Pet Mods Tribes

[Beaf Cultist]

hello chat. i've been participating in pet mods for a long time, and i've noticed a lot of quirks and patterns in my time that i think are pretty funny, so i wrote out a list of "Tribes" based on tropes i've seen in the community. hopefully yall find these funny, and if you have any of your own, i'd love to read them! and if you disagree with any of these, i'm sorry that you're wrong.


SUBBERS

The Flavor Subber

• Spiloogix (Spinel + Balloon + Loogie + Onix)
• Separates movepools into level-up, TM, and egg sections.
• 4 paragraphs of lore for a mon but forgot to write the comp description.
• “Water Bubble fits flavor perfectly. Why would I remove it?”
• Makes a clone of an existing mechanic when the existing one would’ve worked fine.

The Comp-Only Subber

• Avoids fakemon mods like the plague.
• Remakes the same 4 OU mons in every format.
• Custom names are all “idk”.
• Every sub gets hazards, Rapid Spin, Knock Off, and pivoting.
• “regen makes perfect sense on this wdym"

The Lazy Subber

• “What does the meta need?”
• Can’t be bothered to actually play the meta, just asks vague questions about it in the Discord.
• “What are the major threats right now?”
• Can’t make a sub without hard countering an existing mon.
• Randomly disappears for months on end in between subs.

The Shitposter

• “I just had a really funny idea”
• Accidentally makes the most broken shit of all time.
• Mon names are all sex jokes and/or references to memes.
• “vote for X it’s funny”
• Won’t shut up about “freeing” their brokemon that won and got nerfed.

The Gimmick Subber

• “What if there was an ability that blocked pivoting?”
• Subs are always either completely unusable or broken.
• Thinks special Intimidate is the most novel shit ever.
• "Yall just aren't seeing the vision."
• Mortal enemy of the Oldhead (“This exists in Sylvemons btw”).

The Bad Faith Subber

• Downplays the brokenness of their insane sub.
• “[bad mon] counters it”
• Makes a mon that completely outclasses existing options.
• Shits on anything remotely similar to their own subs.
• “Just hit it lol”

COUNCIL

The Workaholic

• Managing 3 mods at the same time.
• Other council members never make announcement posts for their mods.
• “Spreadsheet is now updated” 10 minutes after winners are announced.
• Completely crashes after a mod ends.

The Flake

• Can’t make a deadline to save their life.
• Slates close a week after they’re supposed to.
• “Oh, I just kind of lost interest.”
• All their mods die by Slate 7.

The Kneejerk

• Nerfs a mon 2 days after it wins.
• Folds under pressure if folks complain about something.
• Announces mostly ineffective balance patches based on opinions from 1-2 people.
• “I thought yall said this mon was broken?”

The Laissez-Faire

• “I’m not gonna implement drastic changes while we’re still doing slates.”
• Nerfs a single mon 6 months after the mod has ended.
• “I just think we need to explore existing counterplay options more before we take any action.”
• Is confused when nobody wants to play the meta.

The Silent Partner

• People forget they’re even on council.
• Usually a friend of the mod owner.
• Hasn’t sent a message in the mod’s Discord in 6 months.

CODERS

The Established Coder

• “You want it to do what?”
• Actively coding 4 mods at the same time.
• Somehow always online but doesn’t respond for hours when mentioned.
• Will burst into tears if asked to upload custom cries.
• Spends months coding a solomod only for it to have 2 total games played.
• //what the fuck

The First-Time Coder

• Shows up out of nowhere and offers to code only for the final product to be a buggy mess.
• Bugs coding leaders about merging pull requests.
• Adds one change that breaks the entire site.
• 500 warnings for duplicate items.
• Asks to edit dh2-client, gets told no, attempts to do it anyway.
• //what the fuck

The Anti-Coder

• Puts shit like “all punch moves” in their movepool changes.
• Unnecessarily convoluted custom effects.
• Never lists a custom move’s PP or move flags.
• Doesn’t specify values for damage modifiers
• Wants cosmetic forms to be selectable in the builder.
• Custom move’s damage is calculated using a 2-page formula.
• “Why can’t we add custom weathers?”

MISCELLANEOUS

The Oldhead

• "Game Freak stole Safety Socks."
• Constantly compares things to subs from older mods.
• “I miss TNFG.”
• “Pet Mods used to be so much more fun.”
• Feels left behind by the modern focus on comp.

