Sign-Up Apprentice Program Signups: Natdex OU

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Welcome to Battling 101! If you're seeking a tutor for National Dex OU, you are in the right place. Please read all the rules carefully and fill out every part of the application.

RULES​

• You must be able to access Discord, or whatever your tutor wants as the primary form of communication.
• You must be willing to use Pokemon Showdown! even if you are being tutored in a cartridge format such as Battle Spot or VGC.
• You, the tutee, should have at least 15 posts before signing up AND your account's age should be a minimum of at least 1 month old before signing up.
  • This is not a strict requirement meaning you may still be paired without satisfying it, so no matter what, DO NOT spam post elsewhere in the forum. That is an infractable offense and we do not encourage such behavior from potential Tutees.
• You must have battled competitively for a decent amount in at least ONE of the Smogon tiers or Battle Spot / VGC to sign up. Playing 10 or so matches on the PS! ladder is not substantial enough, ~70 or so is more reasonable. This experience does not need to be for the format you sign-up for; this is just to weed out people who have never played competitively that can improve themselves simply by using resources already available to them without needing a tutor to hold their hand.
• You, the tutee, are responsible for setting up times with your tutor. When you receive the Smogon notification informing you of the pairing, please take the initiative and post on their VM wall first. Continued scheduling and communication is key to a successful pairing!
• Use the Tutee Talk forum to complain about your tutor (or praise them if they're doing a good job). These are no longer mandatory, but if your tutor is ridiculously inactive or is a complete jackass, COMPLAIN HERE. Nobody can see your tutee talk posts except for you and the Battling 101 Staff; everything is confidential.
• Signups older than 4 months or 1 month since last login will be considered inactive. These will be moved to the Inactive Posts thread, and can be returned back to this thread by request.
• Tutors can and will drop you if sessions go badly, and significant violations may result in a ban from B101. Be active, be enthusiastic, be respectful. Make the best of your time together!

Here is the signup template, and an example sign-up post.

Username:
PS! Username:
Signup Format:
Your timezone:
Usual Hours of Availability:
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
Are you able to use Discord?:

Username: Shiba
PS! Username: Big Sean
Signup Format: Natdex OU
Your timezone: EST (GMT -5)
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 started playing competitively in early XY and spammed Baton Pass on the ladder. I was pretty skilled I guess. I then got more involved with Smogon and started to play in various tournaments like UUPL and later on Snake and SPL. I could use a bit more practice in this tier though, so I'm looking to get help
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes

Signup template for Chinese language tutoring:

你的Smogon ID：
你的PSID：
想报名学习的分级：
你的时区：
通常空闲的时间：
简单介绍你的宝可梦对战经历(至少三句话)：

 

[Longestbanana]

Username: LongestBanana
PS! Username: The Santan
Signup Format: SV OU and National Dex OU
Your timezone: GMT
Usual Hours of Availability: anywhere after school and break in 3 weeks
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):Love for mons for ages, started battling, realisedI was pretty good, played a bit of ladder, i want to play and compete in tourneys and become a familiar face in tourneys, i look forward to meeting new people in the community and would love to some day work towards a custom avatar.
Are you able to use Discord?: YE

 

[Landshark51]

Username:Landshark51
PS! Username:Landshark1283101
Signup Format:Nat Dex Ou
Your timezone:Pst
Usual Hours of Availability: Weekdays: 8pm-12pm Weekends:8pm-12pm PST
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon:Ive had 4 years of competitive singles experience. It was casual at first but then i got into nat dex for the diverse team building and ive been playing ever since.
Are you able to use Discord?:Yes

 

[Foglowu]

Username: Foglowu
PS! Username: Lady Kylie
Signup Format: National Dex OU
Your timezone: GMT+2
Usual Hours of Availability: 16:30 - 23:00. I'm available at any time on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've played a bit on Pokemon Showdown, mainly sticking to the National Dex format. I've used a few different kinds of teams but I've mostly used rain teams. I've tried other formats but I like National Dex most because I get to use my favorite Pokemon with modern mechanics, which is not always possible in the latest gens.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, you can find me on Discord with the username foglowu.

 

[Metroid_1229]

Username: Metroid_1229
PS! Username: Metroid_1229
Signup Format: OU Natdex
Your timezone: (GMT +2)
Usual Hours of Availability: From 10pm onwards on weekdays - From 4pm to 8pm on weekends
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing competitively for quite some time now and I have a lot of knowledge, but I don't know how to apply it when it comes to combat. I tend to play very defensive in OU and NatDex Ladder and I love Monotype (Especially with Grass Types). I have no experience in tournaments, but I am interested in participating in one in the future.
Are you able to use Discord?: Indeedee (metroid_hakurei)

 

[SwordIsBored]

