The Claiming of Pokemon
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Today my dad who plays Pokemon tells me that he has traded 6 Pokemon over from Platinum to HeartGold for EV training. My dad has EV trains most Pokemon differently than I would; the way he battles and builds teams is designed for competing in the AI-controlled Battle Tower while I have been shaped by Wi-Fi battling other people.
I had frequently chained shiny Pokemon in the past, and my dad claimed that many of the Pokemon he had traded over were shinies. I was suddenly worried because I knew almost every single shiny between the games we had were Pokemon that I had caught from long hard hours of shiny chaining... and my dad didn't even know where they came from.
When I heard from my dad that he was planning on EV training shinies, I demanded to see which Pokemon he picked out. Among the assortment were a hasty-natured shiny Electrode, an adamant-natured Makuhita, and an adamant Bagon from one of my past IV breeding programs.
The Electrode was meant as a Rain Dance team lead. The Bagon was meant as a Dragon Dancer. The Makuhita was a swarm I chained. I stuttered a bit and asked my dad if he could let me EV train the Pokemon instead.
He says I don't have time to play Pokemon anyways. I want to yell that I was the one who spent hours obtaining those Pokemon. But I hold myself back.
I tell him to EV train a different Bagon, a female Adamant Bagon with four perfect IV stats that didn't know Dragon Dance(an egg move for Bagon). Other than that, I bite the fact that I can always get a better Electrode for a Rain Dance team lead if I wanted.
It's a funny thing though, I think. To share a Pokemon game with someone else, and to be unable to ever claim any Pokemon completely.
I had frequently chained shiny Pokemon in the past, and my dad claimed that many of the Pokemon he had traded over were shinies. I was suddenly worried because I knew almost every single shiny between the games we had were Pokemon that I had caught from long hard hours of shiny chaining... and my dad didn't even know where they came from.
When I heard from my dad that he was planning on EV training shinies, I demanded to see which Pokemon he picked out. Among the assortment were a hasty-natured shiny Electrode, an adamant-natured Makuhita, and an adamant Bagon from one of my past IV breeding programs.
The Electrode was meant as a Rain Dance team lead. The Bagon was meant as a Dragon Dancer. The Makuhita was a swarm I chained. I stuttered a bit and asked my dad if he could let me EV train the Pokemon instead.
He says I don't have time to play Pokemon anyways. I want to yell that I was the one who spent hours obtaining those Pokemon. But I hold myself back.
I tell him to EV train a different Bagon, a female Adamant Bagon with four perfect IV stats that didn't know Dragon Dance(an egg move for Bagon). Other than that, I bite the fact that I can always get a better Electrode for a Rain Dance team lead if I wanted.
It's a funny thing though, I think. To share a Pokemon game with someone else, and to be unable to ever claim any Pokemon completely.
Posted by Shadow Files on Wed, 28 April 2010 18:13:33 MDT in Trials and Tribulations
