TRAINER'S EYE #156 - "Baton Pass Begins With Buneary" ft. BunearyQueenAlexis - As The Pokeball Turns

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BunearyQueenAlexis (00:00):
I'm BunearyQueenAlexis, and this is
my Pokemon story.

David Hernandez (00:43):
Welcome to as the Pokemon Ball Turns.
We're interview people abouttheir experience with Pokemon.
My name is David Hernandez.
I'm joined byBunearyQueenAlexis, an
irresistible trainer who keepscalm and carrots on
BunearyQueensAlexis, welcome toAs The Pokeball Turns turns.

Glad to be here.

Absolutely, and I'm excited to kind of dive into
your experience with Pokemon andwhat brought you into this
franchise.
So let's start from thebeginning, like what's the first
experience when it comes toPokemon?

my first experience was honestly playing
Pokemon yellow and my olderbrother had Pokemon Blue.
I think I was like seven oreight when it just came out.
back then I was not the best oftrainers.
I think I took on Brock with alevel 22 Pidgeotto because I
didn't know what I was doing.
And little Lexus at the timethought big numbers meant

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better.
Didn't know typings, none ofthat.
if I could look at myself backthen and just look at my team,
I'd just sit there and just facepalm against the wall and be
like, what the fuck was I doing?

I mean, I think we all do that.
You know, a lot of us had thefour attacks.
Some of us try to relive theanime.
I know I did.
I tried to use thunder shock onOnix so many times and didn't
work.
you said your brother played aswell, so

Yeah.

battle each other?
Would y'all just kind of shareeach other's games?
Like what was that dynamic likefor between y'all two?

It, it, it, it, it was more of a, I bet I
can beat the game faster thanyou can, but, uh, when your
starter is a Pikachu, notknowing typings, yeah.
I was at a high disadvantage

I'm gonna go

there.

to say that he probably picked Squirtle.
Is that fair to say?

I, I don't even remember which one he
picked.
I don't remember if it wasSquirtle or Bulbasaur, or what,
but it's like.
By the end, I had a level 80Pidgeot and everybody else was
like level forties though.

Wow.
It sounds like Pidgeot was likeyour ace in the hole back in
those days.

well it, it was more of a, it's kind of a
solo run without it being a solorun because I never actually
trained any of my Pokemon, Ijust rolled with one the entire
time.
it worked out pretty well forgenerations one, two, and three.
Generation four not so much.

Ooh.
wonder why, why would gen fourgive you so much issues with
just one Pokemon?

I mean, well, I chose, Turtwig as my
starter and of course starterPokemon ends up over leveled
everybody else ends up leftbehind, and, uh, Cyrus kind of
had everything to kill aTorterra.
I mean, he had a Weavile thatwas speed as fuck.
I think the only thing that gotme through gen four is one of my
best friends looked at my team,slap me upside the head and

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said, give me your game.
I will help you.

Oh.

took the game home, trained up.
All my other Pokemon and gave itback to me and said, here now,
face him.

So he did all the hard work for you to where
he just like, okay, hold on.
He needs to level up somethingelse besides to the Torterra to
be able to beat this guy.
Yeah.

Yeah.
I mean, I'll learn right then.
It's like, okay, keep everybodythis same levels else.
Don't just try to run with onlyyour starter.

So here's what he had, he had a Honchkrow, a
Gyarados,.
a Crobat, and a Weavile.

Yep.
Honchcrow, Crobat, Weavile,, Iwas fucked.

Yeah, and these all had the moves to beat Torra.
You know, you had Honchkrow withdrill peck, Yep.
Gyarados with Ice Fang.
Weavile, of course with icepunch And Crobat, which knows
cross poison and air slash Soyou really were going against
the grain, at least in gen four.

Yeah,

When it came to you sticking through Pokemon
because we, you know, you justtouched on how you played the
first four generations.
What did you like about Pokemoncompared to maybe other games?

I, I just like the cute little creatures.

I really saw all the different types of
Pokemon.

Even though I didn't really use them, cause
a starter ends up over leveled.

why did you think you had just such a,
attachment to your starter?

I was thinking big numbers would be
better at the time, so it waseasier for me to just focus on
one Pokemon to make it at thehighest number possible.

