This is gonna sound ridiculous, but I have never played a Pokemon game in my life. My brother decided to give me his copy of Pokemon Y since he got his mileage out of it. I'm pretty familiar with the basic idea (it IS an RPG, afterall), but there is apparently a huge metagame involving breeding, etc? Being totally new to this is there a wealth of info I can refer to on these topics for when I need it?

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