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Username: IcyPenguin2 PS! Username: IcyPenguin604 Signup Format: SV DOU Your timezone: -5 Usual Hours of Availability: Friday/weekends, hopefully will have time weekday evening going forward Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing mons for about a year, and in that time I've become one of the top randbats players, making top 16 of rands slam(the rands circuit similar to smogons grand slam), won the battle factory open, and went 5-1 this past rbtt. I was also voted the 3rd best newer player on the site this year. When it comes to doubles, I'm a lot newer, but have been getting good quite fast, reaching 88 gxe on the ladder, and starting 3-0 this osdt, taking down lemurro this past week. I'm looking to get help with how to use more diverse teams and how to find teams that I like more effectively, as well as with scouting for tour games and looking into some of the more advanced doubles skills, things like long term positioning and analyzing a matchup better on team preview. Are you able to use Discord?: yes
Username: Beuto PS! Username: Beuto Signup Format: SV NU Your timezone: UTC+1 (GMT+1) Usual Hours of Availability: 4pm - 10pm on weekdays, pretty flexible on weekends Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): started playing pokemon in XY but not competetively. Somewhat got into competetive pokemon during SS but wasnt good at it and I had a big break until the release of SV. I usually play Random Battles but I want to learn how to play formats in which you actually have to somewhat think of how you build a team and use it properly so I dont lose r1 in every tourney I sign up for Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: Keem PS! Username: UQK Signup Format: NDOU
Your timezone: GMT -4
Usual Hours of Availability: 5:30-9PM
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
I was previously very active on smogon/ps but decided to put mons down for awhile,not new too this but washed up for sure
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: Vertigo PS! Username: Vertigo Signup Format: SV AAA Your timezone: GMT +1 (soon to be +2) Usual Hours of Availability: 6pm~2am on weekdays, a lot more on weekends Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I played a lot of SV formats but mainly focused on Ubers with already some ladder experience in AAA. I've usually always resorted to stealing teams to use on ladder because I am awful at teambuilding across the board, and learning AAA more thoroughly is something I want to do; it's a format I appreciate and find fun to play. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: zoe PS! Username: zoe Signup Format: SV AAA Your timezone: GMT -4 Usual Hours of Availability: Effectively 24/7 during the week (besides a 2h window around noon), late evenings on Saturday/Sunday Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've pretty much exclusively played doubles formats for the past 4 years I've been playing and had an interest in singles from being drafted in teamtours with both or managing ones with only singles formats. I've tried to get into it a few times but have had pretty much no success due to how big of a shift it is. I do want to learn AAA as a way to get started in singles while also being in a tier that was really interesting to me in OMPL due to how competitive it is at a high level while still allowing for extremely goofy sets, which I adore. Are you able to use Discord?: yea!
Username: SENTURIES PS! Username: SENTURIES Signup Format: BW ou
Your timezone: -4
Usual Hours of Availability: Depends on high variance work schedule
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
SENTURIES THA DON is looking for capable, handsome / beautiful reliable arms to shelter me from the harsh, unforgiving and volatile weather of Black and White 2 OverUsed. After joining the site in September, SENTURIES has demonstrated to be a quick and eager study, quickly translating advice from some of the best in the game in GSC into tangible results, being in winners finals of the invitational play ins, 2-0 in gscpl, and currently r7(?) of winter seasonal, as nearly first-in results. Looking to recreate this success and more elsewhere, he has set his eyes upon the tier where Garchomp's body is shaped like a can of pringles. Are you able to use Discord?: senturies21
Username: Sstardust PS! Username: pleasenofreeze Signup Format: SV PU
Your timezone: UTC + 8
Usual Hours of Availability: Any time after 4 PM
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I began playing competitive pokemon in the middle of 2023, and then stopped playing after a few months. I was never really interested in the lower tiers, opting to play formats like Ubers and Natdex OU. My highest peak was 1600 in National Dex Ubers. I've just started playing again in the past few weeks, and I've been trying out PU using a few sample teams, I'm finding it just as fun as tiers with a higher power level. However, I'm struggling a bit with building my own team and making generally good plays in matches, often getting tunnel vision. A tutor would really help me grow as a player, and it would be much appreciated.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yep, and I'd be happy to VC if needed.