I see.
So you wanted to see that numberget as highest possible with the
starter, and that's

Yeah.

to always get the highest

Yeah.
And then,

one.

then grinding.
Everybody else was boring anddidn't really wanna do it, so I
was like, if I can get thisnumber really big and get
through everything, what do Ineed to worry about the other
guys for, they'll just be thrownin there if I need to revive my
of Pokemon.

You know, am I earned this dedication because
you literally just stuck withone Pokemon for the first.
you know, if we assume youplayed every single game, at
least the first be maybe 10games.
I think three.
No, three, six.

Let's see.
Yellow.
I,

11, 12 games at

yeah, I play, yeah, I played yellow.
I believe I had gold crystal,then I had Ruby, and then
Emerald.

Dang.
You do.
Hey, er, well, I guess I can'tbe survivors by home and he's
actually, doable.
Who's your starters within thosegenerations?

well, gen one was Pikachu, but Pidgeotto
ended up, being the quoteunquote starters and Pikachu
couldn't do jack shit to anOnix.

Right.

And, then generation two I had Cyndaquil.
generation three was Mudkipbecause I didn't like any of the
other water types that I'd beable to catch in Ruby.
And of course.
nothing could learn surf in Rubyexcept for your starter, if
you're not leveling upeverything to actually be able
to be high enough to learn suchmoves on certain ones.

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So Mudkip was chosen simplybecause I needed surf.

do you still find yourself sometimes sticking
to only one Pokemon even to thisday, or do you actually keep a
balanced team now?

I keep a balanced team.

Well, you sure.
I mean, you can always try toplay one game.
This is actually prettyinteresting.
Like you could just do one gameand one Pokemon for each game.

I know it's a, it, I mean, they've made it a
lot easier to keep your team thesame level, especially with, gen
six gave us the XP all again,the type.
If you didn't turn that on,you've pretty much gained
everybody, get experience nomatter what.
So everyone's levels.
It went around the same, so it'slike, oh, I need to use this
Pokemon.
Now.
He's good enough level.
I don't sit there like, oh crap,I need a flying type.

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But my flying type's level 12and everybody else is level 33.
Oops.
And then now gen, then genseven, they're like, you know
what?
We're not even going to give youthe option to turn it on and
off.
It's just gonna be flat on theentire time.

Well, since you have been so much experience
with Pokemon, let's break itdown in half.
So

Hmm.

Generation one through four, what was your
favorite generation of games toplay with the early part of
Pokemon On

Honestly, three.
I, I really enjoyed Hoenn.
even thinking about it now, I,it gets so much shape for the
quote, unquote, too much water.
But at the same time, the themeof that was land versus sea.
So it made more sense for it tobe just about even this, like
that to me.

Was it really, even though,'cause you always
seen those comics to whereMm-hmm.
like, do you Really wanna dothis.
like, you know, he's trashtalking still.

Yeah.
But it's like you needed a goodchunk of water.
You couldn't just have like twoor three water routes and then
make feel like the theme is landversus sea.
It's like at that point the seais, uh, losing this battle
handedly.

Right, right.
And I think what I enjoyed mostabout Gen three, especially with
the water side, is that it stillmade it seem like, I know people
like make fun of that.
You

Mm-hmm.

like how could Groudon face Kyogre?
And I know, ORAS addressed thata little bit, but you still saw
the land even

Yeah.

to, when you're in the Sea Park, you had
Mossdeep, you had Sootopolis,where

Right.

civilization inside the crater.
Like you land was still fightingin there.
Although I think people wouldstill lean towards water though.

Oh yeah.

If you were gonna do like a play through
Ruby Sapphire, Emerald, what sixPokemon would you choose?

I mean, honestly thinking about it now,
I'd still have Mudkip because Iliked the water ground typing,
but I, think I probably wouldhave a Zigzagoon just to.
Have someone else that can use,uh, the freaking, hms.
I probably would have Taillowfor a flying type there and I
think I wouldn't really keepanything else around till about
Aron and then a Electrike thereand see I need what, one more

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Pokemon.

Yeah, that's five right there.

Honestly, probably Toal,

I don't inter white rhetorical.
That's a it.

I don't know.

Don't wanna say it's an oddball, but it's just
with what you chose, it's adifferent one.

