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Pokémon OU Player of the Week #35: AM
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Thoughts on memes?
Do u liek mudkipz?
Favourite Starter?
First Pokemon game?
Favourite Pokemon Game?
Do u liek mudkipz?
Favourite Starter?
First Pokemon game?
Favourite Pokemon Game?
Probably never, until maybe when I quit I'll just make it black and white hehe
Rosalina with sex appeal gives it a 9 but too many Lumas.
It's very viable. Who knows maybe we'll find another move deemed uncompetitive :o
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.
I'd give it a 8 at this point. Has the ability to threaten a ton of usual builds which helps having a fat psychic or fairy like Slowbro or Clefable on balance builds. It's a Pokemon that's really easy to ladder with or play room tours in as most players typically bring some standard offense that can keel over to an Ice Punch, PuP, or Sub variant.
Maybe
Beef stew or Chicken. Soup with mushroom is also real good as well.
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.
Too many memers in my vicinity
No
Charmander
Answered this in OP
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?
Hopefully yes
Don't really care about that honestly. If it happens it happens.
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.
The effortless paragraph part might have something to do with college where I took classes where we had to write professional letters and a bunch of other stuff. In a music theory class one of the subjects was writing an essay on how an artists cover art defined his or her music. For that I wrote up a 5 paragraph essay on Kanye West's Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Album, using big philosophical words and metaphors that blows the mind of your average teacher. Mind you there's only so much to say about a guy who openly goes out of his way and says "one day I want to marry a pornstar", so a lot of it was quality bullshitting at its finest. Accordingly I got a 100 on it. I spent the majority of my college years, was an audio major, bullshitting essays when I had to write one. Good times.
My goal was always singles tournaments. Not going to really rush straight into it cause of real life obligations at this point but in the long run regardless of whether a name is made for myself I'll be around the singles tournament scene here and there. Seems fun and about that time to get into it.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
Hoopa-U.
Not really. The last thing UU needs is new stuff / threats when it's slowly getting to a point of stability where it's a playable meta.
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?
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?
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.
Eh, really depends on team in all honesty. If I'm building stall or something more defensive minded comfort has to go out the window cause using typical standard defensive cores get you run through like a train. Idk I have stuff that I normally go to for the sake of going to such as Latios > Latias in about 90% of circumstances for both balanced and offense with Hippo as the defensive ground but a question like this to myself is vague. As far as the Florges v Sylveon thing and anything other similar circumstances there has to be a really significant niche for me to choose something for the sake of comfort. What you're comfortable with may not always be as consistent as you think in the long run. You'll eventually have to step out of your comfort zone to learn a thing or two for your own benefit as well as your peers who may ask for help in the future.
Not really sure. Guess I sort of relate to most people in the OU forum so it's easy to converse and sympathize when I'm asked about something. Maybe it's the fact I'm blunt to, like I rather not sugar coat for the sake of keeping everyone happy. A lot of the policy stuff I've handled on PS helps as well so I had some experience on how to deal with some people and trust me being a PS staff is about x10 worse for your own sanity in regards to all the negatives that come with it.
Well first read the rules. Then after that play the game to know your stuff before posting. Read your own comment and think "does this comment have the potential to stop their brain out of the sheer stupidity of it?" If yes, step up your game before commenting. If no, feel free to post and know that "community standard" is a dumb term for a community that has spent the last two pages on VR thread arguing Milotic to be ranked and Mew to be higher cause "it can lure stuff". Think about that for a second and realize you should be good with those points in mind. Also assume everytime you post imagine the dumbest response possible cause it's a very real scenario that will inevitably happen while cushioning yourself for the aftermath. For any lurkers who read this that fall under the "post-shy" category there's my two cents about posting.
I mean three types of arguments are nice until you realize it's all derived from the emotion aspect which sub-consciously will dictate logic that establishes your own moral values. Truth is based on an agreement between the majority of a society. A lie is the opposite but breaks down into testing ones moral which started off from logic and before that emotion.
Opinions are opinions, not facts. You can't judge an opinion on whether it can be true or false when in the end it's neither because it's not a fact. Facts are based on truths that have been established by society through our own measurements or at least our own perception of what a measurement equates to. So in the end your signature is really just, funnily enough, an opinion. Nothing more nothing less.
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?
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?
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Thoughts 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.
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.
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I just read one piece and sometimes ones suggested by friends. I don't really watch anime though, like manga more.
Sub
The snarky one
People are bored with themselves and need fresh air. I just tell them not happening and move on.