Username: TrainerGoldAlt PS! Username: TrainerGoldAlt Signup Format: SV MNM
Your timezone: +5:30 Usual Hours of Availability: after 4 pm on weekdays, any day on weekends Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I used to play g7 mnm a lot but after its ladder got removed, i lost motivation to play g8 or g9 mnm. After a long break id like to come back to mnm but i feel like im out of touch with the current meta. I'd like to gain some experience in teambuilding and learning about the current meta and relevant threats in mnm and feel like tutoring is the best way as opposed to using a sample and running into a brick wall over and over and learn via trial and lots of errors Are you able to use Discord?: yes, TrainerGoldAlt
Username: Seraphz PS! Username: Seraphz Signup Format: SV NU Your timezone: -3 Usual Hours of Availability: 3 - 4 hours evening Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing for a while now but without a doubt NU is my weak point and I would like to fix that. Are you able to use Discord?: yes (seethefire.)
Username: Finchely PS! Username: Finchely Signup Format: ADV OU Your timezone: GMT -7 (-8 once daylight savings ends) Usual Hours of Availability:
Wednesday and Friday after 4pm
Saturday all day
Sunday after 2pm
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
I've been playing showdown for close to two years now maybe? First picked up mons with SV OU when espathra shed tail was still legal, but dropped the tier after Pokemon Home dropped. After that I drifted in UU for a little bit, but I eventually landed at Ubers UU where I quickly became a community leader. I picked up ADV OU a bit more on the recent side, after a friend convinced me to sign up for a discord-based ADV tournament, and ended up liking it a lot. And especially as of recent, I've been trying to play it a lot to work on my fundamentals as a player, due to how methodical the format is. I've been doing ok enough laddering on my own, but I figured that I'd be able to improve a lot faster if I got the help of someone more experienced, which is why I've signed up here to get mentored on the metagame.
Username: Queenie_ PS! Username: corvid_queen Signup Format: dpp ou Your timezone: +13 Usual Hours of Availability: 3pm-10pm Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Have been playing adv ou for a little over half a year. I have participated in multiple non-smogon team tours and a few official ones. Recently I've been trying new formats and have enjoyed dpp ou the most and would like to get better at it :D Are you able to use Discord?: yes
Username: goldmason
PS! Username: goldmason
Signup Format: SV AAA
Your timezone: GMT-5
Usual Hours of Availability: Most days not during working hours
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...pairing-records.3693028/page-38#post-10446574 same thing but AAA, going to be hosting OMPL so I'd love to know the meta better
Are you able to use Discord?: yes, goldmason
Username: realExcaliju PS! Username: Excaliju Signup Format: ADV OU Your timezone: EST/GMT-5 Usual Hours of Availability: Weekends and weekday evenings Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've played very little standard metas, being primarily an on-and-off draft and Hackmons player for over a decade. I think I have experience with fundamentals but I have no experience with non-team preview formats and have zero translatable teambuilding experience. I want to gain experience in these areas to improve my general mons abilities and throw myself out of my comfort zone into a format with much more depth than what I'm used to. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, discord username Noareames. do not dm me 'frog'
Username: zastra PS! Username: zastra Signup Format: SV LC Your timezone: +5.5 Usual Hours of Availability: most of the day / prefer evenings or nights Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I play many tiers and I've been interested in LC for a while now. Generally sit at the higher end of the ladder and currently playing LPL on Fuecocos. I've tried my hand at building but I don't think I'm very amazing or creative and my plays are probably not the sharpest at times either. I'd love to have a tutor help me master this tier Are you able to use Discord?: yep
I saw lc was last posted in here, idk. Username: Arcanine1929
PS! Username: Arcanine numbers
Signup Format: SV LC
Your timezone: -5
Usual Hours of Availability: weekday mornings and afternoons, saturday afternoon, sunday evening. Most evenings work but can be iffy
