flawed knowledge, anyway, given what I had to say about GSC NU a while ago. The friend group I was in was a weird pocket community that died off in late 2018ish, as I grew apart from them, not to mention everyone got bored with it. I won't go too much into it...it wasn't really a "positive breakup", but I think I was right to move away. When I started playing RBY and Stadium on Pokemon Showdown again after my miserable experiences years back, I ended up noticing all these bugs, as it's just stuff we found out over the years. I think that if I didn't play WiFi battles for all those years, and instead acted on the complaints among my friend group, I could have reported these problems much sooner, and they may even be fixed now.
I later discovered RBY 2k20 through some stuff Ortheore posted during the RBY Counter fiasco, I believe I saw it in his signature. I think it was...this post. I have a lot of respect for him as an RBYer, and his writings on Pokemon Perfect are largely what gave me my ideals regarding the game. I'm a bit less outspoken, though this can be considered a good or bad thing depending on perspective. I've since done a shit ton for RBY 2k20, becoming an administrator and doing a large amount of the Strategy Dex content and articles, plus programming formats and the like for the PS Side Server, which got me into contributing to PS Main. Curious? Here's the Petit Cup dex, an old format I decided to optimize to a stupid degree a while back that I finally got to put to paper somewhere.
Considering how I was raised, why did I go to RBY and not GSC? Well, it's a simple preference for RBY's qualities: the limited metagame allows for further access to heavier optimization, the mechanics are super intricate and interesting, and it's surprisingly flexible in terms of formats. These qualities are what keep me around and I don't see it changing anytime soon. If something ever happens with RBY that makes me leave, GSC would be the first place I go. As a game and history topic, I love GSC much more than RBY, but competitively RBY just feels more accurate to my preferences.
Other things
Anyway, here are some other facts I couldn't be arsed to write in ridiculous paragraphs, partially put here to preserve your eyes. Feel free to make questions out of these, I'm a nutter and will probably rant for ages about them.
"How did I get here?"
The Introduction
For those who don't know me, I'm a
You may have seen me around the social forums as well - particularly Cong and Smogoff - because I have too much time on my hands. In Cong, I've made a bunch of threads based around some personal interests of mine in hopes of getting some discussion. There are some political bits I've brought up as well, usually ones I'm not knowledgable about, in hopes of learning about them. In Smogoff...well, you probably know me as that one BKC simp in every Well Nomination Thread...and chronic shitposter. There's also my spritework thread in Smeargle's Laptop, but eh, I hardly consider if "work".
The Plague von Karma Origin Story™
Some people have given origin stories on these wells, so here's an essay on how I wound up here, as well as my general history.
I've played Pokemon ever since I was 3 years old, starting with Pokemon Stadium and a copy of Pokemon Yellow and Pokemon Gold. I was kind of a "90s kid bought up in 2000", with a lot of hand-me-downs from my dad, uncle and other family members. My family wasn't "rich", so I had to make do. I didn't even get internet access in my house 'till 2007ish, where I would end up lurking on 4chan and some niche forums, seeing stuff like the Final Fantasy House incident unfold. I played a lot of Pokemon with friends in the neighbourhood but eventually moved to another location due to some...family issues, let's call it that.
While I certainly don't look it, I've had a Smogon account for 6 years, originally under the pseudonym "Chippy2001" prior to changing my name to my actual tag. I lurked before making my account for a few years and was on PO for a bit. Not sure how long this was, but I remember seeing the whole "FREE SOMALIA!!!" thing. Once I joined Smogon, however, I made a bunch of awful posts that I sorely regret. This would continue on an irregular basis until very, very late 2018. I believe I got a lurk more warning from Kink at some point? It's my only infraction from what I know bar (rightfully) deleted posts, anyway.
Why did I join Smogon in the first place? Well, I was having issues with a PS user who was perving on me, which caused some flashbacks to a very dark time in my childhood. At the time, there wasn't a report button or anything, and I didn't know where to go. I forgot the name of the user by this point, but I don't think I'd want to remember anyway. It was a total mess. I believe I made a post in the old PS Suggestion Box and was dismissed due to Smogon being very separate from PS at the time. You can probably find it, but I hold no responsibility for the eye bleach you'll need for my cringe phrasing and mannerisms.