Username: SwordIsBored
PS! Username: SwordIsBored
Signup Format: Gen 9 Natdex OU
Your timezone: GMT + 1
Usual Hours of Availability: On weekdays 5pm to 10pm and on weekends 2pm to 12am
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been on this website for a while and have solely played 1v1 for my entire time here, occasionally playing BW OU as well though I've never been much of anything in 6v6 formats. Right now, my aim is to make Gen 9 Natdex OU my main tier and to end up good enough to enter team tours. I know all of the basic Pokemon knowledge and stuff, just not the intricacies of the tier and I have a very basic understanding on teambuilding.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yeah, SwordIsBored

 

[ExguardiaN]

Username: exguardian
PS! Username: exguardian
Signup Format: SV NatDex OU
Your timezone: -3
Usual Hours of Availability: 2pm - 8pm
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I am playing this tier for about 2 months rn, peaked 1643, now at 1550s. My will is to improve my understanding of the game, stop making little mistakes that normally cost me the w, and achieve the level to play at a good level, maybe participating at some team tours.
Are you able to use Discord?: yes, you can find me by .exguardian

 

[Panodil Protino]

The main body of this is a message I wrote to Ticken three years late, then came on here to post because of course I got spamfiltered.



This is literally three years too late and I know it won't be of much use to your evaluation program by now, but I was looking back through my chats and found the exact reason why Perish Song stopped replying to me and I didn't find myself suited for his kind of competitive Pokémon (besides the thing with the banded Espeed Raichu-A). https://pokepast.es/6f387204db196147
If anyone ever desires a complete circus artist of a screwball nobody whose matches are all halfway comedy for a tournament or the like, though, I'm still up if they are - just contact Panodil Protino on Smogon if this should ever happen - but I can either play competitive Pokémon in an uncompetitive way or uncompetitive Pokémon in a competitive way, not two of the same at once, and I don't think I can change that.

Username: Panodil Protino
PS! Username: Panodil Protino
Signup Format: SV NatDex OU (warning: mainly play Monotype)
Your timezone: GMT+1
Usual Hours of Availability: Pre-dark morning hours to early afternoon
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
I've been on here since the Smog was new and I've been reading/theorycrafting/occasionally battling as a low-key hobby for the better part of my life.
However, as can probably be seen from the above, I've been learning exclusively how to do things backward, mirrored and in reverse, and by now I've admitted that I can what I can and a tiger shouldn't try to change its stripes - if you think the idea of having one guy in your draft who forces people to prepare for the absurd sounds cool I'm probably the guy you're looking for, but if not I'm really not worth the bother and I don't think I'm alone in thinking that.
Are you able to use Discord?: Oh mais oui

 

[Hydrainnotgon]

Username: Hydrainnotgon
PS! Username: Fishinmysoup
Signup Format: SV NatDex OU
Your timezone: GMT +8
Usual Hours of Availability: Weekends from 12:00PM to 8PM
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I started playing Randoms a year ago to gauge my skill in Pokemon. After I got pretty good, I started playing NatDex Ubers with a rain team. Although the team was fairly primitive with not much thought other than "deal as much damage as possible," I fell in-love with rain. I peaked close to 1600 if I remember correctly. After wanting a more balanced experience, I started to play NatDex OU with a rain team derived from my Ubers team. Now I'm running a hybrid Electric Terrain and Rain team, but I am willing to remove the Electric Terrain aspect if it's the best course of action. However, I can never part with rain. Only touched regular OU once, and I absolutely hated it. No variety, just Kingambit and Gholdengo spam. It just wasn't for me.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, although not the Voice Chat feature. (personmanguy_)

 

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Signups for Chinese language tutoring is now available for this tier!

Use this template to sign up for it:

你的Smogon ID：
你的PSID：
想报名学习的分级：
你的时区：
通常空闲的时间：
简单介绍你的宝可梦对战经历(至少三句话)：

 

[Skezas]

Username: Skezas
PS! Username: Skezas
Signup Format: NatDex OU
Your timezone: GMT, I'm in France
Usual Hours of Availability: pretty much whenever betwen 08:00 and 22:30
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences) :
I got interested by watching a lot of funny gimmick videos on the ladder, I followed a lot of youtubers, some actually very good players, french and english. A lot of formats interested me for a very long time, and I played quite a lot of random battles especially. I feel like I have a relatively good game-sense in general, but I wish to really know if I truly am pretty good, or if I am just Dunning-Krugering myself, lol. I have around 1300 elo on most formats I play, which is tragic.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, but VCing is quite difficult. (at Skezou)

 

[Sstardust]

Username: Sstardust
PS! Username: pleasenofreeze
Signup Format: ND OU
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 started competitive pokemon back in mid 2023, playing for a couple of months, then stopping altogether. I reached a pretty mediocre peak of 1500 in national dex and around 1600 in national dex ubers, although my gameplay was scattered across a couple of accounts. Now I'm trying to get back into mons, focusing on substantially improving in my favorite format.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes! I'm more than happy to vc too.

