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>Always played on emulators until I finally bought a DS with Platinum
>Had a Haunter and a Machoke in my team
>A guy in an internet forum helped me evolve them through trade, good guy
>I am so happy to have these two mons
>Next year buy Soul Silver and I beat it
>I want to transfer my Platinum mons to SS, but I do not have two DSs
>Use the risky tactic of uploading them to GTS asking for very specific things I had in my other game, then quickly changing cartridges and find my mon in GTS to trade
>Do this super fast, heart racing in fear that another trainer might trade them before me
>Main team arrives to my SS successfully, including my bro Gengar
>The last transfer is Machamp
>Can't find him on the SS GTS
>oh fuck oh fuck panic mode
>try several times dont want to lose time
>go back to Platinum cartridge
>enter GTS
>someone actually traded it
>I lost my Machamp bro
>feel like shit
>decide this loss would be the inspiration to learn about IVs, EVs and competitive
>full of determination I learn all that stuff that seemed so complicated and breed an almost perfect Machamp, doing all the calculations in paper because gen IV breeding was a pain in the ass and trading again witht he guy
>My first competitive mon appears, the spiritual successor of my original Machamp
>wrecks literally everyone's shit, No Guard Dynamic Punch feels like I'm the king of everything
>he has been my ace and traveling bro ever since. I have tons of competitive mons now but he has extra emotional value
