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Username: IosonoNeon PS! Username: dNeon Your timezone: GMT+2 Generation: ADV/DPP/BW Usual Hours of Availability: I can be available any days of the week from 15 pm to 20 pm Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've started being active on smogon since two years ago and participating in tours by playing ADV and BW once SS came i've started losing my interest in those two metas, they evolved on a pretty fast rate and i've never managed to relearn those two. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: Alumn
PS! Username: Alumn
Your timezone: GMT+2
Generation: RBY
Usual Hours of Availability: I can be available any days of the week from 8pm to 11pm
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I was tuted in SM OU. I play every oldgen and I would like to get better at RBY. I play a lot of teamtours and that's why having better knowledge of tiers is good.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: FP
PS! Username: APFP
Your timezone: GMT-3 (Brazil)
Usual Hours of Availability: usually between 2 pm and 9 pm
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I have been playing since 2017 and have been gaining experience since then, I have had some results in smaller tier Brazilian tournaments and I am dedicating myself to tournaments here at smogon. I am very hardworking and I want to learn as much as possible.
Are you able to use Discord ?: FP # 5094
Do you understand how the blacklist works ?: yes
Username: Perish Song
PS! Username: Perish Song
Your timezone: GMT+3
Generation: DPP
Usual Hours of Availability: 8 am - 11 pm.
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Tutored in BW and ORAS OU, experienced in CG OU / Mono and SM Mono. I've been looking for more metas to learn. I wish to play in team tours so I think knowing more metas increases my chances overall.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: Matyah PS! Username: Mattayah Your timezone: GMT + 2 Usual Hours of Availability: between 20pm and 3am ! Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
I've been playing Pokemon for 1 Month ! I usually try to document myself and try to improve on my own.
I'm lacking in teambuilding and experience in choosing the right mons for 3v3 matchups !
So i hope i can get better by mastering everything i can while getting tutored !
are you able to use Discord?: yes
Do you understand how the blacklist works?: absolutly !
Username: Nightcore PS! Username: Nightcore Your Timezone: +2 Availability: nights but even After 3pm+2 at 7pm Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): i started to play pokemon seriously in the far 2010... i started with dppt and ended with usum. Now i want to learn the new meta (SS) for trying to do some good results in the tours that really count
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: Leaf to wind PS! Username: Ezze Your timezone: GMT-4 Generation: DPP Usual Hours of Availability: I'm available everyday at 5-6pm Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I started playing from late BW in PO, until i left the game in early USM. I started to be more active on Smogon this year and i want to learn some Oldgens and this metagame is one of my favorite of all time, in fact, i was looking for some help in articles in the forum and looking how the meta has change since the last time i played Are you able to use Discord?: Yes Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: sacred wings PS! Username: sacred wings Your timezone: GMT-4 Generation: ORAS Usual Hours of Availability: after school and anytime weekend Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): played casuaully for around a year, rly got more into ou tiers last smogtour and this olt, would like to keep expanding my knowledge of both oras while also strengthening my diversity and level of play. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: xapx PS! Username: xapx Your timezone: GMT +8 Usual Hours of Availability: literally all day unless 12am to 7am Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've played competitive since 2017, but left in 2019 right when Swsh launched. I've played OU across several generations (although not high level at all) and have a decent grasp of competitive Pokemon as a whole, but I'm struggling to start out in gen 8. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: Floss PS! Username: Flossed Over Your timezone: GMT +5.5 Usual Hours of Availability: Free a lot on weekends, weekdays evenings Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've played competitive since 2017, and started getting into Smogon tours at the start of last year, spending time in the Monotype community for most of the time and becoming a better player. I'm signing up to learn the OU meta and expand my playstyle more to better adapt myself in OU. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: RaJ.Shoot PS! Username: Raj.Shoot Your timezone: GMT +5.5 Usual Hours of Availability: Evenings work best usually 9 pm to 12 am Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Joined PS in 2017 and played my first competitive tour around then. Since then i have played in a variety of tours and also represented India in this year's wcop. I want to learn OU more so that i can help my team better in forthcoming tours. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: devin
PS! Username: devwin
Your timezone: GMT+5
Generation: ORAS OU
Usual Hours of Availability: usually free except for 1am-8am my time(need sleep)
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon: i started competitive mons around 2011 in the bw era and i played until oras ou and then decided to take a break once the sm meta started so 2015-2019 was p alien to me. Reason why i wanted to learn oras ou again is because i legit forgot how the tier works and would like to expand my knowledge on it. Plus i wanna play in smogtours and do well in them so that’s another reason
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: raining inside PS! Username: raining inside Your timezone: +2 Generation: adv Usual Hours of Availability: 24hrs a day Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): other post :x Are you able to use Discord?: yes Do you understand how the blacklist works?: yes
agreed w GTG for him to tutor me and smoothed it over etc etc
Username: FIR SoulSurfer
PS! Username: SoulSilverSurfer
Your timezone: EST (GMT-4)
Usual Hours of Availability: Pretty Much Free All Day (Flexible)
Just finished 12 hrs of tutoring for SS Monotype in 5 weeks
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Ive been playing OU and Monotype since gen 6. In gen 7 i was pretty decent but always wanted to use some heat teams to keep it interesting. Ive been refocusing on OU and Monotype since SS came out last November. Right now ive been taking it very seriously to get better as seen by my commitment to the previous tutoring session.