Just look through viability thread and take a guess.
Depends on how malicious or idiotic their intents are. I rarely have to ban people though unless they're obviously trolls.
Seem fine
Yes
Very good Pokemon.
G_G
Yes
Jubi
That would require me to bleach my skin so no
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?
Just outplay the coinflip
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.
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?
TL;DR: who can I ask to teach me how to improve at team building?
Didn't know TL:DR was necessary for what is 3 sentences >.>
Everyones gonna say team raters and tutors with this question when really you should probably be asking for the opinions of anyone you feel comfortable asking or feel like they have enough sense and decency to provide you some help. You should be asking multiple people, which goes back to what I was saying about finding a group of people you're chill with as you learn more as a group than by yourself.
I guess a goal for you that can give you perspective on improving your team-building. Take a team every day or whatever days you're cool with doing this, ask 10 different individuals about what can be improved. Also make sure to ask someone who has a decent understanding of the game they don't need to be gods of Pokemon though that's unrealistic. They'll all tell you different stuff, but the goal is to find out what stuff they say that is similar to what others said. The similar stuff is going to be what a general majority will find consistent for that team either from the perspective that it fits an objective criteria to the team, like a Water / Scald resist, or a more subjective one they feel fits your team better, such as Garchomp > Hippowdon to improve a teams offensive capabilities as opposed to its defensive ones.
You need to find out what advice you think is considered garbage to hahahaha. You want to question what people are saying and get some reasoning to further understand why he or she said what they suggested. It gives you a better perspective and may provide a better perspective to the other person as well. Being spoon fed the information teaches you absolutely nothing. Analyzing teams for the sake of seeing them, such as team showcase and archives, while finding out why they chose what will help as well. Most of the people who consider a certain individual a good or great builder learn by following their examples and as such little by little sort of get why certain choices are made while others weren't.
There's different ways but those are some I think that are worth considering.
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.
I don't necessarily need really generic teams, I have gone through the team-building process for three years* and am fully capable of making solid teams. I just have issues overcoming those team's flaws, which I have not seemed to pick up on until you just outlined it.
(*Exactly three years. I first started using PS on August 6 three years ago. Not that such statement is that important...)
AM Edit: Happy 3 year anniversary!!!!!!!
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Sup AM!
What do you consider the best ability and the best move that will never see play in OU because they're on Pokemon that are terrible?
In general, if you take into account every single aspect of a Pokemon (ability, stats, movepool, etc.), which aspect is easily the most important or most visible when looking at a Pokemon's capability in a metagame?
What are the best and worst stat spreads GameFreak has established?
What goes on in your head when you see people like me commenting on OU-related stuff on Skype (like bitching about Hoopa-U) when they just lurk the forums?
What playstyle do you believe is the most consistent? What playstyle is the one that emphasizes risk vs. reward the most?
If you could adopt a tiering system of your own (e.g like UU's hand-picking Pokemon to send to BL), what would it be?
As I believe you're not opposed to banning individual moves, what are the top 5 you'd consider for the chopping block?
Do players rely overly on the viability rankings to dictate what is and what isn't good? Would you support or be against a Pokemon's rank being updated and shown in the teambuilder?
Worst pseudo-status? (flinch, confusion, etc.)
My Rosa avatar is better than trini's y/n
Cutest Pikachu clone?
Favorite Skype emoticon?
What do you consider the best ability and the best move that will never see play in OU because they're on Pokemon that are terrible?
In general, if you take into account every single aspect of a Pokemon (ability, stats, movepool, etc.), which aspect is easily the most important or most visible when looking at a Pokemon's capability in a metagame?
What are the best and worst stat spreads GameFreak has established?
What goes on in your head when you see people like me commenting on OU-related stuff on Skype (like bitching about Hoopa-U) when they just lurk the forums?
What playstyle do you believe is the most consistent? What playstyle is the one that emphasizes risk vs. reward the most?
If you could adopt a tiering system of your own (e.g like UU's hand-picking Pokemon to send to BL), what would it be?
As I believe you're not opposed to banning individual moves, what are the top 5 you'd consider for the chopping block?
Do players rely overly on the viability rankings to dictate what is and what isn't good? Would you support or be against a Pokemon's rank being updated and shown in the teambuilder?
Worst pseudo-status? (flinch, confusion, etc.)
My Rosa avatar is better than trini's y/n
Cutest Pikachu clone?
Favorite Skype emoticon?
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