This blog post might not be conventional, or about a topic many people relate to, but Pokémon has been such a big part of my life and is something that I’m so excited about that I feel like my blog would be incomplete without a post on it. 2 weeks ago, the new Pokémon game came out, and as I do on every opening day of a new main-series game, I purchased the game immediately, logged an unhealthy number of hours on the game, and completed the story line. Now that I have finished the storyline, I am attempting to do something that I was unable to do as a child, due to a lack of knowledge and patience. I am delving into the complex pieces of the Pokémon series, including breeding, shiny-hunting, and competitive battling. Breeding is an intensive and long process that is used as a tool to get Pokémon that have stats for battling which are normally extremely rare (a perfect Pokémon has a 1/22187592025 chance of appearing in the wild!) To breed, you choose parent Pokémon that have specific