So, I was mostly a lurker with horrific opinions up until late 2018ish. What happened, and why did I suddenly come back posting tolerably? Let's go over the interim.
When I originally decided to hop into gaming communities, I was mainly reserved to Facebook Fire Emblem groups, and this continued into 2017. There was also Pokken Arena's forums, where I moderated the Pikachu Libre subforum for a hot minute, but I was, frankly, a horrible person, and neither community benefitted from my presence. I was very closeted and didn't get help with my mental problems; ergo, I definitely wasn't the kind of person who should be on a computer. I ended up becoming pretty radicalised and the like, in part due to my crippling self-hatred issues. Despite those horrific qualities, I somehow ended up moderating 3 of the big Facebook Fire Emblem groups at different points, in addition to my time on Pokken Arena; Nino's Magical Circlejerk, Fire Emblem: Skill Center and All Your Fire Emblem Waifus (AYFEW). Did I do it well? The only one I'd say that was done properly was Skill Center, where I would do regular unit reviews, hold events for people, and promote a lot of discussion over various things. I was a pretty vocal staff member on various issues as well. My problem was that I was really rough about certain things, and held opinions I would absolutely tear into my old self for these days. If you need an idea on how I was, think of those alt-righter snowflakes who throw a fit when you even consider the idea of enacting legislation against hate speech, with a dash of sealioning. Yeah, it was pretty bad. I did try to develop a fan game in AYFEW one time, but I don't think I'll go into it unless asked. It wouldn't be until late-2016 maybe early 2017 where I'd finally hoof it and get my ass into gear when I started to lose interest...and friends. There's a lot I regret, frankly. The biggest thing I got out of my time in these areas was a wealth of group moderation experience, which I would put to use later to good effect. I forgot what happened in the end with me and Pokken Arena, but I remember having disagreements with someone called Quiet who I think became owner...I either left or was kicked off. I just can't remember, this was like...2015-2016ish? I know they transferred to a new site since then...
I certainly did get my ass into gear, though. I went off-grid for a while and focused on self-improvement. I eventually discovered the sexuality that I'd been holding in for so long - biromantic homosexual, later figured to be trans - then went introspective and figured more stuff out. I got help for a lot of stuff, had the backing of a few friends, and soon I became significantly more liberal. Before long, I was a completely different person, the one you see here. The Plague von Karma prior to 2018 was a very different one.
Taking my experience from writing things for Skill Center - and with a brand new, productive attitude - I would turn to Smash. Yeah, one bad fandom to the next. Smash Ultimate had just come out, and I was looking for something to get into. A fresh start. I was primarily on Twitter for a time, as well as making minor appearances on Facebook until I saw one person talking about a bunch of Smash Character Discords, under an umbrella known as "SmashCords". So, I hopped into the Discord for the character I wanted for a decade and a half: King K. Rool. This was the worst decision I made in my time on the internet, possibly ever, and let me tell you: I have made some stupid decisions in my lifetime, like using 4chan!
I contributed greatly to King K. Rool's character metagame - in fact, some players have literally called me the pioneer - and ended up labbing out other characters as well. To this very day, I consider this spreadsheet to be one of the best works I have ever done. Furthermore, I have made significant contributions to SmashWiki on the side, including things on policy and the like. I'm particularly proud of the moveset pages I did for K. Rool there, featuring tons of documentation and citations: check out the FAir page, I'm particularly proud of what I did there! I could talk about SSBU King K. Rool for hours, hell, I'd happily coach anyone interested, give matchup advice, anything. Hell, I did it once for money and even helped high-level players like Onua. The work I did for Smash Ultimate largely moulded my interest in research to improve Pokemon Showdown. For a full run-down of what I did for Smash, I implore you to look here.
