>Had this friend growing up
>used to play GS and RSE together
>remember he somehow got his hands on a japanese ruby before I got sapphire.
>he was a total fucking weeb but whatever we had fun as kids
>fast forward to 2013 and XY had just come out
>I was hype as fuck, and the weeb contacted me, and he wanted to hang and play pokemon together like we did as kids
>had been years since the last time i saw him, and I figured he had grown up by then
>He wanted to battle, and I already had a nice bred team so figured why the hell not
>>>"NO U CANT SWITCH POKEMON, ITS SO BORING"
>>>"YOU CANT USE THAT, THAT MOVE IS TOO STRONG"
>okay?

Later on I showed him my shiny blastoise and how to get shinies with the masuda method.
He tried it out and of course he got a shiny charmander in like 15 eggs and he freaked like what you'd expect from a weeb
>"OKAY U WANNA BATTLE WITH THE STARTERS? YOU HAVE THE ADVANTAGE WITH BLASTOISE"
>he ends up mega evolving to charizard y, getting drought, outspeeding me and ohko me with solar beam
>"WELL NOW WE KNOW WHOS BEST XD"
>havent seen him since then

this guy was 22 at the time, had played pokemon 10x more than me, and he still didnt know about natures, breeding, egg moves, IV or EVs, shiny hunting methods. everytime I see the "proud of its power lucario" meme it reminds me of him