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My parents bought video games for my brother and sister. I, being the youngest there, wondered how the hell they were controlling the TV, because my perception was that everything is pre-recorded. I was watching saturday morning cartoons like anyone else and saw the classic commercial with different Pokemon tightwalking on a link cable. Seeing how season 1 was fucking awesome, I couldn't tell the difference between the two and brought it to school to see if anyone had it. Then came the trading cards. Remembered it like yesterday. My first one was a Base Growlith, won from roshambo at lunch. I tried playing people with it and didn't know why not. In a few weeks, the cards were banned from school and that pissed me off. "Just because some idiots abused their priviledge doesn't mean everyone will," was probably my first logical argument in life. As the vicious cycle of new video games and card sets to collect were doled out, I became increasingly sheltered in them due to being isolated my whole elementary years from causing a few disruptions (there was just a "severe behavior room" at the time, and I got chewed because they weren't prepared for a light case such as mine).

Anyway, middle school was mainly YuGiOh with Pokemon at the side. I grew tired of having to train things without people around me and... oh shit cant think of anything else now
 
How I Found This Site:
Of course, most of us in the competitive battling thing have heard of Smogon University.

I am a particularly established battler from Serebiiforums and The Regileague. One day, as I was ravaging through the archives, looking for a Shuckle strategy, I was directed to this site. I browsed through the seemingly endless analyses that this site offered, and was pretty dazed.

However, many of us continue to suffer from the recent controversial decisions made by this Smogon - Chomp, and of course, very recently, Deoxys-S.

Let's see if this place will prove to be a challenge for me.
 
How I got into pokes.
I was in elementary school and my friend showed me some pokes in a magazine and I fell in love, we were the first 2 to get into in the whole school. We played it in the dark with that no-light screen and still had a blast o_0 haha. I figured out next morning the cave we went through wasn't lit up anyways since we didn't go back for flash haha.

What brought here.
This is known as the smashboards of pokemon. Serebii.net is astronomically more helpful for me just because it has more information on the pokes, so I look at all their moves, and then decide on my own moveset and EV spread. Most of the time now I just look at the movesets and pick out what I think smogon has, then I come here and check, and 9 times out of 10 smogon has that predictable set. But Smogon's descriptions are actually correct. It's nice to come here and quickly look something up and have it already ironed out too =].

Why I stay.
I don't use the forums much, whenever I do a mod usually takes my posts down. This place always has news updates, and the data here is nice. One reason I'd want to leave is because the mods from here to smogon shoddy are so quick to be an asshole it's fucking retarded.
 
How I found out about smogon
Back when i was a pitiful wannabe hacker, I would always go to youtube to try and find ways to hack the game. I was watching one really well done video about different programs you can obtain to hack and they started talking about how one of the possibilities of hacking is messing with evs and ivs. My first response was a long, blank stare that said" Are you an idiot or am I ?" Then it was recommended that if you have no idea what evs and ivs are you should check out smogon or serebii net. I had never found anything about evs or ivs on serebii net, so i went here. I was dumbstruck by the fact that most of the people here seem to know what they were talking about and that everyone seemed smart so i decided to join.

Why I stayed.
I got in a battle, got eaten alive, forgot to learn about evs and ivs, and was determined to figure out what they are. It would be 2 months before i learned where to get the details on serebii net. Once I found out the good stuff on evs and ivs i was ready to really play pokemon and had decided that there was nowhere else where I could disscuss freely and thouroughly about pokemon. So here I am, and as long as there is smogon there is pokemon and as long as there is pokemon there will be me playing it.
 
I came here because it seemed like all of the interesting people in pokemon were gathering here. I stayed because I was right =)
 
Big Reason.

The reason i came here is to look up moves sets and stuff. Also can someone pm about the new Tier change, i just found out about it could't find the theard about it here.The reason i asked this is cause i just found out from someone that Garchomp moved to UBER Tier,he said this when i battled him today.
 