I mean, I feel like I need a fire type
there and part of me, doesn'treally want to go with Numel.
kind of deal that like whereelse would I at that point?
What other fire types are.
To gen three.
'cause let's be fair, I like touse the new Pokemon when playing
a A game.

Uh, so you don't try to use the old ones or
any of the old Pokemon once yougo into a new generation.

Right, right, right.

I'm the same way.
Like I feel like you're spoilingyourself if you don't at least
try some of the new Pokemon.
Even on some of them, there'ssome generations I like more
than others, but I

Yeah.

to get new Pokemon.
I even have a rule for myself towhere I can't reuse the same
Pokemon at any point.

Yeah.
Yeah.

you know, a good example for this is I used
Alakazam and Pokemon, red, blue,and yellow.
I can't, I've not used Alakazamsince.

Right, and for me it's like new region, new
experience.
How do I get a new experience ifI'm using, let's say, Pidgey
every time.
If I keep using the samePokemon?
Is it really a new experience ordoes it just feel like the same
experience just tacked ontoanother region?

It's like a little fresh coat of paint, but
it's just the same Pokemon overand over.

Right.

Now I know your name's after Buneary.
What's the story behind that?

Pokemon Go, pretty much.
Uh, me and my friends, we usedto hold like a Pokemon Go Raid
bus.
We drove around on a bus, about50 people doing the Legendaries
whatever was in pipe surveys atthe time.
We were doing one for Latios atthe time.
Shiny was just made available,Shuckle's shiny was just made,
made available through some liveevent that was going on, and

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they had their usual springevent.
Buneary was just released asshiny.
everybody was on the bus.
Were getting, they're gettingShuckle.
They're getting Latias.
I keep clicking Buneary and theykept being shiny.
I was told specifically to stopclicking on Buneary if I wanted
to stop getting it shiny.
However, I did not listenbecause they were on my screen

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and I wanted to click them, andat the time I was then dubbed
the"Buneary KIng" by my friendsas a joke.
Because I just kept clicking onBuneary and getting more and
more shiny.
I think I had about 20, if notmore, shinies of it by the end
of the day.

Oh my gosh.
That had Buneary loved you!.

Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
It, it definitely loved me.

Do you still have the shiny, did you keep'em
in your Pokemon Go inventory

I have since traded off some of them to
friends that needed Buneary.
'cause clearly I'm the one thatwas getting the Buneary and not
anybody else.

fair.

I still have, quite a bit in Pokemon Go,
but it's like I don't havenearly the amount that I had
that day.

That's the one thing I love about Pokemon Go,
is you can kind of make theirown kind of, I say.
different memories compared tothe main series games main
series games.
I don't think trading as viewedas, I'll say valuable.

Right.

Compared to Pokemon Go you, Like, for me,
when Pokemon Go, I feel likethere's more significance when
you trade a Pokemon compared tolike the main series where it's
like, oh, I had plenty of thosein a box.
You know,

Right.
Oh, oh, for sure.
And it's like, oh, where, wheredid I find this Pokemon?
Or whatever.
I would go to Route two, three,whatever.
I could tell stories about how Ifound some of my first Pokemon
of Pokemon Go kind of deal.
And it's like, Doesn't feel asthe same as everybody else.
'cause it's like, yeah, I found20 something Buneary.
Meanwhile, my buddy next to mecan't get a shiny Buneary to

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save his life.

When it comes to Pokemon Go, did you play when
it first debuted?
Like what's your first originalstory with that?

I, did, I, played when very first came out,
me and a, a buddy of mine, wewere at a poker game actually,
and I, I had just lost my money.
And so I didn't have a goodnight that night, and of course
I'm playing on my phone.
It's like getting notification.
It's like, Hey, Pokemon goes nowdropped.
It's like, right, hold on, letme go ahead and, uh, download
the game.
Luckily the internet was goodenough right there, downloaded

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it.
I think I caught Bulbasaur as myfirst Pokemon there, and then
just kept playing while I wasright there and.
As we drove back home, drove toanother place to hang out, like
just sitting there like, let'scatch this Pokemon.
Let's catch this Pokemon.
Of course, I didn't knowanything about the stats and
didn't care about the stats.
I just thought big numbers

Really, so you're still numbers driven,
even with Pokemon Go.

all when you had no other way to figure out
stats in that game.
It's like I just kept the biggernumber.

