What is up gamers it's waveman here with another water-weak interview ft. the man himself...
Regirock
OTHER METAS ROOM
ARE YOU READ?
no
*READY?
YES
OKAY. Tell me as much of your life story as you're comfortable sharing. Or a least a bit about yourself!
Ok. Hi I'm regirock, and at this current stage of my life I'm not comfy sharing too much about my personal life, but I'm studying environmental science in college and I've been playing pokemon since pearl. I made my first showdown alt almost exactly 6 years ago and messed around on VGC and OU (no stealth rock) ladders before discovering the hackmons ladder. I kinda messed around on alts a bunch, and I was a bad user in om chat for a couple of years.
You? A bad user? I highly doubt it.
Yes, it was bad.
Anyway.
I quit pokemon for a couple years because I lost interest in the game and wanted to focus on my schoolwork. I came back to PS around November / December of last year, and I started talking in OM chat around January. I somehow tricked the OM mod team into thinking I was a good user and I got promoted the 2nd fastest out of any user in OM (from voice to mod, 4 days slower than chloe iirc), so here I am now!
Environmental science? Are you going to singlehandledly stop global warming?
Or at least help?
I sure hope so LOL
The world is fucked
we're going to die
Sounds fun! Anyways, what metagame or metagames do you favour?
At the beginning of my comeback, I almost exclusively played Balanced Hackmons. I watched a lot of partners in crime and got pretty into that for a bit, but unfortunately, it isn't too popular. I played a LOT of OU around February / March, and I ended up getting pretty decent (but still bad). Most recently, I've enjoyed Mix and Mega and AAA a ton, just I wish I was better at teambuilding. I still enjoy BH, but I don't ladder much anymore. Right now, I just play a lot of random battles and I've been really enjoying DPP OU.
Interesting. You were an OMPL and OM Snake manager as well, how was your experience with that? Did you help prep with any of your players on the aforementioned metagames?
Unfortunately, our snake team didn't do the best (probably due to my lack of metagame knowledge in included tiers other than PiC). It was a fun experience though, and I got to collaborate with some users that I never thought I'd collab with, plus a lot of my friends (like you!!!!! OM Room!!!) and drampa and volkner were on that team as well (as well as managing alongside SL42)! As for ompl, funbot asked me to be her assistant manager and I accepted because Snake was really unfortunate and I didn't want to just stop managing on a bad loss.
And you had one of the best drafts in OMPL!!
Our OMPL draft was crazy good, and we absolutely tore through the first couple weeks. Unfortunately, we started slipping a bit and we ended up 1 point off making playoffs. But still, I got to work with a ton of talented and creative OM / UM minds and meet new friends and up and coming players.
Any you want to shout out?
I did a big shoutout post already but our BH core (pdt, skylake, test rex) was pretty crazy and we pulled in some impressive wins, plus like, in basically all of the weeks, half of our team was brainstorming bh so even though we bought like 3 3-4k players, we had people like stresh, funbot, gman, and I all testing out BH cores and sets. But yeah. OMPL was a way better experience than Snake. Unfortunate that we couldn't keep up our momentum, but like it is what it is. for two basically brand new managers, we did pretty great in my eyes.
Now what OMPL and OM Snake are over, do you have any plans for OMs moving forward? What are you looking forward to?
As far as I know, I'll just be hanging around. I might host a couple like OM side projects depending on what TI gives me, but I don't think I'll be managing any team tours in the upcoming future. As for wcoom or omwc or whatever y'all call it, I don't think I'll be managing or playing, but I'll be rooting for US Northeast! (if that's even a region lol) But yeah, I hope to become more involved in OMs, especially exploring the forum side of things more. I got badged for RoA stuff, so that might give me some more opportunities.
Very important question coming up now...
ok,,,,,,,
What are your thoughts on the randbats update and it's relation to regirock?
Uh, it still doesn't get earthquake but TI said something about regirock almost never getting double rock stab anymore, so like hopefully I don't get pinged in the randbats room as much (on that note, getting highlighted on "regi" and "rr" is a really bad idea because i get notifs whenever people are talking about round robin tours or when some kid wants to use regigigas in ou)
Unfortunate. Well, Regirock you're clearly a dog lover
yes!
And probably other animals too but like...
I love dogs
What are your favorite instances / moments with dogs!
Uh, I can't really think of specific moments
Well, hmm.
My favorite breed is currently the greyhound
Why!
Because they're long and funny looking. idk there's some charm to them. Some people say they look like goblins or aliens or something, but idk i just love them. But i love dogs of all kinds, especially shibas, samoyeds, and shelties. (if you ever get the chance, just check the OM staffintro ;) )
How have you liked the OM community so far?
I think it's been pretty good to me. I've made a lot of new friends, and i've been able to play with some really impressive players. I've had a ton of fun over the last couple months, so hopefully i can continue enjoying the game for a bit.
Drampa asks a few things: What's ur favorite kids tv show and [22:40:13] +drampa's grandpa: bank account number and pin [22:41:04] +drampa's grandpa: and the three numbers on the back ig
Kids tv show, hm.
idek i haven't watched a kids tv show in a long time
oh no. Favorite tv show then.
I really like it's always sunny but I haven't watched it in a while, drake and josh and icarly are always classics. Off the record: I started watching naruto last week and it's really good LOL I'm not even into anime but it's really entertaining.
Oh wait.
Credit Card Number.
I promised in [redacted private room] that I'd include this in my interview.
8915 1318 1515 1369
It expired in November 2002 (whoops). And the 3 numbers on the back are 377
Anything u wanna say to the readers!!
Hi, uh, if you ever really feel burnt out, take a break from mons, same with any game. Only spend time with a game if you really enjoy it. Some good advice I wish I'd learned earlier.
Feel free to reach out to new people as well, like, try to make new friends, bc playing this game alone is boring.
Feel free to ask regirock more questions!