Probably never, until maybe when I quit I'll just make it black and white hehewhen are you changing your avi
Rosalina with sex appeal gives it a 9 but too many Lumas.rate user Trinitrotoluene's avatar 0-10
how viable is the move flash in laddering to rank 1
As long as it doesn't blatantly violate cartridge mechanics, like that idea they would just mega evolution right away and if not you would get dq'd. Lol that doesn't happen in-game why was that even an idea at all, I wouldn't care either way. Stuff OU by usage will stay OU regardless of the megas tiering so it seems weird this is considered a discussion point. It makes sense from a lower tiering perspective but OU won't be really effected by it what so ever. Or at least large enough to where action should be taken.Can you give your opinion on tiering megas seperately?
Could you rate mega lopunny on a scale from 1 to 10?
Why do you give me the impression you're a really nice guy?
Beef stew or Chicken. Soup with mushroom is also real good as well.What's your favourite kinna soup?
Confined has no real impact other than providing a pretty team specific spin blocker against opposing Starmies, while being outclassed by Hoopa-U. Hoopa-U is a threat to slower balance but a lot of teams aren't that slow to the point where Hoopa-U makes them a total liability. It's more of a problem for stall if anything. The scarf set provides a decent revenge killer that can ravage some offensive teams seeing as how Dark and Electric are two types lots of offense have trouble coping with.In your opinion, what impact has Hoopa (both Confined and Unbound) made to OU?
Too many memers in my vicinityThoughts on memes?
Do u liek mudkipz?
Favourite Starter?
First Pokemon game?
Favourite Pokemon Game?
Hopefully yesdo you plan on expanding your trophy collection any time soon?
what about becoming a coveted scroller?
Lol. My worst subject in school was English, mostly for the fact I never cared about it. It also ties in with the second part of your question cause analyzing books I always thought was counter productive when I considered writing skills more important for the real world. They teach you a lot of bullshit in high school you'll never use and prolong the high school years, or at least the american ones, for 4 years when realistically it can be all done in 2 years max. I don't read any books at all as I don't enjoy them.I've never come across anyone on this site who could type as much and as well as you do. I honestly struggle to put together a coherent paragraph or two every now and then. How can you write such long and effortless paragraphs, especially in the variability thread? Are you an English major? How many books do you read per month on average? Now that you have a team trophy, do you plan on hitting major individual tournaments to make a name for yourself as a singles player?
I came into the room, gave some good advice (back then the room was super crazy). Got voiced in like 3 days or something. A couple of days later judging from the original convos from the staff Royalty was more or less "eh, fuck it, he's good enough for driver." 2 weeks later I'm modded.Youngster DavisWuhu here wants story time. What's the story behind how you got CT room mod in three weeks?
It is, it's a joke used a lot with me. When I was up for mods tennisace had to go and change my custom title manually cause it was confusing people and deviating from the discussion. I found that humorous.I'm surprised "not being ace matador" is not something you're most known for.
Meteor Mash, and after that it's all team specific. Normally I'll run HP Fire to lure in stuff like Scizor with some added investment. Makes stuff like a Tyrantrum sweep much more easily done. I don't really use Zen Headbutt anymore. Most time I'm spamming Meteor Mash or a coverage move anyways. I haven't used M-Gross too much lately but kind of depends on the team. I use different stuff depending on what I want to lure in as most times most M-Gross switch ins are obvious and easy to lure in so it doesn't snowball. Might find some time later in the week to build one with Hone Claws haven't used that in awhile.What is your favorite moveset on Mega Metagross?
What Pokemon do you want to be moved to Ubers the most as of now?
Do you think Shadow Tag should be able to be used in UU and up instead of just OU and upu?
Maybe alternate idk. Depends on the mood cause sometimes I don't feel like going on one or the other for whatever reason it may be.Let's say you suddenly have only three hours a day to spend on both Smogon and PS!. How would you spend it?
How much does comfort of use factor into teambuilding? (ex. using florges over sylveon since you usually play UU and therefore are more comfortable with using florges than you are with sylveon)
How do you put up with moderating? I'm trying to act as the sole moderator of a viability thread in a small SMITE forum and it's giving me a headache.
What's the best way to start posting in Smogon? Despite being here for over a year, I'm still post-shy since I don't simply want to reiterate another person or I don't think I'd be up to the communities' standards.
opinion on my signature?
I just read one piece and sometimes ones suggested by friends. I don't really watch anime though, like manga more.1) Do you watch or read anime / manga? If so, name some of them.
2) Anime: Dub or Sub?
3) If you were to be an NPC in a video game, what type of character would you be?
4) Why do people keep on suggesting complex bans when Smogon has never done it before? As a mod, how do you handle this situation?
5) Examples of quotes on Smogon which makes you facepalm?
6) How far do you let a Smogon user go before banning him / her?
Seem fineThoughts on me in general and as a user?
Alexwolf best ou poster y/n?
Thoughts on brazilian ttar (twave)
GG or gee gee?
Could these questions get more random?
Your fictional long lost brothers name?
Are you adam west? If not, could you play in a film video movie etc. As adam west.
Just outplay the coinflipI have the innovative capabilities and the knowledge of the metagame to rise up on the ladder, yet whenever I attempt to, I can never seem to rise up consistently. I always seem to overreact to every threat to my team. Do you have any advice for someone attempting to do such, and how to win despite a bad match-up?