Especially I guess in that day we got
reinforced by that because youknow, the gyms at the time were
determined by the higher your CPPokemon, so

Mm-hmm.

think it was something like Snorlax,
Dragonite, Gyarados,.
Those were the Pokemon you

Chansey

gyms.

Blissey, when Gen two got released,

God man, that was, that was, those are dark
days.
Still are

or, or Oh yeah, for sure.
Dark Days.

where would you and your friends try to go play
Pokemon Go?
Would y'all like go to localpark, city, downtown?

local park where a buddy of mine lived.
I think a lot of times there wasa, hookah cafe that we'd hang
out with, so it's like there wasa Pokestop near there, so it's
like I'd always be playing thereand it's like, oh, there's a
Pokemon near the Pokestop that Ineed, or around that area.
So walk to the Pokestop andcatch stuff.

When it came to Pokemon Go, and you know, as the
game progressed, what was yourrelationship when it came to the
game?
Were you like playing itconstantly coming in and out of
it?

I would say I was playing it very constantly
and I feel like I'd still beplaying it constantly if it
wasn't for the remote raid limitand price increase.
I wouldn't have cared if theyjust put the price.
Increase.
I would've been like, oh,whatever.
I guess I gotta pay more.
But the Remote Raiding kind ofdeal.
Putting a limit on that, knowingthat full well with the

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environment and stuff we gotgoing on now, a lot of people
can't go out and actually doRaids anymore.
So it's like when Covid hit theraid bus stuff that we had went
away.
We hadn't been able to do thatagain.
We haven't thought about doingthe raid bus stuff again, but
like I'm at work all the time.
Remote Raidings.
The only way that I can do raidssometimes.

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Now you're telling me I can onlydo five of those when, let's be
fair, Deoxys was out.
I did a hundred of tho of thoseraids to get the shiny when it
first released.
A hundred, I would say probably80 of those were remote raids.
You put the price increase,guess how much money you made?
Just from me wanting a frickingShiny Deoxys.

A lot, especially when you factor in
the price of it.
Yeah.

Didn't get that shiny deis, by the way.

Really.
Even after all those raids

Yep.
All those raids.
Never got one.

okay.
None of them, so not

Nope.
Nope.
Not a single one.

What did you do to Deoxys?

I don't fucking know.

Oh my gosh.
I wish I could trade you.
We can't even trade mythicalPokemon.
That's the worst part.

Nope.
I have a shiny Deoxys in myshiny living decks now, but, it
was from a buddy of mine thatgot two of them.
And le Way less raids, by theway.

I can sense a little

Yeah.

that.
It's like, oh my God.
Unless Ray, by

Yeah.

Yeah.

Le less raids.

Mm-hmm.

There.
And of course it's like I tradedhim whatever Shiny's he wanted
that was in Pokemon Go for himto just send the Deoxys access
to my home account.
'cause that's the way you couldget Deoxys and stuff out of
Pokemon.
Go like that.

I think the big thing with me with Pokemon Go,
and it's not a bad thing.

Mm-hmm.

kind of is.
It's more game design.

Yeah.

that Niantic has not done a good job in.
Enticing the player base to

No,

raids again, to

no,

the same Pokemon again.

no.

And you know, we'll use Deoxys as an example.
It, I'm not saying that everyPokemon has to be meta relevant,
but it just feels like despitehow much trading matters in that
game.
there's less meaning behindtrying to catch the same raid
Pokemon again.

Right.

You know, uh, at the time when it was going
through the raids, once you hadRaikou, there was no point in
trying to go after any otherelectric type afterwards.

Mm-hmm.

when you got Groudon, there was no point in
going after anything.
You know, nobody's doing Reggie.
'cause there was no point to'em.
Even if the gyms were available,they still wouldn't be useful.

Right.

always been a big struggle to my opinion, when
it comes to Pokemon Go, wherethey've just not addressed that.
Still to this day, and thereason why I say this with Deoxy
is'cause Deoxys is a primeexample.
We already had Mewtwo.
are you gonna go after theDeoxys?
You know?
Like you two's

Yeah.

the Deoxy.
Hands

Oh yeah.
OO.
Only reason to go after Deoxysis to get that lime green one.

But then as more people get it, you have
less people to do raids with,you know?

