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First of all thanks for taking the time to do this, I'm sure the community will be interested in hearing from the MOMPL winning managers, would you mind telling us a bit about yourself?
ty fam! glad to be doing this interview. im boomp haha, my favorite pokemon is Arcanine, I love cooking, gaming, and watching sports (mainly NFL).
My favorite pokemon of all time has to be regieleki, it was the first pokemon that really ever stood out to me and made me want to take pokemon more seriously. Outside of pokemon i like to go out to the club and really enjoy life for what it is, I enjoy hanging out with people so ya!
How did you end up getting the name Boomp / Charmriah?
My momma gave nicknamed me boomp when i was baby. she got it from a old hip hop song called Whoomp there it is by Tag Team and just change whoomp to boomp haha. She always be like Boomp there it is!
So charmriah was a nickname i've had over different games for a long time its basically doing a honor to my favorite musican. It represents resilence which I admire a lot.
How did you get introduced / involved with the Monotype community?
I watched this Youtuber called Kingkrabz in the past who just played monotype all the type which made me wanted to try it out for myself and i never looked back ever since haha. Involve wise, Ken and roxie push me to contribute to monotype since i was always asking them what can i do to help out.
I got introduced to monotype in generation 6 when my dad acidently bought a nintendo DS instead of a 3DS for my birthday and I was livid about it because I wanted to play X and Y. I was searching for anyway to play with the new pokemon I liked and i went to school one day and my best friend at the time told me she heard about pokemon showdown and I went home and made an account. I wanted to be like a ghost gym leader, but i never interacted with the community until generation 9 when I was reached out to by a user to play in a tour I believe it was called national dex monotype trio tour something like that. Then a friend of mine reached out to me to help them with a tour for regular monotype and that's kinda how I got started with the community.
Do you have a favorite moment or memory that sticks out from your time on Smogon / PS?
beating gondra in NUPL is like my favorite moment, it came down to rocky helmet elim which made me scream WOOOOOOOOOOO
One of my favorite memories I had on smogon was playing in a tour for ubers called SM Cup, it was quaterfinals and I was getting really creative in the builder and my friend gave me something with mega blaziken and said that's what your looking for. I was really new with ubers and i didn't completely know what exactly to build so I said lets do it. I won the first game of the set pretty close so I decided to change it up with the team. I won in like less than i think 10 turns and i was so happy about it
replay: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ubers-759244?p2
Big congratulations on your MOMPL win, do you mind telling us about that? How did you two decide to team up? How did you approach the draft?
tysm! It felt so amazing due to it being my first time ever managing a tour so going all the way was a blessing. Charmriah came to me and was like you wanna manage? i was like fuck it why not lmao. Honestly I just told Charmriah, I wanted Rinda and Sificon on my team, make it happen and pick whoever you want afterwards
So winning mompl was such a nice thing because I really liked our entire team. I think I was talking to boomp about like something in a discord call and I was like we should sign up for mompl. He had never manged before and I was just got out of manging the farm league. I wanted a different experince for us that we've had in other tours so after some sublte convicing we did. I apporached the draft like im getting the people ik who have really put a lot of effort into the monotype other metas and then boomp explained to me that we don't have enough money for all that so figure something else out. We ended up having extra money over so we got a lot of support and different people from different parts of smogon. It was a really nice and fun time.
How did you guys feel going into the playoffs? How did you prepare for the matches?
Oh we were all excited and pump! everybody screaming RAHHHHHHHH i love it!. Honestly i just scouted the replays, and just predicted what type they would bring a my players just cooked up teams! (Except AM) haha.
we felt great going into playoffs because we ended up being the number one team after the regular season ended. I was always talking with boomp about what we're gonna do for these slots and I remeber him telling me about some of our slots needing extra extra support. I spent a lot of time giving ideas and giving feedback. Then after pulling off an insane comeback in semifinals i was very pumped and felt like we could do it. We ended up with a tie in finals but we've tied before so I wasn't phased about it. I woke up early on i think that sunday to help out the remaining 2 slots with their teams and we ended up winning the tour with the changes me and the player, rinda made for the monotype threat slot.
