time for a greentext story that leads up to the present day
>playan pogeymans, one of very few people who did in my neighborhood
>get an irl rival in gen 3
>"hey, wanna trade?"
>"you play too? well what do you have to trade?"
>"kadabra"
>we trade for my haunter
>both of them evolve
>we solo a good portion of fire red/leaf green with these fuckers
>post game
>we double battle with our full teams
>he wins with gengar
>gen IV announced
>we agree on him getting diamond and me getting pearl
>we realize our current bros: weavile and lucario, him choosing lucario
>post game
>I nab an AR and we both used it for some REAL competitive battling
>we level 100 now
>a series of double battles, I'm wondering why he prefers doubles
>I lose because I'm just shit at double battles
>gen V rolls around
>I'm stuck on the elite four
>had to use the meloetta event to beat it
>by the time I finally beat it, he got his DS with white stolen
>time goes by
>We start up colosseum bro-op
>so far we're at entei
>meanwhile I'm on showdown
>get my first doubles win I've ever had in my life
>send him the replay link (which I don't have now)
>"I finally won a doubles match"
>"Cool cause you can't beat me"
>I sent him to showdown
>"maybe I can now....let's find out, both of us make new teams"
tl;dr: I'm re-challenging an old friend who was extremely skilled in a battle format I suck at, help
also, irl pokefriend/rival thread
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