Yep.
cause it's like, at least withMewtwo, it's like, oh, I'm the
only one that doesn't have ashiny me two.
Well, I'll still do raids withyou because, uh, wouldn't mind
getting another perfect or 98%or whatever

Now you said you're motivated by big numbers.
When it came to Pokemon Go, whatwas your play style?
Were you a shiny hunter?
Were you trying a grinder?
Raider?
Like How did you enjoy playingthe game?

I, I, I like the sparkles.

Uh, it's a shiny Pokemon style.

Yeah, I don't really do a lot of the
competitiveness.
It's a buddy of mine namedJames, that he gets me more into
some of the competitive stuff.
But for me, it's like I justlike the sparkles.
I, I like the different coloredpixels kind of deal.
So playing Pokemon Go, it'slike, okay, nowadays it's like,
is it shiny?
No, I don't care.
can it be shiny?
No.
Okay.
I don't care.

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I'll catch it for the deckentry.
Uh, once I have the dent entry,I don't care.

I know you mentioned how you said you have
Pokemon that has a more deepermeaning.

Mm-hmm.

off maybe one or two that really stick to your
mind?
You know what the story isbehind them?

I would say two of the Pokemon that are off
the top of my head fun storiesthat I like to tell One, just
'cause it's a, personal friendthat wasn't a friend at the
time, but me and her grew closeIt was back when all the tech
issue, all the service issuesand stuff were going, I'm
sitting in the back of my workbefore I have to clock in and I
pull up the game.
I can actually get on the game.
And Magmar was there, the veryfirst magmar that I'd ever

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actually been able to see at thetime.
He was actually rare and Icaught it and I tell my manager
'cause, well she also playedPokemon Go.
She runs to the.
front to grab her phone'causeshe left it up front, comes
back, goes load into the game.
She cannot get into the game.
She's trying for like 10, 15minutes.
By the time she gets into thegame, it's disappeared.

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she never was able to get itkind of deal.
And it's like.
she doesn't play Pokemon Goanymore.
She doesn't play anythinganymore.
'cause unfortunately sheactually passed away a year ago.
at work But it's like I was ableto talk to her a lot about
Pokemon Go.
That was like one of the onlythings we ever got along with
originally.
the other one is, uh, whenRayquaza Shiny was first
released, me and my buddy James,we ended up doing.

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16 raids that very first day.
I didn't get a single shinyRayquaza.
He got four of them.
So he wouldn't tell me how thoseodds stack up there, kind of
damn it.

right.

I go to go to work the next day or
whatever.
He, he leaves to go back homeand one of my managers at the
time then his name was Luke, hetakes.
My account with him on histablet.
cause between my account, hisaccount and his girlfriend, we
can take on every fuckinglegendary that's in the game.
Ever been in the game kind ofdeal.

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Very first Rayquaza, shiny onthe tablet that had my account
on there.

Really?

Yeah.
So I got a shiny Rayquaza, but Ididn't even get to see it on my
screen pretty much.

Oh,

It's like, yay.

I don't know how to feel about this.
Like it happened, but I'm notpresent.

Right.
Think oh my God, I gotta shine.
By the way, how many are in yourparty?
'cause I'm at work right now.

Mm-hmm.
That's

Okay.

what little Pokemon goes.
You got stories like these thathappen,

Yeah.

it's a little different compared to the main
series if that, for those whoknow.

Oh yeah, for sure.
and honestly, it's because ofshiny hunting and Pokemon Go.
My buddy James, like, why thefuck don't you just do it in the
main series games?
At the time I never actuallyshiny hunted in the main series
games.
I just finished the game,collected all the Pokemon.
Okay, I've finished the pokedextime to put the game aside.
And he pretty much challenged meto do that.
And it's like, all right, wellfine.

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I'll do that then

Wow.
So Pokemon Go kind of yourgateway into shiny hunting.

in anyway.
And he is also the get gatewayinto me doing any kind of NZ
locks and shenanigans like thatwe've done.
So links, we've done rivallocks, all sorts of stuff.

So when it came from Gen five onward,

Mm-hmm.

was your favorite generations about those
games?