I'm super free right now because of the pandemic and I'm gonna commit despite being under the post count threshold
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, of course.
Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: Maple PS! Username: DugZa Your timezone: GMT + 5.5 Usual Hours of Availability: Most evenings and nights my time Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Been playing Monotype for a while now but been wanting to branch out into other lower tiers for a while now and improve with building, playing and tier knowledge in general. Figured this was one of the best ways to do so. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, DugZa#6892 Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: TopLel TopKek PS! Username: same Your timezone: GMT-5 Usual Hours of Availability: Usually at nights, full-time on weekends Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Been playing competitive mons since 2007 iirc, with some minor achievements. Had two retirements (last one in 2017) and came back to the game a year ago (or something like that). I wanna rule the world this new metagame, tryna qualify for the Stour 30 playoffs stage this year so I'll put a lot of effort on this. I played pre-DLC but I lost myself after that. Are you able to use Discord?: TLTK#5764 Do you understand how the blacklist works?: ye
Username: Yami PO/PS! Username: Yami Your timezone: GMT-4 Usual Hours of Availability: after 4pm most days since I work mornings at work atm, but I usually have two days off a week. Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I been around since 2015 on PS, but never joined Smogon till 2017 and mainly played Monotype. In 2018 I got picked for MPL and got into 1v1 and played in 1v1pl. Around early 2019 I ventured out to LC, CAP, RBY and GSC OU and played SM PU and really liked it. I have been in plenty of team tours, decent results in Monotype, LC and 1v1 and currently write analyses for these tiers. I want to learn a usage tier and since I liked SM PU, I thought SS PU would be the right one for me. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes Yami#0515 Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: H3nryng PS! Username: H3nryng Your timezone: GMT -3 but GMT -4 works Usual Hours of Availability: most days after 3 or 4 pm. Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I believe I have a good background in comp Pokémon, but i struggle a lot starting out in new tiers Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, H3nryng#8154.
Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: AllTerrainVen0moth PO/PS! Username: same as above Your timezone: GMT-5 Usual Hours of Availability: after 4pm on weekdays bc school Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Im new, and i've delved into multiple tiers before, such as Ubers, monotype, and lc. I recently got tutored in nu, and i feel like i would be good in pu too. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes snom#2978 Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: Aurella PS! Username: Aurella Your timezone: GMT-4 Usual Hours of Availability: Afternoons / Evenings Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Been playing in OU since 17 and have had some decent success in circuit tours. I'd like to learn a lower tier this gen to be more well rounded. Looking forward to see how this goes.
Are you able to use Discord?: yes Do you understand how the blacklist works?: yes
Username: Rabia PS! Username: Rabia Your timezone: EDT (GMT -4) Usual Hours of Availability: Late afternoons/evenings, limited more to evenings on Mondays/Thursdays Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I'm an NU council member and have been playing since 2011. I played a lot of UU in BW(2) and dabbled a bit with it in USUM. I streamed some games/building of it recently and thought it'd be fun to get into. Are you able to use Discord?: yes Do you understand how the blacklist works?: yes
Username: Aberforth PS! Username: same Your timezone: GMT+10 Usual Hours of Availability: Most of the time with warning. Work 1 day per week, and study from home so fairly available between my 8am and 10pm. Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Been playing competitive mons since 2014, played a lot of oras and some sm/usm before taking essentially a 3 year break. Kinda want to learn the new OU tier, and I'd love to be able to be able to build in ou as I find teambuilding much more fun than playing, and I'm fairly confident in my ability to click buttons in the right situations as is. Are you able to use Discord?: Aberforth#6967 Do you understand how the blacklist works?: yes
Username: Slingshot279
PS! Username: slingshot279
Your timezone: Central Standard Time (UTC -6)
Usual Hours of Availability: weekdays 6:30 PM to 12:00 AM weekends whenever needed
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing Pokemon just about my whole life. I mainly played competitive during the 4th gen but I came back this gen because I loved the games so much. I've always peaked between 1400-1600 on showdown and my biggest struggles are team building and game planning.
Do you understand how the blacklist works?: Yes
Username: Luirromen PS! Username: Luirromen Your timezone: gmt-6
Generation: ORAS OU
Usual Hours of Availability: Afternoons since 6pm
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I have been playing on smogon from like 2 and a half years, been more centrilized on low tiers, specially on UU, but I played since mid SM, actually also learned a bit from past gens like RBY, GSC and BW. I have been pretty active on recent suspect test and also have played some tournaments like global championships, SSNLS and non-smogon Team Tours Are you able to use Discord?: yes
Do you understand how the blacklist works?: yes
Username: Kokujo O Tatsumaki PS! Username: MegaLucario Your timezone: GMT-3 Generation: SM OU Usual Hours of Availability: every day after my 3 pm onwards Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I started in 2014 to play with the ORAS boom and the megas, initially in a half meme clan system on a remote PS server and since then I have been taking experience and playing more and more, between last year and this one I decided to get involved in play more competitively and I really want to learn more, and improve at a more technical level in terms of teambuild and mechanically to at some point have the SPL level and big tournaments, especially in preparation for next year's WCOP.
I also love SM, it is my favorite tier and being able to incorporate theoretical as well as practical knowledge will really help me to fully focus on it and have better results in tournaments. Are you able to use Discord?: yes
Do you understand how the blacklist works?: yes