I got into it in gen 1 w/ pokemon red, I was like 6 or so, whenever the hell 1st grade is.... My brother got blue version, so it was easy to obtain all 151 (Mew glitch). I battled a ton of kids in my school, and took down ALL of their mighty Alakazams with a Beedrill and an Electrode. I got Silver as a birthday gift, and after a while I just grew out of Pokemon, and I didn't feel that I missed much. To this very day I still think the 3rd generation sucked (Where was the night and day people? what the fuck is regi?) And then a bunch of my friends started playing diamond and pearl, I was trying to get them to stop but soon enough they had me going out to buy a DS and Pokemon Pearl. I played it, liked it, used mainly 1st and 2nd gen guys, and then I was introduced to EV training and all of these 3rd and 4th generation guys I never heard of and we all began to construct our own teams and just strove beat the shit outta each other. I have no idea how I got here, i just did that's all, and I have no idea how long I'll be here, but since the beginning of the new school year pokemon and football have kept me, and will keep me, sane, I plan to stay for a long time
 
When I got into Pokemon...? I actually saw the first movie in theaters when I was five or so...it was before I ever saw the anime or played the game. In first grade I became very ill...and my mother gave me Pokemon Yellow version as a get well gift. To this day I stil have yet to actually beat Yellow...so I gave up on it...but eventually I got Pokemon Crystal as a birthday gift. In that game I was obsessed with Typhlosion, only trained Typhlosion, single handedly destroyed the Elite Four with an over trained Typhlosion. Today, I don't like Typhlosion so much anymore...When I purchased Emerald is when I tried a lot harder to make the best out of my Pokemon.

Until recently I've been more of a casual player. Then when I got Diamond, I randomly discovered "EV training" while browsing GameFAQs. I looked at it, said it was too time consuming...but eventually gave into it and tried. In another guide I found the link to this website, and a whole new realm was opened up to me. I became transformed from casual to competitive playing after observing the articles and strategies here. Unfortunately, I really have no means to go out and punish people with the teams I make. I just make them as a hobby.
 
I came here because i'm somewhat into competitive battling, more than other aspects of the pokemon game. I used to post on ign a long while ago (which was where I first heard of smogon), and played on RSbot a little. A short time after that, I stopped frequenting RSbot and didn't really play the game that much. I recently decided to register here because it seems there's more of a focus on competitive battling than other sites...and, I'll most likely stay here for that reason.
 
Well I have been playing pokemon since I was a little kid, I guess the whole tv show got me into it. I did not really play pokemon competively until saphire and that just involved breeding. Once D/P came out I hopped on the boat, and bread a team but never used it, it was proably pretty crappy back then because I was such scrub, anyway sold my Pearl version and DS lite, to buy an arcadestick and vf5, which I got deeply into until the my 360 broke down on me, after that I got into 2d fighting, thanks to ggpo, but then my computer broke.....which leads me to now.

As you can see I have been out of the loop for a while.

Are people still using shoddy battle?


Did competitor come out yet?


I think I still have some pokemon battling left in me.
 
I've been lurking Smogon since the release of R/S I had no knowledge of ev's or anything of that sort. So I came to Smogon and began to play netbattle frequently, I learned the competitive side of the game fast thanks to Smogon. Haven't seen any reason to leave as this is by far the best site for competitive battling and strategy.

Thanks to Smogon I'm not a hopeless noob, I'm in your debt Smogon :D
 
Well, I obviously played Pokemon back when everyone else did. Was a big fan of Blue and Silver (until I lost my Silver somewhere and my Blue file got erased a couple of times) and played the cards hardcore. Haven't been into it for quite some time since then.

So then recently I saw my roommate looking at the Smogon site, and I was intrigued. The strategic depth of Pokemon at a competitive level was immediately captivating, and I started playing on Shoddy.
 
I found smogon by chance on the web while looking for pokemon battle emulators.

I thought that the site seemed a bit unfriendly at first, but then discovered the useful DP Analyses that helped immensely with my Shoddy teams.

Then one day on Shoddy I noticed Doug's Create-A-Pokemon Server.

After one battle against Syclant, I was hooked. I went on the CAP forum and never looked back.

CAP is my only reason for posting on Smogon.
 
What got me into Pokemon...
It was early one Christmas morning when i had woken up my parents to go downstairs and open the presents left by Santa Clause *hint*hint* and i had picked up a small package containing Pokemon Yellow. And from there on i have enjoyed pokemon games everscince. And i plan on buying Pokemon Platinum.​

Why i stayed at Smogon...
I was looking at the forums before i signed up and i thought it had a great community. And i wanted to be part of the community, so i signed up, and plan to stay.​
 
I just joined reciently, because I was looking for a place to read and discuss about Pokemon.
I think Im going to stay, because this is a very enjoyable place for me.
 