I would say I really enjoyed X and y I, I
was saying we did, I did rivallocks and various stuff there's
a couple of times that we were,me and a buddy did a rival lock
in a cage lock And the one thingI enjoy about NEX is it gives
you an appreciation for certainPokemon that you.
Probably I would never actuallythink about using and,'cause
it's a Nuzlocke, I was forced touse some of the Pokemon I

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wouldn't use'cause.
Well, Pidgey was Gen one.
We're in gen six.
I'm not technically gonna useit, but in the Nuzlocke, that
happened to be my first Pokemonto catch.
Well.
So it's gonna be on my team.
It did surprisingly well until Ilost a rival battle and my buddy
stole it'cause he needed aflying type and then he killed
it.
I, uh, he, he gives me shitbecause, uh, I lost three

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starters during, that run aswell.
I lost the, Fennekin, I lost,the Ivysaur, and then I stole
his Greninja, ended up killinggetting that killed.

I was gonna say, I find it funny that Pidgey
come full circle to where yourfirst only Pokemon in Gen one
and now it's your one that'susing those locks, you know?
Oh

Oh, oh yeah, for sure.

What do you enjoy about Nuzlocke's compared
to maybe just playing a gameregularly?
What appeals to you about that Ipart of the game?

honestly, it actually makes me do the
competitive stuff that Inormally wouldn't.
And then using Pokemon that Inormally wouldn't.
'cause let's be fair, I grabbedmy usual six, my six people from
my team, and that's gonna be myteam for the entire fucking
game.
I probably got'em from the firstthree areas.
So in a way, it's forcing me touse some of the later route
Pokemon two.

And then when you were playing Pokemon X and
Y, what'd you think about thestory and everything?

I, I honestly really enjoyed the
story and know I wish it hadmore of a post game besides just
the looker quest.
But, you know, I guess that'swhat we now have.
Legends ZA for,

when it came to, you know, shiny hunting, you
know,

Mm-hmm.

you were first introduced through Pokemon Go.
What was your first experiencebringing it to the main series
games?
Because at that time we havePokemon Sun and Moon, ultra Sun
and Moon out, I think at thatpoint.

Yeah.
the first time I actually shinyhunted in the main series was,
with Sword and Shield kind ofdeal.
And, I of course started withthe starters that I did Sobble
first, and it took me a while toget the Sobble.
I can't tell you the encounternumbers'cause I didn't really
keep track at the time likethat.
But also I wouldn't hunt themevery day.

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There was.
At the times, it was a lot of,if I'm off okay, I'll shiny
hunt.
If I had to work the morning, Imight shiny hunt at night and I
might just be like, I don't feellike doing anything and just
laying in my bed watchingTwitch.
So a lot of those shiny huntstook a while simply because it
was, uh, I don't feel like doinganything today.

it was just a way to pass the time.

Yeah.
it's like now that streaming,it's like it keeps me engaged in
doing it.
That it's like, okay, we'regonna go live, we're gonna shine
out.
Doesn't matter that I worked allday.
That's gonna be the chill downkind of deal.
We can talk with friends whiledoing it.

That's so wholesome.
So you really value, you know,being able to stream to your
friends and

Mm-hmm.

through Twitch by shiny hunting,

Oh yeah.
Yeah, I've got about 669 shiniesin my shiny living deck.
If I didn't go live for thefirst time a couple years back,
I probably would be sitting atmaybe 200 if that.

What made you want to go live on Twitch?
Like what started that journey?
I.

I mean, getting the shinies that I had
and talking with like my managerand some of my friends, I found
it honestly is easier to show aclip and have that memory.
To be like, look at this coolpicture of this differently
colored Pokemon.
Like, instead it's like, I havethis clip and you can see me
mess up words and mess up stuff.
But look, we got the shiny, Ithink one of my favorite clips

(24:48):
and I like to jokingly say this,it was a droopy formed Dini,
right?

Mm-hmm.

as it the shiny droop.
Drapey hatched in 12 eggs.
I didn't say, holy crap, shinydrapey.
I said Dratini.

So you mixed your words up because you were
just so excited

yeah, yeah.
Words got mixed up.
They, they get mixed up a hellof a lot.
On stream words are hard.

you know, it's so interesting you say that
'cause it's basically.
evolution of a way of how weused to share photos,

Mm.