Anyway, moving on. I would eventually moderate a few SmashCords, in part due to my gigantic metagame contributions, but that's where it got hairy. Many things happened to me in the SmashCords that I won't go over in detail - some incidents include some shitty teen doxxing me, sexual harassment on 3 occasions, having to report multiple pedophiles, and more - the stress boiled over to the point of me having some kind of mental breakdown. This wasn't my staff placements causing stress, by the way. In fact, I enjoyed working on those and improving the communities, especially my work on the Terry Discord. The things causing me problems were very, very personal. The level of stress and abuse that the Smash Community brought upon me is something I wouldn't wish on anyone. I was often told to "ignore the bad eggs" among all the other cop-outs you and I have both heard many times, but people don't understand that this shit weighs on you, no matter how many times you're told to "move on" and the like. You don't just forget this shit: it will add up. When you're working for more than half the day on spreadsheets due to legitimate, genuine demands from the higher-ups in a certain top tier Discord, it will burn you to the ground. This is the tip of the iceberg, but let's not get depressing and instead move on to brighter things.
While my experience in Smash was generally negative, I met a lot of dear friends during this time, including my boyfriend, Abbey Street, who's the light of my life and we continue to have an amazing relationship to this day. I met Ex-RUTL Molk during this time too, and I have to say, the conversations I had with him were some of the most productive, eye-opening experiences I have ever had in my life. I have a massive amount of respect for the two of them, and they kept me playing Smash for a lot longer than I otherwise would have. There are some other friends I met, but this post is already gigantic, and it'd be discourteous to turn this into some shoutout circlejerk.
With some experiences that put me in therapy again behind me, I left the Smash Community for greener pastures, and those greener pastures would become my return to Smogon.
Since returning to Smogon...
So, who or what brought me back here? If you haven't guessed, it was Molk!
Molk introduced me to the SS RU community through a friend, though said friend turned out to be...reprehensible, and was banned. I won't go into that ordeal, but to say nothing else, I half considered hoofing it there and then. Instead of running away from the Pokemon Community, however, I ended up looking at the RBY Community. I lurked in the RBY community for a long time, since around 2015, watching the Pokemon Perfect forums and the like, mainly because of nostalgia and general interest in game design. I've been asked about my RBY and GSC experience in the past by a couple of people, so I think I owe an explanation.
Prior to me playing competitive RBY "for real", I would play RBY and GSC casually with some friends of mine on cartridge. This includes some irl friends and Facebook mates, some of which are the friends I grew up with. Be it netplay with TGBDual, screenshare software with Project64, Skype...we would play somehow. Overall, I rarely used Pokemon Showdown. This was partly due to the inaccuracies I complain about these days, which were only worse back then. Did you know Counter outright didn't work on Pokemon Showdown's Stadium sim for ages? Anyway, in terms of what we played format-wise, we would play the old official ones and Smogon's, primarily. We got the idea from some old gen WiFi battle YouTubers like Yus, who still does these battles to this day, by the way! We used this guide for Stadium if you're interested! This song and dance is how I got my metagame knowledge - in addition to watching forums - which was flawed. This was partly because of skill level differences, what the YouTubers used, and the nature of casual play. I'm pretty sure Earthworm may have some choice words for me regarding this flawed knowledge, anyway, given what I had to say about GSC NU a while ago. The friend group I was in was a weird pocket community that died off in late 2018ish, as I grew apart from them, not to mention everyone got bored with it. I won't go too much into it...it wasn't really a "positive breakup", but I think I was right to move away. When I started playing RBY and Stadium on Pokemon Showdown again after my miserable experiences years back, I ended up noticing all these bugs, as it's just stuff we found out over the years. I think that if I didn't play WiFi battles for all those years, and instead acted on the complaints among my friend group, I could have reported these problems much sooner, and they may even be fixed now.
I later discovered RBY 2k20 through some stuff Ortheore posted during the RBY Counter fiasco, I believe I saw it in his signature. I think it was...this post. I have a lot of respect for him as an RBYer, and his writings on Pokemon Perfect are largely what gave me my ideals regarding the game. I'm a bit less outspoken, though this can be considered a good or bad thing depending on perspective. I've since done a shit ton for RBY 2k20, becoming an administrator and doing a large amount of the Strategy Dex content and articles, plus programming formats and the like for the PS Side Server, which got me into contributing to PS Main. Curious? Here's the Petit Cup dex, an old format I decided to optimize to a stupid degree a while back that I finally got to put to paper somewhere.