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Well, i play lc a lot. I got lucky in lcbc with my builder (s/o edgy ty goat) but did go 6-1. I'm kinda just here to clean up my gameplay, i tend to either suck or play like prime mj, and its generally sucking. All discord tours and stuff where i play svlc i just... yeah. Trying to get better for blt, and old gens if possible (mostly ss cuz i suck at everything else clearly) and yeah, idk what else to write, i started in 2021 ig.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, no vc tho please and ty :)
Username: Nashrock PS! Username: Nashrock Signup Format: SVOU Your timezone: -4 Usual Hours of Availability: evenings on weekdays and all day weekends Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing for a while and I've tried several tiers on the site. I had some decent matches but I feel that I've been stuck for further improvement for a while. I want to get better in details from mapping game plans to endgame solutions. Are you able to use Discord?: yes
Username: Praise The Salt PS! Username: Praise The Salt Signup Format: SV NU Your timezone: CST (GMT -6) Usual Hours of Availability: weekdays 8 PM - 12 AM, weekends 12 PM - 12 AM Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I have been playing NU for the past couple of months and can hit about 1400 on the ladder. I would like to learn building (like, master building and be able to build any archetype or around any mon), and hone my skills to become a top 100 player. I am very reachable through discord outside of my hours of availability and prefer most lessons to be written out so I can refer back to them often. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: Toxic Boston MA PS! Username: bsotonMA Signup Format: SV Monotype Your timezone: UTC -4 (New York) Usual Hours of Availability: ~5pm -10pm any day Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I started playing Pokémon last year but have only really been active for the past couple of months. I love poison types and have been playing the ladder tours to some success. I'm not too Involved in smogon but will be decently active on the Showdown. I do decently well but I think there is a lot of areas to improve my gameplay.
Username: hxshizora PS! Username: hxshizora, Sednub Signup Format: NatDex OU Your timezone: GMT-5 Usual Hours of Availability: after 6:30 pm most days Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I played competitive a bit back in X and Y and semi-recently got into Showdown and have been doing a bit of ladder and been playing in some smogon events as well. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, Sednub is my username
你的Smogon ID：Sharay sisiyoguang
你的PSID：sisiyoguang
想报名学习的分级：gsc ou
你的时区：gmt+8
通常空闲的时间：下班
简单介绍你的宝可梦对战经历(至少三句话)：Started playing gen7ou when usum published. Now i've played gens 2-9 OU UU LC Ubers and many other ties these years, and want to be better.
Username: Martiniman64 PS! Username: Skibidiah Signup Format: ADV OU Your timezone: GMT-5 (CDT) Usual Hours of Availability: Anytime after 5pm Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I started playing almost 10 years ago, but didn't really play ladder until recently. I started playing ADV OU almost a year ago, and have seen some success on the ladder. Only very recently have I started playing in ADV tours and I have been mostly stealing teams from friends. I feel confident that I can play well, but I have next to no knowledge about how to prep well. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: Slowpoke Fan PS! Username: Slowpoke Gachikoi Signup Format: GSC OU, ADV OU Your timezone: GMT +8 Usual Hours of Availability: Flexible Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Just an average player looking to branch out from my main tier in SS OU. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes.
mayopockets has accepted me as her ADV OU tutee while I would be interested in learning GSC OU from Torchic if possible - I am proficient in Chinese to facilitate learning in the language of his preference.
Username: mayopockets PS! Username: blyargh Signup Format: SS OU Your timezone: +2 Usual Hours of Availability: afternoon-night Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): adv ou mainer, have played adv in many tours, looking to explore my interests Are you able to use Discord?: yes
Slowpoke Fan has already requested me as his tutor
Username:Xyzlasher PS! Username:Xyzlasher Signup Format:SV PU
Your timezone: UTC−4
Usual Hours of Availability: I would say from 10 AM til 9 Pm
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I’ve been into competitive Pokémon since the XY era, where I got my start on Pokémon Showdown. While I dabbled across various tiers, I especially enjoyed playing OU during ORAS.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yeah
