Wow, it's been years since I posted in forums... any forums, anywhere.
I'm not a huge pokefan, or would really call myself a fan, period, but I've found out one great and wonderful thing about these games that means I'll be playing gen 6 (and Alpha/Omega) for a while to come: Grinding through breeding and the tall grass is a FANTASTIC way to combat panic attacks. Since figuring this out, I pretty much carry my 2DS everywhere.
But as long as I'm playing a game, even one outside my usual fandoms (Golden Sun, Soul Caliber, Street Fighter, DDR), I like to have goals. So, for now, my goal is to fill my pokebank with a living Pokedex. Not that tough-- I have a completed dex in Y and bred most everything before re-wonder-trading-- but I want one of each gender. Shinies and regular. And I want the regulars to be 6IV, and everything that can be bred to be bred on my own copy of the game. In other words, this will take me a while.
Not everything can be reasonably found on my own, namely shiny legendaries. Other things, like pokemon with hidden abilities (for breeding), are tough to search for on the GTS or PSS. For those things, I think my best bet is forums like this one. So... here I am.
Now I just have to figure out how to make a thread about this without tripping over local etiquette rules...