The Theorymonner

• “X will be broken. Nothing switches into STABs at +2!”
• Thinks every offensive mon gets free setup turns and every defensive mon is unbreakable.
• Makes a list of “counters” for a mon that’s actually just everything that resists its STABs.
• Spends hours trying to predict what the meta will look like, then never actually plays it.
• “I’m bad at building so I can’t play.”

The Sprite Voter

• “This is actually the best art I’ve ever seen wtf”
• Ignores subs without accompanying art.
• “Sprites help draw attention to already good subs”
• Bonus points if they’re also an artist.

The Toxic Reviewer

• Thinks one-liners are legitimate criticism.
• “sick to my bones”
• Hyperfixates on one trait of a mon and ignores everything else about it.
• Secretly insecure about their own subs but hides it by shitting on everyone else.

The Self-Voter

• “Wdym I can’t vote my mon in first?”
• Resubs the same mon 4 slates in a row.
• “I’m just voting for the best subs.”
• Minmaxes votes to only vote for themselves and subs that are going nowhere.
• Complains about every winner other than their own.
• “This is literally just my mon but worse.”

The Showdown Sweat

• “@matchmaking”
• Never subs.
• Makes unprompted 1000-word meta discussion posts.
• Appears once a month on Discord to dump 40 teams in the teambuilding channel.
• 20-0 tour record in their mod of choice.

The Specialist

• Only contributes to one mod.
• Doesn’t interact with the larger community.
• Thinks their mod is the literal greatest thing to ever happen to Pet Mods.
• Keeps suggesting random spinoffs of their mod of choice that would see zero play.
• “OK… hear me out: M4A Convergence.”

The Revolutionary Solomodder

• “Solomods are oppressed!”
• Advertises their solomod constantly.
• Makes references nobody else gets (“you would get it if you played my solomod!”).
• Doesn’t really know what a Pet Mod is but is too far gone to ask now.
• “Pet Mods are so unbalanced.”

The Oldgen Player

• Can’t name a single mon made after 2013.
• Complains about the lack of oldgen mods despite the reason being that all of them died out.
• Every sub they make is part of a scheme to make mods feel more like older gens.
• “Modern gens don’t understand game balance.”
• Hates Stealth Rock with a burning passion.
• Favorite Pet Mod: Hoenn Gaiden.

and that's all i've got for now. might make more if this gets enough traction :)

 

[adjectivenoun]

I don't know what any of this means, but "the flavor subber" sounds funny.

 

[Copen]

google subbing

 

[cyclonez_]

spoiler

Solomods are oppressed! Play DNU! Pet Mods are unbalanced! etc etc

 

[War Incarnate]

i am all of them at once, gg ez

(except for the coders. I like coding but I don't generally do it for Pet Mods)

 

[gvmgvm40]

I'm sure this is funny if you participate in whatever this community is

 

[Mathy]

the last time i checked out the pet mods forum i looked at the ideas being discussed at the workshop and it seems that everyone has grown so bored with actually playing the formats they make that they are attempting to gamify the creation process itself

 

[Beaf Cultist]

the last time i checked out the pet mods forum i looked at the ideas being discussed at the workshop and it seems that everyone has grown so bored with actually playing the formats they make that they are attempting to gamify the creation process itself

i prefer to think of them as “innovative new approaches to the pet mods format”. you can only see “OU but we make my favorite mons good!” so many times before it gets stale

 

[zxgzxg]

i dont know what any of this means.

 

[Teh]

the last time i checked out the pet mods forum i looked at the ideas being discussed at the workshop and it seems that everyone has grown so bored with actually playing the formats they make that they are attempting to gamify the creation process itself

So true! If only there was a way to make a modded format that has an actual vision (solomods) and the changes are being made by people who want to play the format (solomods.) Alas! We will never (solomods) have something like that (solomods) (please play Kanto Expansion Pak ((which is a solomod (((if you weren't aware)))

jk pet mods are pretty cool too but not my cup of tea

 

[Dragonslayerz]

I'm in here somewhere and I don't like it.

 

[R8]

The Silent Partner

• People forget they’re even on council.
• Usually a friend of the mod owner.
• Hasn’t sent a message in the mod’s Discord in 6 months.

3MoreMinutes

The Bad Faith Subber

• Downplays the brokenness of their insane sub.
• “[bad mon] counters it”

Noglastica about mg2 dragapult

Makes unprompted 1000-word meta discussion posts.

Noglastica

Every sub gets hazards, Rapid Spin, Knock Off, and pivoting.