Considering how I was raised, why did I go to RBY and not GSC? Well, it's a simple preference for RBY's qualities: the limited metagame allows for further access to heavier optimization, the mechanics are super intricate and interesting, and it's surprisingly flexible in terms of formats. These qualities are what keep me around and I don't see it changing anytime soon. If something ever happens with RBY that makes me leave, GSC would be the first place I go. As a game and history topic, I love GSC much more than RBY, but competitively RBY just feels more accurate to my preferences.
Other things
Anyway, here are some other facts I couldn't be arsed to write in ridiculous paragraphs, partially put here to preserve your eyes. Feel free to make questions out of these, I'm a nutter and will probably rant for ages about them.
- While some people tend to think I'm like 30 years old or something, I actually just turned 20 this year!
- I'm Welsh and was bought up learning Cymraeg and English at the same time. However, I moved to England at a young age, and as such, Cymraeg gradually faded from my mind. I recently took to re-learning it for the sake of heritage. Plus, if I move back to Wales later in life, it'll come in handy.
- I'm Transgender, male to female, and very proud of it. I'm on a long waiting list for HRT and the like, though...
- I'm on the autism spectrum. While I have a few other mental problems, I will refrain from commenting on them.
- My political alignment is very, very far left. The average American will recoil in horror!
- I own 4 reptiles: 2 Tokay Geckos (Gekko gecko), a Common Musk Turtle (Sternotherus odoratus), and a Chinese Golden Thread Turtle (Mauremys sinensis). I've considered becoming a proper, qualified Herpetologist one day.
- I have owned many species of reptile before and can probably give advice on most common ones if you're interested in that as well. However, I have experience with Barking Geckos (N. Milii) and stuff too, so there is some niche stuff I could probably help with.
- I'm a bit of a retro game enthusiast and have been collecting video games since I was a kid.
- Outside of Pokemon, I enjoy Shin Megami Tensei (particularly Persona), Corpse Party, Donkey Kong Country and fighting games. There's a lot of others, though.
- Fighting games are sick, though my boyfriend is more addicted than I could ever be. However, I have a pretty interesting here too that I could probably share.
- I have a love for horror manga and I'm always taking suggestions for new reading material. Post em on my profile or something, would ya? Maybe I'll review em in the Cong anime and manga thread if that strikes your fancy.
- Horror books are also cool, Lovecraft being a favourite. There's also stuff like Maurice Leblanc's Arsene Lupin that I enjoy, though!
- SCPs and creepypasta are interesting things, but the quality varies too widely for me to just hop on a website and leaf through.
- Trading card games are cool, and I primarily play Yu-Gi-Oh. The current meta is pretty mid but far better than a couple of years ago at least. I've played Cardfight Vanguard and the Pokemon TCG in the past, but not at a competitive level at all.
- I have a pretty hefty stake in Video Game Preservation as a subject and have made some minor contributions to it. Fully open to debate on the topic.
- I've worked as a writer in the past and would love to further this minor "career" of mine.
- I've been paid £100 to do this Smash Ultimate Joker Guide with well over 100 pages, featuring extensive information on his kit and fundamentals, which was considered good enough for someone to translate into Spanish.
- Dr Lava has hired me to help him with his "Doctor's Notes" sections on his "Dr Lava's Lost Pokemon" website, though my work hasn't yet been put up...you can expect it to pop up soon enough, though.
Well, ask away!
- Beautiful and perfect, especially the Red and Green design. 
- The shiny says trans rights
- Can't teach that attitude, friend. 
- Funny nuke in Pokemon Colosseum that princess carries you to bed at night, love it. 
- Guts + Toxic Orb + Flare Blitz recoil is funnier than most things in Pokemon tbh
- Its cry sounds like it's got severe constipation which makes me have trouble taking it seriously 
- Should have been the SW97 design tbh, also a victim of the flawed Physical Grass-type design. 
- I often forget this one exists and that's pretty damn telling when it has such a nice design. Sux. 
