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Hello and welcome to.. "Player Interview"! This project will allow you to discover or re-discover some well known players of the UU community. This time around we will be focusing mainly on important contributors to the forums such as Tier Leaders, Forum Moderators, Community Contributors, and Council Members. Let me first say that I am honored to be following in the footsteps of an esteemed and accomplished list of interviewers: Moutemoute, Feliburn, Kink, and Cynde. Thank you are very much for your work!
Hello Avarice. How are you?
I'm good, Flapples just confirmed playoffs for UUFPL
Hope you've been well yourself
Nice job! I'm doing well thanks.
Alright well, tell me and the community a bit about yourself via a brief introduction. Name, age, favorite color, your favorite prime number, whatever you would like to say!
My name is Dillon, I'm 19 residing in Ohio and my favorite color is periwinkle, prime number 11 and my favorite music artist is Mitski
Periwinkle, thats cool.
How did you get yourself started on Smogon and Showdown?
I played a fair amount of random ladder games back in 2016 just for fun and eventually found myself in UU where I could use the always skillful Combusken + Nidoqueen
I at some point made a smogon account and made I think was a random VR post (deleted and got hit w lurk more)
Eventually I joined the UU discord in like 2018 and enjoyed the environment enough to start using smogon
Of all the cheesers, in all the land, you sir stand alone. Somehow, no matter the tier, you can make cheese work and I'm feta up with it. Why do you like cheese so much? Also do you ever want to build yourself a Blue Cottage in Monterey where there is a nice cold Brie's and own some Goats?
LOL, well I just appreciate the fast paced games that come with offense where often there arent turns that won't have consequences
Cheese also gives room to use some less common mons like Inteleon, Indeedee, etc.
If counting stall, it's just nice to have options especially when it's frankly busted in SM UU (and it's very difficult to prep for both HO and full stall)
That makes sense. Talk a little about your tournament experience. Where have you found the most success?
I believe my best record was in LTPL (which people didn't really take seriously I suppose) where I used mostly BO instead of cheesing every week. I also assisted obii during the last Smogon Snake Draft and helped him get the best PU record building for him each week. My favorite teamtour was probably the last PUPL (though not on the team I drafted on) or UU Snake.
Oh and as far as individuals go I did pretty well in UU majors and DPP PU cup.
I know you play quite a few tiers alongside UU. Is there a tier you enjoy most or at least a top 3 tiers?
I think I enjoy cg UU the most since post Zeraora you can be more creative without the team just folding. My favorite overall though are probably DPP PU, BW Monotype or SM UU.
SM UU is king and with old gens changing there is potential for some suspects.
What is your favorite Pokemon that is currently a viable pick in UU?
Entei and Inteleon are really fun mons and should be ranked imo
More-so Entei
If Entei isn't ranked right now that's surprising. It gets plenty of tournament usage.
What was your favorite cartoon or Disney channel show growing up?
I watched a lot of cartoons but the first that come to mind are Avatar the Last Airbender and The Amazing World of Gumball
My friends harassed me until I watched ATLA and it's now my favorite animated show to date.
As they should
Haha. Off the top of your head, completely improvised, give me an inspirational quote.
It's always worth getting out of bed in the morning, especially when you can make waffles downstairs
Legendary. You're up there with Einstein and Carl Sagan my friend.
Could you perhaps share a team of your own design that you are especially proud of?
I've been spamming this in the UU roomtours and its done pretty well. Hella weak to Noivern but is still very fun. I wanted to build with AO Azelf and Spikes Froslass after a discussion in QC between Lily and Mantis (obviously) about Azelf and how offensive > lead/screens etc.
Cool team! Would you like to shout out anyone or give some final remarks?
I'd like to s/o expulso for being a huge asset to the flapples' season and gum for always testing cracked pu shit with me
Awesome. Thanks for sitting down for this interview Avarice!
Yeah of course, thanks for having me!
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