EVERYONE is doing that please tell them to stop, or make an actually based mod and bring back gsc spikes

The Revolutionary Solomodder

• “Solomods are oppressed!”
• Advertises their solomod constantly.
• Makes references nobody else gets (“you would get it if you played my solomod!”).
• Doesn’t really know what a Pet Mod is but is too far gone to ask now.
• “Pet Mods are so unbalanced.”

Copen

It was cool to see solomods developing more this gen tough

 

[ViZar]

POV: Ubermons, Multiverse v2, and any other mod I led

• Can’t make a deadline to save their life.
• Slates close a week after they’re supposed to.
• “Oh, I just kind of lost interest.”
• All their mods die by Slate 7.

• Spends months coding a solomod only for it to have 2 total games played.
• Shows up out of nowhere and offers to code only for the final product to be a buggy mess.
• Adds one change that breaks the entire site.

I feel called out for this

Also you forgot to mention:
"Spends 2 days on coding something, then asking someone for help only for someone to tell you the easiest way imaginable or no one responding."

 

[Beaf Cultist]

EVERYONE is doing that please tell them to stop, or make an actually based mod and bring back gsc spikes

The Oldgen Player

 

[woo]

• “regen makes perfect sense on this wdym"

I'm being represented in the media mom

 

[3MoreMinutes]

The Silent Partner

• People forget they’re even on council.
• Usually a friend of the mod owner.
• Hasn’t sent a message in the mod’s Discord in 6 months.

3MoreMinutes

172 messages of pure insight (zydog shilling)

 

[faint]

so true lol

 

[RainWaiv]

the last time i checked out the pet mods forum i looked at the ideas being discussed at the workshop and it seems that everyone has grown so bored with actually playing the formats they make that they are attempting to gamify the creation process itself

average celeste modder

 

[skippergamez]

The Lazy Subber

• “What does the meta need?”
• Can’t be bothered to actually play the meta, just asks vague questions about it in the Discord.
• “What are the major threats right now?”
• Can’t make a sub without hard countering an existing mon.
• Randomly disappears for months on end in between subs.

Hey I know him, that’s me!

 

[Gravity Monkey]

The Silent Partner

• People forget they’re even on council.
• Usually a friend of the mod owner.
• Hasn’t sent a message in the mod’s Discord in 6 months.

whats a "micrometa mafia" again

 

[phoopes]

hello chat. i've been participating in pet mods for a long time, and i've noticed a lot of quirks and patterns in my time that i think are pretty funny, so i wrote out a list of "Tribes" based on tropes i've seen in the community. hopefully yall find these funny, and if you have any of your own, i'd love to read them! and if you disagree with any of these, i'm sorry that you're wrong.


SUBBERS

The Flavor Subber

• Spiloogix (Spinel + Balloon + Loogie + Onix)
• Separates movepools into level-up, TM, and egg sections.
• 4 paragraphs of lore for a mon but forgot to write the comp description.
• “Water Bubble fits flavor perfectly. Why would I remove it?”
• Makes a clone of an existing mechanic when the existing one would’ve worked fine.

The Comp-Only Subber

• Avoids fakemon mods like the plague.
• Remakes the same 4 OU mons in every format.
• Custom names are all “idk”.
• Every sub gets hazards, Rapid Spin, Knock Off, and pivoting.
• “regen makes perfect sense on this wdym"

The Lazy Subber

• “What does the meta need?”
• Can’t be bothered to actually play the meta, just asks vague questions about it in the Discord.
• “What are the major threats right now?”
• Can’t make a sub without hard countering an existing mon.
• Randomly disappears for months on end in between subs.

The Shitposter

• “I just had a really funny idea”
• Accidentally makes the most broken shit of all time.
• Mon names are all sex jokes and/or references to memes.
• “vote for X it’s funny”
• Won’t shut up about “freeing” their brokemon that won and got nerfed.

The Gimmick Subber

• “What if there was an ability that blocked pivoting?”
• Subs are always either completely unusable or broken.
• Thinks special Intimidate is the most novel shit ever.
• "Yall just aren't seeing the vision."
• Mortal enemy of the Oldhead (“This exists in Sylvemons btw”).

The Bad Faith Subber

• Downplays the brokenness of their insane sub.
• “[bad mon] counters it”
• Makes a mon that completely outclasses existing options.
• Shits on anything remotely similar to their own subs.
• “Just hit it lol”

COUNCIL

The Workaholic

• Managing 3 mods at the same time.
• Other council members never make announcement posts for their mods.
• “Spreadsheet is now updated” 10 minutes after winners are announced.
• Completely crashes after a mod ends.

