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>gen 4, including internet connectivity lead to my first real interest in making pokemon for more than in-game battling, due to otherwise being foreveralone
>first team i go full karenfag, but give natures, EVs and movesets that emphasize my chosen mon's capabilities even breed for not shit IVs (perfect IVs at this point seem like too much of a mind-numbing slog to be worthwhile)
>PBR comes out not long after my team is complete, since stadium and le reddit game were two of my favorites, I immediately take the fruits of my labor to glorious 3D
>Swellow is absolute fembro, guts/facade/burn orb isn't original, but it works like a champ against NPc teams
>clefable is my trump card, walling anything that kills my fragile sweepers (the majority of my team) and regularly PP stalls those mon I have no other hope of beating
>take to online battles once sufficiently victorious over computer, same story, different day
>swellow wrecks despite predictability
>clefable tanks everything, including a focus punch from a curselax, and this is back when it was still normal
>gen 6, hear unaware is a pretty neat ability, see clefable gets it
>breed the second coming of clefable, with stored power and everything, he is as great as I remember
>port swellow up once bank is available, immediately queen of maison
I fucking love clefable, both of the ones i've bred up are actually male, and they are the manliest blobs of pink cuteness there ever will be.
I almost forgot how great swellow was, and then the maison just gave me all new reason to ignore talonflame, staraptor and braviary. She will always be my bravest bird.