What was your favorite tier in the tournament and why? Would you mind sharing a team for that tier and explaining why you like it?
CAP haha, its so fun to just use CAP mons and make types good / decent with the mons provided in CAP. i loved this team by sificon as a way to play hazard stacking fairy while also being able to handle Chuggalong with tinkaton. It also does well against poison since none of its mons like taking hazard + getting there items knocked off. Oh and Sifi really wanted to use Scattervein lmao.
Team: https://pokepast.es/a24fca8346160681
I think my favorite tier in the tournament was wild card, I loved how unhinged it was and how you could really load whatever and it will work, it honestly really inspired me to start liking monotype again because I had been around the block with a bunch of different tiers and hadn't actually played and built it in quite the while. this was like my favorite team of the entire tour. It was so incredibly unhinged you just set webs and click buttons and think about things after the fact.
Team: https://pokepast.es/a662f452c11ff49e
Just a few more questions to wrap up. First, if you could ban or unban anything in any monotype generation, what would it be and why?
Gouging Fire, ban it, this mon is still running the meta and its not even funny. Its getting to the point where you can deviate from running band or defensive DD to become creative with your sets and you will still feel good about it.
If i could unban something it would be to tornadus-T in BW monotype. I'm not actually sure why its banned but i think its an honest mon. Doesn't really shake the table up.
Last question, do you have any advice for newer players who want to get more involved in the community?
Dont be afraid to ask better players for advice / games because most of the time they love to help others out. No one be hitting them dms up so they just be chilling most of the time. Look at tourney replays / read analyses and Sign up for the tours to get better exposure in the metagame. Lastly always have confidence.
My advice to newer players is to be themselves unapologeticlly, you can't really worry about what the next person feels about what you build if it works for you then that's what matters.
inspired by this and this
First of all thanks for taking the time to do this, I'm sure the community will be interested in hearing from the MOMPL winning managers, would you mind telling us a bit about yourself?
ty fam! glad to be doing this interview. im boomp haha, my favorite pokemon is Arcanine, I love cooking, gaming, and watching sports (mainly NFL).
My favorite pokemon of all time has to be regieleki, it was the first pokemon that really ever stood out to me and made me want to take pokemon more seriously. Outside of pokemon i like to go out to the club and really enjoy life for what it is, I enjoy hanging out with people so ya!
How did you end up getting the name Boomp / Charmriah?
My momma gave nicknamed me boomp when i was baby. she got it from a old hip hop song called Whoomp there it is by Tag Team and just change whoomp to boomp haha. She always be like Boomp there it is!
So charmriah was a nickname i've had over different games for a long time its basically doing a honor to my favorite musican. It represents resilence which I admire a lot.
How did you get introduced / involved with the Monotype community?
I watched this Youtuber called Kingkrabz in the past who just played monotype all the type which made me wanted to try it out for myself and i never looked back ever since haha. Involve wise, Ken and roxie push me to contribute to monotype since i was always asking them what can i do to help out.
I got introduced to monotype in generation 6 when my dad acidently bought a nintendo DS instead of a 3DS for my birthday and I was livid about it because I wanted to play X and Y. I was searching for anyway to play with the new pokemon I liked and i went to school one day and my best friend at the time told me she heard about pokemon showdown and I went home and made an account. I wanted to be like a ghost gym leader, but i never interacted with the community until generation 9 when I was reached out to by a user to play in a tour I believe it was called national dex monotype trio tour something like that. Then a friend of mine reached out to me to help them with a tour for regular monotype and that's kinda how I got started with the community.
