Hello everybody and welcome back to CAP Player of the Week !! the project where some of CAP's finest community members are interviewed about their Pokemon and personal lives. This time around I'm very happy to have interviewed one of the newer faces in the tournament community...
crying !!
Favourite Pokemon :
Favourite CAP :
(back to back seasonal finalist, is currently #1 on the circuit leaderboard)
Heyyo crying! How are you doing today :]
yay ! tell me and the community a bit about yourself via a brief introduction ; both on and outside of showdown
My name is crying and i usually just participate in tours on smogon. Besides pokemon , i enjoy playing sports like tennis, track, basketball, and volleyball and watching shows. I also play shooting games such as valorant/cs, mafia games such as amongus/townofsalem, and other things like minecraft.
thats pretty cool ! i really like basketball and volleyball as well , but cant play it as much because my friends arent as interested n_n
lets move on to something related to pokemon. As a tournament player, you've had a phenomenal year so far , doing extremely well in different circuits and even qualifying for ST poffs ( big congrats once again ). What do you think is the key to maintaining such a high and consistent level of gameplay throughout?
i think to maintain a high consistent of play you need to practice quite a lot whether its on the ladder and tournaments because whats important is to learn what kind of teams exist in a meta and how to build something that exceeds the meta even further.
yeah thats a great answer , even though what you said is often overlooked. Continuing on a similar vein - you are known for your unconventional picks both in CAP and in other tiers as well (some examples that come to mind is you using cofagrigus in oras as an answer to m-alt in ST , and that leppa berry trevenant pu team that you made in BLT to beat stall ) How do you go about teambuilding in general? What entices you most in the builder?
i just look for mons that are very underated and can work in a meta as a counter to several high tier threats (such as espeon and polteageist ability to break through most stall teams with ease or smthin like avalugg which can wall threatening physical attackers) it just makes the game more fun compared to running something that is well known and super standard and is very satisfying when it works
it really does feel good when you win with something thats kinda heat
Do you have a particular team that you'd like to share with us ?
its not rock slide kyu i want a refund '-'
What was your favourite tour experience so far ? Any cool people youd like to s/o ?
sometimes it's rockslide if I really need to beat somethin like volc xp uh probably just stour rn since its the only time I was on the big stage and even though I fell early I learned a lot from it. no shoutouts to give
Epic
Thanks for taking some time out of your day to do this interview!
Feel free to ask crying any questions you want!!
