Yeah... The stats and abilities are definitely way to far stretched between alot of similar pokemon:/ I mean it makes sense to naturally have some with more power, but the checks and balances system isn't to great IMO. That's good you are going out on a limb, and trying to be a self sufficient hacker:p I definitely shouldn't be the one talking, but it seems like alot of ROM hackers are heavily dependent upon their peers for 2 much. The more one can do by themselves, the less crap they have to put up with when making a hack:D
But it's a continual learning process, and would probably take AWHILE to matster. Especially scripting! How you doing man? You better have kicked that stupid @ss cold:D