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Welcome to "UU Player Interviews", a project where you'll be able to discover or re-discover some well-known players in the UU community. Those people may be known thanks to their high-skilled level, their achievements on the strategic scene, or thanks to their dedication to the tier or within the community.
How are you?
Doing good. Cold weather is starting to kick in so I need to buy some new jackets. Uni is ramping up but I’m still able to make time for myself.
Cold weather really sucks, doesn't it? Other then that, I'm glad you're doing alright. Tell us a bit about yourself.
Hi I’m Monky, I’m currently attending college on the west coast to become an orthopedic surgeon. I joined smogon around a year and a half ago and became an avid contributor to UU. I like to go on drives, hang out with friends, and run in my free time
That's very interesting! What made you want to become a surgeon?
Orthopedic surgeons specialize in treating muscle and bone complications. When I ran cross country and track in high school I dealt with lots of injuries but didn’t really have anyone to help me go through it. I’ve always wanted to be a doctor to help people and give back for my relatively good upbringing, so I decided to study to become an orthopedic surgeon to help treat aspiring athletes who were in my shoes.
That's very nice of you to want to help people. What got you into UU?
I used to play OU mostly because it was the main smogon tier, though I dipped into UU when isle of armour happened considering some really cool Pokémon like tyranitar and aegislash dropped. Eventually, my interest dwindled and I stopped playing for a bit before rejoining when crown tundra happened. Since OU was a mess with stuff like pheromosa and Spectrier running around I decided to play UU until it calmed down. I soon fell in love with the tier and began maining it due to the high power level it has without the same stagnant feel OU has. I was able to get decent success here through events like the UU rating competition and decided to be a full-fledged member of the discord. Fast forward to now I’ve joined the UU QC team, hosted several forum projects, and competed in several UU tours and made a fair name for myself in the community.
Yeah I feel that. As a member of the UU Teambuilding Lab, you've proven your proficiency with teambuilding. Is there a team you'd like to share with the audience?
Sorry I don’t have anything as of now lol, all my teams are being saved for majors
That's fair, I wish you luck in that tournament! Speaking of tournaments, what do you think about the teams that have been brought so far in SCL? Are there any team(s) that you're rooting for?
I haven’t kept up too much with the overall teams but I would say I’m rooting for players like Adaam, Askov, and Accel to do well in the tour
I'm sure they're very happy to hear that! Now I gotta ask, where did the name Monky25 come from? Does it have anything to do with Infernape?
Ah no nothing with that lol. I’m really bad with usernames so I just thought of something random like Monky (from the funny monke memes going around) and slapped a random number after it. It kinda just stuck so I went with it
That's kinda funny! Now for our last question: as a member of the VR team, you help rank Pokémon. Can you give us any spoilers as to what may or may not be moving around this slate?
Plenty of things are being discussed, the great thing is to see the diversity in all of our opinions and have conversations with each other on the viability of certain Pokémon. Some stuff we can obviously expect like a keldeo drop and a conk rise but other topics like a bulu rise a few sub ranks, the ranking of heracross, and nuking a lot of the C rank have been very popular as well
That's wonderful to hear, and I want to thank you on behalf of our readers for doing this interview!
It’s no problem
Feel free to ask Monky25 any questions you want!
If you have some recommendations for an interview, feel free to DM me!
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