Well, I've been playing pokemon since I was like 5. Got the gba games all teh way to emerald. I looked around in gamefaqs, and suddenly discovered serebii and competitive battling. So i started Ev training my pokes in game, not deciding to bother with IV's. And then, thats right. News of diamond and pearl releasing, with wifi capabilities. So i pick it up, along with a brand new nintendo ds lite, just for pokemon diamond. Upon lurking in gamefaqs, i discover this site, a z4.invisionsfree pokemon wifi league site. I started battling competitiveley then, breeding for IV's and such. Throughout my stay at gamefaqs and pokemonwifileague, smogon has been referred to many times. I used to come here jsut to look at the pokemon movesets, back when every pokemon had it's own thread. Well saadly, summer comes and passes, and most pokemon sites die. Fast forward to a new school year, my friend tells me he plays pokemon competitivley. Im bored of call of duty and other games, so i get back into competitive battling pokemon in ocotober of 2008. Missing the old site i went to and that community, i go here and to serebii forums. That's my story =)
 
Why I am such a Pokemon Freak

I've been into Pokemon since kindergarten. I used to carpool with my friend to swimming all the time, and we'd play Pokemon Red all the time on the way there. However, we gave up when we got stuck in Mount Moon without Flash in Pokemon Red (She's still in that same spot, with a level 50 Charizard to boot). Since then, I haven't played that many Pokemon games, but I love to write several stories about Pokemon. The main reason, however, why I don't have many Pokemon games is because I don't have the systems, and won't be able to get them (parents who think handheld game systems are a waste of time). Currently, I have PBR, XD, and Colosseum. I also have played Stadium, Stadium 2, Fire Red, Diamond, Red, Yellow, and Crystal.

How I Found Out About Smogon

Smogon wasn't the first Pokemon Forum center I joined. The first one I joined was the Pokecommunity Forums (where I also still hang around a little). A bunch of people there got me into Shoddy Battle. I pretty much stayed on the Official Server, until one of the PC users made a server. On that server, one of the largest discussions was about the Smogon server. I decided to check Smogon's server out, and then decided that Smogon had a much more competitve battle scen than PC. THe rest is history.
 
What got me into Pokemon:
Peer pressure. I kid you not.

Everyone in the 5th grade was playing their freakin' Gameboy Color the second the bell rang for recess. The teachers thought it was an epidemic of some kind, especially when we all showed up the morning the Diglett episode of the anime aired. We were all quoting the Diglett call. You know, diglett-dig~ diglett-dig~ trio trio trio~ and all that. There were only two girls who played Pokemon in the entire school. I was one of them. The other is also here at Smogon. *cough*Lexite*cough*

Pokemon stuck with me through all of my K-12 schooling and was probably the cause of my low grades and poor performance, but I really don't give a crap about that. I was having too much fun playing mindless video games with which I could lower my IQ score and such.

Ironically, I once babysat a child who learned to read by playing Pokemon. Go figure.

How I found this site:

I joined a web site called Pokemon Nation a couple years back. They were using the tiers from Smogon for guidelines for tournament stanards and I decided to have a look at the originals.

I recall being pissed when I discovered there was a moveset for a physical Ludicolo quite similar to one I had constructed at one point. Not that I owned it or anything. I just felt bad that I hadn't thought of it first...

Anyway... I joined the other night simply because I was bored. I've skimmed this site's content before and I think a lot of the forum posts are rather amusing.

Why I'm staying:

I like to draw and the Create A Pokemon thread looked damn cool. I just might try making something of my own... in eventually. XD

That and you guys crack me up somehow. Heh.
 
How I Came About Pokeyamans

Way back in the mid-to-late 90s, when R/B was still just newish, I was one of those "haters" who thought Pokémon was for kids and losers. Then my little brother got a copy of Red, and I started playing it. I was hooked. I bought my own copy of Blue and played it into the ground. Then I bought Silver. After that, I just kinda fell out of playing video games altogether, but I never really lost interest in Pokémon. I started playing video games again two or three years ago. I was in the middle of Final Fantasy XII early last year but got bored with it, so I picked up my copy of Blue again (my battery on Silver died :(). It gave me the itch that has me here today. I picked up a used GBA and Ruby in August, and by Christmas, I had all five Gen III games and an almost-completed Dex in my LeafGreen game. Then, I got a DS and Pokémon Diamond. Today, I have >600 hours logged on it, a completed PokéDex and 8 boxes of critters to choose from for competitive battling over Wi-Fi with about two more boxes left for me to train from my escapades in breeding.

How I Came About Smogon

I started building teams for the Pokémon community in LiveJournal. They started out as monotype-teams but grew into something bigger. However, the competitive battling quotient of that community was a lot smaller relative to the size of the general populace. So, I started looking around the Intarwebs for a place that was more for me. I came here. Of course, I went on a "hiatus" from here after a month over something I posted in Stark Mountain, but I realized that I was being a bit too confrontational there.