I used to share Twitch Stream and that's such
'cause I've always comparedTwitch to like going to the bar.
It's like our Mm.
going to the bar Mm-hmm.
a perfect, now that's such aperfect image of what Twitch can
do when you just live stream,even when you're not doing it to
like be famous or anything likethat,

Oh, yeah.

reasons.
It's great.

Oh yeah.
I, I, I enjoy the casualness ofit.
Like I'm just sitting theretalking with friends.
Shiny hunting co in background,and I think that's also why I
enjoy doing Masuda method more.
Is I can just focus on readingchat and talking with chat and
stuff and that it's justsomewhat in the background.
If I'm doing sandwich hunts andencounters like that in Scarlet

(25:53):
and violet in the over world, Igotta can pay attention.
'cause there's no sound to say,bitch, there's a shiny right
here.
Catch it like in Legends Arceus.

When it it comes to, shiny hunting, you
know, that's something thatyou're very interested in and
you know what you like to do.
what's your favorite way to tryto get shiny Pokemon when it
comes to Pokemon Main seriesspecifically?

Main series specifically, I enjoyed Masuda
method the most, again, thechill vibes of it.
Secondly, I, I enjoyed das, butI'm also one, it's like if I
don't have anyone.
Doing das with me.
I don't want to do'em cause I'dmuch rather, play with friends
kind of deal.
And then I would say just therandom encounters of like sword
shielding, the pass games Inever really did hoards and

(26:35):
stuff, cause again, I didn'treally shiny hunt in those past
games and I can't stream it.
I did a friend Safari hunt onceand stuff offline, and I enjoyed
that and I think, I reallymissed the mass outbreak reset
method from Legends Arceusbefore they did the massive mass
outbreaks thing and justcompletely fucked up that
method.
Those are pretty much themethods that I, I just enjoy,

(26:57):
uh, soft three sets.
can I not do those, please?

you don't like doing the software sets at

Oh, it's so boring.

Okay.

Which is weird to say, considering I do
Masuda Method and people thinkthat's boring.

What is so different about Masuda method
compared to resetting?

Open, close.
Open, close.
Open, close.
Open, close.
Open, close.
Open, close.

Okay, so you feel like you, because you're
making movement through theMasuda Method,'cause you have to
hatch the eggs and all that, you

Mm-hmm.

compared to

Yeah.

software

Mm-hmm.

I could see that.
I think y'all are both crazy,but I can see that.
I mean, I'm not

And it's not to say I won't do any soft
resets.
I gotta get fricking ShinyArceus at some point.

Some point,

Some point eventually.

if you guys do Pokemon Go, would you still try
to hunt in the main Sears gamesor would you.

Fuck no.

really?
Okay.
goes your little, you're hopingit eventually comes through at

Yeah, right.

Okay.

I use Pokemon Go for Legendaries and
Mythical.
That's it.
If it, if that.
But

Oh, wow.
That's true.

other than that, everything in the living
deck came from main seriesgames.

So you value both of them equally?

Yeah.
If it's legendary in PokemonOne, go, yeah.

Sure, sure.
Yeah.
Oh, so you don't, not if it's acommon Pokemon, like say a Bulbo
or a

Nah,

Charmander.
Okay.

I can find those.
In the main series, the, thelegendary are the ones that are
always more annoying, shinyhunt.
I don't know.
It's funny, I should talk softresets, but I got a shiny buzz
wall and very quick resets inUltra Sun, ultra Moon.

Oh man.
It's uh, Pokemon trying toentice you to do soft resets.

I know, right?
I think so.
I don't wanna

You don't wanna, no, this is not, that's
not part of your life.

No, no.
I'll, I'll, I'll get theLegendaries and das.

When it comes to just Pokemon, you know, we
recently just had, you know,Scarlet and Violet and we're
going into Pokemon Zi into thenext generation of Pokemon.
What's something that you lookforward to when it comes to this
main series as we continue toprogress?
Like what keeps you engaged withPokemon nowadays?

All right.
I honestly seeing all themethod, new methods to shiny
hunt, seeing the new Pokemon Isaid a few days ago when talking
with a buddy of mine, Like ifthey add new Pokemon and legend
ca, there's probably gonna besomebody that evolves through
the real time battles stuffthey're gonna add some kind of
new feature in Gen 10 andsomething's gonna evolve because

(29:12):
of it And everybody's gonnaprobably complain and think it's
a stupid evolution method.
But you know, they gotta havesome way to also.
Promote their new feature.