Do you have a favorite moment or memory that sticks out from your time on Smogon / PS?
beating gondra in NUPL is like my favorite moment, it came down to rocky helmet elim which made me scream WOOOOOOOOOOO
One of my favorite memories I had on smogon was playing in a tour for ubers called SM Cup, it was quaterfinals and I was getting really creative in the builder and my friend gave me something with mega blaziken and said that's what your looking for. I was really new with ubers and i didn't completely know what exactly to build so I said lets do it. I won the first game of the set pretty close so I decided to change it up with the team. I won in like less than i think 10 turns and i was so happy about it
replay: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ubers-759244?p2
Big congratulations on your MOMPL win, do you mind telling us about that? How did you two decide to team up? How did you approach the draft?
tysm! It felt so amazing due to it being my first time ever managing a tour so going all the way was a blessing. Charmriah came to me and was like you wanna manage? i was like fuck it why not lmao. Honestly I just told Charmriah, I wanted Rinda and Sificon on my team, make it happen and pick whoever you want afterwards
So winning mompl was such a nice thing because I really liked our entire team. I think I was talking to boomp about like something in a discord call and I was like we should sign up for mompl. He had never manged before and I was just got out of manging the farm league. I wanted a different experince for us that we've had in other tours so after some sublte convicing we did. I apporached the draft like im getting the people ik who have really put a lot of effort into the monotype other metas and then boomp explained to me that we don't have enough money for all that so figure something else out. We ended up having extra money over so we got a lot of support and different people from different parts of smogon. It was a really nice and fun time.
How did you guys feel going into the playoffs? How did you prepare for the matches?
Oh we were all excited and pump! everybody screaming RAHHHHHHHH i love it!. Honestly i just scouted the replays, and just predicted what type they would bring a my players just cooked up teams! (Except AM) haha.
we felt great going into playoffs because we ended up being the number one team after the regular season ended. I was always talking with boomp about what we're gonna do for these slots and I remeber him telling me about some of our slots needing extra extra support. I spent a lot of time giving ideas and giving feedback. Then after pulling off an insane comeback in semifinals i was very pumped and felt like we could do it. We ended up with a tie in finals but we've tied before so I wasn't phased about it. I woke up early on i think that sunday to help out the remaining 2 slots with their teams and we ended up winning the tour with the changes me and the player, rinda made for the monotype threat slot.
What was your favorite tier in the tournament and why? Would you mind sharing a team for that tier and explaining why you like it?
CAP haha, its so fun to just use CAP mons and make types good / decent with the mons provided in CAP. i loved this team by sificon as a way to play hazard stacking fairy while also being able to handle Chuggalong with tinkaton. It also does well against poison since none of its mons like taking hazard + getting there items knocked off. Oh and Sifi really wanted to use Scattervein lmao.
Team: https://pokepast.es/a24fca8346160681
I think my favorite tier in the tournament was wild card, I loved how unhinged it was and how you could really load whatever and it will work, it honestly really inspired me to start liking monotype again because I had been around the block with a bunch of different tiers and hadn't actually played and built it in quite the while. this was like my favorite team of the entire tour. It was so incredibly unhinged you just set webs and click buttons and think about things after the fact.
Team: https://pokepast.es/a662f452c11ff49e
Just a few more questions to wrap up. First, if you could ban or unban anything in any monotype generation, what would it be and why?
Gouging Fire, ban it, this mon is still running the meta and its not even funny. Its getting to the point where you can deviate from running band or defensive DD to become creative with your sets and you will still feel good about it.
If i could unban something it would be to tornadus-T in BW monotype. I'm not actually sure why its banned but i think its an honest mon. Doesn't really shake the table up.
Last question, do you have any advice for newer players who want to get more involved in the community?
Dont be afraid to ask better players for advice / games because most of the time they love to help others out. No one be hitting them dms up so they just be chilling most of the time. Look at tourney replays / read analyses and Sign up for the tours to get better exposure in the metagame. Lastly always have confidence.
My advice to newer players is to be themselves unapologeticlly, you can't really worry about what the next person feels about what you build if it works for you then that's what matters.
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This thread will remain open in case anyone would like to ask Boomp & Chramriah any further questions. If you have an idea for who you would like to be interviewed next, please don't hesitate to let me know!
This thread will remain open in case anyone would like to ask Boomp & Chramriah any further questions. If you have an idea for who you would like to be interviewed next, please don't hesitate to let me know!