Why I Stayed

Because between this and Serebii, there's not a better place on the web to discuss competitive Pokémon on the web. That and I was bribed by guy wearing a Bidoof hat.
 
How I Came About Smogon

Around the time Serebii got hacked, I saw a few members complain about Smogon and accuse them of hacking serebii, so yeah I came to check this place out to see what the whole fuss was about and this place didn't seem all that interesting.

A few months before or later, Serebii got into a netbattle wat with Nsider and were losing horribly, then more talk of smogon and so I decided to visit the site again cause I heard alot of the members here are good, and everything picked up from there.
Why I Stayed

To e honest, I like this place more than Serebii, you guys are more friendly than I thought, you guys have helped my teams and you provide better rates than any other forum.
 
How I came across Smogon
I was googling up some movesets because I have a terminal case of suck when it comes to those.

Why I'm staying
The community here is significantly less retarded than Serebii and the forums stay up for more than 30 seconds.

How I got into Pokemon
I borrowed the game from a friend when it first came out in the US. I was instantly hooked and have been playing it all 10 bloody years of its existence in America.
 
Came here because I love pokemon and competitive battling on Shoddy, and I got banned from PC for a bit (probably won't go back even after it's lifted because that place is a bunch of immature tards).
 
How I got into Pokemon
It was during 6th grade(2006), when I went to my friend's house for a sleep over. On the ride to his house I found a GBA with Pokemon Saphhire in it, and decided to give it a go. Well, I got so addicted to it that I basically spend the whole night playing it, and even begged my friend to let me borrow the game. To this day, I still haven't returned it... Anyway, I remember this particular story. I was about to challenge the Elite 4, and decided to chech my items to see if I was prepared. Well, I found a Calcium in my bag and decided to give it to my Pikachu. I noticed that his stats went up by a few points. Curious, I decided to google it, and some how came across Serebii. There I learned about EVs, and IVs to a lesser extent, and registered for the forum. I posted modestly, being mostly interested in the fanfics(I know, I know...), and eventually browsed the Team Rate board more after about a year. There I tried to make my first team, in preparation for D/P, which was a massive failure, as it consisted of my favorites and had no strategy. Then I decided to google for some movesets, and some how stumbled on Smogon, where I found that there was a forum as well. It was around this time I too more notice on IVs. Curious, I signed up for the board, and preceeded to go on the Wifi sub-forum. At first I was shocked by the vulgar language, as Serebii censored many words, but eventually got used to it. I remember my first Pokemon I tried to trade was a Bold 11/x/31/31/31/31 Milotic... Good times.
 
Well, I got into Pokemon like before I went to primary school (yeah that's what we call it down here) and every day when my brother went to school, I'd play his Pokemon Red and erm, press New Game everyday and save it..>_>, but then eventually I figured out what the combination of those 2 commands did and started playing Pokemon better. I joined smogon because of my brother (CipherPol that inactive bastard) and he had taught me about EVs and IVs and etc. but the main reason I joined smogon was the funny threads and the brilliant art work.

Learning about EVs and IVs was good because there were so many people who thouht they were good at my schools, even back in primary school, so I just kicked their ass with ease. Sucks that there are hardly any tournaments in Australia but I went to Connection Tour 07 and placed 6th on 2 days.
 
How I Got Into Pokemon:
I got into Pokemon the same way many here did, with the original Red and Blue games. I had both games because of a Christmas gift mixup where my Mom bought me Red and my Aunt bought me Blue (I didn't complain :P). That's where I fell in love with Pokemon, especially my favorite Pokemon Charizard. I used to always host tournaments at my house with friends of mine and we had a great time with it. When Gold/Silver came out, a few of my friends hopped off of Pokemon, but I stayed strong with my Silver, even going as far as competing in some local tournaments. I guess this is where I first got into competitive battling. I loved it and I couldn't get enough of it. Just the atmosphere as well as always trying to be the best at everything I've done made it almost euphoric for me. These feelings stuck with me through my Ruby game as well as my current Pearl game.

How I got to Smogon:
A buddy and I went to the Darkrai event at Toys R Us and there was a guy handing out Koffings with moves like Pain Split and Psywave, among others, whose names were all Smogon.com. When I got home, I decided to check the site out and found that I wasn't alone in the world of wanting to battle Pokemon competitively. I then stumbeled upon the tutoring program and was highly interested in applying for it. I'm hoping that even if I don't get into the tutoring program, I can learn a thing or two here in the Smogon community and hopefully compete in the tournaments here (as soon as I level my Pokemon to 100 :X)
 
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