Empoleon has always been one of my favourite starters, probably because Pearl was one of my first serious Pokemon games that I got into and put over 300+ hours into. I still have my baby from my old Pearl game transferred onto my Y game. I wanted to make it look cool and in a neat pose, possibly bursting out of the water and i'm actually really happy with how the water came out. I'm also happy with how empoleon came out since it looks a lot like it. ^^ My personal Empoleon is male, he isn't EV trained but since I really love him I decided to get him a female companion, an EV trained Empoleon.