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I don't really play pokemon much anymore, but I always like to share some autism I had from the past
>3rd/4th gen just came out, was introduced to Serebii/Smogon, then started to watch YouTubers that played pokemon competitively
>couldn't actually play online myself, but was still really interested in competitive Pokemon
>started to autistically grind pokemon in the Elite 4 in hopes of someday using them in a tourney or some shit
>this included leveling a Shuckle to ~80 using nothing but toxic stall spam against the E4
>eventually gave up after spending like a week on shuckle
>all that time and effort wasted
that's not even the worst part
>since I was into competitive pokemon, but couldn't play it myself, I instead spent countless hours writing down and "theorycrafting" "competitive" movesets for every. single. pokemon in existence (at the time it was still the 386)
>this mostly just came down to looking up what the strongest moves a pokemon could learn was
>for example: pretty sure I decided the most "optimal" Nidoking moveset was Flamethrower, Earthquake, Ice Beam and a bunch of other random attacking moves
>I did this for every single pokemon starting with charmander
>wrote it all in a notebook
>think I eventually got bored halfway through and threw the whole notebook away, ashamed of my own autism
or this one time
>dad got me Pokemon Yellow when I was 3 or 4
>one day, for no reason, in my tiny 4 year old brain, I decided I wanted to level a pokemon to 100
>picked Mr. Mime because he got the exp boost from being traded + had cool moves like bubblebeam, ice beam, thunderbolt, psychic or some shit
>start no-life spamming Elite 4 with him to get him to 100
>would sneak my gameboy to bed with me to stay up and grind way past bedtime
>around level 90-something the save file corrupted and my data was completely erased
>cried and refused to play pokemon yellow after that
No idea what compelled my 4 year old brain to spam grind elite 4 run after elite 4 run.