The Flake

• Can’t make a deadline to save their life.
• Slates close a week after they’re supposed to.
• “Oh, I just kind of lost interest.”
• All their mods die by Slate 7.

The Kneejerk

• Nerfs a mon 2 days after it wins.
• Folds under pressure if folks complain about something.
• Announces mostly ineffective balance patches based on opinions from 1-2 people.
• “I thought yall said this mon was broken?”

The Laissez-Faire

• “I’m not gonna implement drastic changes while we’re still doing slates.”
• Nerfs a single mon 6 months after the mod has ended.
• “I just think we need to explore existing counterplay options more before we take any action.”
• Is confused when nobody wants to play the meta.

The Silent Partner

• People forget they’re even on council.
• Usually a friend of the mod owner.
• Hasn’t sent a message in the mod’s Discord in 6 months.

CODERS

The Established Coder

• “You want it to do what?”
• Actively coding 4 mods at the same time.
• Somehow always online but doesn’t respond for hours when mentioned.
• Will burst into tears if asked to upload custom cries.
• Spends months coding a solomod only for it to have 2 total games played.
• //what the fuck

The First-Time Coder

• Shows up out of nowhere and offers to code only for the final product to be a buggy mess.
• Bugs coding leaders about merging pull requests.
• Adds one change that breaks the entire site.
• 500 warnings for duplicate items.
• Asks to edit dh2-client, gets told no, attempts to do it anyway.
• //what the fuck

The Anti-Coder

• Puts shit like “all punch moves” in their movepool changes.
• Unnecessarily convoluted custom effects.
• Never lists a custom move’s PP or move flags.
• Doesn’t specify values for damage modifiers
• Wants cosmetic forms to be selectable in the builder.
• Custom move’s damage is calculated using a 2-page formula.
• “Why can’t we add custom weathers?”

MISCELLANEOUS

The Oldhead

• "Game Freak stole Safety Socks."
• Constantly compares things to subs from older mods.
• “I miss TNFG.”
• “Pet Mods used to be so much more fun.”
• Feels left behind by the modern focus on comp.

The Theorymonner

• “X will be broken. Nothing switches into STABs at +2!”
• Thinks every offensive mon gets free setup turns and every defensive mon is unbreakable.
• Makes a list of “counters” for a mon that’s actually just everything that resists its STABs.
• Spends hours trying to predict what the meta will look like, then never actually plays it.
• “I’m bad at building so I can’t play.”

The Sprite Voter

• “This is actually the best art I’ve ever seen wtf”
• Ignores subs without accompanying art.
• “Sprites help draw attention to already good subs”
• Bonus points if they’re also an artist.

The Toxic Reviewer

• Thinks one-liners are legitimate criticism.
• “sick to my bones”
• Hyperfixates on one trait of a mon and ignores everything else about it.
• Secretly insecure about their own subs but hides it by shitting on everyone else.

The Self-Voter

• “Wdym I can’t vote my mon in first?”
• Resubs the same mon 4 slates in a row.
• “I’m just voting for the best subs.”
• Minmaxes votes to only vote for themselves and subs that are going nowhere.
• Complains about every winner other than their own.
• “This is literally just my mon but worse.”

The Showdown Sweat

• “@matchmaking”
• Never subs.
• Makes unprompted 1000-word meta discussion posts.
• Appears once a month on Discord to dump 40 teams in the teambuilding channel.
• 20-0 tour record in their mod of choice.

The Specialist

• Only contributes to one mod.
• Doesn’t interact with the larger community.
• Thinks their mod is the literal greatest thing to ever happen to Pet Mods.
• Keeps suggesting random spinoffs of their mod of choice that would see zero play.
• “OK… hear me out: M4A Convergence.”

The Revolutionary Solomodder

• “Solomods are oppressed!”
• Advertises their solomod constantly.
• Makes references nobody else gets (“you would get it if you played my solomod!”).
• Doesn’t really know what a Pet Mod is but is too far gone to ask now.
• “Pet Mods are so unbalanced.”

The Oldgen Player

• Can’t name a single mon made after 2013.
• Complains about the lack of oldgen mods despite the reason being that all of them died out.
• Every sub they make is part of a scheme to make mods feel more like older gens.
• “Modern gens don’t understand game balance.”
• Hates Stealth Rock with a burning passion.
• Favorite Pet Mod: Hoenn Gaiden.

and that's all i've got for now. might make more if this gets enough traction :)

Farewell. None of these words are in the Bible. In fact, I am a starving child and these are the last words I’m reading before I die. I hope you’re happy. Goodbye.