I mean, here's the real question

Mm-hmm.

What are we gonna call the Pokemon come out
for Pokemon Zi?
Are we gonna call him Kalo?
Kasian?
Are we gonna call him Zian?
Like

That's,

name that we're gonna call him?
You know?

I mean, if, if it's regional variance.
Yeah, that's a good questionkind of deal.
Would, would they just be loopmostly forms, Kian forms or
what?
And then if there's other newPokemon like evolutions of old,
Pokemon kind of deal, it's like,then the question is, okay, why
weren't they in X and Y?
How did we now discover them?
And then where the pokedex isgonna look hella weird.

My last question, just in regards to
Twitch streaming, what do youhope to do with it?
Is this something you wanna docasually?
Do you want to eventually try tomake it something bigger?
Like

I mean, if it.
If it gets bigger, cool.
But if it stays casual, casuallike this, I'm perfectly okay
with that.
I've always thought that like,you know, if I get big and I
don't really have to have myactual restaurant job and stuff,
and Twitch pays my bills, cool.
at the same time, I'm gonna missbeing able to always be able to
see, chat and converse with myfriends.

(30:25):
I'm gonna get very bored at myhouse and not of not leaving to
go to work or do something, thenI'm gonna have to find some
reason to leave my fucking houseto just get out.

You can go hunt shiny equation in Pokemon Go.

Oh, oh yeah, totally.
And, and it's like, I, Iremember like I was shining
hunting during covid and stuffand I was messaging a buddy, my
buddy of mine that.
Manager and stuff that got methat shiny reia he had messaged
back like, oh my God, you'redoing such, doing a lot, instead
of getting a lot of shinies.
And the only thing I couldmessage him was, what the fuck

(30:59):
else am I supposed to do?
They shut my location down.
I go home, I do nothing.
Now I'm stuck at home.
I don't have a manager job tour.
They're like, well, since yourlocation's shut down, we're
gonna move you over here.
And you help out at thatlocation.

sounds like you value Twitch for more so the
community aspect, which, youknow, you alluded

Yeah.
Mm-hmm.

the connection, be able to keep up with the
people with the Pokemoncommunity in that way.

Mm-hmm.

I mean, at least I'm, I applaud you.
At least you recognize it's ahobby.
You know, some people,

Yeah.

they kind of blur the hobby and they try to
be professional kind of line,

Mm-hmm.

really know that, hey, this is something I
just enjoy doing, that I cantalk with people who also
stream, who

Yeah.

Pokemon and, you know, branch out that way.

Oh, for sure.

David Herna (31:44):
BunearyQueenAlexis, I want to finish the interview
on this last question.
It's gonna be a fun one.
Okay.
I want you to give me a team ofsix shiny Pokemon you would have
on your dream team.

Let's see.
We're gonna go with Azumarill.
we're gonna go with, Lopunnyjust because it ends up evolving
at some point.

Are you

'cause I love

mega

much and it evolves by friendship Cinderace.
Diggersby go with Obstagoon and,Roaring Moon.

Oh, okay.
We got a paradox Pokemon inthere.

Yes.
It was annoying as fuck to shinyhunt, but I got it.

Wait till those come to Pokemon Go, man.
People are

Oh my God.
Oh, I, I, I'll, I'll waste some,uh, some money on that.

Oh, I will too.
I'm actually excited for whenthat does happen.

Mm-hmm.

David Herna (32:29):
BunearyQueenAlexis, thank you for coming on As The
Pokeball turns.
before you go, people wannacheck out your stream.
If they wanna connect with you,where can they go?
By all means, please plug away.

on Torch's BunearyQueenAlexis, I, I'm
pretty much live Almost everyday, but Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Central time, we do Pokemonshiny hunting each of those days
except for Thursdays.
Thursdays, I usually, uh, doA-J-R-P-G game and stuff instead
of Pokemon.
It's just my way of playingsomething other than Pokemon,
getting my mind off Pokemon ontosomething else kind of deal.

(33:00):
And then Saturdays we only do Pone for like a couple hours and
then do a social deduction gamewith a buddy of mine, which I
also paid a test for.
So it's very fun.

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