Innovative capabilities doesn't necessarily win you matches cause consistency is going to be based on a combination of meta-game knowledge and applying said knowledge in actual battle. Over-reacting comes from what I find is a lack of confidence in yourself and perhaps your team. At most in any battle there's going to be maybe 3 or so specific threats to your team while the others by all means need to be taken into account, but they won't be what's winning the game. Isolating the actual threats in the game and making sure you're able to maintain momentum / pressure on them is what helps make a bad matchup winnable. It's why you see stupidity like Clefable just win after setting up a Calm Mind since the focus of the actual threat that was Clefable was all geared towards handling something else like, say, M-Metagross who in the end may have been a non factor if they packed multiple checks to it.I have the innovative capabilities and the knowledge of the metagame to rise up on the ladder, yet whenever I attempt to, I can never seem to rise up consistently. I always seem to overreact to every threat to my team. Do you have any advice for someone attempting to do such, and how to win despite a bad match-up?
Sometimes I address them, most times I just ignore them, the latter I've been doing more and more until eventually I left VR thread on my own accord. You really can't be bothered to try and explain something that they'll never understand since their experience comes from a low quality play, lack of higher meta knowledge like the major tournament scene, or just theorymon / bad argument points anyways. It's gotten to the point where someone will quote me and I'll be like "yeah I'm not replying to this before my head explodes". If you're running the VR thread, which I know you're doing with UU and good job with that btw I've been lurking, you have to pick and choose your battles and establish that it's still the call and decisions of yourself and the peers you trust in making ranking decisions. Case by case but more or less that's how I dealt with it before. I have my own ideas of rankings for OU in my head so dealing with dumb things now is just moderator related these days.How do you deal with people saying dumb things in the VR thread
Didn't know TL:DR was necessary for what is 3 sentences >.>Hi:) I have a good knowledge of the meta game, sense of team building, etc. bottom line is that I'm not new to it, but I find my team building skills could be better. I'd love it if someone REALLY good at team building could teach me how to build teams. Who do you reccomend I go to asking for them to teach me how to team build?
TL;DR: who can I ask to teach me how to improve at team building?
Confidence is definitely one of the issues. It's mostly why I don't play with balance that often, and why I usually cannot play balance that efficiently; I lack the confidence that I can get past all of the threats to it. Balance teams are usually really susceptible to strong wall-breakers, and I lack the finesse when it comes towards pressuring opposing teams without using offensive pressure. I also do not really think about strategy before I begin the match, which I should probably do more often.Innovative capabilities doesn't necessarily win you matches cause consistency is going to be based on a combination of meta-game knowledge and applying said knowledge in actual battle. Over-reacting comes from what I find is a lack of confidence in yourself and perhaps your team. At most in any battle there's going to be maybe 3 or so specific threats to your team while the others by all means need to be taken into account, but they won't be what's winning the game. Isolating the actual threats in the game and making sure you're able to maintain momentum / pressure on them is what helps make a bad matchup winnable. It's why you see stupidity like Clefable just win after setting up a Calm Mind since the focus of the actual threat that was Clefable was all geared towards handling something else like, say, M-Metagross who in the end may have been a non factor if they packed multiple checks to it.
"Innovation" only gets you so far. It still has to actually work in battle. I've made a lot of things that are really cool and thought to myself "this is going to work great in practice" when in the end it didn't because I was trying to be innovative for the sake of being innovative. You need to first learn how to win with a basic concept on a consistent level before you get more advanced and deviate from the norm. It's part of learning anything really and if you don't understand the basics you can't win with an innovation.
Keeping track of meta-trends is super important and it's also important what meta-trends you're following. The ladder goes into sort of these, sections, I guess you can call it. You have the noobs that get 6-0'd by M-Garde, the noobs that get 6-0'd by Talonflame, noobs that get 6-0'd by Char-X, and as you go higher and higher the trends stabilize to some more consistent stuff such as building upon archtypes such as M-Sableye Stall and Mega Altaria Balance squads. In the end though it all comes from playing against these threats and using them. Your over-reaction is a legitimate concern I see with a lot of new guys but it always falls back on their lack of confidence in the face of pressure and this is going to show in battle which by then they'll capitalize and take the control.
Just get a basic consistent team going like bulky offense for example, don't get too into the whole innovation thing it's overrated and not needed for ladder, and know most of the time there isn't too many risks or crazy doubles you'll have to make until you face guys up at the top. Even then it's getting used to a systematic form of playing, which you start to get from playing guys and girls better than yourself.
Sometimes I address them, most times I just ignore them, the latter I've been doing more and more until eventually I left VR thread on my own accord. You really can't be bothered to try and explain something that they'll never understand since their experience comes from a low quality play, lack of higher meta knowledge like the major tournament scene, or just theorymon / bad argument points anyways. It's gotten to the point where someone will quote me and I'll be like "yeah I'm not replying to this before my head explodes". If you're running the VR thread, which I know you're doing with UU and good job with that btw I've been lurking, you have to pick and choose your battles and establish that it's still the call and decisions of yourself and the peers you trust in making ranking decisions. Case by case but more or less that's how I dealt with it before. I have my own ideas of rankings for OU in my head so dealing with dumb things now is just moderator related these days.