 

[Solispurple]

Username: Solispurple
PS! Username: solispurple
Signup Format: NatDex Ou
Your timezone: UTC-4
Usual Hours of Availability: Weekdays 10am-7pm
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I am fairly new to competitive Pokemon around a month but I had a friend help with learning basics, I have climbed the ladder to 1300 in NatDex9. I think I can climb even higher If I can get a clearer understanding of teams and not keep using samples.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes

 

[hxshizora]

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

 

[LogIce]

Username: LogIce
PS! Username: LogIce
Signup Format: NatDex OU
Your timezone: GMT-4
Usual Hours of Availability: Weekday Evenings, usually pretty open weekend afternoons
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I’m primarily a doubles and draft player, managed derby and played in DCL. I’ve played a few natdex tours, NDPL as a sub, NDBD, and NDWC. I’m currently 2-0 in ndwc as a sub. I really want to step up my gameplay, I often struggle with game planning on preview and positioning endgames. I think unconventional building is my strong suit.
Are you able to use Discord?: yes

 

[tpfire]

Username: tpfire
PS! Username: tpfire
Signup Format: National Dex OU
Your timezone: GMT-8
Usual Hours of Availability: 3 pm to 11 pm
Tell us a little about your: I've been playing competitive for a long ass time but have yet to learn a single thing. Been struggling with building teams and using certain moves like future sight and spikes. I often can begin a game but struggle in the end game causing me to lose games that I should not lose. I onces lost a stall game when I had a mega mawile with future sight shifu so yeah.
Are you available on discord. Yes

 

[i'm not british]

PS! Username: The Au Ratio / I'm not british
Signup Format: SV NDOU
Your timezone: WIB
Usual Hours of Availability: monday-friday (3 --> 9 pm), saturday (10:30 AM --> 9 PM). Sunday (11AM --> 7 PM)
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Loved pokemon as long as i can remember. Haven't played any tournaments. Don't really ladder, but have beaten some ladder players considered good.
Are you able to use Discord?:yes

 

[pokegod70419]

Username: pokegod70419
PS! Username: pokegod70419
Signup Format: [Gen 9] National Dex OU
Your timezone: CST/GMT -6
Usual Hours of Availability: 16:00-6:00 (4pm-6am) can be flexible depending on the coach, just give me info beforehand
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I started off originally in VGC during around the start of Regulation F, then eventually gave up officially around halfway through Regulation H. I migrated to ND partly through Regulation G, being coached on my building and play by the now banned (which I don't agree on) AK/Red, though I was still peaking around the mid 1400s. I kinda forgot about ND and moved to SV AG where I stayed until I heard the news of the tera suspect through a pokeaim or blunder video and immediately jumped on the train, though I still wasn't that great of a player and wasn't able to reach the suspect requirements. From then on I've been flipping between SV AG and ND slowly growing my skill, though recently my motivation to play mons has been lowering because of my struggles playing. I have the teambuilding aspect down almost entirely and find cooking up new structures really fun, but testing them is where the issue comes in because I feel like I'm misplaying in every game I play in recently and it's eating away at my mental.
Are you able to use Discord?: yes

 

[hakna]

PS! Username: Hakna
Signup Format: [Gen 9] National Dex OU
Your timezone: CEST (central european standard time)
Usual Hours of Availability:I am available most of the time, but 19:00-24:00 would be where I would be available the most (of course this depends on the coach and their schedule as well, though time is crammed due to exam period).
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): sI have been playing showdown
I’ve been playing pokemon showdown for quite a while. I started playing since gen 6 approximately, which I would say has given me a solid base in mechanics, not really team building (mainly played random battles). I started playing NDOU about 2-3 weeks ago by now, where I have peaked about 1550 elo (I think). Though it’s been fun to see some progress in ladder, I feel that I am lacking quite a lot, the biggest factor being my 0 sense of teambuilding and still feel I am lacking at decision making in certain situations/scenarios.

As mentioned above, I often find myself unsure how to create a proper team that works for me personally and my decision making being shoddy at certain points during late game of battles. To sum it up I want to improve in both aspects as it would be nice to excel in both aspects, and I’m committed to learning and understanding core principles and playing more games with someone who has more experience than me and has more insight within the tier and certain trends of pokemon used.

Are you able to use Discord?: Yes

 

[BEASTADARSH]

PS! Username: BEASTADARSH
Signup Format: [Gen 9] National Dex OU
Your timezone: GMT+5:30 / IST (Indian Standard Time)
Usual Hours of Availability: 3 pm to 8 pm
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing since the mid of Gen 8 NDOU, bad player as of now but I'm here to change it and make a name for myself in the community that is worth remembering. I have always been a fan of pokemon since my childhood and am going to be the very best that no one ever was.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes

 

[Calmmind75]

Username: Calmmind75
PS! Username: Calmmind75
Signup Format: Nat dex OU
Your timezone: GMT +1
Usual Hours of Availability: between 16:00/18:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and at mostly any time during the weekend
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Started playing a bit ago, been going through different formats to test them out. Have hit top 500 multiple times and I have just started to join tournaments
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, calmmind75