The Sorting Spiral
When I submitted my master's thesis in the middle of January, I was struck at once by relief and by absence. I needed something to fill the vacuum. I decided to build this website.
The seedling for this project was planted in my mind last October, after the release of legends: ZA. I decided to film a video titled 'Can I win with every Pokemon in Legends: ZA?'. To succeed, I would have to make 38 teams of three Pokemon that could all win on the online ladder. Because I would be using terrible and unfamiliar Pokemon, I wanted to ensure there were as few overlapping weaknesses as possible on each team. There's more to Pokemon than typing, though, and I wasn't going to sabotage myself by putting three useless gremlins onto a team just because they happened to have synergy on paper.
But the question remained in my mind. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to dwell on it. My foray into legends: ZA was the calm before the storm of the final months of my master's. I was quickly subsumed once more by the wasps.
Once I was free, I found the space to return to the question. Now, two weeks later, I guess we've got a website. Finally, I'll have my answers.